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If you know the tricks you can increase and decrease your caffeine tolerance by varying environmental factors. Ramp up the amount of exercise, broccoli and smoked meats ➲ maximize the clearance and minimize the effects of caffeine. Actually I had hoped no-one would see the comment I made in the discussion revolving around a recent article about caffeine, but since a promise is a promise and I was stupid enough to promise that I would write an article on the genetic and environmental underpinnings of caffeine-over- and -under-metabolizers, I am sitting right here, digging up study after study, to find ... well, nothing conclusive. According to analysis Welfare et al. conducted and published in June 1999, there is actually no  significant polymorphism in CYP1A2 in Caucasians which could explain the interindividual variation in caffeine activity, we all know exists (Welfare. 1999) - meanwhile, scientists have identified a handful of polymorphism - albeit with partly unknown acu...

Frequent Meals Are a Good Thing For Young Kids But Not For Older Ones Who Will Self-Select Their Snacks My recently published article "Many Small Meals Suck! Especially For Diabetics. Human Study Shows 6 Small Meals Mess W/ Blood Sugar Control, Make You Hungry and Decrease The Metabolic Rate" ( read more ) has caused quite a stir in the comment section on the article page, as well as on Facebook. Obviously, we are not all the same, and I did never imply that one or another of the the extra-ordinary SuppVersity readers will thrive on a six+ meal a day regimen. What most people who freaked out totally forgot, though, is that said article was not about a study in which the subjects eat as much as they wanted. It was a study with restricted energy intake. What I really wanted to highlight is thus, that with any diet that delivers less nutrients than you would need in given time period, even a non-significantly higher decrease in basal energy expenditure in response to an...

The answer to post-positioned question in the headline of today's SuppVersity article is not easy to find. Therefore I will start with the facts. Facts, researchers from the University of Sfax present in their latest paper in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Psychology & Behavior ; facts that leave little doubt that 5 mg/kg of caffeine could counteract the negative effect of 36 h of total-sleep deprivation on physical and cognitive performances, if your body would still react to stimulus - in other words: If your body still reacted like the bodies of the 13 healthy male habitual caffeine- not - ab using physical education students (age: 21.1 ± 1.1 years; body mass: 77.1 ± 7.2 kg; height: 1.77 ± 0.06 m) who volunteered to participate in the present study, it would get you going - seriously! The students had exactly the same time schedule at the university from sunrise to sunset under the control of the experimental team. Parti...

Rosemary and Garlic Steak - This is only one out of thousand recipes you will find all over the Internet that inform you how to use rosemary and reap (some) of the health benefits (thing about dosage for taste vs. for medical effects) I am about to outline in todoay's SuppVersity article. I know that I still owe you the 2nd par of the "Perfect Frying Oil" series, and I promise I will write it as soon as I have found convincing evidence to argue that there actually is a "perfect frying oil". In the mean time, I'd suggest you focus on the "tricks" I am about to reveal in today's SuppVersity article and produce your own no-bullshit-bulletproof frying oil by adding... no, not butter and coconut oil, but sage, thyme, and rosemary. If you belong to the extremely studious 10% of the SuppVersity students, you will probably remember that you can easily produce an anti-bacterial marinade based on green tea, lemon and turmeric ( read more ). If y...

Believe it or not, but the question "low or high carb for breakfast" is non-sense, because there is no general answer. It depends on who is asking and what he is going to spend the rest of his day. Before we can start reviewing the contemporary literature, we will have to define the term "breakfast" as the first meal in the day which is eaten in the AM. This definition differs from the "literal" one, I've used in a previous article with the title "Circadian Rhythmicity - "Breakfast" or "Breaking the Fast"? Fasting as Zeitgeber & All About King, Prince & Pauper" ( read it ) and is thus in line with the mainstream idea of standing up, showering and... yes, you got it: having breakfast. If you google "breakfast" and "obesity" you're served a colorful potpourri of "pro breakfast" articles which will inform you about "facts" like "Eating a big breakfast fights obesi...