We have been hearing for years now that the be-all, end-all nutritional supplement has been fish oil and essential fatty acids. No, they have not come under disfavor, but some people like Charles Poloquin believe the “sunshine vitamin”, Vitamin D3 has more upside benefit than even fish oils. (It should be noted that D3 is far superior than the the synthetic D2 version). Poliquin asserts,

“Vitamin D3 may be the single most important supplement we can take for our health.”

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I am please to present a guest posting from my friend, Ori Hofmekler.

The Skinny On Meal Frequency Studies-by Ori Hofmekler

Forced feeding, fixed calories, false indications

Recent studies on the impact of meal frequency on middle aged men and women
raise serious questions to their relevant real life conditions. The studies
were conducted by Dr. Mark Mattson, a pioneer researcher in the area of human
feeding, is known for his ground breaking studies on intermittent fasting. Dr.
Mark Mattson and myself have been corresponding regarding the benefits of the
one main meal per day approach, and about a year ago he shared with me over the
phone some information regarding the studies of which results we’ve published
recently. To avoid falsely driven conclusions, let’s examine the facts behind
these studies and clarify some key points:

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Recently, in Recover and Get Stronger With ZMA, we went over the benefits of zinc magnesium aspartate (ZMA)  as a nighttime aid to recovery after very strenuous workouts.

Two studies have just been posted on the ISSN forums refuting the claims of serum testosterone increase while using ZMA.  The abstracts follow and you can decide for yourself if ZMA is something you want to use in your recovery arsenal. (Anecdotally, I sleep deeper when take it and wake up refreshed). I probably will continue to take it on my heaviest lifting days.

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Not too long ago, MFBB happily wrote on the benefits of using chocolate milk as an optimal sports recovery drink and I have been enjoying mine since.

But it seems there has been controversy raging on internet forums, especially over at T-Nation as to what the ideal post-workout  recovery drink is. Lyle McDonald has written about the benefits of milk as a recovery beverage in “Milk: The New Sports Drink? A Review”.

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