Fitness Factoids: Volume 41
BCAA’s Improve Sleep Problems
As bodybuilders we tend to view BCAA’s and leucine in particular, as the keys to turning on our anabolic machinery. The ability of BCAA’s to stimulate muscle protein synthesis have been known for decades, but new research suggest that they may provide an effective means of combating sleep disorders that result from traumatic brain injuries. New research published in the journal Science Translational Medicine has found that BCAA treatment improves sleep disorders by stimulating the production of neurotransmitters in the brain in a study done on mice who had suffered some form of traumatic brain injury.
Fitness Factoids: Volume 40
Study Refutes Protein Timing for Strength and Hypertrophy Gains
Bodybuilders have traditionally been decades ahead of the popular and scientific opinions about nutrition. The idea of targeting an anabolic window for strength and muscles gains has been responsible for putting untold slabs of muscle on generations of bodybuilders. However, a recent meta-analysis of the scientific data to support the anabolic window theory refutes one of bodybuilding’s ten nutritional commandments.
Fitness Factoids: Volume 39
Exercise Protects Women Against Crohn’s Disease
Over the last fifty years there has been a dramatic increase in the reported diagnosis of inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Patients diagnosed with an inflammatory bowel disease can suffer from chronic debilitating pain and may require invasive surgery if conditions are unable to be improved my lifestyle modifications.
Fitness Factoids: Volume 38
Combination of Nutrients Kills Breast Cancer Cells
A team of researchers from LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans and the Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center have developed a combination of six nutrients that were able to kill 100% of breast cancer cells according to data published in The Journal of Cancer. The researchers combined bioavailable chemical nutrients derived from; curcumin, isoflavone from soybeans, Indo-3 carbinol from cruciferous vegetables, C-phycocyanin from spirulina, resveratrol, and querceitin to form the compound.
Fitness Factoids: Volume 37
Bariatric Surgery Slows Aging
New research shows that bariatric surgery may be able to delay aging by lengthening telomeres. Telomeres are the small caps on the end of our chromosomes, similar to the caps on the end of a shoelace. Over time all telomeres begin to fray or shorten as we age. However, high levels of inflammation and oxidative stress cause telomeres to shorten more quickly, thus accelerating the aging process.
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