Tue, Aug-24-04, 21:50
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Plan: Metabolic Surge
Stats: 170/139/?
BF:
Progress: 100%
Location: Canada's Wet Coast
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Originally Posted by chisa
i have read that these things aren't good from cycling forums.
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We read a lot of things all over the place.
I've read that Atkins makes your brain die.
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Originally Posted by chisa
apparently you get the shakes and men can sometimes ......umm ......dimish while on it if you know what i'm saying. the only one that does work is the asprin, ephedrine, caffine stack but now many don't contain the ephedrine as i think it's illegal in the US. how they work apparently is that the ephedrine - which is properly a bronchial assisatant - and the caffine speed up body functions and the asprin helps the dose to be absorbed and delivered better.
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Ephedrine HCL is legal in the US as a decongestant.
Ephedra is an herb which contains Ephedrine in varying concentrations. Interestingly, Ephedrine is also in a plant called Mormon Tea - Mormon's are forbidden to drink coffee or tea, but I understand that they CAN drink tea made from this herb.
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Originally Posted by chisa
further to what i said ephedra and ephedrine are essentially the same thing as is a chinese herb called ma huang. i think ephedrine is the drug company style name. i believe these stacks are popular with bodybuilders during the "cutting" stage where the seek to lose as much body fat as possible. i personally wouldn't touch them.
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Ma Huang is indeed the Chinese name for the plant Ephedra.
I don't trust herbal sources of drugs - not enough standardization for my taste.
But I love my EC stack. I've taken it off and on for years, and had no problems whatsoever. It actually helps drop your cholesterol, in addition to being a thermogen.
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