May 29, 2012 by Michael Colgan, Ph.D. Popular articles often judge dietary proteins by comparing their ability to promote muscle protein synthesis. This one-eyed focus leads many people to believe that proteins are simple foods, and building muscle is their most important, if not their only, function. This belief is entirely false. The amino acids that …
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In a timely article, Statistics Canada reported findings that abdominal obesity and metabolic risk in Canadians have increased substantially between 1981 and 2009. Waistlines are on an incline in Canada, even in individuals with a normal weight. Trimming down the discussion of obesity to visceral fat, or the sub-abdominal fat that surrounds the internal organs and contributes …
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Published May21, 2012: In honor of Skin Cancer Awareness Month, pay mind to your health by maintaining your skin. With more than two million Americans diagnosed with skin cancer every year, and numbers on the rise in youth, now is not the time to feel the burn. Seeking shade and wearing wide-brimmed hats and protective clothing are the first …
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BIG NEWS announced May 16, 2012: In a landmark study demonstrating “proof of principle” of the feasibility and safety of “slowing or turning back the clock,” Spanish researchers gave aged mice a single treatment to stimulate genetic expression of telomerase that extended health and lifespan by up to 24 percent. These new results serve as yet …
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May 3, 2012: Skeletal muscle is the tissue of action, movement, force, and function. Unfortunately, time takes a toll on bodies and on muscle mass. The combination of perceived energy decline, decreased physical activity, and a blunted response for muscle growth (“anabolic resistance”) forms the association between aging and a loss in muscle mass. Sustaining this important tissue …
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May 8, 2012 – Wisdom increases with age, but muscle and bone strength do not. How about giving mom a way to help her lose weight, build muscle, and improve balance this Mother’s Day? Moms can get the structural support they need to stay grounded with whey-based IsaLean Shake or IsaLean …
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Posted Feb 7, 2012: Choosing to eat a traditional Mediterranean-style diet for its positive effects on heart health and healthy aging goes hand-in-hand with supplementing with coenzyme Q10 (coQ10), according to additional evidence from researchers at the University of Córdoba, Spain. A year ago, the researchers reported that supplementing a Mediterranean diet with coQ10 provided greater antioxidant …
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Posted Dec 23, 2011 Sports physiologists know that maximizing muscle building requires adequate amounts of high-quality dietary protein—rich in branched-chain amino acids such as leucine—and a resistance training regimen such as weight lifting. Less known are the precise cellular and molecular signals that explain how these factors promote muscle growth. A new study from New …
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December 19, 2011 by Michael Colgan, Ph.D. (abstracted from Dr Colgan’s forthcoming book, The Anti-Inflammatory Athlete) Suck the water out of a lean athlete and you are left with mostly protein. More than half the dry weight of your body is protein, over 100,000 different proteins, each precisely constructed from gene expression. The structure of your …
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