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If Insulin Sensitivity is Key, What's the Key to Insulin Sensi- tivity? Artemisia Dracunculus, Lixisenatide, Calcium & Bi- carbonated Water - True Promoters of Insulin Sensitivity?

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Insulin sensitivity is a necessary pre- requisite for much more than a profane set of sixpack abs. You will probably have realized that the number of short-news like articles on the SuppVersity has been increasing as of late. The reasons for that are twofold: For one, it's the fact that it pisses me off (sorry, but that's how it is) that all the interesting stuff I post on the SuppVersity Facebook Page disappears into an oblivion of which I can only hope that it is not Mark Zuckerberg's *** Secondly, I am currently working my regular job, doing some additional University stuff and working on another nutrition and exercise science related project and don't have the time to do the extensive research that's necessary to produce articles like part II of the "perfect frying oil" article , you may (rightly) already be waiting for. In other words: If you don't want me to switch to a twice or thrice (max) a week schedule, you will have to live with less...
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Niacin (B3) & Glucose Management | Part V of the "There is More To Glucose Control Than Carbohydrates"-Series. Plus: Can You Use Niacin to Ramp Up Fat Burning During Fasts?

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Some scientists speculate that the niacin could be the root cause of the diabesity epidemic. Others believe it's the solution. After last the installments on vitamin D and calcium, I decided that it would be about time to talk about a nutrient with (purported) negative effects on blood glucose management. After some serious head-scratching I chose niacin aka nicotinic acid and it's innocent brother niacinamide for today's fifth installment of the  my choice "There is More To Glucose Control Than Carbohydrates"-Series. Even if you haven't been following the SuppVersity articles over the last years, you will probably be aware of some of the health effects high and low vitamin B3... ha? Right! Niacin is the only vitamin with proven HDL boosting effects (van der Hoorn. 2008). You can learn more about this topic at the SuppVersity Proteins, Peptides & Blood Glucose SFA, MUFA, PUFA & Blood Glucose Vitamin D & Diabetes Glucose Ma...
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Anti-Oxidants & Resistance Training: In the Elderly We See Minimal Benefits. In the Young and Fit Potential Detriments ➯ Could ROS Management, Not Eradication Be the Key?

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Health, performance, longevity: It's all about ROS-management. The age-diffe- rence that's showing in the contemporary evidence pro/against the negative effects of vitamin C + E on exercise induced adapation actually confirms that. I am pretty sure, the results of the Paulsen study I wrote about in " Study Confirms Antioxidants (C+E) Are Bad For Healthy People Who Train, But in Some Subjects C+E Increase the Fat Loss Effects of HIIT + HIT by a Whopping 60%" ( read more ) in February will still resonate in your ears. Impaired adaptation, but increased fat loss!? That sounds strange, but if you think of the inhibitory effects "bad inflammation" (see box below) will have on your body composition it is logical to assume that the provision of the simple reactive oxygen specimen (ROS) scavengers vitamin C & E would reduce the baseline inflammation and restore a person's sensitivity to "good inflammation" - the same ROS signalling, Nobel laure...
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Sprint & Strength Training - A Dynamic Duo For Synergistic Effects: Increased Fitness, Power & Endurance With HIIT + Heavy Lifting in Recreationally Active College Students

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Sprinting allowed: Adding two high intensity sprinting interval sessions to a basic weight lifting template entails nothing, but benefits. Beware, kid! You will become bulky and slow, if you lift weights." I am not quite sure if you've ever heard your high school track and field coach says something like this, but I am pretty sure that there are still coaches out there who would probably doubt the benefits of resistance training for a sprinter. Now, I am not so sure, if the reverse is true for weight lifting coaches, but if it was this would be equally counterproductive. A recent study from the Body Composition and Physical Performance Laboratory (wow, that's the place I would like to work at - at least if we go by the name ;-) at the University of Oklahoma does after all show quite conclusively that "performing concurrent sprint interval and strength training does not attenuate the strength response" and will at the same time lead to significant improvement...
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Coconut Miracle? Anti-Arthritis Effects of Virgin Coconut Oil Confirmed - Plus: 10 Additional Benefits of "White Gold" From "A" in 'Alzheimer's' to "W" as 'Waist Circumference'

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Coconut Wonder, Coconut science or Both? As a seasoned SuppVersity veteran, you will remember that I have been mocking the incredible hype around (virgin) coconut oil for years; not because there wasn't something "magic" to coconut oil, but rather because of the bazillions of incredible web-reports and recommendations and dozens of e-"books" on which the hype was / is built. If you turn your head away from hype and hearsay and take a look at the coconut-science that's out there, the wonder begins to appear "wondrous", but does not disappear. A recent study from the St. Thomas College in Kualalumpur, for example, does confirm the part where coconut oil made a lame person walk again (any similarities to biblical wonders are obviously mere coincidence ;-) The said study was published in the International Immunopharmacology and its abstract says that the results of the corresponding rodent experiment confirm the "potential beneficiary e...
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Pre-Hypertension Ain't Benign: Up to 80% Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Morbidity W/ "High Normal" Blood Pressure and Less! Plus: Foods & Supps to Reduce Your BP

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"High normal" is misleading - there is no such thing as a "high normal" BP "Ah, that's not so bad!" If that's what your doctor said, when he last measured your blood pressure and said "129/84" when he looked at the display of the Sphygmomanometer he must have been living beneath a rock for the past decades. If that sounds familiar, it may be useful to show him a recent meta-analysis of pertinent papers from the early 2000s - a metapa-analysis like the one Yuli Huang and her colleagues from the Department of Cardiology at the Nanfang Hospital at the Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China, published in BMC Medicine a couple of days ago (Huang. 2014). "Pre-hyper-tensive? Pah that's not me!" If you just thought that, I'd hope that you are right, but honestly... in view of the fact that 3 out of 10 US citizens have a blood pressure in the 129-139 / 84-95 mmHg and against the background that the latter h...
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Tai Chi & Circuit Training Have Both Beneficial Effects on BP of Middle-Aged Women, But Only "True Exercise" Will Cut 6.5% Body Fat While Increasing Lean Mass by 1.8%

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It's a beautiful sight (and site) - that's for sure, but compared to "true" exercise doing Thai Chi in the bay is not exactly going to yield live-changing results. Ok, I have to admit, I am a dopamine junkie, and probably that's because I suck at everything that's slow and takes time... but enough of these personal details. After looking at the study outcomes you will certainly agree: True exercise - in this case in the form of circuit training - will always prevail! But let's tackle one thing after the other. The study we are looking at was conducted at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Chia Yi and Chang Gung University (wherever that may be.... well, obviously in China). The participants were 180 women (aged 45–75 years) who were divided into a circuit exercise group, Tai Chi group and a control group. What did the women do? Well, actually I would first like to point out that there was one thing, the women did not do and that's restricti...
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