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Only 1 out of a 100 people really knows what happens to fat when you diet. Sad! You probably know someone who’s an annoying smarty-pants when it comes to nutrition. Maybe it’s your hemp-wearing, matcha-pushing sister, or some know-it-all buttface on Facebook, of which there are untold thousands...

by Cy Willson In sports, athletes looking for a chemical advantage are pitted against the anti-doping agencies tasked with catching them. The use of androgens is, aside from amphetamines, one of the oldest forms of modern doping. Carbon isotope ratio analysis (GC-IRMS) was once thought to be...

Peptides are chains of amino acids joined by what chemists call amide bonds, although biologists typically call them peptide bonds instead. Large peptides are called proteins and are ubiquitous — all forms of life on Earth have proteins. The term peptide is usually though not invariably reserved...