Category: Studies
Animal study: low-carb diet with lots of saturated fats cuts life expectancy
Not all nutritionists are happy with the idea, but it does look as though a low-carb diet can be healthy. Take a look in our archives. But that low-ca [...]
Two years non-stop creatine without side effects
It's safe to take continuous not-too-high doses of creatine. Neurologists at the University of Munich conclude this from the longest-running, most com [...]
Decorin – myostatin inhibitor and follistatin booster – is key factor in muscle growth
A few months ago a Norwegian-German research team published a study in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications about which in a quarter of [...]
Get more out of your steroids – lose weight first
The lower your body fat percentage, the more effective your testosterone-ester injections will be. Endocrinologists in Muenster, Germany, discovered t [...]
Optimal fruit and veg intake is a pound a day, says meta-study
People who want to live as long as possible should eat about a pound a day of fruit and vegetables. Chinese and American nutritionists draw this concl [...]
More fish fatty acids, more IGF-1
A diet that is relatively high in fish fatty acids is not only healthy, but also ergogenic. It raises the concentration of the anabolic hormone IGF-1 [...]
Physical exercise delays molecular aging by ten years
If you are physically very active, the chances are your genetic material is ten years younger than it would be if you spent your life as a couch pota [...]
Daily dose of Echinacea lengthens life expectancy
If you give mice two milligrams of Echinacea purpurea every day from adolescence onwards, the animals reach a greater age, researchers at McGill Unive [...]
Polyunsaturated fatty acids make you slimmer and more muscular
For a few days now we, the unworldly compilers of this free web blog, have been immersed in studies on the effect of fatty acid composition in the die [...]
Ginkgo prolongs life
If elderly people took ginkgo daily their chances of death would decrease, researchers from the French Université de Bordeaux found when they followed [...]
Even just a little weight training increases fat burning
Even if you only do a very small amount of weight training you increase your fat burning – not while youre training, but when you rest. American sport [...]
More stamina with 3g L-arginine-L-aspartate per day
Imagine your body being able to take up more oxygen, and burn less sugar and more fat. According to a study done at the University of Innsbruck in 200 [...]
The kind of fat in your diet helps determine how much muscle mass you build up
If you gain weight, the kind of fat in your diet partly determines the amount of fat and the amount of muscle in your newfound kilograms. The unsatura [...]
For stronger biceps, train your legs
The best way to develop more strength in your arms is to train them together with a large muscle groups such as the legs. This theory was put forward [...]
DMBA: unknown amphetamine-like substance found in 13 supplements
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have found a stimulant that is related to DMAA in a dozen supplements. The stuff is called 1,3-dimethylbutylamin [...]
