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High Fat vs. High Carb and How the Tiny Word "Synthetic" May Turn Out to Be an Epic Game Changer That Puts a HUGE Question Mark Behind "If It Fits Your Macros"

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Even if both "Fit Your Macros" you should know better than to select the "fruit" loops (where is the "fruit" in those loops anyway?). A war is raging! Well, at least in the Internet the "battle" between the low-carb revolutionists and the low-fat veterans does sometimes in fact resemble an epic battle between god and evil... at least that's what the combatants believe. As of late it seems as if the rebels, i.e. the low-carbers were getting the upper hand and that despite the constant supplies the low fat veterans are getting from their friends in the medical establishment - friends who pay for studies the veterans to agrue how stupid and off base the rebels' assumption that "low carbing" would help us to solve the obesity epidemic actually actually were. Don't worry this post is not a war epic ;-) I know, up to this point, all this may not have sounded much like a SuppVersity article, but this will change now that...

The Satiating Secret of Arginine, Lysine and Glutamic Acid. Plus: Things You May Not Know About These Aminos

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No, no and no. No amino acids = no satiety = no weight loss. Personally, I have never been interested in products that would increase satiety. Being a born masochist, at least, when it comes to cutting body fat, I always liked being hungry... well, at least until I had to learn that there is an intricate hormonal connection between "being hungry" and the diet-induced reduction in metabolic rate, hormonal production etc. That changed my whole perspective on agents that increase satiety completely, and I started to read read papers like the one Jordi et al. are about to publish in one of the upcoming issues of the Journal of Physiology (Jordi. 2013). The satiety shoot-out According to the researchers from the University of Zurich , the top-dogs, or rather the most satiating among the so-called proteogenic amino acids, which are ... L-Leucine (Leu / L) L-Lysine (Lys / K) L-Methionine (Met / M) L-Phenylalanine (Phe / F) L-Proline (Pro / P) L...

Cinnamon, Curcumin (Turmeric), Licorice (Glycyrrhizin), Melatonin, Milk Thistle (Silymarin). Supplements to Improve and Restore Insulin Sensitivity - Serving #3

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Sleep hygiene was part of the lifestyle tips in the first episode of this series, with this episode you get a tool that can help you get back into the groove: melatonin. This is Sunday number three with supplements that may help you improve / maintain your glucose sensitivity and I can already tell you it's going to be the last one. In other words, if there are any compounds that have not yet been covered in this series - just a reminder Alpha Lipoic Acid, GABA, Taurine, Green Tea, Gooseberry & Fenugreek were addressed in detail as part of supplement list #1 Berberine, Banaba (Corosolic Acid), Rauwolfia Serpentina, (Apple Cider) Vinegar, Chromium were addressed in detail on supplement list #2   - this is your last chance to make a wish! So, if you have something special in mind, use the comment section at the end of this article and tell me which agents you want to see in issue #4 on next Sunday. Ah, ... it should be obvious that none of the following agents qualif...

Gluten Free, But not Suitable For Celiacs: Milk, Chocolate, Corn, Instant Coffee and 20 Other Foods & Food Ingredients That Could Cross-React With Gluten Anti-Bodies

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Unless you got the right, i.e. breast milk as a baby and have rendered your gut "gluten proof" - being breast fed, when you are first exposed (or being exposed later in life) has after all been suggested as a protective factor (Farrell. 2005) This is not going to be a long post; and still, at least for some of you it is going to be an important post. A post that may have the potential to change your life for the better or for the worse depending on whether you actually suffer from gluten-intolerance or have simply been bamboozeled by the "gluten is the devil" messages that are plastered all over the Internet these days. Actually, I would hope that you belong to neither of the groups and can thus simply ignore this post. For the unfortunate rest, I have prepared a mini-summary of the results of a recent study from the Immunosciences Lab in Los Angeles (Vojdani. 2013) Milk and cornflakes - a killer combo A couple of recent studies, as well as reports from p...

Intermittent Fasting Ramadan Style: Lose More Than 3% Body Fat Off an Already "Lean" 31" Waist in 28 Days. Plus: Why Do the "Fast / Starve Two Times à Week" Diets Work?

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Feasting and a wasp waist? Does bring the two together? You are among the couple of thousand people who have been following the Intermittent Thoughts on Intermittent Fasting Series, here at the SuppVersity you will be aware that despite "fasting windows", "feasts" and "breakfast skipping" a religious fast as it is performed by Muslims all around the world may share several key elements with what fitness fanatics think about, when they hear the words intermittent fasting". There are however a couple of key differences of which you should be aware. rising before sunrise and having breakfast will minimize the fasting window - While most people I know personally don't do this, there are families, where everyone gets up before the sun rises to have breakfast. With the huge dinner before bed and a (usually smaller) breakfast right after you stand up in the early AM, the fasting window which would otherwise be up to 18h wide can become pretty na...

Orange Juice to Battle Cancer? Is There Anything to the Recent Mainstream Media News? Plus: How Much of The "Good Stuff" Is Lost Upon Pasteurization?

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I am sorry, but if you still believe this was a healthy breakfast, I am not sure you will be able to escape diabesity ;-) You may have read it on one of the major Science News Portals, on Saturday: "[Orange juice] could contribute to chemoprevention at every stage of cancer initiation and progression. Among the most relevant biological effects of OJ [orange juice] is the juice's antigenotoxic and antimutagenic potential, which was shown in cells in culture and in rodents and humans." (Taylor & Francis. Press Release from 13. September 2013). Really? And what about the >20% increased diabetes risk from drinking fruit juices (Muraki. 2013)? If that's what you have just been thinking, I bet you will like to get some more information about the hesperidine and naringenine content of orange juice and how these could influence cancer development. Three epidemiological studies! Really? It does not take much these days to turn hopes into hypes - for ora...

T-Gel with or Without an Aromatase Inhibitor? If You Are Healthy & Lean and Want to Stay This Way, There is Only One Answer: T-Gel Without Aromatase Inhibitor!

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Don't let her talk you into participating in studies that risk your manliness ;-) Would you be willing to participate in a study, where you could end up without testosterone? No? Well me neither... strangely Joel S. Finkelstein et al. were able to find 198 healthy men between 20 and 50 years who were stupid enough to participate in an experiment, where they were randomized to placebo, or testosterone gel (1.25, 2.5, 5, or 10g per day) while being on gosererelin acetate , which did suppress their natural testosterone production. With additional 202 subjects receiving an identical "treatment", but in this case alongside a whoppy dose of the aromatase inhibitor anastrazol as a bonus, the study design leaves us with plenty of groups and tons of subjects. To "determine the relative degree of testosterone deficiency, estradiol defi­ciency, or both at which undesirable changes in body composition, strength, and sexual function begin to occur." (Finkelstein 2013) ...
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