My latest health food supplement is Chlorella. I have heard of Chlorella for about a year now and started looking around for it and reading up about it for the last couple months. Finally a couple of weeks ago I picked up bottle of 150 tablet of 500mg of Chlorella. If you know nothing about […] SOURCE: Fitness Tips for Life - Read entire story here. … [Read more...]
Betaine: The Other Beet Supplement
New dietary supplements enter the fitness space all the time, but they rarely pan out and make the jump from promising to reliably effective. While betaine, also known as trimethylglycine, is anything but new, it has yet to become a household name in the world of fitness-oriented supplements, and research investigating its effects on human performance and body composition is finally beginning to accumulate. While much of my recent writing has … [Read more...]
7 Best Organic Pre-Workout Supplements (2020 Reviews)
Here are the best organic pre workout supplements to increase your gym performance. Need a little boost before your workout? You’ve probably been doing your research, comparing all these supplements, but your main concern is… “Are they natural?” Hey, we get it. Putting a bunch of foreign chemicals in your body, regardless of the intended muscle-building benefits seems questionable. That’s why we did … [Read more...]
Feeling Headachy After Taking Melatonin? Doctors Explain Why There Could Be a Link
While sleep aids like melatonin shouldn't be taken long-term, there's no denying its power to help you get through a particularly rough patch of sleeplessness or even jet lag. As with any supplement or medicine, though, you might experience side effects while taking melatonin. POPSUGAR asked doctors about melatonin-induced headaches, specifically. Here's what you need to know. Can Melatonin Cause Headaches? The data on this is mixed. Neha Patkak, … [Read more...]
‘Spiking’ (not Replacing) Suboptimal Amounts of #Whey With #EAAs Yields Increase in Net Protein Balance, Yet not(!) Protein Synthesis in Muscle -…
You will probably have read about the results of this recent study from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences elsewhere already - hopefully in an article that applied the same rigorous scrutiny as this one."Wait: EAAs are better than whey?" If that's your overgeneralized and essentially wrong (there was no comparison of EAA vs. Whey, but one of EAA+whey vs. whey 😎) take-home message from the abstract of a recent study in the Journal … [Read more...]
The Lifter’s Guide to Caffeine
Prefer to listen? Check out the podcast episode on this topic. Want to hear Eric and Greg discuss the key takeaways from the caffeine literature? Check out the podcast episode they recorded about caffeine and health and sex-based caffeine differences. The episode also contains an interview with IPF World Champion Natalie Hanson. Listen below, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. … [Read more...]
BCAA’s Alone Won’t Build Muscle
by Matt Weik There seems to be some confusion in the sports nutrition industry on whether BCAAs are good as an intra or post-workout supplement. Many people use them intra-workout to help with recovery as well as reduce soreness post-workout. However, researchers are now saying that BCAAs have a very limited role on building muscle SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - Read entire story here. … [Read more...]
I Drank Wellness Shots For a Week and Felt Unstoppable, So I Asked RDs If They’re Legit
Lots of brands have introduced wellness shots to the market, claiming they'll improve sleep, boost immunity, and more. But do they actually work? That's the question I posed to dietitians after experiencing their magic - or what I thought was magic - for myself. It's a tough sell, the idea that you can buy health in a (teeny, tiny) bottle, but when my whole family fell under the weather, I decided to throw back Suja's Immunity Shots, hoping the … [Read more...]
Fish oil reduces rheumatoid arthritis joint pain
Taking a fish oil supplement alone or combined with evening primrose oil reduces joint pain in people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. This is suggested by a small human study that Serbian researchers at the University of Kragujevac published in Nutrients. Study The researchers divided 60 women with rheumatoid arthritis into three groups. All women were SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - Read entire story here. … [Read more...]
Increasing Athletic Performance with Nootropics
by Josh Hodnik Nootropics, also referred to as cognitive enhancers, smart drugs, and memory enhancers are supplements, synthetic peptides, and nutraceuticals that are reported to improve focus, thought connection, memory, and sometimes wakefulness. These drugs are primarily used to treat cognitive or motor function difficulties that are associated with such disorders as Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding … [Read more...]
DHEA supplementation lowers cortisol levels
In small quantities the stress hormone cortisol is amazingly useful, but continuously raised levels of it are bad… for just about everything. We’ve been doing some digging around in old scientific journals, and fortunately there’s an easy way to reduce the amount of cortisol in your body by thirty to forty percent. Take 25 mg SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - Read entire story here. … [Read more...]
Should We Forgive Supplement Companies Who Scammed Us?
by Anders JP Eskilsson From protein spiking to fake ingredients to amphetamine and dianabol-like compounds…. the list goes on. Over the last couple of years a bunch of supplement companies have made millions of dollars indulging in various kinds of ingredient scams. One of the more well-known scams was the case with (spiked protein) where SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - Read entire story here. … [Read more...]
Pre-workout drinks with L-citrulline superior
Sports drinks with fast carbohydrates that endurance athletes drink during training sessions, and also protein shakes that bodybuilders down before pumping iron, probably work better if they contain a couple of grams of L-citrulline [structural formula on the right]. Scientists at Maastricht University Medical Centre in the Netherlands discovered that L-citrulline boosts the body’s nutrient SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - … [Read more...]
Combination of L-lysine and L-arginine reduces stress and lowers cortisol levels
Supplementation with 2.34 g L-lysine and the same amount of L-arginine daily reduces psychological stress and lowers cortisol amounts in men’s bodies. Researchers at the Japanese Ajinomoto amino acid manufacturers announced this in Biomedical Research. Supplementation with 2.34 g L-lysine and the same amount of L-arginine daily reduces psychological stress and lowers cortisol amounts in SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - … [Read more...]
Why National Supplement Distributors Are Bad for Your Business
by Matt Weik I’ve spent a decade in the supplement industry working for one of the largest supplement companies in the world. That being said, the brand thought they had it all and that if they could get one of the largest national supplement distributors on board that it would further aid in exponential growth. SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - Read entire story here. … [Read more...]
The Future of the Supplement Industry
by Matt Weik The supplement has been around for quite some time and it doesn’t appear that it’s going anywhere. It’s one of the fastest growing industries out there today. By 2024 it’s predicted that it will be a $37 billon industry. That being said, there needs to be some changes to the industry in SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - Read entire story here. … [Read more...]
Is Erythritol Found in Your Supplements Increasing Your Weight?
by Matt Weik There are many supplements out there today that utilize sugar alcohols to replace pure sugar in order to sweeten up a product. Some of these common sugar alcohols are mannitol, isomalt, xylitol, sorbitol, and others. However, there is one sugar alcohol that is now being shown to increase your fat mass—the opposite SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - Read entire story here. … [Read more...]
Noopept (aka N-Phenylacetyl-L-prolylglycine ethyl ester or GVS-111) Explored
by Anthony Roberts Noopept is a drug in the broad category of nootropics that are used clinically to treat a variety of acute and chronic brain ailments (i.e. dysfunction caused by anything from a car crash to ageing) and off-label to increase cognitive function (learning, memory, etc…) in healthy users. Noopept was first invented in SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - Read entire story here. … [Read more...]
Live two years longer with extra vitamin E
According to most scientists, alpha-tocopherol (one form of vitamin E) supplementation is useless. The Finnish ATBC trial (1985-1993), for example, showed that supplementation had no effect. In 2011 the Finnish scientists Harri Hemilä and Jaakko Kaprio published a study in which they had another good look at the results of the ATBC trial, and they SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - Read entire story here. … [Read more...]
Phosphatidylserine and Athletic Performance
Genuine advances in sports nutrition are rare, which is why the discovery back in the 90s that creatine supplementation really did improve anaerobic performance created such a stir. However, apart from caffeine use, there’s been no equivalent ‘magic bullet’ supplement for aerobic athletes. But according to Andrew Hamilton, new research on a naturally occurring compound SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - Read entire story here. … [Read more...]
Keratin hydrolysate as sports supplement
Endurance athletes – and perhaps strength athletes too – may perform better if they use supplements containing hydrolysed keratin. Sports scientists at Massey University, New Zealand, write about this in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition (JSSN). The researchers think that keratin supplementation boosts the concentration of glutathione in muscle cells, which SOURCE: Supplements – IronMag Bodybuilding Blog - … [Read more...]