Raspberry ketone: lose weight and strengthen your bones at the same time
Raspberry ketone, a compound found in weight loss supplements, may also make bones stronger, according to an in-vitro study that researchers at Ehime [...]
Back When Training Was Allowed to Be Fun
by Cade Thomas
When I look back and try to think of the times I hold closest to my heart in my years training, it's hard to judge. While I cert [...]
International Iron – Episode 11
[podcast]http://www.ironmagazine.com/radioshows/International-Iron-Episode11.mp3[/podcast] [...]
Why it’s worth combining IGF-1 and GH
It would of course be expensive, but in theory there's a lot to be said for combining growth hormone [structure shown below] and IGF-1, writes the Dut [...]
The best carbs for your whey shake are found in honey
It doesn't really make an awful lot of difference which easily absorbable carbohydrates strength athletes use for their protein shakes. According to a [...]
Central Bodybuilding – Episode 14
[podcast]http://www.ironmagazine.com/radioshows/Central_Bodybuilding_Episode14.mp3[/podcast] [...]
Red Meat – Good for Fat Loss, or a Fad?
by Monica Mollica
Consumption of red meat has been associated with fat gain (and weight gain) because of its high fat / calorie content. Even t [...]
Strength training increases testosterone by 40%
Strength training is really a kind of hormone therapy, write researchers at the Spanish University of Extramadura in the European Journal of Applied P [...]
An hour more sleep reduces fat percentage by three percent
Your fat percentage decreases by 2.8 percent for each hour a day more sleep you get, researchers at the University of Bristol calculated. The research [...]
To-failure set with light weights before your regular sets: more muscle strength, more muscle mass
Bodybuilders and other strength athletes can probably build more strength and muscle mass if, before doing their usual sets, they first do a set of lo [...]
HMB raises bodybuilder’s growth hormone and IGF-1 levels
Supplementation with the bodybuilding supplement HMB – full name beta-hydroxy-beta-methyl-butyrate – inhibits catabolic processes and stimulates anabo [...]
More arginine – more muscles, less fat
Give rats L-arginine [structural formula shown below] in their food and they become slimmer and more muscular. Even if you feed them more calories the [...]
DHT levels through the roof with Butea superba
A supplement containing Butea superba not only sent a 35-year-old man's libido through the roof, but sent his levels of the androgen hormone DHT sky h [...]
DHEA – does it have any beneficial non-hormonal effects?
by Monica Mollica
DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is most known for being a pro-hormone which in the body gets converted to testosterone and e [...]
Cocoa boosts nitric oxide
A mere six grams a day of dark chocolate can help reduce high blood pressure in older men and women. The thirty milligrams of polyphenols contained in [...]
