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    Applied Nutriceuticals LITUP: LIGHT THE FUSE!!!!!!

    Congrats on the new and innovative product release. Dirk's been busy in the lab, I see.... Would love to try this, but the DAA overlaps with Beta Test, which I just started. Any recommendations on how to stack the two? Or maybe the DAA in LITUP is less than 3 g and could be started right...
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    Ecdysterone - Any fans here?

    Indeed props for trying to go the DIY route (no pun intended), but if there's only 0.7% actives, then 1 pound will only yield 3.2 mg ecdy. (Assuming the 0.7% figure is legit.) To put that into perspective, you'd need to consume about 156 pounds of maral root to get 500 mg ecdy daily. I'm...
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    Ecdysterone - Any fans here?

    E-BOL has 110 mg of rhaponticum carthamoides per serving (2 caps), and the extract is standardized to 95% Ecdysterone , so 52 mg/cap of ecdy. (That's how I calculated all the values in that list, to compare the amount of actives per cap.) Thanks for the info about the other "sterones in there...
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    Ecdysterone - Any fans here?

    Nice to see this thread. I had actually been compiling a list of ecdy supps, noting the amount of beta-ecdysterones present in each capsule (adjusted for the standardization %). I didn't include any proprietary blends where the ecdy dosage was not given. Here's the list, if anyone is...
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    Novedex XT and TCF-1

    Yea, right... nevermind the name of the product itself, with its "coincidental" similarity with Nolvadex...! I'm sure more than a few misinformed people suffered from that one after a cycle. Actually, it's a bit surprising that AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals never sued Gaspari over that one...
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    knots between shoulders

    ^^^ What he said, especially if you've had it for two years now.... If you don't have insurance, take the $50 you would have spent on a supp and pay out of pocket. So, a magnesium deficiency can lead to increased muscle cramping, but if you always have it in the same location, and for so long...
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    Novedex XT and TCF-1

    At first I didn't realize it had ATD either, since they use an alternative name for the compound. The 3, 17-keto-etiochol-triene is also known as 1,4,6-androstatrien-3,17-dione (abbreviated ATD). (Check out the Wikipedia article for ATD, which unfortunately I can't link to yet.). The ATD is...
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    Novedex XT and TCF-1

    Hey guys, just thought I'd chime in regarding whether or not Erase and Novedex are considered "natural". I know everyone has their own definition of what's natural or not, but one such standard can be what's in the WADA Prohibited List. (I'm not familiar with the NCAA rules, so I can't...
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    Looking for new alternative to Novedex

    Seems the OP disappeared a while ago, but I'm going to go ahead and bump this thread! So I finished up the SAN Estrodex about a month ago. Overall, can't say I felt a damn thing, good or bad. I doubt it had any effect whatsoever on my estrogen levels. Likely under-dosed as stxnas suspected...
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    Toco 8?

    I'm almost finished with my first tub of Toco-8, and I don't have any positive or negative side effects to report. I was hoping it might reduce the amount of shedding I've been experiencing lately, but I didn't feel my hair was any thicker or healthier unfortunately. But I think it's an...
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    the goal with DAA

    Thanks again DR.D. It seems the half-dosed DAA in Magnum could be what I'm looking for, at least for the first time trying DAA. I like experimenting with natural test supps for many reasons, one being the (mostly) non-existent side effects. So I'm more than happy to pass on the potential...
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    the goal with DAA

    Excellent thread everyone. Don't know who you are, Dr. D, but you use lots of words that have me reading Wikipedia and journal articles (ok, abstracts) for hours. I like. Got a question: has anyone tried Anabolic Xtreme's Axcite Magnum? I recently ordered a bottle on a whim--not sure if that...
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    Looking for new alternative to Novedex

    Low compared to...? I take 2 doses per day, one in the morning and one in the evening. I'm open to suggestions or alternative products with larger amounts of the actives in question. Thanks.
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    Looking for new alternative to Novedex

    I was in your shoes a while back, and I decided on SAN Estrodex as my Novedex replacement. It contains (per serving) 100 mg I3C, 120 mg urtica dioica, 300 mg calcium d-glucarate, and 10 mg reserveratrol. Seems to be working fine so far, with no loss of libido and no joint pain. But I have to...
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    Need a good joint support supplement

    This simple stack does the trick for me: 1 g glucosamine 2/day 1 g fish oil 3/day Make sure the fish oil is relatively concentrated, e.g. min 180 mg EPA and 120 mg DHA, and mostly free of heavy metals like mercury. Should also work really well stacked with cissus, but I haven't tried that...
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