Category: Health
Which diet reduces chance of fatal heart attacks, strokes and cancer?
How and what you eat determines in part how long you will live and whether you will die from a fatal heart attack, a stroke or cancer, report nutr [...]
Live longer by maintaining muscle mass
If you want to reach a ripe old age in good health, make sure you maintain your muscle mass. With age, muscle mass protects us against dying. At l [...]
10 minutes of interval training 3 times weekly will make you fitter, healthier and slimmer
If you spend just ten minutes doing interval training three times a week you'll find yourself becoming noticeably fitter, healthier and slimmer. Can [...]
Is it better to combine a low-carb diet or a traditional slimming diet with strength training?
When you combine a traditional weight-loss diet with strength training you lose just as much fat and retain just as much muscle mass as you would on [...]
Half an hour exercise a day? Make that 3 hours!
We hear from scientists and health officers that we should all get at least half an hour of exercise a day to stay healthy. And if you already do tha [...]
Despite PCT anabolic steroid user’s hormone balance irreparably damaged
Average steroids users will have messed up their hormone balance beyond recovery after a few years, endocrinologists at Copenhagen University Hospit [...]
One testosterone injection and endogenous testosterone production plummets
The effect of using synthetic testosterone on the testosterone your own body produces is bigger than doctors think, according to Swedish endocrinolog [...]
Get simmer and more muscular with fish oil
Taking a fish oil supplement boosts calorie expenditure and fat burning while doing low-intensity exercise, and it stimulates the growth of muscle ti [...]
High-protein diet does not cause kidney damage
The idea that a diet containing relatively high amounts of protein leads to kidney damage is persistent. And even this Australian study, in which the [...]
Lower cortisol levels with fish oil
A modest dose of one gram of fish oil per day lowers cortisol levels, write Italian researchers in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. The participa [...]
Lower oestrogen levels with physical activity
The more you move, the less oestrogen circulates through your body. Biostatisticians at the University of Maryland published the results of a study t [...]
Vitamin D helps maintain muscle after 50
People in their 50s who don't do any exercise or physical work lose a little bit of muscle and with it strength as the years pass. Taking a moderate [...]
Nigella sativa boosts testosterone level (Human study)
A daily dose of 2grams ground Nigella sativa seeds can raise men's testosterone levels by thirty percent. Researchers at the University of Tikrit in [...]
Reduce alcohol induced performance dips with Vitamin C
Alcohol and sport don't go well together. A training session done after drinking alcohol is by definition a bad training session - and for every yea [...]
Soften a hangover with 3grams of L-cysteine
If you drink more alcohol than is good for you, a supplement containing a couple of grams of L-cysteine might help reduce the inevitable hangover. We [...]
