SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

Air- or deep-frying, what's healthier? For most people that's not even a real question... rightly so?  "That's even a question?" I know, I know... With the health aura surrounding air frying it appears to be hilarious to even base a complete episode of SuppVersity | True or False  on the question whether air frying is in fact so much healthier than deep frying, but listen up: a recent study from the University of Porto  says that "most chemical parameters were similar on both frying processes, including [pro-carcinogenic]  acrylamide content" (Santos 2017). Can it really be that the air frying devices are another overhyped kitchen device you don't really need? Lean more about frying & co at the SuppVersity The Quest for the Optimal Frying Oil MUFA Modulates Gut Bacteria → Weight Loss Taste of Olive Oil Heals - Flavor's Enough! GMO Soybean Oil Proven to Be Pro-Inflammatory "Pimp My Olive Oil" - W/ Extra Antio...

Unfortunately, I cannot tell you if the "Western" diet was also full of junk food. I just know that its 20/55/20 ratio of PRO/CHO/FAT is everything but ideal for one's body composition. While it has not officially been published, yet, I am pretty sure that Jacob M. Wilson's latest paper is going to be one of the most-downloaded articles in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research  it's about to be published in. You're asking yourself why I am so sure about that? Well, it's already the most-discussed ahead-of-print article in months (see any Facebook Fitness / Exercise Research group or bulletin board), because it claims to confirm that ketogenic diets "can be used in combination with resistance training to cause favorable changes in body composition, performance and hormonal profiles in resistance-trained males" (Wilson 2017) - a claim that gets both ketophiles and keto-haters absolutely fired up. Would be ...

Extra gains, testosterone, and GH in one scientific paper?  That will catch every gymrats interest, right? I know, the name SuppVersity  implies that gains were all, or at least to a significant degree about supplements. In fact, though, they are about busting your ass out in the gym and eating like a freak. And with respect to the former, a new study from the  University of Jyväskylä  in Finland suggests that there is a deeper truth to the former part of this often-heard claim: busting your a** in form of eccentric training, i.e. using the maximal weight you can lift on the concentric and a supra-maximal weight on the eccentric phase of a more will  indeed produce significantly greater increases in maximal voluntary contraction torque (MVC) and (almost) significant increases in muscle gains. Are you trying to optimize your training for gains ? Find inspiration in these articles: What's the Latest on Failure? 36% Extra-Gains W/ Rest-Pause Pyramid-...

The "Bizzy Diet" works, the supplements that are suggested in the program at BB.com  are useless, though. You know that I am a fan of supplement companies that try to support the often hilarious claims on their product labels with science. Against that background, I feel there's nothing wrong with MusclePharm sponsoring, ah... I mean "funding" a recent study by researchers from the University of... ah, I mean, from Bodybuilding.com and the Ohio State University (Kendall 2017) - and that's not just in those (not exactly rare cases) when said research proves that their "thermogenic" powerhouse is actually a hilariously underdosed barrel burst. Learn more about alleged and true fat burner at the SuppVersity For Caffeine, Timing Matters! 45 Min or More? DMAA (Jack3D) - The Good, the Bad & the Evil How 'Harmless' are T2-Based Fat Burners, Really? DMHA a Legitimate DMAA Successor Fat Burners: Non-Stimulant, Non-Effectiv...