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Whole Eggs Can Boost Your Beta-Carotene and Vitamin E Uptake from Veggie Salad W/ Oil Dressing by 400%-700%

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Believe it or not raw food vegans, it takes scrambled (whole) eggs to turn your veggie salads into a "superfood", or rather, to have the "super effects" of all its "super vitamins" on your health . The photo shows an egg-recipe from The Organic Dish , take a look ; and don't worry if you're afraid of healthy oats , you can leave out the out cakes under the eggs ;-) I still see people throwing the good yolk of their eggs away. Shame on you!  You're not just throwing the most nutrient dense (also in terms of nutrients per energy content) away, you also sacrifice the beneficial effects of the co-ingestion of eggs with other nutrient dense foods - benefits which have only recently been recognized by the scientific community when people finally starting looking beyond individual foods and nutrients and started to investigate the actual and practically more relevant effects of food matrices. This trend that began with the negative effects of pe...
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Recovery Cocktail With Vitamins C+E, Ibuprofen, Cold Water Immersion and Whey Works - Long-Term Effects? Unknown!

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What's the right strategy to boost workout recovery? A recent study suggests that it could be a mix of NSAID, antioxidants, cold water and whey. Vitamin C + E, ibuprofen, cold water immersion and whey? Two of these agents have been shown to impair the adaptational response to exercise and thus potentially compromise long-term gains (vitamin C+E and cold water immersion). The other two are either purported (ibuprofen) or proven (whey) ergogenics - ergogenics of which a recent study by scientists from the  Hashemite University  in Jordan and the University of Alabama  in the USA shows that their combination with the formerly named agents is "helpful in protecting performance" in a test during which the competitive athletes (current or former Division I college athletes / club athletes) performed two bouts of high-intensity anaerobic cycling separated by 30 minutes of rest. Learn more about hormesis and how antioxidants can also impair your gains Is Vitamin ...
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Your MUFA + PUFA Intakes Determine Your True Vitamin E Requirements - N-3s are the Worst Offenders + Even MUFAs Need Buffering | Tool to Calculate Your Individual Needs

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Nature knows best: Oils and other high PUFA foods come with a naturally high amount of vitamin E (see Fig 1 ). As a SuppVersity  reader you shouldn't be surprised to hear that there's a link between the amount of highly oxidizeable polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 and omega-6) you consume and the amount of vitamin E you "need" to protect them from being oxidized by free radicals. The reason we usually speak about vitamin E in this context is that vitamin E (mostly alpha-tocopherol) is recognized as a if not the key essential lipophilic antioxidant in humans. It protects lipoproteins ( cholesterol ), PUFA, cellular and intra-cellular membranes from damage. 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 Good C+E Useless or Detrimental for Healthy People Vitamin C and Glucos...
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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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The A to Z of Effective & Less Effective Immuno-Nutrients to Prevent and Combat Respiratory Tract & Other Infections

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Teddy bears are like vitamin C and zinc. They can help you when you are already sick, but what are supplements athletes and gymrats take in advance to survive the flu season without getting sick at all? Specifically during the winter time, hard working athlete and manic gymrats can be particularly susceptible to all sorts of infections. To help you having to work out with a handkerchief in your hand all winter long, I have compiled a non-comprehensive list of supplements that may help you to maintain and even improve your immune defenses and thus to survive the cold and dark winter times without catching a cold or even the flu. In their recent review in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition Vinicius Fernandes Cruzat, MaurĂ­cio Krause and Philip Newsholme reviewed the extensive literature on nutritional supplements that act as immuno-nutrients, may to reduce immunosuppression and excessive inflammation in hard-training athletes and gymrats like yourself (or ...
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