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Science Round-Up Seconds: Rare Sugar Syrup, HFCS 2.0? Body Recomposition W/ 7 Marathons in 7 Days!? Reduced REM Sleep With Intense Workouts in the Evening.

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99% of the guys & gals on this photo are not going to see anywhere similar improvements in body composition from marathon running as the highly trained 7x7 runners in the Karstoft study. It's Friday and that means its time for the wrap-up of yesterday's installment of the Science Round-Up on SHR. Well, let's see then what this weeks Round-Up of the Round-Up has to offer. Somehow I felt like picking up something we did actually cover in the live-show yesterday (download the podcast here ). I guess I want to give everyone the chance to look at the data himself in order to decide whether "rare sugar syrup" (RSS) is going to be the savior of the Western world and the unfortunate rest who's currently "westernized" by the big Ms, the big As and the rest of the corporate alphabet soup with a vested interest in the prosperity of mankind, or - to be precise - that the part of mankind who owns their shares ;-) Rare Sugar Syrup has 90% of the sweetn...
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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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Life-Long Endurance Exercise and Myocardial Fibrosis - A Potential Danger for Endurance Athletes

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Habitual aerobic exercise has long been the cornerstone of what was considered a "healthy" lifestyle. Yet, lately, scientists are not only questioning the time-efficacy of these training regimens (there are studies showing that one can achieve similar metabolic adaptations with short high intensity interval training), there is also cumulative evidence that indicates that life-long engagement in endurance exercises may even be detrimental to your health. In a recent study by Wilson et al. (Wilson. 2011)  "twelve lifelong veteran male endurance athletes (mean ± SD [range] age: 56 ± 6 yr [50-67]), 20 age-matched veteran controls (60 ± 5 y; [52 - 69]) and 17 younger male endurance athletes (31 ± 5 years [26-40]) without significant co-morbidities underwent cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging to assess cardiac morphology and function." The results of the CMR were disquieting - to say the least: In 6 (50%) of the veter...
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