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Bad News For Vitamin Fans - C + E Supplementation Blunts Increases in Total Lean Body and Leg Mass in Elderly Men After 12 Weeks of Std. Intense Strength Training

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Chicken legs, old man? Must have been too much antioxidants ;-) If this is not your first SuppVersity article, you may have read about the potential negative effects of (high dose) anti-oxidant supplementation in previous SuppVersity articles about, or touching on the effects of hormesis , i.e. the beneficial effects of "good oxidative stress". Up to now I have yet often said that it is possible that this effect occurs mostly in people who can handle stress pretty well and thus have to hammer it to trigger a measurable adaptive response. The elderly subjects in the latest study from the University of Agder in Norway (Bjornson. 2015), however, don't exactly belong to the group of people I was thinking about, when I phrased this hypothesis. Learn more about hormesis and potential neg. effects of antioxidants at the SuppVersity Is Vitamin E Good for the Sedentary Slob, Only? NAC Impairs Anabolic Effects of Exercise If Vitamin C is Low, Taking More is Go...
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When Whey & Casein Unite in the Spirit of True Physique Improvements, BCAAs & Glutamine Better Shut the F*** Up

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Ever wondered, why you hit a plateau, "although" you've started to use this whey protein w/ extra aminos? I have to admit this is not a new paper and though I have not written about it explicitly, some of you will probably have seen me cite it in previous posts. With some recent rambling about how great BCAAs were and that whey alone could never achieve what its overpriced, but revenue generating parts could do, I just felt inclined to dig into the archives of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research to bring back up one of those excellent randomized controlled, double-blinded long-term resistance training + supplementation studies, you won't find in the supplement write-ups very often, 'cause they would make most of the "great innovations" look pathetic. You can learn more about protein intake at the SuppVersity Are You Protein Wheysting? Cod protein for recovery Protein requ. of athletes High EAA protein for fat loss Fa...
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