WickedWarlock
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Both have great health benefits in addition to muscle capabilities. If you wanted a product that put health/longevity first but also aided muscle growth, which would you pick….and why?
Ursolic acid vs Epicatechin for all around benefits
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LeanEngineer
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Definitely would be worth while to pick up both and try each to see how they treat you. I've always gotten great results specifically on recovery with epicatechin so me personally if I had to choose between the two I would probably go with epicatechin.
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johnny412
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are you saying to take every day?
WickedWarlock
Member
Yeah essentially
Shadowblaze
Active member
I would pick ursolic acid, I never noticed a lot from Epicatechin. But ursolic acid is great, more strength, more vascular, better pumps, some nice gains especially when stacked with creatine in my opinion. I never noticed too much from epicatechin although I should give it another try since I haven't taken it in a while.
If I were you I would get ursa gel by xtreme performance gels for ursolic acid.
Ursolic acid has so many other benefits as well, its a very potent anti inflammatory.
WickedWarlock
Member
Yeah I was leaning towards Ursa gel but maybe they could be stacked
johnny412
Well-known member
ursolic acid...every day?
Shadowblaze
Active member
I don't quite understand what you mean but yeah I take it every day.
johnny412
Well-known member
i mean is it ok to take every day? no need to cycle?
baldwanus
Well-known member
I've been on Ursa-Gel for like ~7 months at this point, past few months also added some Ursa-Bolic. Gets better the longer you run it IMO.
Shadowblaze
Active member
Yeah its safe long term, no need to cycle. You could also be on epicatechin long term aswell though.
JohnnieFreeze
Well-known member
I also prefer Ursolic acid if I had to pick one. I noticed some endurance from Epicatechin but not much else.
sns8778
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High dose Epi-Plex is probably the best thing that I've ever taken for muscular endurance. I've never dosed it higher than 900 mg; you've got me curious now.
Epicatechin + VasoFlo is excellent for endurance as well as cardiovascular and endothelial health.
sns8778
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I would be curious to see how you liked it if you try it again, especially if you go with Epi-Plex.
There are some major raw material variances with Epicatechin, and some companies do some very creative labeling where they may only contain trivial amounts of Epicatechin.
Epi-Plex contains 300 mg. of actual Epicatechin per capsule - not the herbal material before being standardized, but 300 mg. of actual Epicatechin itself + 150 mg. of VasoFlo.
Ursolic Acid is a great ingredient and I think it gets overlooked a lot, and especially the general health benefits get overlooked a lot.
sns8778
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A lot of people use Ursolic Acid long term, whether it be for the bodybuilding or healthy aging & longevity benefits.
There are a lot of studies on Ursolic Acid and various general health and longevity benefits. I touched on some of them in the Ursa-Bolic write up, but will go into a lot more detail on it in the future with some articles and in future product write ups.
The UrsoSORB Ursolic Acid Phytosome ingredient that we use in Ursa-Bolic was developed mainly for use in anti-aging and longevity products, products that will be taken year round as part of people's general health regimens.
We had the chance to be the first company to launch that ingredient in a product, and we chose to launch it in Ursa-Bolic because of how popular ursolic acid is here and in the fitness community. XPG Ursa-Gel is very popular, but there are a lot of people that won't use a topical product, so we had gotten asked a lot about an advanced absorption oral one, so we wanted to offer it. But we will be offering the same exact product under a Health Series label in the future for people that want to use it for general health purposes (as a female or non-training male may be turned away by the term natural anabolic, etc.).
The amount of anti-cancer research alone going on with Ursolic Acid is pretty impressive.
sns8778
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You're absolutely correct - both have great overall health benefits in addition to their muscle building ones.
I think it really depends on what the person is looking for in terms of additional benefits.
Epi-Plex is going to be the better option for cardiovascular health, blood flow, circulation, and endothelial health.
Ursolic Acid has more studies on a wider variety of different things than Epicatechin does, so I think it covers more bases for overall health, but it doesn't cover the bases that Epicatechin does that I mentioned above as well as Epicatechin does.
One extremely important thing with ursolic acid is going with advanced absorption types that also help address the issue of rapid elimination that is associated with regular ursolic acid. Ursa-Gel does that via topical delivery and Ursa-Bolic does it by being a true ursolic acid phytosome.
Danksta710
Active member
Ursa is amazing. It's the holiday season and many of us are off diet. Ursa allows me to not worry at all and wake up leaner each day.
Can't wait for learn more about the longevity benefits.
Can't wait for learn more about the longevity benefits.
sns8778
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You're using Ursa-Bolic, correct?
Danksta710
Active member
Correct. Started at 4 caps, moved up to 6 spaced 3x daily.
I think some people are not patient with this one. It takes time to build up in your system. It's a worthwhile investment to commit to 3mo to start. Continue from there if they enjoy the benefits.
The gains I get are from the extra calories I can eat and not get fat from.
kisaj
Legend
One of the best preworkouts I have ever used. I was never sold on the hype years ago and started to read more about the overall health benefits and went with Amentoflavone XT several months ago with nothing short of amazing results. The pumps and stamina are great.
3ChainedAminos
Active member
What dosing on the Amentoflavone?
AwakeningAlpha
Active member
I do 2 caps pwo and notice more pumps.
To stay on thread/topic I prefer the "feel' of high dose Epicatechin pre workout but have been on Ursa for the past 6 mos and find it helps me shed fat and sweat during workouts. Both topical.