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As a board-certified gastroenterologist, dozens of patients visit me weekly with bloating and GI distress concerns. Sometimes these patients have underlying medical conditions or food sensitivities, but more times than not, the reason they are bloated, gassy, or feel general discomfort or...

The List of Sugar Myths is Long... and Ridiculous Sugar Made Me Do It! Pssst. Yeah, I'm talking to you. Have you ever, maybe after walking out of one of those Lululemon stores and seeing all those gluteally endowed sales people (and maybe mannequins, too), gone home and engaged in a little, you...

WHY EVERY ATHLETE SHOULD USE TUDCA PART 2 SUPPLEMENTS Normally, athletes ingest TUDCA simply for those liver benefits it possesses, but little credit is ever given to its interactions with skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, and glucose metabolism. One of my more favorite TUDCA studies actually...

Branched chain amino acids (BCAAs) are essential amino acids (meaning our body does not create them) that contain an aliphatic (branched) side-chain. There are three BCAAs: leucine, isoleucine, and valine. These amino acids are key players in the regulation of muscle mass and must be consumed...

Naringenin, a citrus flavonoid, increases muscle cell glucose uptake via AMPK. Zygmunt K, Faubert B, Macneil J, Tsiani E. Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada L2S 3A1. Abstract Naringenin, a flavonoid found in high concentrations in grapefruit, has...

Jose A. Bernat Bacete / Getty If you’re a hardcore bodybuilder or a casual dieter, you’ve probably been told that it’s healthy to indulge in a cheat meal once a week or so. But a small study done at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus found that cheating on the increasingly...