Body image, what’s yours?
by: Wesley Silveria AKA Iron Addict From the outset I will state that if your body image is perfect, you like what you see, it matches reality, and are comfortable that your will reach your physique...
View ArticleBiotransformation Enzymes & their Modulation: Cytochromes P450
by: Sergio Parel One may wonder what an article on biotransformation enzymes is doing in a magazine dedicated to sport and supplementation science. Somehow, the topic is brought regularly to the...
View ArticleBio Hacking: Bio Hack Your Way To Awesome
We live in exciting and novel times where we have made substantial advances in understanding, testing and managing our own biology. Nowadays, many of the leading minds of medical science and technology...
View ArticleBetter Ways of Relieving Stress
by: Scott La Pidus, M.D. Many people lead stressful lives or commonly experience stress. Yet they lack effective means of coping with this stress. There is certainly no shortage of prescription drugs,...
View ArticleBack to the Basics: Leptin
by: Marc Collins This is far from the detailed review you will find in the original Leptin series featured in Mind and Muscle Magazine, but I will try to summarize what I feel is the important...
View ArticleBack to the Basics: Insulin and the GI
by: Marc Collins Insulin can either be your best friend or your worst enemy. Insulin’s main role is to control the storage of nutrients. In fat cells it promotes fat storage. In the liver it promotes...
View ArticleBack to the Basics: Insulin
by: Glen Neilson What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘insulin?’ Maybe it’s diabetics, fat gain, or a number of other things. The truth is it’s these things and much more....
View ArticleBack to the Basics: Free Radicals
Exercise: activity that requires physical or mental exertion, especially when performed to develop or maintain fitness (Halliwell and Whiteman, 2004). Exercise requires the body perform physical work,...
View ArticleAttachment Influences on Immune-Endocrine Functions in Disorders of Human...
by: J.D. Haltigan Cancer cachexia is a particular form of metabolic-energetic abnormality frequently occurring in patients with advanced stages of the disease (Van Cutsem & Arends, 2005). The word...
View ArticleAre Acute Increases in Anabolic Hormones During Resistance Exercise Important...
by: Robbie Durand, M.A., C.S.C.S. Hormones, such as human growth hormone (GH) and testosterone, have been shown to play a role in the muscle hypertrophy and strength gains. Men suffering from either GH...
View ArticleArachidonic Acid and Site-Specific Muscle Growth
by: William Llewellyn Although building muscle without exercise may seem like the ideal endpoint of all anabolic research, this is a feat that just hasn’t been realized yet. There are a number of...
View ArticleAndrogens and Your Heart
by: Jay McCombs INTRODUCTION The shit, juice, gear, whatever you want to call them, let’s talk about steroids. The abuse of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) has become an increasingly popular topic...
View ArticleAnabolic Steroid Action In Vitro and In Vivo
by: Karl Hoffman The traditional view of anabolic steroids is that their anabolic-androgenic potency is to a large extent dependent on the relative binding affinity of a given steroid to the androgen...
View ArticleAMPK: The Perfect Partitioning Agent?
by: Wen Zhang Recap from last month Last month, we explored the topic of nutrient partitioning from an environmental perspective. To do this it was necessary to establish the roles played by different...
View ArticleAdipose Reduction and Bodyfat Setpoint
by: J.D. Haltigan Efforts to maximize adipose tissue reduction will continue to remain a central concern for both the medical communities (e.g., obesity) as well as—and more central to this article—the...
View ArticleA Trip Down Memory Lane by Patrick Arnold
As a researcher, it seems to me that the sports nutrition industry has become obsessed with staying abreast of the latest research and innovations. Why is it that we seldom bother to venture back into...
View ArticleA Peripheral Tissue and Nutrient Based Analysis of Fuel Partitioning
by: Wen Zhang In our quest towards the improvement body composition, there are few hard and fast rules beyond the basic ‘lift-eat-rest’ protocol. However, we can, with great confidence, count on the...
View ArticleA Cortisol Primer – Part I
by: Jamie Hale Cortisol Cortisol is the primary member of a family of glucocorticoids, and is considered the main catabolic hormone. Corticosterone is the other glucocorticoid, but is thought to be...
View ArticleA Closer Look at Steroid Liver Toxicity – Part I
by: Michael Fischer Pop quiz time! True or false? 1) 17-alpha alkylated steroids are harder for the liver to metabolize, so it has to work harder to break them down. 2) All 17- alpha alkylated steroids...
View ArticleA Bevy O’Brain Builders
by: Zack Proser What’s Not to Love? Free, effective, and infinitely portable, brain building exercises are ideal for mental training regimens, travel, or filling the vast expanse of time between when...
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