Month: July 2017

Keratin hydrolysate as sports supplement – IronMag Bodybuilding & Fitness Blog

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 […]
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Is Erythritol Found in Your Supplements Increasing Your Weight? – IronMag Bodybuilding & Fitness Blog

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 […]
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Noopept (aka N-Phenylacetyl-L-prolylglycine ethyl ester or GVS-111) Explored – IronMag Bodybuilding & Fitness Blog

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 […]
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Live two years longer with extra vitamin E – IronMag Bodybuilding & Fitness Blog

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 […]
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