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Whey Protein Hydrolysates are the Past! Salmon Protein Hydrolysate Can Deliver Protein Even Faster, But Does This Also Mean They Are More "Anabolic"?

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That's salmon, yes, but it's not processed enough to compete with any hydrolysate. Well, unless you decide to eat and regurgitate it - after some time, obviously, 'cause "hydrolyzed" proteins are in the end only pre-digested proteins. As a SuppVersity reader you know that the amount of protein is not the only determinant of the potential muscle building effects of a given protein source. The digestion time and thus the amount of protein that is released into the bloodstream on a "per minute"-basis, as well as the amino acid profile (preferably all essential amino acids ( EAA s) and a high amount of leucine ) are also important determinants of the " anabolic " qualities of a given protein source. Using a quite unique multi-compartmental dynamic model that closely simulates in vivo gastrointestinal tract digestion in humans scientists from the Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF) at the Université Laval in Quebec, di...
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Oral adenosine-5’-triphosphate (ATP) Supplementation - A Story of Mice & Men | Can ATP Be the Cornerstone of a New Generation of Innovative Pre Workout Pump Supplements

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Photos like this helped BSN sell truckloads of their "mother of all pre-workouts" NO XPlode! Increases in blood flow? That's something each and every of the first, second and third generation promises "pump supplements" to deliver. For the first generation it was arginine, for the second citrulline and for the third nitrates that were supposed to get the job done. What? None of them worked for you? Well luckily the next "big thing" is already looming on the horizon: "Oral adenosine-5’-triphosphate (ATP) supplements," of which you'd think that they would be used to deliver immediate energy, are probably soon going to be marketed as "pump supplements". I would alway chose creatine creatine over ATP supplements Creatine Doubles 'Ur GainZ! Creatine, DHT & Broscience Creatine Better After Workout ALA + Creatine = Max Uptake? Creatine Blunts Fat Loss? Build 'Ur Own Buffered Creatine Why? Well,...
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Isn't High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) For Everyone? Study Puts "!" Behind "Personalized Training" - Fitness, Fatness, Age & More Determine Its Effective- & Usefulness

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Isn't HIIT for everyone? Study suggests: Effective- and usefulness of high intensity interval training depend on age and fitness level. You will remember the two-part article serious about HIIT training "Making HIIT a HIT!" ( Part I , Part II ) I wrote back in 2012... you didn't well, although I would suggest you read it now, you will understand the idea of personalized HIIT training and there being no single optimal training regimen that works for everyone, anyways - right? Good! Accordingly, you are not surprised that researchers from tie California State University San Marcos and the Griffith University at the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, teamed up to identify individual HIIT-responders and HIIT-non-responders. You can learn more about HIIT at the SuppVersity Never Train To Burn Calories! Tabata = 14.2kcal /min ≠ Fat Loss 30s Intervals + 2:1 Work/Rec. Making HIIT a Hit Part I/II Making HIIT a Hit Part II/II Triple Your Energy ...
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Melatonin As Potent as Letrozole in Inhibiting Aromatization of Testosterone to Estrogen - This Raises the Question: Is a Lack of / Bad Sleep to Blame for Breast Cancer?!

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Sleeping for 7-8h w/out interruption in a pitch black room to max. your melatonin is the best breast cancer prevention. It may sound hilarious to the next best average Joe, but the study results Suthat Chottanap and colleagues from the Chulabhorn Graduate Institute are about to present in one of the next issues of Toxicology in Vitro confirm what SuppVersity readers already knew: It's more than likely that there is a direct link between a lack of quality sleep as people who are working shift works have it and the risk of breast cancer. The latter increases in women who do not sleep during the period of the night when melatonin levels are typically at their highest by ~14% (Davis. 2011), an observation that appears only logical in view of what I am about to tell you today. You can learn more about sleep and the circadian rhythm at the SuppVersity Sunlight, Bluelight, Backlight and Your Clock Sunlight a La Carte: "Hack" Your Rhythm Breaking the Fast to...
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Want to Get Ripped & Strong? "Battling the Rope" Could be THE Exercise to Do! The "Battle" is More Demanding Than Squats, Lunges and Deadlifts - Only Burpees Come Close

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Battle the rope, folks! In view of the fact that it has become really popular, I am pretty sure that you all know what kind of exercise "battling the rope" is, right? In case you ain't I'd suggest you check out what the lady on the right-hand side of this paragraph does. Looks familiar, right? Yeah, even the guy in the video that's playing at the McDonalds of Fitness Studies, McFit, here in Germany is doing it and if you remember the purpose... right! He does it as a conditioning exercise - for a good reason, as anyone who has ever "wrestled" or "battled" one of these big ropes will tell you. Now, the SuppVersity is not the place where "anyone's" assessments are posted. What we are interested in are hard facts. Hard facts as they are produced by scientific studies like the one Nicholas A. Ratamess, Joseph G. Rosenberg, SamanthaKlei, Brian M. Dougherty, Jie Kang, Charles Smith, Ryan E. Ross, and Avery D.Faigenbaum conducted ...
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Your Meat Consumption is Probably Not the Reason You're a Creatine Non-Responder: 5% Faster 50m-Sprint Time in 6 Days W/ 20g/day of Creatine for Vegetarians & Omnivores

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It's hard to be a non-responder andno way to change it. In some people the ingestion of creatine appears to be ineffective. Aside from minor diarrhea, when they increase the dosage to the 20g+ range per day in a desperate effort to reap the benefits of one of the, if not the only tried and proven natural ergogenic with significant (real world!) effects, these creatine non-responders don't get any results from either creatine monohydrate or any of the fancier, but mostly inferior "advanced creatines" you can buy at you local, national and international supplement vendor. One of the commonest and eventually most reasonable explanation for "non-responding", I've heard is the hypothesis that non-responders have a high enough creatine intake from meat that would reduce any additional benefit from supplemental creatine to unmeasurable levels. You can learn more about creatine at the SuppVersity Creatine Doubles 'Ur GainZ! Creatine, DHT ...
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