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Can Whey Protein Help Lowering Blood Pressure In Adults With Hypertension?

By / / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 5 minutes of reading

Today we return to Examine.com and a review of a 6-week randomized controlled trial in 97 men and women with uncontrolled grade 1 primary hypertension. The researchers had the people enrolled in the trial taking Ma’aljobon, a whey protein preparation traditionally used in Persian medicine, to find out if it could reduce both diastolic and systolic blood pressure (the primary outcomes.) Key study details “The participants took either 50 grams of Ma’aljobon powder dissolved […]

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While Drugs Play A Part, Early Deaths In Bodybuilding Is Mostly Diet Related

By / / Body Transformation / Bodybuilding, Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 14 minutes of reading

Recently, Medscape published an article on a study looking at deaths among professional bodybuilders between 2005 and 2020 to calculate the risk of sudden death, especially related to heart failure (aka. sudden cardiac deaths [SCDs].) While there certainly is an overrepresentation of sudden deaths among elite level bodybuilders, as soon as they tried to explain why, everything went downhill showing once again how incredibly ignorant these people are of simple physiology and biochemistry. So,

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Walking Is A Band-Aid If Your Diet Still Sucks (Toxic Carbohydrates)

By / / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 5 minutes of reading

Today we’ll yet again return to Examine.com to look at a randomized controlled trial with an outcome that is so obvious it’s the ultimate waste of time and money. With that said, it does present a good opportunity to explain what the researchers observed and why. So, let’s get on with it. Quick Summary “In this 12-week randomized controlled trial in 66 older adults in South Korea with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, regular treadmill

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Consuming Most Of Your Food During The Day And Not Eating In The Evening Improves Cardiometabolic Health

By / / Health and Fitness / 6 minutes of reading

About a week ago, I covered another study showing how important it is not to eat in the evening or close to going to bed as having your last meal earlier in the day improved sleep onset, total sleep time, and sleep quality by quite extreme measures. This is logical as any ongoing digestion will interfere with sleep. If you have not read it, please do as it will add to this article and

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Chromium Is Needed For Insulin Function But Supplemental Chromium Will Damage The Liver

By / / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 6 minutes of reading

This fine morning we return to Examine.com and a summary of a meta-analysis on chromium supplementation in overweight and obese people looking at parameters for weight loss, cardiometabolic risks and blood work results. The results should be common sense, as we know the functions of chromium and also the risks of anything in an inorganic supplemental form. With that said, let’s see what they found out and I’ll add my bits of knowledge along

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More Misconceptions About Protein And Food In General

By / / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 13 minutes of reading

What’s the biggest joke within any field of “science?” Space science? Planetary science? Gender studies/modality? The “science” of climate change? Perhaps, but “nutrition science” just as “medical science” is up there at the very top of deception, lies and pure mental illness. And one of the worst websites when it comes to these jokes of pseudo-sciences within diet and nutrition is “Verywell Health,” who recently posted an article about “high-protein” meals and diets. Well,

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Pine Bark Extract Is Extremely Toxic And Will Add Stress To A Overloaded Detoxification System — And More On Antioxidants

By / / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 8 minutes of reading

This Saturday morning we return to the clueless writers at Examine.com and a summary of a meta-analysis of 27 randomized controlled trials, where some dimwits thought it would be a good idea to poison participants with pine bark extract and then look at markers of cardiometabolic health without a clue about the physiological and biochemical effects. So, let’s see what they believed they found and what stupid conclusions they might have drawn. Key study

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Testosterone Replacement Therapy No Longer Associated With Heart Attacks Or Strokes

By / / Body Transformation / Bodybuilding, Health and Fitness / 10 minutes of reading

One of the worst fitness-wannabe writers on the Internet, Matt Weik of Ironmagazine, recently brought up an interesting change to Testosterone labels. Let’s see what he had to say this time. “Testosterone injections, pills, and creams typically used for TRT and HRT purposes come with some warnings on the label. You’ve probably noticed them if it’s something you use regularly. But recently, testosterone labels got an update.” If you say so. However, outside of

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