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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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Amino Acids for Super Humans, Part IV - Purported Ergogenics (3/3): Glutamine, the Anabolic Immune Booster?

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Image 1: Still one of the top- sellers in almost all supplement shops - l-glutamine ; tip : buying bulk powder will save money Although glutamine is one of the non-essential amino acids , even the fact that your body continuously 'sacrifices' truly essential amino acids to synthesize glutamine in your muscle tissue, should go to tell you that, after all, glutamine, the most abundant amino acid in human muscle and plasma , cannot be so non-essential as its classification would suggest. Under normal conditions it forms 50% of the whole body amino acid pool. In cells, esp. muscles, where glutamine makes up 66% of the amino acid pool. Within the cellular space, the purported cell-volumizer can reach concentrations that are up to 33 times higher than on the outside of the cell. In times of acute stress, severe burns or surgical trauma, on the other hand, tissue glutamine levels have been observed to decline by up to -50% - ...
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Electrical Stimulation Improves Clearance of Lactic Acid After Anaerobic Activity in Collegiate Athletes. EMS Turns Out to Be as Effective as 'Traditional' Massage Therapy.

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Image 1: The EU-940 EMS device the scientists used in their study to activate the vastus medialis and lateralis (high- lighted in the image) of their subjects, is very different from the average EMS based "abdominal toner" advertised on TV. Even here, at the SuppVersity, news on ergogenics, i.e. things that improve (athletic) performance, are usually about a pill, a fancy plant extract or another 'superfood' . Today's news, however is about a much more "physical" means to improve anaerobic exercise performance, decrease lactate accumulation and improve regeneration: Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS). EMS? Now, many of you will probably remember those TV spots, where you were told that "Abmaster" & Co would transform your pot-belly into a "six-packed" attractant for the opposite sex , if you did not miss this "unique" opportunity and bought one of those electro-shockers no ...
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AICAR & Liraglutide - Exercise & Weight Loss From The Syringe. 50% Body Fat Reduction in 8 Weeks! Is the Pharmacological Obesity Solution Already Out There?

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Image 1: "Diabetesity" is prevalent almost every- where in the USA (CDC data from 2007) What if I told you that the magic anti-obesity bullet, everybody is looking for these days is already out there? How much would you be inclined to pay for me to tell you this secret? Well, here you have it for free: Exercise & insulin management. Now, before you get mad at me, because you are to lazy to go through the lifestyle changes, which are usually necessary to achieve this aims, I better tell you that articles in the current issues of the Journal of Lipid Research and the Journal of Clinical Therapeutics suggest that a pharmacological short-cut is already out there ... Coming from scientists from the Universities College of Pharmacy and Health in Atlanta and the School of Pharmacy and Health Performance at the University of Atlanta is a review ( Ryan. 2011 ) of the therapeutic use(-fulness) of Liraglutide, a subcutaneously ...
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SuppVersity EMG Series - Latissimus, Trapezius & More: The Very Best Exercises for Back Width & Thickness

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Image 1: The major muscle groups of the back - trapezius (red) and latissimus dorsi (green) In this issue of the SuppVersity EMG Series, we are going to tackle three instead of one muscle groups, ... the trapezius (image 1, red) and the rhomboidei (image 1, blue), of which the former, i.e. the " traps ", which covers the rhomboids that connect the scapula with the vertebrae of the spinal column, is often erroneously associated with the musculature of the neck; in effect, the m. trapezius extends longitudinally from the occipital bone to the lower thoracic vertebrae and laterally to the spine of the scapula and is thus responsible for what pro-bodybuilders often refer to as back thickness and ... the latissimus dorsi (image 1, green), which literally is the 'broadest muscle of the back' and thus responsible for back width . The reasons we will be addressing back width and thickness in a single issue are twofold: Firstly, you need to train al...
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