UCP1 pre-contest. Good or bad idea?

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I ordered a bottle of it, and im 4weeks away from my show. If I start it in a few days, I am still able to drink plenty of water and eat decent carbs(around 200) so is it a good idea to do the 2week cycle and then when its over I can start cutting water and pre-contest stuff or am I too near to the contest and need all the water and muscle I can handle now. Would doing the cycle be benifitial now or should I have done it earlier and its not worth it now? thanks
 

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I don't see why you couldn't do a 2 week cycle of it, but if I see another thread from you about this on here or BB.com I'm going to puke :D
 

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Hey man I just wanna make sure I know what im putting in body :)
 
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I would say take the moderate dose for 2 weeks and then cut it out along w/most of your carbs and sodium. Some people hold alot of water while on UA, others do not. Probly not the best time to expeirament w/ this stuff.
 

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Bro I'll level with you...

Your already taking T-2 the addition of UA at this point creates a combo SIMILAR to LipoK which had also sorts of negative effects on people which were blamed on the UA but Im not so sure it wasnt a combo of T2 and UA.

Maybe we have some LipoK users who can comment ( I was too young to ever use it). But honestly, just up cardio dont stack weird things with UA.
 

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I think it was the sodium usinate in the lipok. I don't think usnic acid was in lipok
 

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I havent seen any research showing major differences between UA and SU but it all comes down to the fact that its your decision.

Be safe bro.
 
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Bro I'll level with you...

Your already taking T-2 the addition of UA at this point creates a combo SIMILAR to LipoK which had also sorts of negative effects on people which were blamed on the UA but Im not so sure it wasnt a combo of T2 and UA.

Maybe we have some LipoK users who can comment ( I was too young to ever use it). But honestly, just up cardio dont stack weird things with UA.
6 people out of thousands. If I remember right all women and asian ones at that (I could be wrong on that but I don't feel like looking it up just now). And I have done both T2 and UA and at the same time. And taken LipoK. IMO he'll be fine, just keep it to two weeks.
 

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Nope, at least 2 men in SD (others, I dont wanna goto laptop)

Your thinking of DNP and cataracs.

He *SHOULD* be fine but mixing and matching chems ESPECIALLY pre-contest is never a good idea
 
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Your thinking of DNP and cataracs.
No, I am not.

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March 19, 2002
(American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine) -- A dietary supplement marketed for weight loss, LipoKinetix®, apparently caused severe liver damage to seven people in Southern California.

Three of the seven, who were all young (between ages 20 and 32) and healthy, were hospitalized; one was placed on the waiting list for a liver transplant. The liver damage developed between two weeks and three months of beginning to use LipoKinetix®. Liver function returned to normal about three months after the patients stopped taking the supplement. Four patients bought the supplement in health food stores, and two bought it from body-builder Internet sites.

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So there were six or seven depending on which report is correct, and at least one was a man, true.
 

jweave23

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I would have to agree he should be fine with T2 and UCP-1. They work basically by a different mechanism, and even though a very selct few cases were reported by Lipo-K, that is the case with many supplements, and most with considerably more negative feedback than that.
 

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And I highly doubt those 7people took the proper doses of lipok. ****, if you buy a bottle of anything containing ephedrine and take 200mg of it at once, your gonna probably have a heart attack, and if you live, the company you got the product from is out of business. Its kinda sad actually. More research should be done before they discontinue stuff.
 

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I cant believe anybody is actually siding with the fda on the pulling of lipo- K just like the banning of ephedrine it was pulled because people used it irresponsibly and the government doesnt want anything effective on the market because Doctors are such a huge business and lets face it obese people are what make drs so necesarry
 
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Tylenol taken irresponsibly can kill. It's allll about money.
 

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exactly

alchol and tobacco kill thousands a year but theyre still available
 

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