Category: Studies

Live longer if your diet contains lots of vitamin K
The more vitamin K [structural formula on the right] you consume through your diet, the less likely you are to die from a heart attack or cancer. [...]

Bodybuilding Can Slow the Aging Process at the Cellular Level
by Matt Weik
There’s no getting around it… Father Time is a bitch. He doesn’t care how nice you are. He doesn’t care how much money you have [...]

Live two years longer with extra vitamin E
According to most scientists, alpha-tocopherol (one form of vitamin E) supplementation is useless. The Finnish ATBC trial (1985-1993), for example [...]

Coffee is healthy, but not caffeine
Do you also feel hung over and shaky if you train after drinking a pre-workout formula that's full of caffeine? It can't be healthy we fear. And n [...]

Childhood Obesity and Video Games
by Matt Weik
Obesity rates are on the climb and we need to get things under control. Even worse, more and more kids are becoming overweight and [...]

Meta-study: DHEA improves body composition of older men
Supplements containing DHEA, the compound that changes into hormones like testosterone and estradiol in the body, do have an effect on body compos [...]

Magic Fitness Pill in the Works?
by Matt Weik
Previously I published content on why a magic fitness pill wouldn’t solve anything in terms of our behaviors as a society. I also [...]

Pre-workout drinks with L-citrulline superior
Sports drinks with fast carbohydrates that endurance athletes drink during training sessions, and also protein shakes that bodybuilders down befor [...]

Trimethylglycine stimulates muscle growth via IGF-1
A dozen studies have now shown that trimethylglycine – which is the same as betaine – stimulates muscle growth. Italian researchers did in-vitro e [...]

How much protein strength athletes need on their non-training days
If you do strength training several days a week you'll still need about 1.7 g protein per kg bodyweight on the days you don't train. And if you w [...]

Combination of L-lysine and L-arginine reduces stress and lowers cortisol levels
Supplementation with 2.34 g L-lysine and the same amount of L-arginine daily reduces psychological stress and lowers cortisol amounts in men's bod [...]

Fat-Free Products Can Actually Make You Fatter
by Matt Weik
We have been programmed to shop for fat-free products at the grocery store, as products with fat have somehow become demonized by [...]

Are Single People Healthier?
by Matt Weik
I want to begin by saying if you are in a healthy and happy relationship, don’t break it off just because of this article! But I’m [...]

Plant Protein Showing Growth?
by Matt Weik
We are all used to seeing whey protein products across the board. Things like protein bars, shakes, powders, and food items [...]

Sit on A Vibrator to Get Fit?
by Matt Weik
Now, I see a whole bunch of perverts looking over at their girlfriend or wife and I can see the mouse running on the wheel in your [...]