30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself
Marc and Angel, two passionate writers, life-hackers and “admirers of the human spirit,” have come up with an amazing list of 30 things to stop do [...]
Testosterone Therapy – The New Class Action Lawsuit
by Josh Hodnik
Pharmaceutical companies in the United States have paid out billions in settlements due to class action lawsuits, close to 20 [...]
Titus Talks
by Craig Titus
Talk may be cheap, but there’s nothing cheap about the talk if it’s fact…and fact is, when Ronnie Coleman stated “I’d have destroy [...]
Strength training improves cholesterol level
If overweight women take up weight training their cholesterol levels improve. The effect isn't overwhelming, but it's big enough to reduce their chanc [...]
Extra meat makes strength training more effective
People over 60 who do weight training will be slimmer and more muscular if they eat 150 g lean meat daily Australian sports scientists at Deakin Unive [...]
Exemestane makes you slimmer and more muscular
Exemestane, the active ingredient in Pfizer's Aromasin [structural formula shown below], truly is a body recompositioning drug. At least it is if you' [...]
Aromatase inhibitors give women more muscle mass
Anastrozole ~ Men show little change in body composition if you block their estradiol production with the enzyme aromatase. [Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 20 [...]
Testosterone therapy can increase chance of heart attack
Healthy men under the age of 65 who are prescribed testosterone by their doctors are not more at risk of having a heart attack. But in men over 65 and [...]
How To Prevent Age Related Muscle Mass
by Will Brink
Is a loss of strength, mobility, and functionality an inevitable part of aging? No, it’s not. It’s a consequence of disuse, subop [...]
Meta-study: only fish oil with high amounts of EPA effective antidepressant
Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) ~ Fish oil supplements can help against depression, but they have to contain the right type of fish oil. Researchers at th [...]
Obesity: Not just what you eat
To understand how obesity develops, researchers used state-of-the-art technology to analyze the accumulation of fat in the body at the cellular level, [...]
Precise reason for health benefits of dark chocolate
The health benefits of eating dark chocolate have been extolled for centuries, but the exact reason has remained a mystery - until now. Researchers re [...]
Cup of coffee reduces RSI arm pain
Of all those people whose work involves hours at a computer, ten percent complain of pain in their neck, shoulders and lower arm. Researchers at the N [...]
Animal study: cranberries are an anti-aging drug
Cranberry ~ Biologists at Clemson University in the US have discovered that an extract of cranberry has unusually strong life-extending properties. Cr [...]
Beta-alanine shaves four seconds off 800 meter run
If you're into athletics and like scouring the internet for new ways of boosting your performance, you'll probably have seen posts on Kagan Ducker's r [...]
