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Jaime Filer
Jaime Filer graduated with a kinesiology degree from York University, where she was a varsity athlete. She’s also a former competitive bodybuilder who competed in drug-tested events throughout North America. If something new is trending in fitness, chances are Jaime’s already tried it!
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Red Bull gives you wings and takes away pain
Red Bull is one of the most popular performance enhancing/energy-inducing drinks currently on the market. Everyone talks about its caffeine content, but 100 millilitres of Red Bull (which is a little less than half a can) also has 400 milligrams of taurine, an acid that makes cells absorb more adrenalin and noradrenalin—your “fight or flight” hormones (the ones which enable a mother to lift a bus if it’s on top of her child). As a test of pain tolerance, researchers got students to put their hands in a bowl of ice-cold water, and have them say when they started experiencing pain. Then they had to do it again after drinking a can of Red Bull. Concurrent with the researchers’ hypothesis, students were able to tolerate the pain three times as long after consuming the beverage.
Melatonin can protect your brain from aging
Melatonin is a hormone that helps induce fatigue and prepare you for nighttime, but it doubles as an antioxidant that can protect the cells in your body from damage. Scientists in Spain decided to experiment on mice, giving them either a placebo or melatonin right at birth. At the 10-month mark for both the placebo and melatonin groups, the mitochondria (which are important in the aging process, as they are the energy generators of cells) of the mice were measured. In the placebo group, the mice’s production of antioxidants declined and there was more fat in their mitochondria. None of this happened in the melatonin group. The conclusion was that supplementing with melatonin can be beneficial to protect the brain against the again process.
Ephedrine increases arousal in women
Ephedrine, a supplement we all know and love for its fat-burning effects, is now being examined as a arousal-enhancement supplement for women. Ephedrine works by imitating the effect of adrenalin, and researchers wanted to know the effect of adrenalin and noradrenalin on women’s sexuality. So they gave twenty women a 50 milligram dose of ephedrine sulphate. The women did experience a physiological response, and researchers surmised that “ephedrine increases physiological sexual responding in sexually functional women by providing a boost to already increasing levels of sexual arousal.”
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