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Can You Bleed Yourself Healthy and Lean? First Controlled Human Trial on the Benefits of Phlebotomy for Glucose and Lipid Metabolism and CVD Risk Could Hold the Answer

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Image 1: You better pump iron than "bleed iron" if you want to do something for your health. Oftentimes the use of supplements that promise to help with all sorts of ailments related to the metabolic syndrome will induce nothing but financial bleeding. The recently published results of an experiment that was conducted by a group of researchers from Germany, on the other hand, suggests that you and make much more progress towards a healthier glucose metabolism, blood pressure and CVD risk profile (Houschyar. 2012). Donate blood or not, is that the question? Other than most previous studies, in which scientists had simply discovered a telling association (not even a clear-cut correlation ) between glucose resistance / diabetes and the amount of stored iron (ferritin) in the bodies of their mostly obese subjects (Rajpathak. 2009), Houschyar et al. actually set out to test their hypothesis that there is a mechanistic explanation for the striking associations in a random...
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Saturated Fat Kills Gut Bacteria & Modifies Genes in the Distal Small Intestine - Another Reason Why We Get Fat? Plus: Bacteria, Fiber, SCFA, GLP-1 & PYY Revisited

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Image 1: Bacteria, there are >100 trillion of them right inside of your digestive track, you can hardly know them all and scientists do neither - the only thing we are beginning to understand, though, is that it may be a good idea to get them to know at least somewhat better ;-) I guess some of you have already noticed that I was (and probably am now, again) somewhat behind, as far as answering your questions, comments an wise remarks are concerned. Actually it is still more of a coincidence that today's SuppVersity news, which, as you see is not an Adelfo Cerame post (don't forget to keep the fingers crossed for him! This is his weekend!), could actually be interpreted as my somewhat lengthy response to a comment from Vincente on the effects of GLP-1 on chocolate preference in rats and an interesting hypothesis of his, on how this could all relate to my previous post on the fat burning effects of GLP-1 (" Eat More, Burn More and Lose Fat Like on Crack with GLP...
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Pre-Workout Caffeine: Fat Liberator, Substrate Modulator, Trans-Fatty Acid Eliminator & Performance Upregulator! Do You Use it? Why are You Still no Ripped Olympian, Then?

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Image 1 ( mensfitnessandmore ): I would not recommend to empty a whole can of "liquid animals", like bulls or horses, let alone monsters or other popular "creatures" from the kiosk next to your gym, if you don't want to crash from the sudden influx into and as rapid disappearance of sugar from your system - that's by the way what cyclists call "to bonk" and guess what, they do ingest tons of similar sugarwaters and -gels ;-) You will be hard pressed these days to find a "caffeine free" fat burner. The few that are currently on the market lead a miserable existence, usually in the "on sale" or "expired" categories of everyone's favorite online shop. But do you really get more than just a transient spike of energy from taking a caffeine-based fat burner? According to a recently published study that was conducted by a team of international researchers from the University of Extremadura in Spain and the Australia...
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Phospholipid or Triglyceride? What's in Your Fish Oil Caps? Only Phospholipid Based DHA+EPA Reduces Fat Cell Growth & Elevated Insulin Levels Despite Obesogenic Diet

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Image 1 (Liliyu. 2007): Look no further, DHA+EPA in phospholipid form can be found right around the corner in the salmon-sashimi at your favorite sushi restaurant, for example. I guess you will already have heard about the "huge quality differences" of different fish oil products, the manufacturers of the more expensive products usually use to justify the price difference to the average no-name fish oil cap from your favorite bulk supplier. You may also remember a previous SuppVersity post on the obviously over-blown problem with oxidized (=rancid) fish oil (see " Some Things Fishy: Oxidized Fish Oil Totally Benign!? "), which - much to the researchers' own surprise, worked just as well as regular, fresh fish oil (Ottestad. 2011). What you will probably not have thought about before, however, is the triglyceride to phospholipid ratio of your fish oil caps (Note: While there are intact phospholipids in raw or barely cooked fish, it is almost certain that mos...
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Profitable Revelation! Inhabitants of the Affluent Western Hemisphere Don't Meet "Their" RDAs For Important Nutrients. "Scientists" Call to Action, I Call to Calm Down.

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Image 1: Nothing sells like FDA-approved supplements and federally supported fortified foods. And whenever you want to sell more snake oil, just pay for another study on "nutrient deficiencies" There are two things you can shovel truckloads of money with in the realms of dietary supplements and convenience foods. Those are dreams, such as the dream of a lean and muscular physique and FDA approved but for customers non-verifiable promises of  the absence of future ailments. And while such profane things as wanting to get big and buffed or even simply "looking good naked" is looked down upon by the majority of average Joes and Janes (I don't want to go into the underlying psychological reasons here ;-), the use of the latter is generally regarded as a useful if not necessary means that will not just help us preserve our health, but will also sooth our guilty conscious of not being able to break ourselves of our bad dietary habits. Against that background it...
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80% Greater Protein Synthesis 3-5h After Workout: 20g+ PWO Protein Threshold Holds. Spiking Lower Amounts With Leucine or EAAs Will Still Yield Sub-Optimal Results

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Image 1: Milk (proteins) are not just leucine or EAA - try doing that with half the amount of free-form aminos in water - the results will certainly be "suboptimal", I can vouch for that  ;-) It has been a while since the last study from Stuart Phillips group at the McMaster University has made it to the SuppVersity news. Their latest publication does yet have the potential to pour oil on troubled waters, because the results appear to confirm that even when every other supplement appears to be failing you, you can always rely on your postworkout whey protein (Churchward-Venne. 2012). And while the study confirms that with some free form amino acid witchcraft, you can actually illicit identical post-exercise increases in protein synthesis, the previously determined threshold dosage of 20g of high quality protein is still the gold standard, for everyone whose interest is to actually build muscle which is, as you as a seasoned SuppVersity veteran know, not happening on...
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Women Have a Much Harder Time Losing Body Fat Than Men, But Both Benefit From Doubling Their Protein Intake!

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Image 1: Looks good, tastes good, is good - and contrary to zinc , ingesting 2x the RDA will help you lose body fat, instead of setting you up for insulin resistance. Enough of useless ( ALA , zinc ) and useful ( glutamin ) supplements for at least 24h! Let's get back to what really counts: Training? No, not today,.. the other thing! The one, which is actually to be supplemented - your diet! Believe it or not - even after all those years, I am finding time and again that the food you put into your mouth has much more pronounced effects on the ways you look feel and perform than any of the countless useless and useful supplements. Accordingly and in response to the futile notion of "calories in vs. calories out" and the bomb-calorimeter representation of the human metabolism as a simple furnace, the past couple of years have seen an increasing public and (as of late) scientific interest in the effects varying macronutrient compositions will have on your ability to she...
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