GDA is great, having low fasted glucose levels and good insulin sensitivity is pretty much the deciding factor on weather your putting on fat or muscle. I'm a big fan of berberine and plain old cinnamon. I also believe that the bibia in thermoamp is doing work like a gda as my fasted glucose has gone down significantly over the past 3 weeks
Lol at getting upset. Nothing like that at all. I just think you are being a bit dismissive about Dr. Baar's research. I haven't seen his research so I don't know if it is really a breakthrough or not. I am waiting to see as well but I am also keeping an open mind about it. I agree with you that we are not yet at the point where we can say definitively that a certain compound is causing muscle growth by myostatin inhibition but the only way to find out is to do studies and research and then if the research shows that there is a mechanism by which it can take place then we take it to the gym and see if it pans out. Pretty much how that goes, right?
Well no, because we are at a point where we can definitely say that nothing currently available over the counter is causing muscle growth to any significant degree through myostatin inhibition, that's not even debatable. Also, on "Dr. Baar" I looked into him. He has nothing noteworthy that I can see, he has some studies on mice and I'm not seeing anything ground breaking. Looks like he's involved with a supplement company too which is a immediate red flag telling me I'm wasting my time researching him.
Didn't think/know people are running Follidrone for myostation inhibitation.
It would be interesting to know how much using GDA's make a difference, when your diet is in order and insulin sensivity on point already. I've allways thought the GDA's to not be needed, when diet and overall health is in check, but that's only based on my hunch and 'common sense', nothing else. I could very well be wrong here.
Depends on your definition of making a difference. I have a glucose monitor and if I eat a high carb meal with or without berberine there is a significant difference on how long that number stays up, that shows it doing something with those carbohydrates, it's pulling them out of the bloodstream and up taking them into the muscle to be stored as glycogen
How much carbs on one sitting do you consider a high carb meal?
I guess ones definition of high carb is good to greatly vary, but all my meals I consider high carb are over 60g of carbs. I have also tested glucose on a rediculous high carb cheat day where I was eating well over 100gm carbs per meal
I'm cutting now and don't get much over 30 g of carbs on any meal. When not cutting, my warm meals can include over 60 g of carbs. And of course I sometimes go out of any kind of sensible diet plan and eat anything and everything. Maybe Berberine or something could be of value for me too.
Yeah, I know Epicatechin (among others?) was originally (and still is) marketed with the myostatin inhibiting aspect, but from what I've gathered, people have found it having other nice qualities and I've thought people not to be using it for myostatin inhibitation, but I could be wrong. Epichaos and epicat in general is on my list to try, but for other reasons, than myostatin inhibitation. I've never thought it or anything else to do much for myostatin on a practical level. I'd be happy to give Follidrone a try as well.
See if you can get 500mg caps, maybe start with 1 at your highest carb meal. It can mess with your stomach so you kinda gotta get use to it. I actually prefer it on a bulk to maintain insulin sensitivity. When were dieting insulin sensitivity should be improving on its own, but that doesn't mean you can't use it for high carb meals and cheat meals. I know guys who use a cap with every meal.