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Age-Dependent 100-300% Increase in Testosterone With 50mg of DHEA the Night Before HIIT Training. But is it Still Side Effect Free & Ergogenic When Taken Chronically?

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Don't be fooled. DHEA won't allow you to train forever day in and day out the study at hand does yet add to previous results which already suggested that it could have its merits whenever intensity and workloads are high ( learn more ) I don't know if you have noticed, but as of late, there has been a definitive testosterone deficiency as far as the topics of the daily SuppVersity news are concerned. With today's article on the use of 50 mg of dehydroepiandrosterone aka DHEA "pre-workout" this will change dramatically (read all previous articles on DHEA). Why? Well, the protocol the researchers from the Taipei Physical Education College , the China Medical University , the Asia University and their overseas colleague from the University of Texas at Austin describe in their recently published paper will yield age-dependent increases in free testosterone ranging from +100%, for the twens, to +300% for the men in their prime of their lives (~49 years). ...
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Adelfo Cerame - Staple Moves for Stable Gains: My Favorite Exercises and Your(?) Favorite Mistakes

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While this installment of Adelfo's SuppVersity guest posts actually deals with the "optimal" exercises and form - I personally would say that physique-wise Adelfo is likewise on a good way towards achieving a form or rather overall physique even the most critical judges will have a hard time to ignore on the upcoming 2013 Wheelchair Nationals in March (learn more at wheelchair-bodydbuilding.com )! Ok folks, the good news is, there is the promised update from your's truly Adelfo Cerame - what's even better: Adelfo is giving away some of his secrets discussing his favorite exercises for chest, back and arms, as well as the most common mistakes which forestall training progress. The bad news is, there is no Science Round Up today and what's even worse is the sad reason for the unplanned break. Carl's mother passed away earlier this week and it goes without saying that the next round of "science news sniffing" will have to wait till next w...
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The European Horse Meat Scandal - Looking Beyond the Hysteria: Why "Horse-Powered" Lasagna Would Actually be Nutritionally Superior to Its "Beefed-Up" Counterpart

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Lots of good meats on Fury from the slaughterhouse ;-) I am not sure if all of the US and other international students of the SuppVersity have already gotten wind of the huge "scandal" *rofl* about horse meat in convenient foods. In case you ain't no clue what I am talking about, here is the gist: About a week ago the first reports surfaced that some of the junk... ah, I mean instant meals that are sold by the largest supermarket chains in Europe and produced by such "reputable" companies as Nestlé and Co. are "adulterated" with horse meat (if you want to, you can read up on the whole story in the online version of the NY Times ; read more ). Actually things started out with frozen Lasagna and now horse meat appears to be in everything the average convenient food lover packs into his shopping basket. Now, frozen lasagna (unless self-prepared) is nothing I would expect the average SuppVersity reader to consume on a regular basis, anyway. And the...
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Leaning Out on a Bulk? Approx. 6g of Phospholipid Bound DHA + EPA Per Day Could Make That Possible. Rodent Study Reveals Profound Difference to "Regular Fish Oil"

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Can phospholipid-bound N-3s as in krill ward off the fat gain on a bulk? Your daily visits, comments, feedback, criticism and obviously commendations are not only what makes the hours of work I invest into this blog worthwhile, they are also a constant source of "inspiration" and, as the latest post by Roy Nelson on the SuppVersity Facebook Wall goes to show you, oftentimes point me towards the most interesting stuff. In that, it does not really matter that Roy's question was more or less unrelated to what I personally found absolutely newsworthy in the study he referenced, a study which deals with fish oil supplementation and its *yawn* anti-inflammatory effects. You learn from me, I learn from you Now, I guess some of you are similarly fed up with those rodent studies like I am, but bear with me folks, Roy did in fact shoot the bulls-eye with this one (not sure if you realized that Roy, but you did ;-) After all, there was a certain twist to this study. A twist...
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Post-Workout Glycogen Repletion - The Role of Protein, Leucine, Phenylalanine and Insulin. Plus: Protein & Carbs How Much do You Actually Need After a Workout?

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Pascal Behrenbruch , German decathlete and one of those athletes whose performance during a meet will certainly depend on "optimal" glycogen repletion between the different sports. Within the past couple of weeks I have often talked (on the Science Round-Up ) and written (here at the SuppVersity ) about the importance of glycogen repletion to maintain optimal exercise performance and stave off the metabolic downregulation that's a characteristic of the nasty combination of overtraining and undereating . The recent post on the anti-plateau effect of sucrose should actually have made it quite clear: Even when you are "just" dieting, you should make it a priority to satisfy your body's desire to have an adequate reserve of glucose in the muscle and more importantly the liver. But what does that mean? Do you really have to guzzle gallons of sugar water (aka weight gainers ) after a workout? Certainly not. The notion that you need to flood your skeleta...
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Blood Flow Restriction, Where Are We? "Don't Hold Your Breath", the Valsalva Maneuver Revisited. Ageless Growth, It's Never Too Late to Start. Plus: EMS as Recovery Tool & HIIT to Heal a Scarred Heart After Myocardial Infarctions

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I guess it is a cultural thing that there is apparently a lot more of persuading to be done in the US and Europe to familiarize trainees with (a) the idea of limiting the blood supply to their musculature and (b) the notion that heavy weights are not all that counts. After the huge success of the SuppVersity Exercise Science Week ( read all posts ), I did actually intend to put a greater emphasis on training related news in the future. Unfortunately, the number of pertinent papers that don't look at the benefits obese post-menopausal women can derive from walking on a treadmill in the fat burning zone is very limited (Please don't misunderstand this as an offense against the obese women. I anything it's meant as an offense against "experts" still advising those women to do just that). If you look closely enough, there are still a couple of newsworthy papers that have been published within the last weeks... and let's be honest, in the end it does not reall...
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