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Potassium-Magnesium Aspartate, an Overlooked Endurance Enhancer? Acute 100% Increase in Time to Full Exhaustion

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1952, Italian Fausto Coppi is drenched with water by a fan during the golden years of the Tour. Question: Can the topical application of K & Mg do the same magic? Answer: That's very  unlikely, ... What sounds like a supplement producer was trying to sell his product with a sponsored study is, in fact, the gist of a 1968 study from the Departments of Clinical Physiology and Internal Medicine at the venerable Karolinska Institute  in Stockholm, Sweden (Ahlborg. 1968). The authors' conclusion that "[a]fter administration of potassium-magnesium-aspartate [KMgA] the capacity for prolonged exercise increased about 50 per cent" (Ahlborg. 1968) can thus not be discarded as marketing babble. And, before we decide whether it's too good to be true, I'd suggest we take a closer look at the way the data was generated before we either (a) discard it as outdated or (b) get totally excited for nothing. Mineral water will contain some K and Mg, too - and it will...
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Nausea, Leaky-Gut & GI Disturbances - Ginger Ameliorates All | May Be the Perfect Addition to Your Workout Nutrition

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You will find dozens of ginger + lemon water recipes on the internet - all of them can pimp your peri-workout drinks and make your tummies "exercise proof". As a regular here at the SuppVersity  you know about the beneficial health effects of ginger . It has potent anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory effects without the usual side-effects of COX-inhibitors (Mashhadi. 2013), has been shown to have anti-cancer effect on it's own (Kim. 2005), as well as to be a perfect adjunct for conventional cancer therapy (Sontakke. 2003). Ginger has also been shown to exert cardioprotective effects (Ghayur. 2005; Singletary. 2010), strengthens the immune system (Butt. 2011) and significant beneficial effects on the health of the digestive system - including the make-up of your microbiome (Sutherland. 2009). One thing that should be in your peri-workout (best post-workout) regimen is  creatine   Creatine Doubles 'Ur GainZ! Creatine, DHT & Broscience Creatine Bett...
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Rats "On" Taurine Can't Ever Get Enough... Exercise of Course! What Were You Thinking About? Mice Cover 50% More Distance W/ HED of 3-4G of Taurine Post Workout

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On Taurine? If she was, she could run another marathon 6h later ;-) Actually, the results a group of researchers report in a recent paper in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness are a bit surprising. After all, taurine is - as you all should know by now - a GABA agonist and should thus rather have had a calming effect on the mice, the scientists used in their experiment. What Yumiko Takahashi, Eiki Urushibata and Hideo Hatta from the Department of Sports Sciences at the University of Tokyo observed when they supplied their lab animals with 0.5 mg/g body weight immediately after they had them run on a treadmill at 25m/min for 90 min was yet quite the opposite of the laziness you would expect after having read about the calming and balancing effects of taurine Mure et al. (2003) observed, when they administered it either alone or in conjunction with caffeine ( read pervious SuppVersity article ). Mice on taurine run more, because they can!? Contrary to the s...
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Chamois Creme Potential Reason for Elevated Estrogen in Cyclists +Triathletes Have 2x More Testosterone Than Average Men and 71% More Than Active Individuals

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Image 1: Norman Stadler 2004 winner of the Ironman Hawaii probably had a hell of a testosterone boost, when this photo was taken (img. Kai Baumgartner. 2004) Disturbances of the endocrine (=hormonal) milieu are among the hall-mark features of what sport scientists call the "female athlete triad". The unholy trinity of osteoporosis, disordered eating and, as a direct consequence of the aforementioned hormonal imbalances, menstrual disorders. Men, the purportedly "stronger sex", on the other hand are supposedly pretty resistant to exercise-, or, I should say, overtraining-induced hormonal imbalances - bullshit? Well, probably... after all, with insufficient fuel and recovery everyone, man or woman will eventually maneuver him- or herself into a situation where his endocrine system is no longer functioning optimally. A recent study from UCLA does yet show that mother nature must have been aware that a) exercise is part of what the "hunters" (=us men ;-) d...
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Astragalus membranaceus: Purported Telomerase Activator Increases Exercise Capacity by +56%, Fights Cancer and May Be a Healthy Adjunct to Chemotherapy and Vaccines

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Image 1: Astragalus membranaceus , one of the 50 fundamental herbs in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). A purported telomerase activator that contains potent antioxidants. There is hardly one month passing without some media reports about a group of scientists who supposedly found the royal route to health and longevity . With all those potentially life-extending drugs, herbals and nutritional supplements that have thus surfaced in the course of the last decades, it is actually almost surprising that we still die like flies, isn't it? Well, one possibility would obviously be that the scientifically-backed wonder-potions you can buy in the snake-oil shops all over the Internet do not work at all - impossible? I don't think so. Consequently, I was and still am very skeptical about the dubious claims about the "life-extending" effects of a patented Astragalus membranaceus (also Astragalus propinquus ) extract - and that despite or, I should say, because of its ...
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CoQ10 for Ultra-Endurance Athletes: 150mg of Ubiquinone Reduce Stress & Inflammation and Stabilize Cell Membranes in 52.4 Mile Torture from 640m to 3,393m!

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Image 1: Susan Kokesh, blogger and the Crazy Running Mum at the Sierra Nevada ultra-endurance run a 52.4 miles "double marathon"   in September 2010; I probably would not even have survived this torture - respect! As a health conscious physcial culturist, you are probably aware that the vitaminesque nutrient CoQ10, which, due to its ubiquitous presence in all living beings, is also known as ubiqinone , plays a fundamental role in cellular bioenergetics . It is a necessary cofactor in the mitochondrial electron transport chain (i.e. your cell's way of "breathing", its respiratory chain) and is therefore essential for the production of ATP, the fundamental energy unit your cells are operating on. In that, CoQ10 works as a mobile redox agent that shuttles electrons and, interestingly, also protons (those little blue and red balls from Bohr's atom model ;-) in the electron transport chain. Within the health and fitness community, it is however better known...
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