Why specify garlic?
I mix a teaspoon of creatine monohydrate into a small glass of orange juice and smash it back before I jump on the commute to work. That's the only supplement I'm using, and that's because I've found it's helping reduce recovery times.
Why specify garlic?
I mix a teaspoon of creatine monohydrate into a small glass of orange juice and smash it back before I jump on the commute to work. That's the only supplement I'm using, and that's because I've found it's helping reduce recovery times.
I used to be on no-xplode 30 min before a workout with a protein shake or steak 10 minutes after lifting, but it's a fair pointless and expensive routine, so I stopped and invested in the mono. Best decision ever.
I also used to take Vit B, multivitamins, all that crap. But I keep hearing from people that it isn't doing me any good, so I stopped.
I smash 2 vita c tablets a day if I'm sick though.
Background:
It has been suggested that omega 3 (W3, n-3 or omega-3) fats from oily fish and plants are beneficial to health.
Objectives:
To assess whether dietary or supplemental omega 3 fatty acids alter total mortality, cardiovascular events or cancers using both RCT and cohort studies.
Search strategy:
Five databases including CENTRAL, MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched to February 2002. No language restrictions were applied. Bibliographies were checked and authors contacted.
Selection criteria:
RCTs were included where omega 3 intake or advice was randomly allocated and unconfounded, and study duration was at least six months. Cohorts were included where a cohort was followed up for at least six months and omega 3 intake estimated.
Data collection and analysis:
Studies were assessed for inclusion, data extracted and quality assessed independently in duplicate. Random effects meta-analysis was performed separately for RCT and cohort data.
Main results:
Forty eight randomised controlled trials (36,913 participants) and 41 cohort analyses were included. Pooled trial results did not show a reduction in the risk of total mortality or combined cardiovascular events in those taking additional omega 3 fats (with significant statistical heterogeneity). Sensitivity analysis, retaining only studies at low risk of bias, reduced heterogeneity and again suggested no significant effect of omega 3 fats.
Restricting analysis to trials increasing fish-based omega 3 fats, or those increasing short chain omega 3s, did not suggest significant effects on mortality or cardiovascular events in either group. Subgroup analysis by dietary advice or supplementation, baseline risk of CVD or omega 3 dose suggested no clear effects of these factors on primary outcomes.
Neither RCTs nor cohorts suggested increased relative risk of cancers with higher omega 3 intake but estimates were imprecise so a clinically important effect could not be excluded.
Authors' conclusions:
It is not clear that dietary or supplemental omega 3 fats alter total mortality, combined cardiovascular events or cancers in people with, or at high risk of, cardiovascular disease or in the general population. There is no evidence we should advise people to stop taking rich sources of omega 3 fats, but further high quality trials are needed to confirm suggestions of a protective effect of omega 3 fats on cardiovascular health.
There is no clear evidence that omega 3 fats differ in effectiveness according to fish or plant sources, dietary or supplemental sources, dose or presence of placebo.
Hey Bazza,
Interesting cochrane review, to say the least. It would be good to have the full text to get a better idea of review methods etc but hey we gotta work with what we got.
WPI.
I do have Jack3d as well, but really it was an impulse buy and I rarely use it. In my training log, I am taking detailed notes so I am kind of doing my own research on whether it effects my sessions at all.
Oh ok I must be frigging blind, I didn't notice of the link. Hmm I'll read it sometime.....next yearIt is interesting
There is a full text PDF in the link. 192 pages worth. Fuck that. Lol.
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