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Can Diets & Supplements Make Your Skin Look Sexier & Younger? Review Says What Works & What Doesn't Work

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People pay thousand of dollars for topicals to make their skin look healthier and younger. Is it possible that the same or even more can be achieved by diet and significantly cheaper supplements? Well, as a SuppVersity  reader you can hardly be surprised to hear that the way you eat and supplement affects the way you look. What may surprise you is the fact that there are actually only few studies that investigated these effects systematically. Luckily, the latest review of the few studies that exists comes right off the press and has just been published in the scientific journal Nutrition Research  (Pezdric. 2015). In their review of all currently available studies that included participants aged at least 18 years, that observed or altered dietary intake from actual food or dietary supplement use, and assessed appearance related outcomes were, researchers from the  University of Newcastle and the  University of St Andrews  compiled data from a total o...
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Green Tea Extracts, Athletes and a Preliminary Answer to the Question: "Are Anti-Oxidants For Athletes Not?" No True Benefits or Negative Effects of 1g GTE in Sprinters

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The supplement that was used in the study at hand was a commercially available product from Olimp Labs, a Polish producer of bodybuilding and fitness supplements. Before I even go into more detail, I would like to point out that the study today's SuppVersity article will talk about is not able to answer the question whether anti-oxidants are for athletes once and for all. Why? Well, the subjects in the recently conducted experiment by Ewa Jówko, Barbara Długołecka, Beata Makaruk and Igor Cieslinski were sprinters from a University Sports Club, and they received a green tea supplement - so who can guarantee that a bodybuilder taking vitamin C would not have a totally different reaction to a totally different anti-oxidant? No one can and that's why I'd like to ask you to go back to some of the previous articles on that matter and remind yourself that there is evidence that the provision of significant amounts of supplemental antioxidant can blunt the beneficial adapti...
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Study Puts "?" Behind Beneficial Health Effects of Veggies! Is There No Correlation Between Antioxidant Content & Beneficial Health Effects of Cucumber, Lotus & Rape!?

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Don't obsess about "optimal" antioxidant contents, just eat your veggies! Over the past couple of weeks, ... no actually over the past years I have repeatedly written about the concept of (mito-)hormesis and its consequences for the well-established, but not necessarily accurate free radical theory of aging (and for some people everything else). ROS, i.e. reactive oxygen species, have been established as an important signalling molecule that is - among other things - heavily involved in the insulin sensitizing effects of exercise. "Inflammation" makes muscles grow and burns body fat and the "what doesn't kill me makes me strong" principle appears to reign everywhere you look. You can learn more about the secrets of longevity at the SuppVersity Are You Stressed Enough to Live Forever? Suffocated Mitochondria Live Longer Get Lean & Live Longer With I. Fasting Can You add 9 Years to your Life W/ Glucosamine? 5+ Tips To...
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Study Suggests: Frozen Veggies Worse Than Common Wisdom Says - Frozen Asparagus, Zucchini and Green Beans Lose More Antioxidants During Boiling

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Green asparagus from the fridge and  from the market are not created equal - at least not when they finally end up on your plate after a short bath in hot water. You just have to watch one of the consumer report shows on television to hear it: "Frozen veggies are way better than their reputation would suggest." Actually, here in Germany this sentence has been repeated to soften that I've even heard people say they'd buy the frozen broccoli because it contained "more vitamins and the other good stuff, you know." And you know what? For some veggies like spinach, for example, this may actually be the case. For others, like broccoli or peas, the nutrient status of the frozen and the raw uncooked vegetable appears to be more or less identical (Favell. 1998). But that's something you cannot say for the green asparagus stems, zucchini and green beans in a recent study from the Università degli Studi di Parma in Italy. Warning: Don't take this artic...
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The Overlooked Non-ROS-Scavenging Antioxidant Effects of Creatine Monohydrate: CM Works W/ & W/Out Exercise

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Creatine, obviously monohydrate and no expensive and often impotent spinoff (Jäger. 2011) is useful for any athlete. The number of items on the list of health and performance benefits of creatine is about as high as the number of boring articles about "the benefits of creatine" you can find all over the Internet. And even here at the SuppVersity they have been piling up in a way that has me ignore the majority of "creatine supplementation increases strength gains in XY" studies that appear on a monthly, sometimes weekly basis. Against that background I will cut today's creatine post short and get straight to the facts, Giuseppe Potrick Stefani et al. report in their latest paper in (how else could it be) the peer-reviewed Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition (Stefani. 2014). You can learn more about creatine at the SuppVersity Creatine Doubles 'Ur GainZ! Creatine, DHT & Broscience Creatine Better After Workout A...
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Sucralose is for Diabetics Not, Scientists say. But How Significant is the Cholesterol Increase They Observed?

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This way of consuming Splenda is quite certainly going to increase your cholesterol levels ;-) I guess, all of you will still remember the show Carl and I did on the "Pro-Insulinogenic Effects of Artificial Sweeteners" ( read more ), right? The one where I tried to point out that even if there was a meager change in the insulin response, this would only be a problem if there was any truth to  narrow-minded condemnation of insulin as the deadly obesity hormone, so that, in the end, the whole hoopla turned out to be way less daunting than some scare-mongers would have it. Yet while something deep inside of me is telling me that the latter is probably going to be the same with the recently published study that's at the focus of today's SuppVersity article, cannot refute that the data from that very rodent study that was published in the Journal of Nutrition Sciences does clearly suggest that... ...sucralose increases cholesterols! That certainly doesn't so...
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Eccentric Exercise IGF1 & Athlete's Heart; Long or Short Intervals, Both Improve Arterial Stiffness. Plus: Exercise Heals Wounds & Makes You Rust Proof Within One Year!

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Controlled exhaustion = positive adaptation; continuous exhaustion = wear and tear = one out of 57,002 who suffer from cardiac arrest during a marathon (data based on Webner. 2012) As announced on Saturday, already this is a "special edition" of the On Short Notice series, focusing exclusively on exercise related studies. With two studies on heart health ,  one on wound healing and the last one on the  bullet proof endogenous anti-oxidant system of trained athletes,  this installment of the " Exercise News Roundup " and two studies on different HIIT, it does however have both a health , as well as a HIIT focus. I know that does not sound as sexy as being big and buffed, but what's the use of that if you don't fit the coffin, you're about to need, when your looks are more important to you than your health? IGF-Response to exercise implicated in "athletes heart" A group of polish researchers describes in their latest paper that...
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