Category: Studies
Strength training increases testosterone by 40%
Strength training is really a kind of hormone therapy, write researchers at the Spanish University of Extramadura in the European Journal of Applied P [...]
An hour more sleep reduces fat percentage by three percent
Your fat percentage decreases by 2.8 percent for each hour a day more sleep you get, researchers at the University of Bristol calculated. The research [...]
To-failure set with light weights before your regular sets: more muscle strength, more muscle mass
Bodybuilders and other strength athletes can probably build more strength and muscle mass if, before doing their usual sets, they first do a set of lo [...]
HMB raises bodybuilder’s growth hormone and IGF-1 levels
Supplementation with the bodybuilding supplement HMB – full name beta-hydroxy-beta-methyl-butyrate – inhibits catabolic processes and stimulates anabo [...]
More arginine – more muscles, less fat
Give rats L-arginine [structural formula shown below] in their food and they become slimmer and more muscular. Even if you feed them more calories the [...]
DHT levels through the roof with Butea superba
A supplement containing Butea superba not only sent a 35-year-old man's libido through the roof, but sent his levels of the androgen hormone DHT sky h [...]
Cocoa boosts nitric oxide
A mere six grams a day of dark chocolate can help reduce high blood pressure in older men and women. The thirty milligrams of polyphenols contained in [...]
Cyclists recover quicker with protein and maltodextrine shake
After intensive activity cyclists recover more quickly if they drink a shake containing proteins and maltodextrine than if they drink a sports drink c [...]
Creatine makes kidneys healthier
Creatine is not bad at all for the kidneys, researchers at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil concluded after a study on eighteen healthy test subj [...]
More vitamin D, more muscle mass
If you have an optimal amount of vitamin D in your blood – which surprisingly few people actually do – you'll have more muscle mass than if your vitam [...]
Fish oil capsules reduce fat rolls
If you give women 3 g of fish oil daily in capsule form, the fat around their middle shrinks. Researchers at Inserm in France discovered this when the [...]
Creatine boosts protective effect of resistance training on bone mass
Especially women, but men too, start to lose a little bone mass each year after the age of forty. The pace at which bone breaks down increases with ag [...]
Green lip mussel extract reduces damage to muscles after extreme exertion
If you take green lip mussel extract for a couple of weeks and then subject your muscles to unusually heavy exertion, you can reduce the unavoidable m [...]
Aloe vera as a slimming supplement
Too fat? Take two aloe vera capsules at breakfast and another two with lunch. Do that for two months and guess what? You lose almost a kilo of fat and [...]
The best way to do interval training
Even more explosive exertion, for even shorter bursts, with even shorter rests in between: according to sports scientists at Lillehammer University Co [...]