Category: Science
Q10 combined with light exercise burns more fat
After taking a capsule containing 30 mg of the co-enzyme Q10 [structure shown below] your body spontaneously burns more fat. At least, if you combine [...]
Short rest between strength-training sets results in more muscle
Bodybuilders and other strength athletes who rest for 1 minute between sets build more muscle mass, strength and speed than athletes who rest for 4 mi [...]
Milk, the white ladykiller
You can't have missed it, it's all over the news media: the epidemiological study that researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden published recently [...]
Study: hCG makes testes bigger, but no increase in testosterone
If men with low testosterone levels want to increase the size of their testicles, then hCG will do the job. But if these same men want to boost their [...]
SAM-e causes rise in testosterone
We came across this article by accident: over twenty years old and a test tube study at that, but nevertheless interesting. The article reports French [...]
Animal study: low-carb diet with lots of saturated fats cuts life expectancy
Not all nutritionists are happy with the idea, but it does look as though a low-carb diet can be healthy. Take a look in our archives. But that low-ca [...]
Two years non-stop creatine without side effects
It's safe to take continuous not-too-high doses of creatine. Neurologists at the University of Munich conclude this from the longest-running, most com [...]
Decorin – myostatin inhibitor and follistatin booster – is key factor in muscle growth
A few months ago a Norwegian-German research team published a study in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications about which in a quarter of [...]
Get more out of your steroids – lose weight first
The lower your body fat percentage, the more effective your testosterone-ester injections will be. Endocrinologists in Muenster, Germany, discovered t [...]
Optimal fruit and veg intake is a pound a day, says meta-study
People who want to live as long as possible should eat about a pound a day of fruit and vegetables. Chinese and American nutritionists draw this concl [...]
More fish fatty acids, more IGF-1
A diet that is relatively high in fish fatty acids is not only healthy, but also ergogenic. It raises the concentration of the anabolic hormone IGF-1 [...]
Daily dose of Echinacea lengthens life expectancy
If you give mice two milligrams of Echinacea purpurea every day from adolescence onwards, the animals reach a greater age, researchers at McGill Unive [...]
Polyunsaturated fatty acids make you slimmer and more muscular
For a few days now we, the unworldly compilers of this free web blog, have been immersed in studies on the effect of fatty acid composition in the die [...]
Ginkgo prolongs life
If elderly people took ginkgo daily their chances of death would decrease, researchers from the French Université de Bordeaux found when they followed [...]
Even just a little weight training increases fat burning
Even if you only do a very small amount of weight training you increase your fat burning – not while youre training, but when you rest. American sport [...]