Recent content by Nyrin

  1. Potassium nitrate

    The primary thing to be concerned about with KNO3 is purity -- "stump killer" and other industrial-grade blends will be mostly what you want, but you have no idea or guarantee what the rest is--and it could be very bad. "99% pure" doesn't help if it's "1% arsenic." This is why food or medical...

  2. Frankenfish Wins Approval as First Genetically Altered Animal

    There's plenty of reasons to be outraged at the business practices surrounding GMOs. There's, to date, no legitimate reason to be concerned about the health implications. Why should you have to label GMO foods separately? There are dozens of other things that are more meaningful.

  3. Best Appetite Suppressor ?

    So a nominal 8 hours of sleep with 4 hours pre-bed and 4 hours post-wake would do it? I always thought it was harder than that. Interesting.

  4. Best Appetite Suppressor ?

    I find once you get used to a couple of habits, fairly long fasts end up being pretty easy. 7-8 hours of sleep is of course a solid base. Not eating 2-3 hours before bed is a great sleep hygiene practice if you're having trouble getting to sleep (as I often do); I sleep a lot better if I don't...

  5. FDA is going after bulk caffeine

    There's nothing on the FDA press announcements about this. Does anyone have a link to the letter itself? From the description, it sounds like there's nothing binding in there at all; it looks more like a token gesture to appease the individuals (frankly, idiots) concerned about "the children" here.

  6. Are most fitness models on some type of steroid?

    There are certainly limits to what's realistically attainable in a "natural" state, but you can get pretty far with just very tightly-monitored diet and training. Genetics are going to be a factor, but rarely prove to the be the limiting factor in an individual. It takes many years to achieve...

  7. The beef protein fad

    Why do we need human studies, complete with all the unavoidable confounds, to answer basic questions like AA composition and PDCAAS? The fundamental issue that Synapsin's OP raises is that BPI extraction typically creates a collagen-like product with unfavorable composition and poor...

  8. GRAPEFRUIT JUICE AND SUPPS

    That's going to depend on the medications involved and is a question best reserved for your prescribing physician. Too much liability involved with anyone tied to any company to make a recommendation. Not all drugs are metabolized exclusively (or at all) through CYP3A4; some don't use it all...

  9. Want to up the effectiveness of any pre-workout?

    Brings a whole new meaning to "explosive squats."

  10. Want to up the effectiveness of any pre-workout?

    1-2 tsp? I'm sure that helps, but most of the studies showing the really impressive ergogenic benefits of bicarbonate use more like 1-2 tbsp. See "Sodium bicarbonate can be used as an ergogenic aid in high-intensity, competitive cycle ergometry of 1 h duration", for instance, where 300mg/kg was...

  11. Blown away by PES

    Must be tracking something different from total calories. BMR calculators put 5'11"/217lbs near 2000 calories; 1400 daily would produce consistent weight loss with a daily regimen of extra sleep and television.

  12. usp labs oxyelite protein Banana flavor?

    Thanks for confirming! I guess my earlier guess was right: Just finished that last tub of mine two days ago. Definitely tempting to get more since there's not much competition on the Banana front; if only I weren't another opened tub or two away from sleeping in the dog house :D

  13. Benefit of a Greens Powder

    I don't think the answer to your question here is very well-investigated. My take is that greens supplements would be better than no whole food vegetable intake at all, but likely nowhere near as good as even a fledgling attempt at proper dietary inclusion of the real thing. When you compare...

  14. Benefit of a Greens Powder

    Frozen produce is typically just as and often significantly more nutrient-dense than fresh produce, owing to the bagged stuff being flash-frozen much closer to proper ripeness than the "fresh," which needs to be harvested far enough in advance (weeks) to survive transport and display without...

  15. Pro jym???

    I was about to reply with my typical rant about LabDoor and their FUD around "scary artificial ingredients," but it looks like things have changed. Did they revise their scoring criteria somewhat recently? It used to be that the top 20-30 spots were all dominated by "natural" products with...
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