Vitamins & Minerals

Do you take a multimineral supplement? Maybe you should, at least every few days, considering how important minerals are to your...

Various antioxidant nutrients, such as vitamins E and C, are a typical component of bodybuilding diets. Most bodybuilders use supplements containing...

Vitamin D seems to be the shining star of the nutrient world lately, and for good reason. It’s been shown to...

Most of us have heard of Linus Pauling. He received two Nobel Prizes—one for chemistry in 1954 and the Peace Prize...

In a recent commentary appearing in Sports Nutrition Insider, Jose Antonio, Ph.D., president of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, made...

Of the essential amino acids leucine is perhaps the single most important for us exercising folk. Why? Well, as they say...

A meta-analysis of seven clinical trials reveals that taking calcium may yield a weight loss of around 1.5 kilograms per year, compared...

If any nutrient can be referred to as a “rising star,” it’s vitamin D. In the past vitamin D was most...

In your never-ending quest for packing on slabs of beef—or as we science guys call it, “lean body mass”—look to science...

Q: I’ve just gotten back into bodybuilding after taking a break—for about 25 years. Back in the day supplements were very...

The branched-chain amino acids consist of three essential amino acids: leucine, isoleucine and valine. BCAAs are often referred to as the...

If you’ve been around bodybuilding for a while, you know what cortisol is and that it can blunt or even stop...

Bodybuilding is the ultimate “show me” sport—it’s about getting huge and ripped and getting noticed. In bodybuilding one maxim holds true:...

Latest information from the United States. Department of Agriculture suggests that 55 percent of Americans don’t get enough vitamin A. Most...

Vitamin D appears to help prevent diabetes. A study showed that subjects who got more than 800 international units of vitamin...