Category: Studies
Eating too fast messes up your insulin balance
The faster you eat, the more difficult it is for the hormone insulin to do its work in your body. That means that fewer nutrients reach your muscl [...]
Insect Based Proteins?
by Matt Weik
Remember back when you were in school and you were taught that people ate bugs to survive in the wilderness? Remember how disgusti [...]
Crash diet works better without carbs
You need to lose a couple of kilos in a few weeks. The only solution: a strict diet with fewer than a thousand calories a day. You're guaranteed t [...]
Increased cortisol levels from chronic stress make you fat
We don't need to tell our regular readers that cortisol, the hormone that's released when we're under stress, can have a disastrous effect on your [...]
Exercise Helps Those with Advanced Cancer
by Matt Weik
Cancer seems to hit home with just about everyone in the United States these days. We all seem to know someone in our family or a [...]
Fenugreek boosts bodybuilders’ testosterone
Bodybuilders who take 500 mg fenugreek extract daily increase the amount of bio-available testosterone in their blood, write sports scientists at [...]
During strength training BCAA’s protect the muscles better when combined with taurine
Taurine
Strength athletes that are positive about BCAA's, but are looking for a supplement that works a little better, should try combining the [...]
Eldecalcitol, synthetic vitamin D, boosts muscle strength
Eldecalcitol, a synthesised version of vitamin D that is marketed in Japan as a registered medicine, enhances muscle strength at a daily dose of les [...]
The best high-protein slimming diet contains lots of taurine and glycine
If you're looking to lose a couple of pounds of fat, a high-protein diet is often the best option. But what's the best kind of protein for weight [...]
Health risks of high-protein diet are negligible
A protein-rich diet - usually a diet that is high in animal protein - is not dangerous. And certainly if you have a healthy lifestyle, don't smoke [...]
People with low cortisol levels have younger looking face for longer
The less cortisol there is in your body, the younger people are likely to guess you are, researchers at the University of Leiden in the Netherland [...]
Experienced strength athletes lose fat by intermittent fasting, not muscle mass or strength
Strength athletes perform no better or worse if they do time-restricted feeding we wrote yesterday, based on an American study in which the partic [...]
Walnuts and chia keep cortisol levels low
During periods of psychological or social stress, the hormone cortisol wreaks havoc with your body. We don't need to tell you anything about that. [...]
Half of steroid users are hypogonadal
Steroids users will have caused lasting damage to their hormone balance after a couple of years, we wrote recently. That post was based on a Danis [...]
NFL PLAY 60 Program Examining the Impact on Kids
by Matt Weik
If you’re a sports fan, I’m sure you’ve heard of the NFL PLAY 60 Program. This program was designed to help our youth get and sta [...]
