Category: Health

Creatine-Q10 combination protects brain cells and lengthens lifespan: animal study
Combining two sports supplements may delay the rate at which essential brain cells die off in people with Parkinson's and Huntington's disease. If yo [...]

Lycopene and beta-carotene protect against heart attacks
Men who eat lots of carrots and tomato juice are less likely to have a heart attack than men who don't, according to an epidemiological study that Fin [...]

Broccoli diet for more muscle cells
Strength athletes may build up more muscle tissue by eating Brassica vegetables like broccoli, sprouts or cabbage daily. We base this wild speculati [...]

Animal study: L-theanine, caffeine and sleep
Are you unable to get to sleep because there's too much caffeine [structural formula below left] racing round your body? Then you might benefit from L [...]

Fish oil protects for up to seven years against psychoses
Fish oil offers protection against psychoses, concluded psychiatrists at the Medical University of Vienna a couple of years ago after doing a small [...]

Why some multivitamins can make you feel nauseated
Just occasionally multivitamin takers develop nausea from the supplements they take. And sometimes the nausea is so bad it leads to vomiting. A resea [...]

Dieting is unhealthy
Overweight is unhealthy, but fat people who lose weight may actually become even more unhealthy. That's the devilish dilemma facing millions of fat [...]

Rhodiola rosea extends life in animal study
Microscopic worms can live 15 percent longer when given small quantities of Rhodiola rosea, write cell biologists from the University of Utrecht in Bi [...]

Resistance training and cardio training offer protection against burnout
Employees, freelance workers and entrepreneurs are less likely to succumb to a burnout if they do an intensive training session twice a week. Psycholo [...]

Low carb + intensive training = fall in testosterone levels
Trained athletes who a) cycle hard for an hour a day and b) eat little carbohydrate produce less testosterone and more cortisol [structural formulas s [...]

Nebido testosterone preparation restores fat man’s health
Overweight can be deadly, but the remedy – eating less and moving more – is more than some fat people can deal with. According to Russian endocrinolog [...]

Q10 extends life, animal study suggests
Co-enzyme Q10, a vitamin-like natural compound you can buy as a supplement from the drugstore, has a life extending effect. In 2004 researchers at Tok [...]

This is what happens when women over 65 use oxandrolone
Women over the age of 65 start to lose muscle mass faster than men do and as a result experience more difficulty with everyday activities such as gett [...]

Animal study: ginkgo strengthens bones
Ginkgo biloba extracts do more than just improve your cardiovascular system and delay ageing processes. According to an animal study done at the Brazi [...]

Superior weight-loss diet: high protein plus capsaicin supplements
If weight loss is your aim, nothing works better than a diet with relatively large amounts of protein. At least, that's what we always thought. But si [...]