Issue #69 (July 2020)

• Deep Dive: The diet dilemma—should you follow your heart?
  A new meta-analysis suggests that the best diets for weight loss and cardiovascular health are those you can stick with.
• Deep Dive: Exercise and Acute Respiratory Infections
  Aerobic exercise may reduce the impact of short-term respiratory infections, but better evidence is needed.
• NERD News: Curtailing COVID-19’s gains at the gym
  News out of Norway lightly suggests that taking some precautions can help gymgoers can work out safely. But there are also several reasons to interpret this study cautiously.
• Deep Dive: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet and Blood Pressure
  The DASH diet lowers blood pressure to roughly the same extent regardless of your baseline pressure. And every little bit helps.
• Adding protein to carbohydrates for better endurance performance
  Supplementing protein and carbs boosts endurance more than carbs alone, but it may just come down to calories.
• Shedding weight and fat with L-carnitine: fact or fiction?
  L-carnitine supplementation seems to shed weight, but the effect size also slims down when examining only high-quality studies.
• Interview: Ray Dorsey, MD Open Access
  Neurologist and author Ray Dorsey gives some tips regarding what can be done to reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease.
• Use it or lose it — high protein or not!
  High protein supplementation didn't help maintain muscle after three days of immobility. But "high protein" is a relative term...

Researchers

Wyatt Brown; Dylan T. Dahlquist, MSc, CSCS; Antonis Damianou, MSc; Brad Dieter, PhD; Rachel Hathcock, BSN, RN, CCRA; Nick Milazzo, MS(c); Katherine Pett, MS, RDN; Zad Rafi, BA; Brandon Roberts PhD, MS, CSCS; Lucas Roldos Saibene, BSc, MSc(c); Jill Ryer-Powder, PhD; Lucas Tafur, PhD

Editors

Gregory Lopez, MA, Pharm.D.

Reviewers

Stephan Guyenet, PhD & Adel Moussa, PhD

Copy Editor

Dmitri Barvinok

Infographics

Antonius Khengdro & Calla Lee