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Adelfo Cerame - Road to The Wheelchair Nationals '12: Starting Off With a Shocker - A Five Day Famine to "Detoxify" and Prime Your Body to Grow

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Image 1: Adelfo at the '09 Wheelchair Nationals - not only without a bruised biceps, but also in better shape than some pro-bodybuilders ;-) It's Thursday and you know what that means: Adelfo Cerame Jr. is back at the SuppVersity for one of his "seminars" ;-) Well, I guess if this was a real University, I'd invite invite him as a guest speaker to one of our colloquiums and would announce today's lecture as a lesson on how the pros learn from other pros - or, in other words, how above all bodybuilding veterans have to constantly expand their arsenal of proven dietary and training strategies , if they want to stay on top of everyone's game. As you will see, for Adelfo, this turned out to be quite a detoxifying experience... Back for good - so let's get started! It's a strange feeling, on the one hand, I know that the weeks to come are gonna be tough. You cannot take your contest prep lightly, if you really want to win. On the other han...
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NAC + Zinc + Selen = Silver Bullett Against Mercury Poisoning

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Mercury certainly is among the most dangerous and, at the same time, most ubiquitous heavy metals, we are exposed to. In a recent article (thanks to Dominique for raising my awareness of its publication) strength coach Charles Poliquin references a 2010 study from Michigan State ( Wirth. 2010 ) : Looking at several well-designed studies, they determined that even low exposures from cadmium, lead and mercury had an impact on semen quality and reproductive hormone levels in men. As far as solutions to this problem are concerned, Polliquin refers somewhat dubiously to "a specific herbal combination" of "andrographis paniculata, zinc citrate, humulus lupulus, and curcuma longa" without providing scientific evidence for why he thinks this specific formula would work (guess what, Charles sells it ;-). Chances would have it, though, that Joshi et al., in a very recent study ( Joshi. 2011 , still ahead of print) report the beneficial effects of another, from my perspe...
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Absurd: Will Supplemental Zinc Gluconate Deplete Your Zinc Levels?

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Normally, I restrict myself to very recent studies, but the results of this 2007 ( Tompkins. 2007 ) study on the bioavailability of zinc-enriched yeast and zinc gluconate in healthy volunteers that recently resurfaced on the Mind&Muscle boards , is too counter-intuitive and, if not scientifically flawed, important not to make it into the news. In the study, which used a randomized, two-way crossover design, the volunteers were randomly assigned in groups of three to consume a single dose of either 20 mg of total Zn in the form of Zn gluconate or Zn yeast with 150 ml of water , after that urine, blood, and fecal samples were collected and analyzed over a 48-h period. The results were surprising, while " Zinc gluconate gave higher Zn concentrations in the blood in the first 6 h " it did not only show greater loss in the feces, but ... the net Zn balance after 48 h for Zn yeast was 9.46 but for Zn gluconate it was -2.00, indicating that Zn glucona...
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