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Classic vs. Alternative Fat Loss Tools: Ephedrine = Sign. Body Fat Red. Despite Brown Fat Burnout, Lupines Protein + Low Carb = Sign. Moderate, Yet Not Impressive Fat Loss

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The yellow seeds of the lupine plant, known as lupin beans, were once a common food of the Mediterranean basin and Latin America - almost "paleo" ;-) Not really worth their own article, but certainly too good to be ignored. That's exactly how you can desribe the latest studies from the Baker IDI Heart and  Diabetes Institute  and the  King Saud University . Two studies that deal with the management of obesity and the metabolic difference by supplemental means. In the first study by Harisa et al. a single 43-year-old man with obesity, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, hyperuricemia and mild liver dysfunctions was put on a lupid (Lupineus luteus) containing low carbohydrate diet + improved lifestyle regimen for 6 years. Learn more about the effects of your diet on your health at the SuppVersity Only Whey, Not Soy Works for Wheytloss Taste Matters - Role of the Taste Receptors Dairy Protein Satiety Shoot-Out: Casein vs. Whey How Much Carbs Before Fa...
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Bofu-Tsusho-San: Ephedrine Based Kampo Kitchen Sink Fat Burner Cuts 10kg Body Weight, Boosts Metabolism by +15% & Reduces Insulin of Diet-Resistant Woman by 50%

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Is there a Japanese  weight loss wonder supplement not even Dr. Oz knows about? And could it be more effective than Oz's raspberry ketones ? Sometimes the most inconspicuous articles turn out to be the most interesting ones. I mean, who would have guessed that a case report titled "Japanese herbal medicine for weight loss in a morbidly obese patient: A case report" would make it into the SuppVersity news? Being as heavy as tall, in this case 154.8 kg distributed not very proportional on a 157 cm frame with an 155cm waist, is - as unfortunate as that may seem - not exactly uncommon these days - even for a 22-year old woman. The words "japanese herbal medicine" and the line "her resting metabolic rate (RMR) increased from 2260 to 2440 kcal/day" (Haruta. 2013) the abstract mentions right after discussing her 10kg weight loss peaked my interest. How bad off was the subject? The subject had obviously been yoyo-dieting for years, when she was as ho...
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Science Round Up Seconds: 30-60% More Testosterone w/ 2.5g D-Aspartic Acid in Fertility Trial and Nicotine Amplifies Cardiotoxic Effects of ECA. Plus: Data on DHEA & Estrogen & Breast Cancer, Fermented Teas, AMPK, AKT & Co

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DAA is probably not going to hurt your heart, but it's more likely to father a child than to build those abs. Ephedrine & Caffeine on the other hand, could help you get there, but esp. if you are also smoking you are increasing the risk that the kids you fathered using DAA will soon be without their begetter. I guess most of all will have listened to the podcast of yesterday's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round Up already. If you didn't you have been missing Carl and me discuss new on the pro-carcinogenic effects of aspartame , the never-ending story of the fattening artificial sweeteners , the benefits of oat beta-glucans for weightloss, -maintenance and gut health, the way sorghum proanthocyanidins can lower the GI of carbohydrates and make them less susceptible to enzymatic breakdown in the small intestine, and more. Actually this more, i.e. the news on DHEA, its metabolits and their proliferative effect on breast cancer cells, as well as the info...
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Fat Burners Don't Work in the Obese!? BAT Activity Almost Zero, Even after the Ingestion of ~290mg Ephedrine!

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Do thermogenic fat burners only work if you already look like this? I mean, what would be the sure, then and why did the ECA stack work for overweight people, as well? I don't know if you have ever thought about the problems mostly involuntarily obese individuals are facing in their everyday lives!? Even if you discard the constant bullying and the subliminal messages they receive from their peers, not fitting into a regular seat in an airplane certainly is more than just an embarrassment. Now what would you say, if I told you that they are discriminated against even, when they shop at their local GNC, or whichever other supplement vendor they may be using? And I am not talking about the lean guys and girls on the labels of the supplements, here! No, I am referring to a discrimination that takes place on a more fundamental level and it happens right in front of the shelf with every overweight person's favorite supplements: The so-called fat burners! Ok, now that I got eve...
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Cold Thermogenesis - A Safe Ephedra Alternative? 70kcal Increase in 24h Energy Expenditure is Negligible, 50% Lower Than Ephedrine - Not Worth the Torture, Bro!

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Image 1 ( odditycentral ): Jin Songhao , one of China’s most seasoned icemen and not exactly as lean as you may expect based on what you currently read around the blogosphere, managed to beat the previous world record for the longest ice bath - 120min! Congrats, Jin! Ephedrine for years the go-to OTC fat burner for physique athletes and average Joe's and Jane's alike is no longer (officially) available: No matter how bold the label claims about X mg of "ephedra extract" may be - NONE(!) of the currently available "ephedra based" over-the-counter (OTC) fat-burners contains significant amounts of the active alkaloids, which made the old Mua huang based herbal ephedra products so effective. Against that background, dieters are constantly on the look-out for novel "gimmicks" to help them finally get rid of those annoying love-handles. One of those gimmicks, which has caught quite some attention as of late, is called " cold thermogenesis ...
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Ephedrine, Exercise or Diet? Ephedra Modulates Substrate Utilization, but Exercise Melts Body Fat & Builds Muscle

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Image 1: Twinlabs' made a fortune on their line of ephedra containing fat burners. For many people ephedrine, the "E" in the infamous ECA stacks and the alkaloid from the mua huang on which Twinlab and co. made a fortune in the late 1990s, was the first and only truly working fat-burner on the supplement market. "Legendary", "unique", "unparalleled", these are the attributes by which they like to refer to their old-school fat burner. What's missing from most of these stories, though, are the hardships, the hours of intense training and weeks of radical dieting that may have become more bearable, yet by no means obsolete with the use of respective products. A 2012 look at diet, exercise and ephedrine In a soon to be published paper, Nikki Sclotum and her colleagues from GlaxoSmithKline , the North Caroline State University and the Purdue University report on the results of an experimental comparison of ephedrine, diet and ex...
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Ephedra is Back! 'Mahabala', Featuring PEA, Ephedrine, Choline, Betaine & More, Is Nature's Hypolipidemic, Anti-Diabetic and Cardioprotective Fat Burning Stack

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Image 1: Sida rhomboidea leafs contain ephedrine and other fat loss related alkaloids (Tan Hoard Exports) If you are a supplement producer, I suppose you will soon drop me an email to get the phone number of Ranjitsinh V. Devkar from the Division of Phytothrapeutics and Metabolic Endocrinology at the Department of Zoology of the M. S. University of Baroda in Gujarat, India. And, I must admit, if I had not always believed that "Nature knows best!" , I would probably have been similarly surprised as some of you will have been, when they read the title of this blogpost - the 'ingredient profile' of Sida rhomboidea ( also Sida rhombifolia ), or  "Mahabala" , a weed that is found in marshy places all across India and that has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for centuries to treat fever, heart disease, ever, heart diseases, burning sensations, urinary disorders, piles and all kinds of inflammation, looks like it had been printed on a non-FDA-approved ...
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Ephedrine: New Study Confirms Metabolic Effects of Forbidden "Weight Loss"-Drug

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Its August 2010, years after Ephedra has been banned from the supplement marked, the words "ephedrine" and "ECA" can still be heard, whenever people chat about weight loss supplements. A new study by Napolitano et al. ( Napolitano. 2010 ) may explain why this is the case. Stated simply: Ephedrine works! But its effects on the basal metabolic rate is much less pronounced than some nostalgics would have it. Figure 1: Mean differences and standard deviations of differences between measures of fat, carbohydrate, and protein oxidation, made overnight and over 23 hours, and repeated after a 24-hour or 14-day interval. Untreated (placebo) subjects, n = 6. ( While the overall difference in energy expenditure appears negligible (+45.55kcal on the first day; +32.48kcal on day 14), it is interesting that there is a shift in substrate metabolism from carbohydrates to fatty acids within the 24 hour window after 3x15mg/day ephedrine administration. The net effect of eph...
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