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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Dot Net Framework 3 5 Not Installing on Windows 8 Fix it Now!





You may face a common problem while using Windows 8. Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 is not installed with Windows 8. And several programs may ask you install this. And you cant install this from your PC. It will ask you to connect to the net and use Windows Update. 

By default Windows 8 comes with .Net Framework 4.5 and it doesnt include 3.5. When you try to install .Net 3.5 that you previously downloaded from web the you will see the following message. 





And you will get the same message while installing some some programs that is developed using .Net 3.5 platform. And you will not able to run those programs on your PC! This is a very bad job by Microsoft. A great trouble for Windows 8 users. 

But today you will get the solution. Youve install this using command line. I mean you have to use Command Prompt. And surprisingly you Windows 8 DVD includes the .Net Framework 3.5! 


Method 1 (Offline Installation using cmd):
  1. Enter your Windows 8 Installation Disk on DVD Drive.
  2. Now run Command Prompt as Administrator. (Hint: Start > Type cmd > Now right click on Command Prompt and hit on Run as Administrator from the bottom)
  3. Now copy the following command and paste it in the command prompt window. Or type the following line in command prompt. Press Enter (To paste the command in command prompt, click the right button of mouse and select paste)
  4. Now .Net Framework will be installed within few minutes. 
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:h:sourcessxs


Remember: h is the drive letter of DVD drive. Change it with your DVD drive letter. 


Method 2 (Online Method using Windows Update): 

If you follow all the instructions of method 1 you will be able to install .net 3.5 properly. But if there is any problem for example- you dont have DVD drive, or your Windows DVD doesnt contain it then you can install it directly from Windows Update option. More or less youve to download 200 MB data from internet. 


Follow the instruction below: 

Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features on or off > Mark the option .NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0) > OK. 
Now you will see a window like the image above. Hit on Install This Feature. And make sure youre connected to the net. Thats it.  


Secret Tips: If you upgrade to Windows 8 from Windows 7, then you get .Net Framework 3.5 automatically enabled !!


Installing a Windows language pack on Windows 8 before installing the .NET Framework 3.5 will cause the .NET Framework 3.5 installation to fail. Install the .NET Framework 3.5 before installing any Windows language packs.


Dont forget to share this troubleshooting tips with your friends. 

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

How to Change Windows Password without Knowing it !!!




Today Im gonna write about an amazing trick for you! By this time youve already understood about what Im talking about. Yes, you can change windows password without knowing it. But PC should be in a running condition! 

This is a very easy method. If youre new user then you might face some problems. But mid level user can do this within few minutes. But your PC should be in the Administrator mode to do this task. 

This system has been tested for Windows 8 and 7. But this method may also work on Windows XP. Okay lets start. 

  1. Open Command prompt as Administrator. XP users dont require Administrative mode. 
  2. Now type this command and press enter- net user
  3. Now type another command and press enter- net user Administrator *
  4. Type the new password and press enter.
  5. Retype the password and press enter.
  6. If password is changed then you will see the message- the command completed successfully
Remember: When you typing the new password, you cursor will not be moved. Dont be afraid.  You can take help from the image below:



And dont forget to create a Password Reset Disk to avoid any accident. If you have the reset disk you can change your password if forgotten. 

Also read this post- How to Set a Password on Logon Screen. 

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Creatine Benefits Accumulate Now it Prevents NAFLD Reduced TG Production Increased Efflux Oxidation

Creatine is a dangerous steroid? Well, the study at hand shows that it will prevent not promote hepatic lipid accumulation as you will see it with many oral steroids.
As a SuppVersity reader you either take creatine or do at least know that its the #1 proven ergogenic your money can buy! What I am pretty sure, though, is that you didnt know yet that creatine will not just make your muscles big, but also your liver clean... clean or rather free of fat.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been associated with obesity and decreased insulin sensitivity. A fatty liver is considered the hepatic manifestation of the metabolic syndrome ("Liver Enzymes the #1 Marker of Insulin Resistance!?" | learn more), if creatine would effectively protect the increase in liver fat, which is the hallmark of NAFLD, it could thus eventually make the transition from the fitness community into the mainstream.
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Current data suggests that 20–30% of North Americans have NAFLD, which could progress to more severe liver damage if left untreated. If taking creatine could make them stronger and healthier (remember creatine will also improve your glucose management), the amino acid of which many doctors still believe that it was a dangerous steroid could soon make it onto their prescription lists.

Current clinical treatments for fatty liver are after all limited and so the search for safe and effective therapy is important. In vivo, phosphatidylcholine (PC) synthesis is a major consumer of hepatic methyl groups accounting for approximately 40% of all transmethylation reactions, and is an important determinant of hepatic TG metabolism. Hepatocytes have the highest activity of phosphatidyl-ethanolamineN-methyltransferase (PEMT) and they synthesize a significant portion of PC via the sequential methylation of phosphatidyl-ethanolamine (PE) - a process that relies on the methyl donor betaine which happens to have similar, albeit less pronounced ergogenic effects than cretine (learn more).
Previous rodent studies already suggested "that rats fed a creatine-supplemented high-fat diet have significantly improved glucose tolerance compared to high-fat diet fed control animals. Together these data suggest that dietary creatine influences carbohydrate metabolism as well as lipid metabolism." (da Silva. 2014).
De novo creatine biosynthesis occurs in the liver via the S--adenosylmethionine-dependent methylation of  guanidinoacetate (GAA) and is a major consumer of hepatic methyl groups, estimated to account for 40% of total methylation reactions in the body.

Suggested Read: "Supercharging Creatine With Baking Soda: Study Shows Increased Peak Power and Endurance - Plus: How Bicarbonate Could Help You Lose Fat & Build Muscle" | read more
Dietary creatine supplementation can reduce plasma GAA levels by 90% and therefore reduces demand on hepatic methylation. Previously, Jacobs & da Silva (2013) hypothesized that dietary creatine supplementation may spare AdoMet for PC synthesis, thus protecting the liver from TG accumulation. Dietary creatine supplementation prevented TG accumulation and the lowering of AdoMet in the liver of rats fed a high-fat diet (HFD).

Interestingly, dietary creatine did not alter hepatic PC levels or PEMT activity; therefore, the mechanism(s) through which creatine reduces fatty liver does not appear to be related to AdoMet availability.

In the study at hand, Silva et al. utilized the McArdle RH-7777 (McA) immortalized hepatoma cell line, 0 an established model for the study of hepatic lipid metabolism that does not express PEMT, to assess whether creatine might have a direct action on TG synthesis in liver cells.
Workout advantage!? The increased efflux of triglycerides from the liver will not just keep this vital organ "fat free", it may also be a workout advantage for endurance athletes who could use the liver fat as a substrate to fuel their muscular activity... well, it could if endurance athletes had significant amounts of liver fat. Practically speaking, however, creatine has been found to lead to a significant fall in blood glucose in endurance athletes during a standardized exercise test - albeit not to their disadvantage (Engelhardt. 1998)! A 18% increase in interval performance, is after all something many athletes would kill for.
What they observed were significant increases in PPAR?-activity, as they have previously reported for agents like fish oil. The increase in PPAR?-activity in turn triggered an increase in hepatic fatty acid oxidation and TG secretion and would thus help clear the triglycerides from the liver before they can harm you.
Figure 1: The reduced hepatic lipid accumulation in the cell study at hand is a consequence of (A) reduced
synthesis and (B) increased secretion of triglycerides (da Silva. 2014b)
The data in Figure 1 underline that this effect is mediated by decreases in hepatic lipid synthesis (A) and an increase in lipid efflux in response to being exposed to creatine. Overall, this leads to significantly reduced cellular triglyceride levels (TG; Figure 1, left).

Reduced synthesis, increased efflux, increased oxidation

Similar effects were observed for the hepatic phospholipid (PL) content, which was likewise reduced by (a) a reduced synthesis and (b) an increase efflux of PLs. But (a) and (b) are not the only factors contributing to the healthy lipid depletion.

Figure 2: Increased triglyceride oxidation, yes, increased AMPK & ACC, no (da Silva. 2014b)
As you can see in Figure 2, the provision of extra-creatine will also increase the oxidation of fatty acids (CO2 production is a measure of fatty acid oxidation), without however having similar beneficial effects on the expression of AMPK and its fatty acid oxidating cousin ACC (see Figure 2, right) - thats in contrast to alpha-lipoic acid (learn more) and suggests that the effects are not mediated via the existing anti-oxidant effects of creatine of which youve read in "The Overlooked Non-ROS-Scavenging Antioxidant Effects of Creatine Monohydrate" (learn more)
Bottom line: The study at hand adds weight to the previously formulated hypothesis that creatine supplementation (obviously cheap, but pure creatine monohydrate) is not for muscle-headz, only.

Figure 3: Creatine monohydrate supplementation increases glucose uptake via GLUT-4 receptor expression in immobilized and active human skeletal muscle (Opt Eijnde. 2001)
On the contrary! In conjunction with the previously established anti-oxidant effects and its ability to improve glucose management via increases in AMPK and GLUT-4 (glucose receptor) expression in skeletal muscle cells (see Figure 3), the data from this recent study by scientists from the University of Alberta should eventually shut the critics, who still claim creatine was a "dangerous steroid" or at least a "gateway drug to steroid abuse" up. Unfortunately, something in the back of my head tells me that studies are less convincing to the medical orthodoxy than the glossy product flyers for the latest patentable diabesity and NAFLD drugs | Comment on Facebook!
    References:
    • da Silva, Robin, Karen Kelly, and Rene Jacobs. "Hepatic carbohydrate and lipid metabolism are altered in rats fed creatine-supplemented diets (LB151)." The FASEB Journal 28.1 Supplement (2014a): LB151.
    • da Silva, Robin P., et al. "Creatine reduces hepatic TG accumulation in hepatocytes by stimulating fatty acid oxidation." Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids (2014b). 
    • Engelhardt, Martin, et al. "Creatine supplementation in endurance sports." Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 30.7 (1998): 1123-1129.
    • Jacobs, Rene L., Robin da Silva, and Randy Nelson. "Creatine Supplementation may prevent NAFLD by stimulating fatty acid oxidation." The FASEB Journal 27 (2013): 222-2.
    • Opt Eijnde, B., et al. "Effect of oral creatine supplementation on human muscle GLUT4 protein content after immobilization." Diabetes 50.1 (2001): 18-23.


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    Monday, March 28, 2016

    Will Even Normal Testosterone Levels Increase Your Cancer Risk Recent Study Makes it Sound Like it At First Sight!

    Dont fall for someone who overgeneralizes, misreports or -interprets study results to tell you that healthy mid-range testosterone levels were a major trigger of cancer development.
    I just got an email from my good friend Carl Lanore who hosts the Super Human Radio Show I am sure you have already seen in the sidebar of the SuppVersity. He pointed me towards the results of a recent study from the Copenhagen University Hospital saying "Adel have you seen this? Im sure the media will be all over it." Since Carl is usually pretty good at identifying things that "news" make headlines, I would like to leapfrog the mass media craze before any of you consider cutting off their best parts to end up in the allegedly healthy depth of quasi zero testosterone.

    You have no clue what I am talking about? Well, I am about to elaborate. You just have to stay with me for the rest of a comparatively long, but insightful (I promise) analysis of the study and related contemporary evidence.
    If its not testosterone its usually meat thats blamed to increase your cancer risk.

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    So, where do I begin?  The "mass media compatible message" of the abstract (and this is usually not even as far as most headline producers read) says: Having normal testosterone levels increases your risk of dying from cancer before your time by at least 30%! The more testosterone, the likelier you will pass away before your expiry date."

    Well, as I said, this is the mainstream interpretation. And interpretation anyone could identify as being fundamentally flawed by simply reading the abstract carefully. In fact, you dont even have to read the whole 268 words! It would suffice to read the end of the first line of the result section, where it says:
    "For risk of early death after cancer, for men [...]" (Ørsted. 2014)
    Did you notice it? There is an "after cancer" in this sentence. This means, your risk of dying, if you develop cancer is increased, if [whatever follows]. Now, that which follows is ...
    • if you are in the 2nd quartile, your risk will be increased by 30%,
    • if you are in the 3rd quartile, your risk will be increased by 31%,
    • if you are in the 4th quartile, your risk will be increased by 52% and
    • if you are in the 5th quartile, your risk will be increased by 80%.
    So, if you happen to be unlucky enough to develop cancer and your testosterone levels are high there is in fact an increased risk you could die from cancer.

    So testosterone is still bad, right? Yes, but anything that is "anabolic", i.e. promotes the growth of all cells in your body is "bad" for someone who has cancer. Guess what chemotherapy will to do your testosterone levels and the amount of other pro-anabolic factors in your body? It will wreak havoc on your testes (Wallace. 1997), reduce their size to that of dried raisins, increase your risk of gynecomastia and reduce your testosterone levels to exactly those 6-10 nmol/L (Whitehead. 1982) of which the previously cited study by Ørsted et al. found that they are associated with the least risk of dying from already existing cancer in your body.
    Figure 1: If you look at a random assemble of the myriad of risk associations that have been established for low T, the results of the study at hand do no longer appear to be that frightening - right?
    A result that conceals the established negative effects of having low testosterone (see Figure 1) or depressing it which androgen deprivation therapy which may reduce the testosterone levels to the allegedly desirable range, but is associated with a 350% (!) increased risk of dieing from cardiovascular disease in prostate cancer patients (Tsai. 2007). I guess this should make you reconsider the "usefulness" of low testosterone levels.

    But there is also an increase in cancer risk, no?

    Yes, there is. According to the scientists it is (I quote) "1.07 (95% CI 0.98–1.18) and 1.06 (0.93–1.22) for men and women" if you compare say a man with 10nmol/L to a man with 20nmol/L. Now, as far as I can remember a 95% confidence interval, which is what you see in brackets, i.e. for men 0.98-1.18, defines the range in which the chance that the hypothesis that is tested, i.e. "testosterone influences the risk of prostate cancer" has a 5% chance of not being bullocks... ah, I mean statistical significant.
    You really got to look closely: A statistically significant association between an increase in cancer risk for men was found only for oral cancer. Not for lung, prostate, colon, bladder, pancreas, stomach, blood (Leukemia), skin, oesophagus, kidney, larynx or liver. And while the increase in cancer risk for the highest vs. lowest quintile for oral cancer was high (60%), knowing that the same limitations, i.e. no adjustment for family history of cancer (which increases the risk by 160% | Garavello. 2008), diabetes (which is more than 2x more common in patients with diabetes | Ujpál. 2004), etc. (see list below), apply all results of this study, helps to put the "shocking" results into perspective and to read any upcoming media hype with the necessary calmness.
    So, the scientists are 95% sure that a 2x higher testosterone level will be associated with a 2% decrease and 18% increase in... does this ring a bell? Yeah, thats not exactly a reliable prediction considering the fact that the researchers adjusted for smoking status, cumulative smoking, body mass index, alcohol consumption, level of education, and level of income for men and women, but "forgot" to adjust for...
    • family history of cancer, which is one of the, if not the main correlate of your risk of developing various cancer, such as prostate cancer (1000% increase, no typo | Steinberg. 1990), colon cancer (up to 59% risk increase depending on the region | Slattery. 1994) or breast cancer (145% risk increase with first-degree relative having breast cancer | Slattery. 1993) 
    • diabetes, which has been found to be associated with a 60% increase in colorectal cancer risk in patients who have been diagnosed with diabetes 10+ years ago (La Vecchia. 1997), a
    • the level of visceral fat, where high levels (relative to total body fat) are associated with 850% increased risk of breast cancer (Schapira. 1994) and up to 1000% increased prostate cancer risk (Hafe. 2004)
    • low sleep duration and quality, which has been associated with an increased risk of developing almost every form of cancer you can think of (Blask. 2009), including 60% increased breast cancer risk for women working the "graveyard shift" (Davis. 2001)
    I could go on with all sorts of nutritional factors, medication (specifically hormonal contraceptives) the amount of exercise, the area you live in, your year of birth and hundreds of other factors that have previously been associated with an increase of cancer risk, but I guess the above should suffice to make you less confident that a "confidence interval" of 0.98–1.18 in men and 0.93–1.22 in women was enough to make the claim that "having a high testosterone level would [mechanistically!] trigger the development of cancer.
    A general word on the androgen hypothesis of cancer: "Data from all published prospective studies on circulating level of total and free testosterone do not support the hypothesis that high levels of circulating androgens are associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer," says a 2006 review by Jean-Pierre Raynaud and goes on "[... a] study on a large prospective cohort of 10,049 men, contributes to the gathering evidence that the long standing “androgen hypothesis” of increasing risk with increasing androgen levels can be rejected, suggesting instead that high levels within the reference range of androgens, estrogens and adrenal androgens decrease aggressive prostate cancer risk. Indeed, high-grade prostate cancer has been associated with low plasma level of testosterone." (Raynaud. 2006) Or, as Morgentaler put it: "there is not now—nor has there ever been—a scientific basis for the belief that T causes pCA to grow" (Morgentaler. 2006)
    Bottom line: Never freak out about the results of a single study. Specifically, if you have only read about it in "second" or "third hand" information sources like science magazines, blogs or the mainstream media. Testosterone is a welcome scapegoat, because it distracts us so nicely from the real culprits: Genetic disposition, and most importantly diabetes, being fat (not just overweight) and leading an overal pro-carcinogenic lifestyle as 90% of the inhabitants of the Western Obesity Belt (USA, Europe & Co) do. I mean, if we accepted that the latter were to blame (i.e. everything except genetics), this would mean that each of us would have to do something against it and "doing something" is is not exactly popular. Specifically, if "it" includes working out, eating healthy, practicing sleep hygiene and all those nasty thinks that are totally against our drive to make everything as "convenient" as possible.

    Ah, and did I actually mention that I have repeatedly written about studies that show that normal and even high normal testosterone levels are not associated with an increased cancer risk - not even for the prostate (Stattin. 2004; Morgentaler. 2006; Roddam. 2008)? No? Well, now you know it, anyway ;-) | Comment on Facebook!
    References:
    • Araujo, Andre B., et al. "Endogenous testosterone and mortality in men: a systematic review and meta-analysis." The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 96.10 (2011): 3007-3019.
    • Blask, David E. "Melatonin, sleep disturbance and cancer risk." Sleep medicine reviews 13.4 (2009): 257-264.
    • Davis, Scott, Dana K. Mirick, and Richard G. Stevens. "Night shift work, light at night, and risk of breast cancer." Journal of the national cancer institute 93.20 (2001): 1557-1562.
    • Garavello, Werner, et al. "Family history and the risk of oral and pharyngeal cancer." International journal of cancer 122.8 (2008): 1827-1831.
    • Hafe, Pedro, et al. "Visceral fat accumulation as a risk factor for prostate cancer." Obesity research 12.12 (2004): 1930-1935.
    • La Vecchia, Carlo, et al. "Diabetes mellitus and colorectal cancer risk." Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 6.12 (1997): 1007-1010.
    • Morgentaler, Abraham. "Testosterone and prostate cancer: an historical perspective on a modern myth." european urology 50.5 (2006): 935-939.
    • Raynaud, Jean-Pierre. "Prostate cancer risk in testosterone-treated men." The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology 102.1 (2006): 261-266.
    • Roddam, Andrew W., et al. "Endogenous sex hormones and prostate cancer: a collaborative analysis of 18 prospective studies." Journal of the National Cancer Institute 100.3 (2008): 170-183.
    • Slattery, Martha L., and Richard A. Kerber. "A comprehensive evaluation of family history and breast cancer risk: the Utah Population Database." Jama 270.13 (1993): 1563-1568.
    • Slattery, Martha L., and Richard A. Kerber. "Family history of cancer and colon cancer risk: the Utah Population Database." Journal of the National Cancer Institute 86.21 (1994): 1618-1626.
    • Schapira, David V., et al. "Visceral obesity and breast cancer risk." Cancer 74.2 (1994): 632-639.
    • Shores, Molly M., et al. "Low serum testosterone and mortality in male veterans." Archives of internal medicine 166.15 (2006): 1660-1665.
    • Stattin, Pär, et al. "High levels of circulating testosterone are not associated with increased prostate cancer risk: a pooled prospective study." International journal of cancer 108.3 (2004): 418-424.
    • Steinberg, G. D., Carter, B. S., Beaty, T. H., Childs, B. and Walsh, P. C. (1990), Family history and the risk of prostate cancer. Prostate, 17: 337–347. doi: 10.1002/pros.2990170409 
    • Tsai, Henry K., et al. "Androgen deprivation therapy for localized prostate cancer and the risk of cardiovascular mortality." Journal of the National Cancer Institute 99.20 (2007): 1516-1524. 
    • Ujpál, Márta, et al. "Diabetes and Oral Tumors in Hungary Epidemiological correlations." Diabetes care 27.3 (2004): 770-774.
    • Wallace, Euan M., et al. "Effects of chemotherapy-induced testicular damage on inhibin, gonadotropin, and testosterone secretion: a prospective longitudinal study." The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 82.9 (1997): 3111-3115.
    • Whitehead, E., et al. "The effects of Hodgkins disease and combination chemotherapy on gonadal function in the adult male." Cancer 49.3 (1982): 418-422.


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    Friday, March 18, 2016

    Who Wants To Live Forever 5 Survival Techniques That Will Help You Make it Past the 100 Year Margin Healthily!

    This article will teach you how to make sure youll see your great, great grand children.
    This is one of the many things I have learned from my good friend Carl Lanore, whose radio show, Super Human Radio, I have been following for years before I became what Carl once called "semi-famous": We, that is humans in general and researchers in particular, tend to focus way too much on the sophisticated, the innovative and the revolutionary stuff, when oftentimes the answer to ostensibly open question is lying openly before our eyes. Athletics and bodybuilding, is one of these areas, where practitioners have been doing everything right for decades... and what was their reward? World-records and mind-boggling physiques, for example.

    This is yet by no means the only example. The "paleo movement", as bizarre and disfigured as it may have become does still exemplify that the same can be said of "healthy eating", as well.
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    There have always been people who (instinctively?) knew how to do it - hell, even the hailed Mediterranean Diet is no invention of brainy scientists (certainly not of dumb dietitians). And when we are honest, we dont need websites like Longecity and tons of useless supplements to make the most of our genetic longevity potential: We all know what we should do, but unfortunately, many of us tend to forget that we dont do what it takes to join the ranks of those people about whom Marilynn Larkin wrote in ther 1999 paper "Centenarians point the way to healthy ageing" (Larkin. 1999).

    Todays SuppVersity article is an homage to these people and the well-known but often overlooked research on what helps and hinders us from joining the ranks of people like Betsy Baker (supposedly 113, when she died in 1955), Marie-Louise Meilleur (supposedly 117, when she died in 1988) or Jiroemon Kimura (supposedly 116, when he died last year). I mean, they must have done many things right and only few things wrong, right? Based on the contemporary evidence, Ive compiled a list of rules. I guess, neither Betsy or Marie-Louise, nor Jiroemon will have followed all of them to the "T", but hey, this leaves room for you to decide whether youd rather indulge in one or another passion or stick to all of them to the "T" top Marie-Louises 117 or Jiroemons 116 years of age :-)
    • Use the available medical care to your advantage: Within the health and fitness community, the things our regular doctors can do for us have gotten a surprisingly bad rep. It does however stand out of question that the availability and use of modern medicine is one of the cornerstones of the ever-increasing longevity in centennials and other healthy elderly. From basic treatments to complicated operations, all these things the availability of which we usually take for granted has helped us (and the living centenarians) to do what Thomas Perls calls "to ‘compress morbidity’ and live most of our lives in good health, with only a short period of ill health at the end." (Perls. 1999)
      Figure 1: Luckily, your place of birth is not the only determinant of life expectancy; map depicts life expectancy (in years) at birth (created by Panagiotis V. Lazaridis based on WHO & CIA data in 2008)
      At first this may contradict findings Engberg et al. present in a paper with data from a 29-year follow-up of hospitalizations among 40 000 Danes born in 1905, but in the end, it should be obvious that the low hospitalization rates, the Danish researchers observed in centenarians and almost centenarians were rather a consequence than a cause of their longevity and probably also due to timely non-stationary medical interventions, when one of them actually got sick (Engberg. 2009)
    • Dont smoke, or quit smoking: I know this should be obvious, but I guess too many people still believe that they must belong to the lucky few Lewin and Crimmins, the authors of a recent paper with the intruiging title "Not All Smokers Die Young: A Model for Hidden Heterogeneity within the Human Population." (Lewin. 2014) are interested in. Contrary to these (allegedly) genetic outliers, the majority of us will suffer a significant reduction in life expectancy. Estimations of the number of years youll lose range from a handful of years to up to 25% (Rogers. 1991). For a US citizen the latter would equal almost 16 years! Years, of which Susan T. Stewart et al. (2009) say that the average 18-year-old may reclaim 3.76 life-years and, more importantly, 5.16 quality-adjusted years, in which he or she is not hospitalized and wasting away, if they managed to avoid the getting overweight / obese instead.
    Eat fish, if you cant stop smoking: The -50% reduction in mortality risk for fish eating heavy smokers vs. people who smoke and have a low fish consumption as it was reported by Rodriguez et al. in 1996, actually raises the question whether it wouldnt make more sense to put images of deliciously prepared salmon on cigarette packets - instead of the tar-black lungs and foul body parts, obviously.
    • In fact, the increase in BMI after smoking sessation "overwhelmed the positive effects of declines in smoking in multiple scenarios" Stewart et al. calculated and reduced the benefits for an 18-year old to 0.71 years or 0.91 (Stewart. 2009).

      But dont worry, other studies report much more beneficial effects. Taylor et al. (2002), for example, estimate that the life expectancy among smokers who quit at age 35 will exceeded that of continuing smokers by 6.9 to 8.5 years for men and 6.1 to 7.7 years for women. And in spite of the fact that early smokers will obviously realize greater gains in life expectancy, even those even those who quit much later in life gained some benefits: among smokers who quit at age 65 years, men gained 1.4 to 2.0 years of life, and women gained 2.7 to 3.7 years.
    • Avoid drinking alcohol in amounts >0.5 glasses of wine per day: Notwithstanding the overcited epidemiological evidence which suggests that a moderate alcohol consumption will have beneficial effects on your life-expectancy, the margin between "just enough" and "already too much" is simply too narrow for me to suggest you drink more than the literal half glass of wine thats supposed to lower the all-cause mortality risk of women by ~20-25% (Streppel. 2009).

      Table 1: Relative Risk for Major Chronic Disease Categories, by Gender and Average Drinking Category (Rehm. 2002)
      A high(er) level of alcohol consumption, on the other hand, has been found to be associated with a higher risk of hypertension, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, cancer, cerebrovascular events and dementia (Kloner. 2007) - a fact that should remind you that (a) the evidence regarding the possible health benefits of alcohol is uncertain, and that (b) alcohol may not benefit everyone who drink. Theoretically, genetic polymorphisms that make alcohol the panacea for one, could turn an in innocent glass of wine into a deadly poison for someone else (Hashimoto. 2002).

      And just in case the ambiguity of data aint reason enough for you to let go of all alcoholic beverages on at least360 of 365 days of the year, the data in Table 1 may convince you.

      If you take a closer look at "Drinking Category I", where youll find all the women who consume 0–19.99 g pure alcohol and all the men who consume 0–39.99 g pure alcohol every day (a glass of wine has ~13g), you will see that alcohol increases the risk of liver cirrhosis by 26%, hypertensive diseases and other CVD by 40% and 50%, is associated with 34% and 23% higher risk of epilepsy for women and men, respectively and increases the risk of all cancers esp. those of the esophagus (+80%) significantly.

      I am not sure about you, but for me this alone would be enough to get my sleep, diet and exercise regimen in check instead of trying to use alcohol as a means to reduce my CVD risk.
    • Attend to relationships and friends: Individuality has become on of the / the (choose for yourself) highest good(s) of Western civilization and few people are aware that we are paying a very high price for that. The influence of social relations on mortality is, after all, well documented. A meta-analysis of 148 studies (308,849 participants followed for an average of 7.5 years) confirms that the quality of our social networks significantly predicts mortality (Holt-Lunstad. 2010).
      Figure 2: Weighted avg. effect sizes across different measures of social relationships (Holt-Lunstad. 2010).
      People with social relationships defined as adequate are 50% more likely to survive than older adults with social relationships defined as poor or insufficient. The overall effect remains consistent across age (see Figure 2).

      It is yet still unclear whether specific types of relationships are more advantageous than others. Giles et al. (2005) showed that the beneficial association between social networks and survival among elderly people may be restricted to relationships with friends and confidants rather than with children and relatives. In a meta-analysis of 53 prospective observational studies on older adults, marriage or support from a partner was found be a significant independent predictor of survival; the overall reduction in mortality risk was 9–15%. However, this association was statistically significant in only half of the studies (Manzoli. 2007).
    • As Rizzuto & Fratiglioni (2014) point out, one hypothesis suggests that strong social connec tions can buffer significant stress and protect against ne ative stress-related outcomes:
      "People might be protected from adopting stress-related lifestyle choices that are detrimental to health, such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and sleep loss." (Rizzuto. 2014)
      The main-effect hypothesis postulates that social support is beneficial regardless of the stress level a person is experiencing; in other words, social support can act protectively even before a stressor is experienced. For instance, persons with social support could be influenced to engage in protective be haviors such as exercise.

      Moreover, having a wide range of social ties also provides multiple sources of information that could result in more effective use of available health care and services (Cohen. 2004). No wonder, you have, after all, read only a couple of days ago that education is what protects "poor women from fattening effects of rising wealth" in the SuppVersity Facebook News (read more).
    • Stay lean and be avtive, God damnit! There is this unfortunate and die-hard myth of something scientists refer to as the obesity paradox. A term that is misrepresented by overweight journalists and doctors and misunderstood by the ever-increasing number of obese average Joes, for whom the misleading connotations of terms such as "healthy obese" are downright life-threatening. 

      And this is not an exaggeration, by the way. If you look at the 30% increase in mortality risk Whitlock et al. (2009) calculated based on a meta-analysis of data from 57 prospective studies that included almost 900,000 adults for every 5-point increase in BMI the attribute "life-threatening" is by no means an exaggeration.
    Ladies, listen up! Being underweight is unhealthier than being obese. Trying to equal the anorexic Hollywood "stars" could cost your life! It sounds drastic, but with a 47% increase in mortality risks being underweight underweight women (BMI <18.4) have a higher mortality risk than obese ones (+44% for BMI 30.0 to 34.9; see Berrington de Gonzalez. 2010)
    • Although the proportional increase was greater at younger ages (35–59 years), the corresponding increase in mortality for those in their 70s was nearly 30%, and for those in their 80s, it was still 15% - the notion that older people would benefit from being fat is thus simply hilarious.

      Whats not hilarious, though, is that a certain amount of healthy, well-distributed body fat thats complemented by a decent amount of life-extending muscle mass (20% reduction in all cause-mortality for men >55years w/ a decent amount of lean mass; see  SuppVersity Facebook News | learn more) and a corresponding BMI between 20-27 offers enough energy reserves to draw on, when youre sick and old. It is thus also not surprising that being slightly overweight (obesity starts with BMI >30) is not a risk factor for people aged ? 65 years (Heiat. 2001) and certainly better than being what scientists call "underweight", when its actually only "undermuscled" for the vast majority of elderly individuals who are affected.
    Sleep! Enough, but not too long. What you should never forget, is to stick to a regular sleep rhythm - and this means not tho short, but not to long either. While short sleepers, defined as people who get "commonly < 7 h per night, often < 5 h per night," have a 12% higher all-cause mortality than people who sleep 7-8h on a regular basis, lying around in bed too long could eventually cost you more than just your job. According to a recent meta-analysis of data from 27 independent cohort samples, sleeping "commonly > 8 or 9 h per night" is even more dangerous and will increase your risk of dying prematurely by 30% compared to a 7-8h sleeper (Cappuccio. 2010).
    • As a SuppVersity reader you know: The risk for both, being underweight and overweight can be reduced if not nullified by a high amount of daily physical activity (the 10,000 steps mantra) and working out regularly. Being moderately active, alone, for example, was found to be associated with a 3.6x higher chance of "successful [=healthy] aging" in a recent study from the University of Ibadan - for regular vigorous activity, the chance of aging healthily increased by 711% (Gureje. 2014)!
    • Miscellaneous, but worth mentioning: This is where I will list everything that popped up on my radar while doing the research, but did not really appear to make a good standalone item in the list. Things like having sex, for example. At least twice a week, to make sure that you dont increase your risk of  fatal coronary heart disease by 180%, guys (Ebrahim. 2002). And ther results Smith et al. presented 5 years before are even more promising: According to their study, each increase of 100 orgasms per year is associated with a 46% reduction in all-cause mortality risk (Smith. 1997)!
    It is obviously true that some of the things that determine healthy aging are (still) out of your reach. Most prominently, your sex! Scientists are yet struggling to explain the underlying reasons of the sex-specific "longevity bias", but contemporary research would suggest that...
    "[...]female centenarians likely exploited a healthier life-style and more favorable environmental conditions, owing to gender-specific cultural and anthropological characteristics" (Franceschi. 2000) 
    ... and do thus depend to a lesser extend on having the right mtDNA haplogroups, Thyrosine Hydroxilase, and IL-6 genes than men.

    Figure 5: Yes, genes matter, but there is more (Franceschi. 2003)
    Apropos genes, the "typically male" aka sex–dependent genetic predisposition to produce high levels of IL?6 is about as detrimental to your goal of making it past the "100+ years finish line" healthily, as being born with the nasty "?4" variety of the apolipoprotein E gene and the corresponding lifelong problems with high blood lipids and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, Alzheimers & co (Panza. 1999; Bonafè. 2001).

    Other genes that have been highlighted as factors that contribute to exceptional longevity are certain variants of the FOXO3A gene (Flachsbart. 2009), ...
    You are stronger than your genes: Thats a good thing, because it means that you can attenuate if not nullify the increased disease / obesity risk you may be born to (Kilpeläinen. 2011). For far more of us, its yet rather a bad thing, because they are deliberately throw- ing away their chance to lead a long and above all healthy life by the way they eat, dont exercise and wake all night.
    Bottom line: I guess I could list at least a dozen of additional gene of which researchers believe that they were linked to extraordinary longevity (see Sebastiani. 2010), but that would hardly be useful. It could even contradict the message of this article which is "NOT to go to 23andme.com and get tested!".
    Its a matter of fact that the most important reason people die fat and sick before their time is because they dont take responsibility for their health ...[deliberate pause] ...and trying to find the cause for your health problems in your genome is the #1 strategy to dig up an excuse that will allow you to put the blame on your parents and grand parents. And this just one day before mothers day! Shame on You! You really think someone blaming his mother deserves to live forever?
    References: 
    • Berrington de Gonzalez, Amy, et al. "Body-mass index and mortality among 1.46 million white adults." New England Journal of Medicine 363.23 (2010): 2211-2219.
    • Bonafè, Massimiliano, et al. "A gender–dependent genetic predisposition to produce high levels of IL?6 is detrimental for longevity." European journal of immunology 31.8 (2001): 2357-2361. 
    • Cohen, Sheldon. "Social relationships and health." American psychologist 59.8 (2004): 676.
    • Ebrahim, S., et al. "Sexual intercourse and risk of ischaemic stroke and coronary heart disease: the Caerphilly study." Journal of epidemiology and community health 56.2 (2002): 99-102.
    • Flachsbart, Friederike, et al. "Association of FOXO3A variation with human longevity confirmed in German centenarians." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106.8 (2009): 2700-2705.
    • Franceschi, C., et al. "Do men and women follow different trajectories to reach extreme longevity?." Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 12.2 (2000): 77-84. 
    • Franceschi, C., and M. Bonafe. "Centenarians as a model for healthy aging." Biochemical Society Transactions 31.2 (2003): 457-461. 
    • Giles, Lynne C., et al. "Effect of social networks on 10 year survival in very old Australians: the Australian longitudinal study of aging." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 59.7 (2005): 574-579. 
    • Gureje, Oye, et al. "Profile and Determinants of Successful Aging in the Ibadan Study of Ageing." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2014).
    • Heiat, Asefeh, Viola Vaccarino, and Harlan M. Krumholz. "An evidence-based assessment of federal guidelines for overweight and obesity as they apply to elderly persons." Archives of internal medicine 161.9 (2001): 1194-1203.
    • Holt-Lunstad, Julianne, Timothy B. Smith, and J. Bradley Layton. "Social relationships and mortality risk: a meta-analytic review." PLoS medicine 7.7 (2010): e1000316. 
    • Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O., et al. "Physical activity attenuates the influence of FTO variants on obesity risk: a meta-analysis of 218,166 adults and 19,268 children." PLoS medicine 8.11 (2011): e1001116.
    • Kloner, Robert A., and Shereif H. Rezkalla. "To drink or not to drink? That is the question." Circulation 116.11 (2007): 1306-1317.
    • Larkin, Marilynn. "Centenarians point the way to healthy ageing." The Lancet 353.9158 (1999): 1074.
    • Manzoli, Lamberto, et al. "Marital status and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review and meta-analysis." Social science & medicine 64.1 (2007): 77-94. 
    • Oliveira, Aldair J., et al. "The influence of social relationships on obesity: sex differences in a longitudinal study." Obesity 21.8 (2013): 1540-1547.
    • Panza, Francesco, et al. "Decreased frequency of apolipoprotein E ?4 allele from Northern to Southern Europe in Alzheimers disease patients and centenarians." Neuroscience letters 277.1 (1999): 53-56.
    • Perls, Thomas T., Margery Hutter Silver, and John F. Lauerman. Living to 100: Lessons in living to your maximum potential at any age. 1st ed. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
    • Rehm, Jürgen, et al. "Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality." Mouth 140.208 (2002): C00-C97. 
    • Rizzuto, D., and L. Fratiglioni. "Lifestyle Factors Related to Mortality and Survival: A Mini-Review." Gerontology (2014).
    • Rodriguez, Beatriz L., et al. "Fish Intake May Limit the Increase in Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Morbidity and Mortality Among Heavy Smokers The Honolulu Heart Program." Circulation 94.5 (1996): 952-956. 
    • Rogers, Richard G., and Eve Powell-Griner. "Life expectancies of cigarette smokers and nonsmokers in the United States." Social science & medicine 32.10 (1991): 1151-1159.
    • Sebastiani, Paola, et al. "Genetic signatures of exceptional longevity in humans." Science 10 (2010): 1126. 
    • Smith, George Davey, Stephen Frankel, and John Yarnell. "Sex and death: are they related? Findings from the Caerphilly cohort study." Bmj 315.7123 (1997): 1641-1644.
    • Stewart, Susan T., David M. Cutler, and Allison B. Rosen. "Forecasting the effects of obesity and smoking on US life expectancy." New England Journal of Medicine 361.23 (2009): 2252-2260.
    • Streppel, Martinette T., et al. "Long-term wine consumption is related to cardiovascular mortality and life expectancy independently of moderate alcohol intake: the Zutphen Study." Journal of epidemiology and community health 63.7 (2009): 534-540.


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    Tuesday, March 8, 2016

    It Does Matter How You Spread Your Protein Intake 30 Higher 24h Protein Synthesis with 30g Protein per Meal

    Todays SuppVersity News will provide you with "confirmation" rather than "innovation", I suppose
    With my recent article on the non-existance of protein-related osteoporosis (read more) and the short news post about the unique satiating effects of protein snacks (read more), theres been quite some protein lovin here at the SuppVersity as of late. Usually, I would try to avoid having yet another "protein article" in the same week, but for the most recent study on "Dietary Protein Distribution", I will make an exception and I bet, you wont mind! Why? Well, what about what follows the "Dietary Protein Distribution" in the title of said paper?

    "...Influences 24-h Muscle Protein Synthesis in Healthy Adults"

    By now, you may feel reminded of a recent review by Alan Aragon and Brad Schoenfeld (Aragon. 2013), the results of which (learn more) are not refuted by the results of the study at hand.
    Avoid protein wasting post workout.
    Why do I even mention the Aragon + Schoenfeld study? The reason is that I already read how people were going on about how this "stupid review" got it all wrong on Facebook. And though I know that SuppVersity readers are not as ignorant as the average gymbro (watch what I am talking about, here) I wanted to make sure that (a) this study is not about the post-workout anabolic window Aragon & Schoenfeld wrote about and that (b) the tow actually argued that spreading your protein intake across the day instead of placing it in the "anabolic window", should yield superior results.
    What the study does tell us, is simple: "The consumption of a moderate amount of protein at each meal stimulated 24-h muscle protein synthesis more effectively than skewing protein intake toward the evening meal." (Mamerow. 2014)

    In other words: Dont cram all your protein into one meal!

    I guess in view of past articles on related topics (e.g. "2x40g, 4x20g or 8x10g of Whey? Which Feeding Strategy Yields the Greatest Net Protein Retention?" | read more; or "Protein Timing Reloaded: A Reminder on the Importance of Repeated 20g Pulses for Optimal Protein Synthesis" | read more), this insight is not really going to surprise you.
    Figure 1: Fractional protein synthesis at breakfast (left), when the difference was most pronounced (+30%) and rel. calculated 24h fractional protein synthesis (right) with EVEN vs. SKEWED protein distribution (Mamerow. 2014)
    What may surprise you, though is the simple fact that this study, which was a joint venture of scienfitsts from the Division of Rehabilitation Sciences at the Department of Nutrition and Metabolism, and Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch and the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana (Mamerow. 2014) is the first study to conclusively show that spreading a relatively high protein intake (1.2g/kg body weight) across the day is superior to the large steak the average intermittent faster may be washing down with a triple protein shake in the evening.

    With an average age of 37 years the 8 healthy, normal-weight adult men and women who participated in the study at hand were neither rodents, nor elderly individuals, and - contrary to what you may expect if you look at the italicized names of the Institutions the scientists who were involved in this study are working at - they were not in need of rehabilitation after an injury - they were average Joes (n = 5) and Janes (n= 3).

    This is not about rodents, elderly people or injured athletes

    As you can see in the overview in Table 1, the subjects consumed three square meals, i.e. breakfast, lunch and dinner in the course of the 7-day study period. The previous reference to intermittent fasting is thus obsolete - eating a minimal amount of protein in the morning and at noon is after all very different from eating nothing at all. 

    Table 1: Seven-day mean energy and macronutrient intake in healthy adults consuming diets with an EVEN or SKEW protein distribution (Mamerow. 2014)
    As the scientists point out, the total 24-h protein, carbohydrate, and fat consumption in the SKEW and EVEN conditions was not different.
    "Both diets exceeded the RDA for protein [0.8 g/(kg d)] by ~50%. The SKEW diet met the RDA for protein during the evening meal alone. In all versions of the EVEN and SKEW menus used in this study, the animal-to-vegetable protein ratio was ~2:1." (Mamerow. 2014)
    By using a 7-d crossover feeding design with a 30-d washout period, the scientists were thus able to measure the influence of protein timing, on the changes in muscle protein synthesis.

    The latter was measured thrice, i.e. after each of the three meals, and used to calculate the twenty-four-hour mixed muscle protein fractional synthesis rates on days 1 and 7 after the ingestion of EVEN-ly or SKEW-edly distributed protein diets.
    "Fat Loss Principles That Work: 10g+ of EAA W/ Every Meal" | read more
    Bottom line: You have already seen the outcome of the three FSR measurement in Figure 1 and there is actually not much to add to what youre seeing there already.

    In view of the fact that I gather that youd expected a result like this, I dont feel inclined to repeat that I have been suggesting for years to consume 30g+ of quality protein ("quality" = 10g+ of EAAs per 30g serving) with every meal.

    If you stick to this simple principle, its going to help you build muscle and lose fat (see "Fat Loss Principles That Work: 10g+ of EAA W/ Every Meal" | read more).
    Reference:
    • Aragon, Alan Albert, and Brad Jon Schoenfeld. "Nutrient timing revisited: is there a post-exercise anabolic window?." Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition 10.1 (2013): 5.
    • Mamerow, Madonna M., et al. "Dietary Protein Distribution Positively Influences 24-h Muscle Protein Synthesis in Healthy Adults". J. Nutr. January 29, 2014 jn.113.185280 [ahead of print].


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