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Sick of Being Sick? 30 High Flavonoid Foods to Reduce the Incidence, Length & Severity of Infections by 40% (Avg.)

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If "that's you" and "that's you" more than four times a year, you better read today's SuppVersity article and learn which Flavenoids may reduce your number of upper respiratory tract infections into the normal range of 2-4 per year. The number of purported anti-URTI (=anti U pper R espiratory T ract I nfection) agents is unquestionable higher than the average number of yearly upper respiratory infections of the average US citizen, which is 2-4. Which of these usually natural agents actually have the ability to protect you from at least one of the previously cited 2-4 infections, however, is far from being obvious. The scientific evidence is ambiguous and confusing and therefore I am happy that researchers from the  University of Auckland  and colleagues from the College of Sport and Exercise Science at the Victoria University  have recently conducted a large-scale meta-analysis of no less than 387 studies - ok, that's the number they began with...
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Food Proteins Have Same Muscle Building + Fat Shredding Effects as Whey Protein Shakes, and Reduces Desire to Eat

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What's more muscle ana & fat catabolic? It is not too long ago that I've written about the results of the first PRISE study (Arciero. 2014) on Facebook. In said study, the subjects, your average overweight to obese individuals, had been advised to use a protein-pacing strategy (P; six meals/day @ 1.4 g/kg body weight (BW), three of which included whey protein (WP) supplementation) combined with a sane multi-mode fitness program consisting of resistance, interval sprint, stretching, and endurance exercise training (RISE) to improve their composition - with quite astonishing results, by the way (Arciero. 2014). More specifically, the subjects in the PRISE (vs. RISE = only exercise) arm of the study lost more more body weight (3.3 ± 0.7 vs. 1.1 ± 0.7 kg, P + RT) and fat mass  (2.8 ± 0.7 vs. 0.9 ± 0.5 kg, P + RT) and gained (P < 0.05) a greater percentage of lean body mass (2 ± 0.5 vs. 0.9 ± 0.3 and 0.6 ± 0.4%, P + RT and P, respectively | read old FT ). Yes, the h...
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Polarized Concomitant Training - Will it Help You Make Max. Gains & Improvements in Body Comp. W/ Strength+Cardio?

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Polarized training? Find out more... Does concurrent / concomitant training intensity distribution matter? Unless you're a first timer at the SuppVersity  you will have read at least two or three previous articles of mine about studies investigating the effects of concurrent training, i.e. the combination of strength and  cardio  training, (i.e. concomitant training) here . If you recall the results, you will know that previous research has demonstrated the influence of intensity distribution on strength endurance training adaptations. You can learn more about the optimal exercise order at the SuppVersity What's the Right Training 4 You? Hypertrophy Blueprints Fat Loss Support Blueprint Strength Training Blueprints Study: Over-training Exists Recovering from the Athlete's Triad You may also remember that no previous study has addressed the influence of "intensity distribution", i.e. the way intensity and volume are distributed acr...
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Can Oxidized Proteins Kill You? PROTOX Links Processed High Protein Foods to IBS, Diabetes, Cancer, NAFLD & Co.

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Dietary protein sources: You better eat them before they're rancid. There's such a thing as "protein oxidation"? If you are asking yourself this question, you will probably have missed the 20th century studies by Henry D. Dakin (*1880–†1952). Dakin originally reported the oxidative degradation of particular amino acids during digestion and introduced the potential biological consequences of such biochemical reactions. The impact of PROTOX, as this form oxidation is called to distinguish it from the way better known LOX (lipid oxidation) on human health was, at that moment, wholly unknown. As Estévez and Luna point out in a recent paper in the peer-reviewed scientific journal "Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition", PROTOX has been in the focus during the succeeding decades, though, "owing to the association between the oxidative damage to proteins and aging and age-related diseases (Berlett & Stadtman, 1997)" (Estévez. 2016). ...
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