Category: Supplements

Cinnamon boosts IGF-1, rejuvenates skin
A cinnamon supplement can help against skin aging, conclude biochemists at Osaka Prefecture University in Japan from a study in which they exposed ski [...]

Training with light weights also boosts anabolic effect of protein supplementation
You're a bodybuilder, but you can only train with minimal weights because of an injury, and you're worried about your muscle mass. Is that your probl [...]

Pycnogenol keeps skin young
The supplement Pycnogenol rejuvenates the skin. Researchers at the German Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine came to this conclusi [...]

HMB works wonders with over-seventies who do strength training
It's good stuff that HMB. Ask sports scientist Matthew Vukovich of South Dakota State University. In 2001 he published the results of a study in whic [...]

Lose weight with HMB and get a flying start to fat loss
HMB
Weight loss not only requires a huge amount of discipline, it also goes agonizingly slowly. It can take days before you see your body reacting. B [...]

Protein shake before bed stimulates muscle growth
Many athletes like to consume a last protein shake just before turning in for the night. This provides their muscles with extra amino acids while they [...]

The four all-time best supplements for runners
Sodium citrate, caffeine, sodium bicarbonate and carbohydrates. Going by the evidence in published studies, these are the best supplements that runne [...]

Inhibit cortisol with cherries
Ageing is accompanied by a steady increase of the stress hormone cortisol, which is why elderly people often feel less well than when they were young. [...]

One cup of green tea burns five grams of fat
If the calculations that Dutch scientists made are correct, you burn more than 5 grams of fat extra for every cup of green tea you drink, according to [...]

Combination glucosylhesperidin and caffeine effective slimming aid
Japanese researchers at the House Wellness Foods Corporation have been experimenting for several years with mixtures of caffeine and glucosylhesperidi [...]

Theacrine: caffeine’s gentler brother
For athletes who get shivery, jittery and nervous from ordinary caffeine, there's now a new alternative available from online stores. It's called thea [...]

A little bit of Royal Jelly increases testosterone level by 22 percent
As we wrote a year ago, animal studies showed that a supplement with Royal Jelly increased the production of testosterone. This is also true for huma [...]

Vitamin B6, the dream vitamin
If you take a hefty dose of vitamin B6 before going to sleep, your dreams will be more intense. Not only are you more likely to remember in detail wha [...]

Kamishimotsuto: Japanese herbal supplement that boosts anabolic training response
Kamishimotsuto is a mixture of thirteen different Japanese plant extracts. An animal study (paid by the way by the Japanese firm Kobayashi) has shown [...]

Rhodiola rosea helps weekend athletes cross the finish line more quickly
Runners who want better results when running on Saturday afternoons might be helped by Rhodiola rosea. According to health scientists at Gettysburg Co [...]