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Eccentric Exercise IGF1 & Athlete's Heart; Long or Short Intervals, Both Improve Arterial Stiffness. Plus: Exercise Heals Wounds & Makes You Rust Proof Within One Year!

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Controlled exhaustion = positive adaptation; continuous exhaustion = wear and tear = one out of 57,002 who suffer from cardiac arrest during a marathon (data based on Webner. 2012) As announced on Saturday, already this is a "special edition" of the On Short Notice series, focusing exclusively on exercise related studies. With two studies on heart health ,  one on wound healing and the last one on the  bullet proof endogenous anti-oxidant system of trained athletes,  this installment of the " Exercise News Roundup " and two studies on different HIIT, it does however have both a health , as well as a HIIT focus. I know that does not sound as sexy as being big and buffed, but what's the use of that if you don't fit the coffin, you're about to need, when your looks are more important to you than your health? IGF-Response to exercise implicated in "athletes heart" A group of polish researchers describes in their latest paper that...
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The Female(?) Athlete Triad - Part I/III: How An Evolutionary Advantage Can Turn Its Ugly Face On Both Sexes!

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The cover of the Vogue is usually not the place to turn to, if you are looking for role-models, but let's be honest: Do you believe Hope Solo or Serena Williams suffer from amenorrhea or their fellow Olympian Brian Lochte from low testosterone? I don't think so. So, there must be something "real" athletes do that way too many weekend warriors, who are in it, often to look just like their stars don't do - and in this multi-part SuppVersity Special , we are going to figure out what this may be. I guess some of you will already have believed that I had forgotten about the requested and promised article on the "Female Athlete Triad" . As you can easily see, this is not the case and still, I must admit that it will take another week until I will eventually have make good on my promise, as this is only the first part of a multi-part feature . The main reason I decided to split things up is that I did not want you to simply skip on the fundamental inform...
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Fighting Body Fat W/ Green Tomatoes; Fasting, Exercise & Cognitive Performance; Potassium Citrate & Coconut Oil Strengthen the Bone; 25mg Clomid Double Testosterone

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Image of the week: Golf-ball sized tumors from GMO corn and a >100% increase in mortality in female rodents are the results of the (at least in Europe) much debated study by Gilles-Eric Séralini et al. (Séralini. 2012) I must admit that I got somewhat bored with writing the same, or at least very similar introductions time and again. So I decided to start each and every installment of On Short Notice with either a picture or a figure that impressed, amused, enraged or, as in this case, shocked me, when I hit on it. The image you see on the right shows the rodents from the French GMO corn study that made the news earlier this week. Females, to be precise. With golf-ball sized mammary gland tumors. Nasty and the result of a life on a 22% GMO or 22% GMO + Round-Up diet ... yeah, you read me right: 22% was enough. In fact, "the rate of mortality [...] reach[ed] a threshold at the lowest (11%) or intermediate (22%) amounts of GM maize" (Séralini. 2012), already, and that ...
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Adelfo Cerame - Ten Days to Mission Possible: Battle Plan for the 2013 Wheelchair Bodybuilding Season. Fasting, Eating, Training, Coaching, Counting, Sleeping & Prevailing

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Adelfo's new contest prep coach Alberto Nunez (left part), Adelfo in the "on season" 2012 (right part) I am deeply ashamed, but have to admit that I did not mention that yesterday's post on the "anabolic" effects of betaine was a last minute replacement for Adelfo Cerame Jr.'s weekly SuppVersity guestpost ( click here to read the past installments). Adelfo has been quite busy lately and therefore postponed his weekly progress update by 24h. I guess you won't mind though, 'cause he made good use of the hours he had left and compiled an extra-long, extra-detailed and extra-informative blogpost for today.  A brief reminder before I hand over to Adelfo: The weekly SuppVersity Science Roundup with my friend Carl Lanore is now available as a podcast on the SHR website! "T" as in "ten days left", until the fat has to start falling off my frame ;-) Yes, SuppVersity readers, you will have to go through another (hopeful...
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Trimethylglycine aka Betaine Sets the Anabolic Stage for Increased Muscle Growth: Higher IGF-1 & Lower Cortisol - Statistically Significant, but Physiologically (Ir-)Relevant?

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Figure 1: Betaine content (in mg/100g) in some common food items (data based on Craig. 2004). Makes me wonder if Popeye ate wheat germ as well or whether he was celiac and stuck to spinach to get his daily dose of pro-anabolic betaine? Trimethylglycine (TMG) the sciency name for a molecule most of you probably know by the name "betaine" is actually no longer a new-comer to the supplement scene (please note that this is not betaine HCL (!), the stuff you will find in digestive aids). I have already written about its purported ergogenic effects several times and there are actually quite a handful of proprietary blends with mostly undisclosed, but judged based on the total serving size and amount of ingredients in them, hilariously underdosed amounts of the zwitterionic compound and a methyl derivative of glycine in it on the market. Friends and followers of the SuppVersity will also be aware that betaine is also found naturally in a variety of food sources such as sug...
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