[quote]Fulford wrote:
The thought of onions make me sick let alone drinking it as a juice! I’m willing to give this ago though just to see for myself in a months time what kind of noticeable effects happen. Do I literally just take an onion and blend it to make the juice? I could see some very unwanted digesting issues…any thoughts?[/quote]
I don’t think the onion or juice has to be raw, just not overcooked. It depends how quick the active ingredient becomes inactive when heated. Drinking pure raw onion juice is, to me, a feat of madness.
I tried the “onion trick”, but people in the gym said I began to smell bad. So I stopped. It didn’t work as well as eating tons of cholesterol (raw eggs) en satured fat (butter) anyway. That stuff really seems to work for me. Not sure if I will life past fifty on such a diet though. 
Bill Roberts, report to the bat cave.
[quote]Sine wrote:
The site that the source info came from is very interesting.[/quote]
PS: Imo another great source for info about “muscle research” is the Hypertrophy-specific forum. Maybe a bit too technical for most, but worth the look if you are interested.
Especially the ‘Hypertrophy research’ and ‘supplements’ sections are interesting and full of usefull comments from people who know a thing or two about research.
On the question of whether onion juice gives any important increase in testosterone:
It seems to me that if it did, this would have been noticed by man well before this.
Actually it’s rather remarkable how some cultures have identified biological activity of plants where it is scarcely present at all, but this has happened again and again.
But onions have, so far as I know, never been considered to increase virility or strength in men. They are thought to be a healthful food, but it doesn’t seem that anyone has noticed anything suggesting any important increase in testosterone.
If an effect is so small as to be unnoticeable to anyone, then it can’t be too important, or may not exist at all.
Followup: Given the billions of people that have lived, it was too broad a statement to say “no one has noticed.”
I should have said that I had not encountered the claim in sources discussing effects of herbs.
It does turn out that the ancient Greeks considered onions to be an aphrodisiac, but they thought the same of lentils, garlic, leeks, and really just about anything. That was not one of those cultures that has been effective or reliable in identifying herbal effects.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
…It does turn out that the ancient Greeks considered onions to be an aphrodisiac, but they thought the same of lentils, garlic, leeks, and really just about anything.[/quote]
Maybe you can chalk it up to the fact that if you wine and dine a chick with a nice meal, (garlic, lentils, etc, then you’re more likely to get laid!
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
On the question of whether onion juice gives any important increase in testosterone:
It seems to me that if it did, this would have been noticed by man well before this.
Actually it’s rather remarkable how some cultures have identified biological activity of plants where it is scarcely present at all, but this has happened again and again.
But onions have, so far as I know, never been considered to increase virility or strength in men. They are thought to be a healthful food, but it doesn’t seem that anyone has noticed anything suggesting any important increase in testosterone.
If an effect is so small as to be unnoticeable to anyone, then it can’t be too important, or may not exist at all.[/quote]
The Buddhist (strict ones at least) do not eat onions, leek, and or garlic as these are referred to as the ‘five pungent spices’ which have an excitory effect on the individual, so the description of what that perceived effect is would be, and if it is in any way an aphrodisiac would be interesting to look into.
I saw the on anabolic minds board a guy who tried it for 21 days (which is the longest I’ve seen any body do it for) and he concluded that he might have felt something, but no noticeable effect on size, which would lead me to believe that it certainly didn’t increase his test anywhere near 300%, and also he mentioned (as did most others) that the taste is horrible(!) as I could imagine.
Are the people in this thread serious? This is a rat study. Rats do NOT equal humans. You can not make cross-species application of extremely specific data from a study like this. It would also make no sense to start overdosing on onions because of a rat study.
This is the same thing we have discussed before, lay people making HUGE LEAPS to conclusions based on poorly understood info from a study they read somewhere. I know that the media is also to blame for making it seem as if the connection is that easily made, but I am still shocked at some of the responses here.
[quote]BulletproofTiger wrote:
I saw the on anabolic minds board a guy who tried it for 21 days (which is the longest I’ve seen any body do it for) and he concluded that he might have felt something, but no noticeable effect on size, which would lead me to believe that it certainly didn’t increase his test anywhere near 300%, and also he mentioned (as did most others) that the taste is horrible(!) as I could imagine.[/quote]
I came to the same conclusion.