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Vitargo™, Red Bull™ + Co. Research - Are They Worth It? Beef Can Keep Up W/ Whey For Gains! "Creatine Loading" = Too Much of a Good Thing - ISSN Research Review '15 #1

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When you're running on a treadmill it obviously takes more than one serving of Red Bull or other commercial energy drinks to kickstart your workout performance | learn more below. Initially, I wanted to cherry pick only the most interesting study results that were presented in form of poster presentations at the Twelfth International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) Conference and Expo in 2015. After looking at the research that is - as of now - only available in form of (albeit often detailed) abstracts, I decided that there are way too many interesting studies to cover only three of them in depth or all of them only cursory. Accordingly, I decided to start a SuppVersity Mini Special with this being the first out of 3-4 issues in which I will briefly discuss the most significant results of those of the roughly two dozen studies, I (a) believe are of greatest interest to you and (b) feel comfortable talking about without having all the details in form of the still to be publi...
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Older Human Study Shows: 2.72g Carnitine per Day Ward Off Fat Gains - Specifically on the Trunk | User Question: Are We Missing Out If We Are Not Using Carnitine?

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SuppVersity reader Derek D. wants to know if 2013 study shows we are missing out if we don't use carnitine. When I answered your questions on Facebook, the other day, Derek D.'s question about the results of a 2013 study by Stephens et al. stood out, because Keller's study suggest that carnitine may be significantly more useful while bulking than it is during a cut (which is still what it is marketed for). If you are a long-term SuppVersity  reader, you will be aware that this is not the first SuppVersity  article discussing a study that points to the use of carnitine outside of dieting scenarios. In 2013, for example, I wrote about a study by Keller et al. (2013). A study that found significant increases in pro-anabolic hormones and proteins, and a 7% improvement in lean-to-total-mass ratio in rodents in response to a relatively low amount of carnitine in the diet. You can learn more about carnitine at the SuppVersity ! Carnitine for Acute Endurance Pe...
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Carnitine Loading Revisited: 3g Carnitine per Day Ward Off Vitargo Induced Fat Gain by Increasing Fatty Acid Oxidation and Total Energy Expenditure in 12 Week Human Study

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Figure 1: With highly bioavailable carnitine in meat it is 100% paleo (unlike coke, obviously ;-) I am not sure, whether its ten, twenty or maybe two-hundred ;-) years ago that the first carnitine supplement was introduced to the sport supplement market (from a paleo perspective it has always been there - in the form of meat!); and honestly I am too lazy to google it up. What I do know, however is that carnitine has been around ever since I first started working out. Incidentally, the same can be said about the debate whether or not supplementing with one or another form of this endogenously synthesized amino acid (your body can make carnitine from the amino acids lysine and methionine) would actually or just theoretically be beneficial for the average trainee. Years have passed and I still hesitate, whenever someone asks me whether or not I'd recommend trying this or that form of l-carnitine to increase his or her performance. After years of being inclined to answer: "V...
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