Curcumin boosts testosterone levels
A not even terribly high dose of curcumin – the principal bioactive ingredient in turmeric powder – causes a steep rise in the amount of testosterone [...]
Advanced Training Techniques for Destroying Plateaus
by Vince DelMonte
Hypertrophy Cluster Sets
This post is the second in a series introducing you to under-utilized, advanced training techniqu [...]
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 [...]
