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Baking Soda & Beta Alanine Synergistically Promote Upper Body Power Output by 14%. Body Part, Dosage or Subject Specificity? What's Behind the Newly Found Synergism?

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Finally, beta alanine passes the baton to sodium bicarbonate ;-) The hypothesis that the combination of an "internal" (as in inside of the cell) and an external H+ buffer would be a perfect match is unquestionably straight forward. What was yet about as straight forward were the results of a study by Ducker et al. you've read about, here at the SuppVersity on March 28, 2013 : While the combination looks perfect on paper, the real-world results were more than just disappointing. The additional beta alanine did not only fail to promote the ergogenic effects of baking soda ( NaHCO3 ), it did in fact thwart them ( learn more ). New study, new participants, new protocol, new results Now, I am pretty sure Gabriel Tobias and his colleagues from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and the Nottingham Trent University in the UK, had not heard about the results Ducker et al. reported a couple of weeks ago, when they set out to test the effects of beta alanine (BA;   Carn...
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Citrulline as Substrate Switch. Galactose as Workout Fuel, Glycogen Repletion Not Urgent, 2x a Day 6x a Week = Too Much For Your Antioxidant System, Astaxanthin For IgA

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Actually it's not the burn during the workout that matters, but I don't have to tell you that , do I? (pic i-am-beast.com ) What do you do with a whole host of interesting exercise-related nutrition news that are piling up in your archive, but are too good to be "burned" as short links with one sentence of text on the  SuppVersity Facebook Wall? Right! You compile all those news into a potpourri, attach the label "SuppVersity News Potpourri" to it and blow them out in a blogpost of their own. A post that covers the whole peri-workout window as well as the short-/long-term effects on exercise on your anti-oxidant and immune system. Sounds good? Well, then go ahead... Immediate post-workout glycogen repletion in endurance athletes probably useless (Carlsohn. 2013) While the hormonal response and the long-term effects of running around with depleted glycogen levels are a totally different animal, the latest research from the University Outpatient ...
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Diet + Exercise + Kitchen Sink Fat Burner Promote Weight Loss in Two-Months Study on Overweight Adults. Additional 2kg Fat Loss - Are Ozzy's Raspberries to "Blame"?

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No this is not Liza Oz after taking Mehmet's beloved RK supplements ;-) The Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition is one of the few "major" scientific journals, where scientists can actually publish those studies, "healthy freaks" (no, not "health freaks", but people who are still healthy and thus freaks ;-) like us are interested in. Studies such as the one Hector L Lopez and his colleagues conducted; studies that investigate the effects and effectiveness of dietary supplements such as Prograde Metabolism (TM), a proprietary blend "fat burner" containing your usual blend of B-vitamins, chromium, caffeine, citrus aurantium, ginger, garlic, capsaicin, l-theanine and piper nigrum... ah, and of course as the #1 ingredient on the label Raspberry-K (TM). Too much blubber? "Grab the rasp and berry it off!" Ah, well... Hold on, another of those "proprietary blend studies"? Can we even trust the data...
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True Or False: Glutamine For Glycogen Repletion. Enzymes Instead of NSAID. Drumming Burns More Kcal Than Jogging

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Ever wondered how the "Modern-Day Samurai" of the Drummers of Japan keep in shape? Today's installment of True or False holds the answer to this and other questions ;-) True or false? That's the title of this no longer new series at the Suppversity and it is the question I want to answer after you read the following three statements: (1) "You can use glutamine instead of carbs to replete your glycogen stores", (2) "The only ones who benefit from the use of enterically coated and purportedly systemically acting enzymes are the the manufacturers of respective supplements" and (3) "Drumming burns about as much energy as fast jogging"... hmm, I see you're scratching your head!? Well, the unwritten rules of the game require that you make your prediction before you read the following paragraphs. So, true or false ? You can use glutamine instead of carbs to replete your glycogen stores True. There is yet one big caveat. The glu...
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Size Does Matter! Mucuna Counters Estrogenic Assaults & Doubles Testosterone. High Hair Cortisol, CVD & Diabetes. Catabolic Laziness. Health & Obesity = Incompatible

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While it may be debatable, whether and in which contexts size really matters, 20% of the women in a Dutch study state that they length of the best part of their partner was "important" (Franken.. 2002) While the debate whether or not "size matters" is probably never going to end, researchers from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico have now found that your male offspring could "fall short" if they are exposed to phthalates during pregnancy. For their study, the scientists had collected urine samples of 174 mothers-to-be and analyzed them for phthalate residues. Bustamante-Montes et al. did then correlate the phthalate content of the urine of those mothers who gave birth to male newborns (N=73) to their sons' best parts and found that "prenatal exposure to mono-2-ethylhexyl phthalate exposure was associated with a reduced distance from the anus to anterior base of the penis (-0.2 mm/µg), reduced penile width (-0.04 mm/µg) and a reduce...
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Science Round-Up 2nds: Intra-/Post Workout Stims, Carbs & Protein and Their Effects on Performance, Hydration, GH, Cortisol, Testosterone & Fatty Acid Oxidation

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As mentioned on yesterday's show, small 100kcal packets are as much of a problem as large dinner plates and XXL meals (data based on Coelho do Vale. 2008) I want to start today's Seconds with a question: How did you like that Carl and I did not rush through the news-lineup as it was the case in previous episodes, but simply took our time to discuss the topics in depth an breadth, yesterday ? Personally, I believe that this is much better than the accumulation of "buzzword" the show had become in the previous weeks due to my "study hunter and gatherer" drive - or, in other words, the mere mass of studies I wanted to pack into the show and Carl's desperate effort to cover them all. Would you agree? And what other changes / improvements would you like to see in the future? We are open for constructive criticism. You can't improve your game without it. Let's get to what did not fit into the show, then ... The net result of the spending mo...
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Adelfo Cerame's Beach Ready Program: A Blueprint to Shed The Winterfat in Time. Sample Workout + Diet Guide

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The beach season is almost at the ready... what about you? It's another of those "every other Thursdays" and after realizing that even after months of the same routine not everyone out there has gotten that these are the days, when Wheelchair IFBB Pro Adelfo Cerame is doing the lion's share of the work here at the SuppVersity and I (=Adel) am just editing the stuff Adelfo shot me via email earlier today. I write an introduction (the words you are are reading just now) and add a short preview on what you can expect from the thursdaily 1PM (ET) Science Round Up on the Super Human Radio Network ( listen live! ) and hit the "publish" button. Adelfo Cerame's Beach Ready Program: A Blueprint to Shed The Winterfat in Time Summer is just around the corner, and I’m positive that the majority of you will be preparing those beach bodies within the next couple of months. So while you guys and gals are trying to get lean and mean and shredded for the summe...
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