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How multi-vitamins can help you stay slim
The worldwide decline in vitamin intake is contributing to the increase in the number of overweight people. Scientists at the French research institut [...]
Methoxivone has powerful oestrogenic effect
Bodybuilding supplements containing methoxivone may have an exceptionally strong oestrogenic effect. Irish researchers at Queen's University Belfast i [...]
How many workouts bodybuilders can skip (without reducing their progression)
Bodybuilders who skip the occasional workout – because they lack the time or inclination – make just as much progress as bodybuilders who never miss a [...]
Borassus aethiopum for bodybuilders?
If you've made the effort to read this post, you may well have a pitch-black bottle of BPI's Solid in your kitchen. One of its ingredients is an extra [...]
Diosgenin, the plant steroid in Smilax and Yam
Twenty or thirty years ago, thousands of bodybuilders took extracts from plants such as Smilax officinalis [sarsaparilla] and Dioscorea esculenta [wil [...]
Diabetics live longer with physical exercise
Exercise reduces your chances of developing type-2 diabetes, but even if you already have diabetes exercise is good for you. Definitely if you exercis [...]
Bodybuilding with protein-rich diet is healthier
Strength training will result in more muscle mass when combined with a protein-rich diet. Nothing new here, but that strength training combined with a [...]
The anticatabolic effect of glycine
Sports food manufacturers do nothing with the amino acid glycine. To them glycine is at best a pricey filling agent. But this image is not justified, [...]
Lose weight without dieting with Gynostemma pentaphyllum
Take two tablets a day containing an extract of the Asian climbing plant Gynostemma pentaphyllum, and you'll lose nearly a kilogram fat in a month. Wi [...]
Human study: Ashwagandha boosts testosterone level
If infertile men take one capsule containing Ashwagandha – Latin name Withania somnifera – every day for a couple of months, their testosterone level [...]
Handful of goji berries protects testosterone from stress
Under stressful conditions the concentration of the hormone cortisol in the body rises. If the increase is big enough, the amount of testosterone you [...]
Muscle mass extends life expectancy
If you do heavy physical work or weight training, you'll not only make your body more muscled and stronger, but you'll also make it last longer. Muscl [...]
Citrus extract Sinetrol reduces fat mass but increases lean body mass
About five years ago we wrote a piece on the slimming supplement Sinetrol, about the fact that it could help you lose up to half a kilogram a week. An [...]
Resisted sprints make athletes faster and more agile
If you want to become faster and more agile it's worth adding resisted sprints to your training: 20 to 40 metre sprints that are made more difficult b [...]
Difference between good and average student is twenty minutes sleep
If mediocre students were to sleep 20 minutes and 24 seconds longer on weekdays, they might improve their grades. This is suggested in a study that sl [...]
