Category: Science
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 [...]
Cholesterol adds more muscle gain to old people who lift weights
The more cholesterol elderly people consume in their diet, the more muscle mass they build up with strength training, American sports scientists disco [...]
Can Echinacea help build muscles?
Physiologists at the University of California are doing fundamental research on a new way of building up more muscle mass. Not by providing the muscle [...]
Upbeat cardio session burns more fat
According to the textbooks, in terms of the energy you burn it makes little difference whether you walk or run. It's the distance that determines how [...]
Do your cardio after weight training and burn more fat
If you do weight training and cardio, you probably do your cardio after the weight training. This order of doing things is beneficial, as this way rou [...]
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 [...]
6 g D-Aspartic Acid a day lowers testosterone levels
Evidence is mounting that D-Aspartic Acid supplementation does not raise bodybuilders' testosterone levels. Researchers at the University of Western S [...]
Human study: the effects of 600 mg nandrolone decanoate per week
Little scientific research has been done on the effects of high-dosage courses of anabolic steroids. There have been some epidemiological studies, but [...]
Weight loss with cardio requires four sessions a week
Weight loss is often most successful if you eat a little less but really increase the amount of exercise you get. It's better to burn calories than no [...]
Training in the afternoon slightly more effective than in the morning
In the short term it makes no difference whether you pump iron in the morning or afternoon. But if you can choose, then probably in the long term it's [...]
Caffeine more effective slimming component than green tea or tyrosine
A modest dose of caffeine raises the body's energy expenditure more than do doses of typical metabolic boosters such as green tea extract or tyrosine. [...]
Melatonin reduces estradiol level
If we are to believe a small Israeli study published seven years ago in the Journal of Andrology, the sleep hormone melatonin reduces the production o [...]
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 [...]