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Cathine (Alvalin®) a Legitimate 'New Ephedra'? 9.1kg vs. 2.4 kg Weight Lost, 165% Greater Waist Reduction in Humans

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You don't have to switch to eating pills, only. Don't worry. What you will still have to do, though, is to (a) clean up your diet, (b) stop eating everything in sight, and (c) achieve a caloric deficit. With its ability to reduce hunger and appetite, cathine may yet help you make that happen.  Let's be honest: ever since the classic ECA stacks have been banned from the market, there are neither over-the-counter, nor prescription weight loss supplements/drugs that work. Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (Germany | Hauner 2017) believe they can change that. Not by inventing a revolutionary new compound, but  by digging out a cousin of ... you guessed it: the good old ephedrine. Cathine is the name of the agent that was originally launched in the 1970s for the short-term treatment of diet-related obesity. Cathine is an alkaloid originally isolated from khat leaves grown in East Africa and the Arab peninsula and is a stable metabolite of cathinone, which ...
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Buying, Roasting, Grinding, Brewing: Coffee 101 -- How to Do it to Get the Optimal Stimulant and/or Health Effects

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Don't worry you don't need a $10,000 machine to brew a better coffee. Yeah, I know this is not the first article you've read to tell you how to brew the optimal coffee , I am pretty sure, however, that it's the first to define optimal  by different, objectively measurable criteria such as the caffeine content, the amount of healthy chlorogenic acid in the brew, or the effect on blood lipids... sounds interesting? Well, let's take a look at the not exactly all-encompassing data I came up with after dozens of hours I spend on Google Scholar and PubMed... what? Well, ok, maybe it were not so many dozens, after all ;-) You can learn more about coffee and caffeine at the SuppVersity For Caffeine, Timing Matters! 45 Min or More? Caffeine Helps When Taken Intra-Workout, too Coffee can Help You Get into Ketosis Post-Workout Coffee Helps With DOMS The Coffee³ Ad- vantage: Fat loss, Appetite & Mood Quantifying the Benefits of Caffeine on Ex. ...
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Coffee Never Disappoints: Myth that Habitual Consumption Reduces Caffeine's Acute Ergogenic Effects... Dispelled!?

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I must remind you, though, that performance benefits in one domain don't always transfer to another one. In other words: While the study seems to dispell the myth for classic endurance training, effects on activities where CNS activity is more important, like lifting, for example, may still be impaired w/ habitual intake. I guess even I have to confess that I may have propagated the myth that habitual caffeine consumers would not benefit to the same extent from pre-workout caffeine supplementation as caffeine naive individuals. What I know for a fact, though, is that I also mentioned in previous caffeine/coffee articles that the "jitters" caffeine-naive individuals may experience could ruin all the benefits of the often-heard of extra effect on the central nervous system (CNS). As de Souza Gonçalves et al. (2017) point out in their recent study, previous experimental efforts to determine "the relationship between habitual intake of caffeine and the effect of ca...
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DMAA / OxyElitePro - The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly - More Powerful (+180% Perf.) Than You'd Think, but ...

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Back in the day, when the original Oxy-ELITE Pro was pulled from the market, people paid crazy amounts of money for the bottles that were left on Ebay - a big mistake! Not because it would fry your liver, but rather because it's ' stim ' effects will - just as those of other DMAA products - turn against you, w/ chronic use.  You may (rightly) be asking yourselves, why I am addressing an (albeit famous) supplement that is no longer on the market in 2016 blog post. Well, the answer is simple. I still see people whining about how "awesome" this product was all over the web. People who wish that DMAA and OxyElitePro would come back and people who would be willing to spend at least 5x the original price for the few (long expired) bottles that appear to be traded on the black market. It's those people I want to advice: Even if you ascribe the liver damage as the result of stupid overdosing and acknowledge that other products appear to be far worse (García-Cort...
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