The Negative Effects of Cold Plunges for Building Muscle
Cold plunges following strength training are discouraged since they substantially attenuate long-term gains in muscle mass.
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Are the Benefits of Cold Plunges and Cryotherapy Just a Placebo Effect?
There have been five placebo-controlled studies on cold water immersion. What did they find?
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Best Temperature, Timing, and Duration for Cold Plunges for Athletic Performance Recovery
What are the effects of cold water immersion on the recovery of physical performance compared to active recovery and doing nothing?
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The Side Effects of Human Growth Hormone as an Anti-Aging Therapy
Taking human growth hormone (somatotropin) may actually accelerate the aging process.
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Fall Prevention Is the Most Important Thing for Preventing Osteoporosis Bone Fractures
A combination of resistance exercise to improve lower limb muscle strength and balance training can beat out drugs for preventing osteoporotic bone fractures.
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Are There Any Side Effects to Taking Creatine?
A misinterpretation of lab tests may explain concerns over kidney safety with creatine supplementation.
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What Is Creatine? Can It Treat Sarcopenia (Muscle Loss with Age)?
When accompanied by a progressive strength-training regimen, 3 grams of creatine a day may improve muscle performance in older adults.
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Yoga Put to the Test for Depression, Anxiety, and Urinary Incontinence
Which of the 50 different yoga styles have been shown to be best?
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Yoga Put to the Test for Headaches, Diabetes, Osteoarthritis, and the Elderly
What happens when real yoga is compared to sham yoga?
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Yoga Put to the Test for MS, Back Pain, Neck Pain, Insomnia, and Breast Cancer
Is yoga better than other types of exercise, better than nothing but similar to other physical activity, or not beneficial even when it’s compared to doing nothing at all?
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Comparing Vegetarian and Vegan Athletic Performance, Endurance, and Strength
Long-term plant-based eating may improve exercise capacity and endurance.
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Potential Pitfalls of Calorie Restriction
How to preserve bone and mass on a low calorie diet.
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Berries for Inflammation and Osteoarthritis Treatment
Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials on berries and the first clinical study on the effects of berries on arthritis.
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Foods to Improve Athletic Performance and Recovery
What are the effects of spinach and berries on oxidative stress, inflammation, and muscle soreness in athletes?
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Should Vitamin D Supplements Be Taken to Prevent Falls in the Elderly?
A daily dose of 4,000 IU of vitamin D is recommended for elders at high risk for falling to improve muscle strength and balance, though there is something that works even better.
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Increasing Protein Intake After Age 65
What is the optimal source and amount of protein for senior citizens?
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Why Do We Age?
A bacteria discovered on Easter Island may hold the key to the proverbial fountain of youth by producing rapamycin, which inhibits the engine-of-aging enzyme TOR.
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Testing Your Diet with Pee and Purple Cabbage
Plant-based diets tend to be alkaline-forming. This may help protect muscle mass, and reduce the risk of gout and kidney stones. The pH of one’s urine can be estimated with natural pigments, using kitchen chemistry.
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Preventing Exercise-Induced Oxidative Stress with Watercress
Those eating a more plant-based diet may naturally have an enhanced antioxidant defense system to counter the DNA damage caused by free radicals produced by high-intensity exercise.
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Reducing Muscle Soreness with Berries
Anti-inflammatory phytonutrients in berries may explain why cherries can speed recovery after a marathon—by reducing muscle pain in long-distance runners.
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Benefits of Fenugreek Seeds
The spice fenugreek appears to significantly improve muscle strength and weightlifting power output, while possessing anticancer properties in vitro.
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Plant-Based Bodybuilding
Lower levels of the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1 in those eating vegan is not expected to affect their accumulation of muscle mass.
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Out of the Lab Onto the Track
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover studies convinced the scientific establishment that nitrate-rich vegetables (such as beets) could noticeably improve athletic performance.
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Doping with Beet Juice
Beets found to significantly improve athletic performance while reducing oxygen needs—upsetting a fundamental tenet of sports physiology.
