19x Increase in Growth Hormone 60min After Ingestion of 1g of Glycerophosphocholine (GPC) in Young Male Subjects
Image 1: Don't worry one thing is sure - GPC won't give you a gut like that ;-) A couple of days ago, I have written about the exorbitant choline consumption of some of bodybuilding legends, Randy Roach writes about in his Muscle Smoke & Mirrors Vol. II and to be honest, I was quite surprised that among the many responses I got, none broached the issue of the latest and greatest supplemental choline spin-off: Glycerophosphocholine, or short GPC - a supposedly superior, because fat-bound (hence "glycero" as in "glycerol) and highly bioavailable bean-derived form of choline. Whatever the reasons may be, I suppose you still won't mind to hear that a recent experiment that was conducted at the Faculty of Sport and Health Science of Ritsumeikan University in Shiga, Japan, yielded quite interesting results with respect to the endocrine and metabolic short-term effects of 1,000mg of GPC in 8 healthy male (25+/1y) subjects (Kawamura. 2012). 19x more gr...