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Histidine As a Fat Loss Adjuvant? 6% Fat Loss Without Dietary or Exercise Intervention & More Than Half a Dozen Other Reasons Not To Ignore This Essential Amino Acid

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Histidine as a fat loss adjuvant? Laughable? Not for the obese! For lean folks like her? We'll see... If I had to guesstimate the number of fitness enthusiasts who have ever heard of histidine at all, I would say that 50% probably don't even know what it is, while the majority of the lightened ones will re-iterate what the supplement business has been preaching them "You get more than enough histidine, anyway. So don't worry our superior beta-alanine supplement will work even if you don't take additional histidine." Short term studies confirm this notion. It looks as if we usually have more than enough histidine to have it recombine with beta alanine and form carnosine, but long-term studies are missing and let's be honest: How likely is it that an essential amino acid is nothing but a servant to a non-essential amino acid from the 2nd row? Early results: Histidine modulates feed efficiency Actually we could have known that histidine could have ...
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Instant Coffee, Glycemia & Caffeine Powered Post-Workout Glycogen Repletion. Fish Oil, Arachidonic Acid Release & Prostaglandin Modulation. Adipocyte Sizes & Yoyo Dieting

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Judged by the way they are looking at each other they don't care about their differential glucose / insulin response too coffee, but if you do, I suggest you scroll down and read the pertaining news item. 7.3% and 21.4%, those are the SuppVersity figures of the week. Figures that stand for the 2011 youth- and 2010 adult obesity rates in Colorado and they represent the nationwide "optimum" - at least according to CDC data from the respective years. Now, it was already hard to find US states with obesity rates below the nationwide average of 13% (youths) and 27.6% (adults). What is yet even harder or rather impossible is to dig up studies which try to elucidate why Colorado is the "leanest" of the 50 US states. Non-exhausting physical activity, for example, would be a candidate, but according to Wyatt et al. the "[e]ven in Colorado , one of the leanest states, very low levels of physical activity are seen in much of the population." (Wyatt. 2005). ...
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Adelfo Cerame - Finally a PRO: How I Won My IFBB Pro Card. Plus: SHR Audio Interview & All the Details About Adelfo's Nutrition & Training Regimen Before the Show

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Adelfo at the NPC Sunshine Classic/Wheelchair Nationals '13 In case you missed the live show yesterday, you should by now have had the chance to listen to the podcast of yesterday's SuppVersity Science Round-Up Special in honor of Adelfo Cerame Jr. If you did, you may have noticed that we talked a lot about the prep, about dieting and training in general, but did not really get to the contest itself... but hey, this is what the Science Round-Up "Seconds" are for and therefore I am now going to copy and paste the content of the latest blogpost Adelfo just shot me. Before I do that, I do yet want to remind you of the SuppVersity Facebook Wall which holds, among other things news on the effects of grass and sand on your sprinting ability on different surfaces ( read more ),  the infection risk that comes with high glucose levels even in non-diabetic women ( read more ), Silvestrol , a natural anti-leukemia agent ( read more ), how low vitamin D levels c...
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Greater Strength Without Compromised Size Gains With Rest-Pause. Can Dietary Variety Fight or Cause Obesity? Catabolism & Anabolism Just 2 Sides of the Same Coin. GABA as a GH Promoting Brain Anabolic?

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Can't squeeze out another rep? Not a problem have some intra-set rest and continue pumping thereafter. I guess, I did this before, but I say it again: "Congratulations, Adelfo Cerame Jr.! You are the man." Obviously, we all knew he is, but as of now, even the judges have finally acknowledged that. Reason enough to do a Science Round-Up Special today, in the course of which Carl Lenore and me are going to pick Adelfo's brain and have him surrender all the secrets that made him finally achieve what he has been chasing for years, now: The status of a wheelchair pro bodybuilder. Just like the regular show the live show will be kicking off at 1PM EST. If you miss it it's not a problem, there is also going to be a special edition of the "Seconds", tomorrow with Adelfo looking back at how the contest went and how he made sure to peak right on time (edit: you can download the podcast now). And just to make sure that no one complains: I compiled a ...
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Does Creatine Blunt Fat Loss? A Recent Study Supports Long-Standing Suspicions, But What Are the Implications?

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Better  lean than strong? Why not both? Anyone remember the allegedly not very popular post on the "anti-creatine" β-Guanidinopropionic Acid ( GPA ) and it's ability to increase AMPK , decreases blood glucose & insulin , induce weight loss without dieting, increase skeletal muscle oxidative capacity and delay the development of mammary cancer ( read up on the news)? I thought so... Even I had was just about to forget about it, when I stumbled upon a recently published Brazilian study which found that the "real" - not the anti-creatine - does in fact what you would expect from the "evil twin" of GPA: It blunts the exercise induced fat loss in highly trained amateur athletes (Manjarrez-Montes de Oca. 2013). "What!? Creatine makes me fat?" Now, before you start freaking out, let me say this: There are also studies which suggest that creatine supplementation does the exact opposite, i.e. that it can (combined with an intense e...
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Predictive Value of Equations to Calculate Your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) Flawed: Results Can Be 14-29% Off

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Would she still look so happy, if she knew that thee treadmill just lied to her? I have written, said and, in person, even shouted it out often enough: Once you start to rely on the figures certain formulas generate (and this includes what your treadmill, your heart rate monitor etc. will produce, 'cause they use the same flawed formulas), you are lost. The message of today's SuppVersity article is therefore by no means a new one. What's pretty new, though, is the study by V. Bonghana and colleagues from University of Campinas who have compared five predictive equations that are supposed to predict your and everyone else's basal (=excluding physical activity) energy demands (Bonghana. 2013). "Start with a 15% energy deficit" - based on what? The above, i.e. to start dieting by consuming ~15% less energy than you usually do, is my usual suggestion for anyone who's not in the "so fat that your health is in danger" zone, someone like you...
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