Category: Bodybuilding
Drone milk: boosts testosterone and has an anabolic effect too
Traditional healers in Eastern Europe have been giving drone milk to older men as an anti-aging remedy or aphrodisiac for centuries. It's even possibl [...]
Twelve weeks’ training with HMB Free Acid: 7 kg lean body mass gain, 5 kg fat loss
HMB Free Acid
Lose 5 kg fat, gain 7 kg lean body mass and add 13 kg to your top bench-press weight: this is what bodybuilders can expect if they train [...]
Resveratrol may speed up muscle growth
Resveratrol - When you do strength training your muscle tissue is continuously extracting stem cells from your blood so that they can then grow into m [...]
Watermelon prevents sore muscles
If you eat a couple of large chunks of watermelon before a heavy training session today, you'll have less problems with sore muscles tomorrow. Accordi [...]
Better sports drinks or pre-workout shakes contain L-citrulline
L-citrulline ~ Sports drinks with fast carbohydrates that endurance athletes drink during training sessions, and also protein shakes that bodybuilders [...]
Strength training improves cholesterol level
If overweight women take up weight training their cholesterol levels improve. The effect isn't overwhelming, but it's big enough to reduce their chanc [...]
Exemestane makes you slimmer and more muscular
Exemestane, the active ingredient in Pfizer's Aromasin [structural formula shown below], truly is a body recompositioning drug. At least it is if you' [...]
Aromatase inhibitors give women more muscle mass
Anastrozole ~ Men show little change in body composition if you block their estradiol production with the enzyme aromatase. [Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 20 [...]
Raloxifene: anti-oestrogen that boosts lean body mass and reduces fat
Tamoxifen, an effective anti-oestrogen that's popular among doping users, has a drawback. For women at least, in the longer term, its use reduces lean [...]
Whey only counteracts growth-reducing effect of alcohol a little
If you drink alcohol [structural formula on the right] after a training session it gets in the way of the anabolic processes taking place. Drinking a [...]
Lonely men have higher testosterone levels
Men who socialise more produce less testosterone than men who live an isolated existence. It's possible to deduce this from an animal study that resea [...]
Strength training helps keep post-menopausal women slim
Women who are past the menopause gain 0.7 kg weight every year. And their waist measurement increases by 0.7 cm each year too. [Am J Epidemiol. 2004 N [...]
1-Andro aka ~ 3-beta-hydroxy-5-alpha-androst-1-en-17-one
Month of weight training with prohormone 3-beta-hydroxy-5-alpha-androst-1-en-17-one: four lean kgs' gain
A couple of years after the American governme [...]
High-intensity interval resistance training boosts EPOC
Strength athletes burn more calories than normal for days after a training session thanks to the EPOC effect. Italian researchers at the University of [...]
The DNP effect of anacardic acid in cashew nuts
The most effective and also most dangerous slimming aid available on the black market is dinitrophenol, or DNP for short [structural formula on the ri [...]
