Category: Science
L-Carnitine gives football players the edge
Professional footballers have more energy if they take a couple of grams of the amino acid carnitine before a match or a training session. Sports scie [...]
Coffee May Help Perk Up Your Blood Vessels
Nov. 20, 2013 — The caffeine in a cup of coffee might help your small blood vessels work better, according to research
A study of 27 healthy adults [...]
Protein Regulates Burning of Body Fat
Nov. 19, 2013 — Muscle movements generate body heat. However, body heat can also be generated in another way: body fat contains a small number of brow [...]
Chlorogenic acid chases glucose into muscle cells
Chlorogenic acid is a prominent component of coffee and supplements that contain Green Coffee Bean extract. The compound might be suitable for use in [...]
Passion fruit stimulates collagen production
Extracts from the seeds of Passiflora edulis, more commonly known as passion fruit, may be of interest to the manufacturers of cosmetic foods, and – w [...]
Echinacea not an effective endurance sports supplement
Runners who take 8 g Echinacea extract every day for six weeks don't even add a millisecond to their speed, and don't increase their oxygen uptake eit [...]
Protein Interplay in Muscle Tied to Life Span
Nov. 14, 2013 — Fruit flies are notoriously short-lived but scientists interested in the biology of aging in all animals have begun to understand why [...]
Muscular Fitness More Important Than Body Weight To Prevent Heart Disease
by Monica Mollica
Exercise protects against heart disease in many ways. One important mechanism is by elevating HDL, a.k.a. the “good” cholesterol.[ [...]
Artificial Sweeteners May Do More Than Sweeten
Artificial Sweeteners May Do More Than Sweeten: It Can Affect How the Body Reacts to Glucose
May 29, 2013 — Researchers at Washington University Scho [...]
Green tea speeds up muscle recovery after heavy training
Green tea supplements don't just protect muscles during heavy physical exertion. The catechins in tea also speed up recovery after exercise. An animal [...]
Magnesium-rich diet reduces mortality risk
Magnesium supplements probably fit perfectly in the life-extensionist's diet. We deduce this from recent epidemiological studies done in Germany and t [...]
Taurine makes muscles stronger
Supplements manufacturers sometimes promote taurine as a substance that helps strength athletes to train more intensively. According to an ex-vivo stu [...]
Your New Ally Against Heart Disease and Obesity: Bergamot
Serendipity is a word that refers to a fortunate accidental discovery. For example, in the drug industry Minoxidil was originally used as an oral drug [...]
Paracetamol softens the realisation that we are mortal
One gram of paracetamol reduces the psychological pain you feel if the group you belong to decides they can get along better without you, we wrote rec [...]
Beetroot concentrate makes team sport players faster
It probably doesn't matter whether you play hockey, football, rugby or volleyball. According to the human study published by sports scientist at the U [...]