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The Overfeeding Overview: High Fat, Carb, Protein, MCTs, Leptin, Testosterone, T3 & Reverse T3 - Get an Overview of the Consequences of Short- & Long-Term Overfeeding

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High fat + high carbohydrate foods like mini doughnuts are exactly what you should not eat on a refeed day, let alone during weeks of bulking. Do you want to know what happens during days and weeks of gluttony? How the effects "bulking" will have on your body weight and composition, depending on where those extra calories come from? Have you wondered what the optimal nutrient composition on refeed days may look like? And are you concerned about the potential the health consequences of bulking? Yes? In this case, I would suggest you take a closer look at the following overview of the research. An overview that is probably not complete, but it should suffice to provide preliminary answers to the aforementioned questions. 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 Protein Satiety Shoot-Out: Casein vs. Whey How many Carbs Before Fat is Unhea...

Carnitine Loading Revisited: 3g Carnitine per Day Ward Off Vitargo Induced Fat Gain by Increasing Fatty Acid Oxidation and Total Energy Expenditure in 12 Week Human Study

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Figure 1: With highly bioavailable carnitine in meat it is 100% paleo (unlike coke, obviously ;-) I am not sure, whether its ten, twenty or maybe two-hundred ;-) years ago that the first carnitine supplement was introduced to the sport supplement market (from a paleo perspective it has always been there - in the form of meat!); and honestly I am too lazy to google it up. What I do know, however is that carnitine has been around ever since I first started working out. Incidentally, the same can be said about the debate whether or not supplementing with one or another form of this endogenously synthesized amino acid (your body can make carnitine from the amino acids lysine and methionine) would actually or just theoretically be beneficial for the average trainee. Years have passed and I still hesitate, whenever someone asks me whether or not I'd recommend trying this or that form of l-carnitine to increase his or her performance. After years of being inclined to answer: "V...
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