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Trying to Remedy Deficiencies — Magnesium L-Threonate Improving Sleep Quality?

Once again we return to Examine.com for another perfect example of totally useless and meaningless trial study. This time they summarized a controlled trial with magnesium L-threonate and its impact on improved sleep quality, daytime functioning, and mood in adults with self-reported sleep problems. What was studied? “The effectiveness of supplementation with magnesium L-threonate (MgT) for improving self-reported sleep problems. The primary outcome was sleep quality, assessed using the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Leeds […]

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Dietary Toxic Load, Exaggerated Hygiene Practices And Acne

Today we return to Examine.com and a short summary of yet another somewhat flawed and backwards-thinking study looking at “dietary glycemic load” and the occurrence/severity of acne. Quick Summary “In this 12-week randomized controlled trial in 50 girls and women in Pakistan with acne, reducing the dietary glycemic load seemed to improve acne, but the study had methodological limitations.” Before we continue, let’s establish some definitions. The “dietary glycemic load” (GL) is a measure

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Study on Active Young Women: Vegan Bodily Destruction

By Joachim Bartoll / January 13, 2025 / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness, Vegan / Veganism Psy-Op / 7 minutes of reading

Today we return once again to Examine.com and a poor summary of a recent study looking at the devastating body composition changes in young active women from adopting the destructive and deadly anti-human diet, a.k.a. the retarded “vegan diet,” for only 8 short weeks. Key study details First and foremost, you cannot adopt non-species appropriate diets in a healthy way, as any kind of plant-based edible is both toxic and useless as human nutrition.

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What Fasting Method Is Most Effective For Fat Loss?

By Joachim Bartoll / January 9, 2025 / Body Transformation / Bodybuilding, Fasting / Dry Fasting, Health and Fitness / 7 minutes of reading

Today we return to Examine.com and their review of a meta-analysis looking at various combinations of “intermittent” fasting regimens and their effectiveness when the goal is to lose body fat. As you probably know, I’ve used fasting as my number one fat loss tool among my clients, including top-level bodybuilders since 2008. Amongst overweight clients I’ve used either two 36-hour fasts a week (5:2) or an every other day fasting (alternate-day) approach. For bodybuilders

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Citrulline May Only Help With Athletic Performance If Your Diet Is Extremely Bad

By Joachim Bartoll / January 6, 2025 / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 5 minutes of reading

Today we return to Examine.com and one of their summaries of a recent study of useless quercetin and the non-essential amino acid citrulline on elite cycling performance. What was studied? “The effects of combined supplementation with quercetin (500 mg) and citrulline (3,000 mg) on measures of cycling performance, including average power, oxygen uptake, respiratory exchange ratio, 20-kilometer time trial performance, and rating of perceived exertion in trained cyclists.” Quercetin is a flavonoid belonging to

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Oral Health: A Toothpaste Containing Curcumin And Melatonin Will Kill Cells In Your Mouth

By Joachim Bartoll / January 2, 2025 / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 8 minutes of reading

Today we return to Examine.com and a review of yet another idiotic study where they fail to explain what they found and how dangerous to your health it actually is. Also, this should be a no-brainer as we know that curcumin is a very potent poison and that synthetic melatonin is not the same as the melatonin naturally produced by the body, even if the chemical structure is almost identical and it can bind

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Ramadan Is Not Fasting And It’s Practiced Backwards

By Joachim Bartoll / December 28, 2024 / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 6 minutes of reading

Since there has been no real interesting articles or news as of lately, we once again return to Examine.com and one of their summaries of yet another really stupid meta-analysis. What was studied? “The effect of Ramadan fasting on kidney function in people who either had chronic kidney disease (CKD) or received a kidney transplant. The primary outcomes were changes in creatinine and estimated glomerular filtration rate.” First, let’s define fasting. Fasting is the

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Spirulina Will Increase Your Toxic And Heavy Metal Load — And A Few Words On Bioavailability And Bioconversion

By Joachim Bartoll / December 27, 2024 / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 7 minutes of reading

Today we return to Examine.com and a summary of a study on spirulina and blood pressure, where they once again show us how clueless researchers and “scientists” are about everything. What was studied? “The effect of supplementing with spirulina on blood pressure.” Spirulina is a genus of cyanobacteria, and not algae as many people believe. Cyanobacteria are a group of bacteria that have photosynthetic capabilities, similar to plants, and are often referred to as

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