Why is 40 grams of protein bad for your kidneys? Thats just silly. Now for your wallet , yes I agree that is very expensive unless it had steriod like results.
[quote]Miserere wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
On Salt–well, ultimately he’s right, sea salt w/ minerals or kosher salt tend to be better than table salt, but his science is off a bit.
Chef Lisa Marie went into detail on the differences between salt types on her “recipes with photos” thread. There’s really no appreciable difference between table salt and kosher salt or sea salt except the addition of minerals.
They are all still NaCl crystals. The different cultivation/processsing makes the crystals smaller in ordinary table salt, but not a whole lot else. Or I could be wrong.
I would say that those minerals make a huge difference, wouldn’t you?[/quote]
This is actually what I had written about salt-
"All culinary salts are derived by evaporation. Table salt is made by driving water into a salt deposit (in a mine). This process forms a brine which is then evaporated leaving dried “cube-like crystals that look like granulated sugar”. The salt is then refined.
Kosher salt is made in a similar fashion except the brine is raked continually during the evaporation process. The resulting product has a light and flaky texture.
Sea salt is produced by evaporating sea water. All salts are nutritionally the same. Sea salt has trace amounts of minerals not found in mined salt."
~I believe those minerals found in sea salt are what Mr. Charles Poliquin was refering to in his article. They obviously do make the difference and I would defer to him as I am just a chef and was only thinking of the salt from a cooking point of view not a nutritional point of view.
Looks like I’ll have to trade in my Kosher Salt for some Sea Salts in the future.
I must say there are some delicious sea salts out there.
[quote]BGB wrote:
I wonder about the plastics theory - Does drinking out of those non-recyclable containers that you buyin sports stores for a long time have an effect?
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It should not be a problem.
I admire Poliquin as much as anyone. But, seriously, you people are flipping out because he says you are walking plastic bottles? If the guy starts talking about chakras are you going to rearrange your furniture, too?
[quote]Fulmen wrote:
FINALLY someone agrees with me about stress and how your body adapts to it. Maybe we’ll have less pussies now.[/quote]
So you feel better now that there are two of you? Seriously, tone down the ego of “If you don’t lift f-ing insane you are a pussy” because it’s just plain dumb.
I really like Poliquin’s stuff a lot - best bulk I ever had was using AGVT and I think he makes some cool points a lot of other people don’t… but lifting until you are depressed? To me, that’s basically saying lifting is your life and everything else is secondary.
Hey, who cares if your co-workers or significant other or kids wonder why you are a mopey mess! You are getting HYOOGE!
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
I admire Poliquin as much as anyone. But, seriously, you people are flipping out because he says you are walking plastic bottles? If the guy starts talking about chakras are you going to rearrange your furniture, too?[/quote]
Brilliant! I rather enjoy reading things by Poliquin and picking through the various ideas he espouses. I was actually wondering how long it will be before he tells us to arrange our training areas in accordance with the principles of Feng-Shui.
So is anyone going to try supplementing with molybdenum?
Actually if you look the plastics things up there is a lot of studies on it. It legit. But some types of recycled plastic are supposed to be safe (#2 and #4).
[quote]Miserere wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
On Salt–well, ultimately he’s right, sea salt w/ minerals or kosher salt tend to be better than table salt, but his science is off a bit.
Chef Lisa Marie went into detail on the differences between salt types on her “recipes with photos” thread. There’s really no appreciable difference between table salt and kosher salt or sea salt except the addition of minerals.
They are all still NaCl crystals. The different cultivation/processsing makes the crystals smaller in ordinary table salt, but not a whole lot else. Or I could be wrong.
I would say that those minerals make a huge difference, wouldn’t you?[/quote]
Of course. As I said above, I think he’s ultimately right. However, it seemed to me that in the article he was drawing a parallel between table salt and processed foods like white bread, etc. This is not accurate IMO. Could be wrong though, it was late when I read it.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
The whole controlled overtraining thing is going to have me thinking. Very intriguing.[/quote]
absolutely. It’s very, very profitable when you do it right. But when you get it wrong it can seriously delay progress. Personally, a 20% drop off for me is extreme, I like less (10% or so), but I have used extreme drop offs with success. More rest before testing though. It is a big balancing act.
ICE by Xtreme formulations or buy EAA powder in bulk…shop around for the best price
[quote]squatdude wrote:
Regarding your BCAA recommendations, at the dosages you are talking about, a bottle of Biotest BCAA would last me about six workouts. That seems a tad on the spendy side for my budget.
Do you have any recommendations for someone with not quite so much money to spend?[/quote]
I think it’s not very important to be worried about eating processed salt. At least if one eats piles of extremely processed supplements like protein powders, androgen boosters, creatine, ZMAs and BCAAs (the two latter are recommended by Poliquin).
Instead you should focus on the total amount of sodium you get in your system in a day and compare it to your blood pressure and maybe to the level of your physical activity, since sweating during exercise removes sodium from your body. After all coronary disease and kidney failure caused by hypertension are bad for your hypertrophy goals.
If you think about chemistry of the plastic materials you’ll find that the are non-polar substances. That roughly means that instead of dissolving in water they’ll dissolve in fats. Keeping this in mind I think it’s a good idea to avoid consuming fatty foods from plastic containers (and especially avoid heating them since usually solubility increases when the temperature is increased). Sorry about the typos, I’m not that good at writing english.
[quote]OMC wrote:
ICE by Xtreme formulations or buy EAA powder in bulk…shop around for the best price
squatdude wrote:
Regarding your BCAA recommendations, at the dosages you are talking about, a bottle of Biotest BCAA would last me about six workouts. That seems a tad on the spendy side for my budget.
Do you have any recommendations for someone with not quite so much money to spend?
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Agreed. As far as I know, besides bulk powder which is unflavored (and cheap) there is ICE and Xtend by Scivation. You can get ICE dirt cheap on bb.com. I use it during each workout, it lasts a while too.
I would save the BCAA tabs for the 5x5 thing CT talks about.
Surge already has 11.25 grams of BCAA’s per serving.
Double up on Surge, add in a few grams of extra BCAA’s if you want, but anything more is overkill for most people.
[quote]IamMarqaos wrote:
ha!
Funny. OK, I’ll bite:
Type IIa fibres are very infrequently found in humans so no need to worry.
Marc[/quote]
huh?, research shows a conversion of type IIb fibers to IIa with resistence training and during detraining convert back to type IIb
[quote]KingLeonidas wrote:
Surge already has 11.25 grams of BCAA’s per serving.
Double up on Surge, add in a few grams of extra BCAA’s if you want, but anything more is overkill for most people.[/quote]
Wrong.
It doesn’t work that way and that is not that mechanism in which he recomends them.
HE takes high doses of BCAAs because its the only possible combination that will increase both INSULIN and GH.
added to Surge will only increase INSULIN.!!!1
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
I admire Poliquin as much as anyone. But, seriously, you people are flipping out because he says you are walking plastic bottles? If the guy starts talking about chakras are you going to rearrange your furniture, too?[/quote]
Yes, yes I will.
[quote]Kill’Em All wrote:
KingLeonidas wrote:
Surge already has 11.25 grams of BCAA’s per serving.
Double up on Surge, add in a few grams of extra BCAA’s if you want, but anything more is overkill for most people.
Wrong.
It doesn’t work that way and that is not that mechanism in which he recomends them.
HE takes high doses of BCAAs because its the only possible combination that will increase both INSULIN and GH.
added to Surge will only increase INSULIN.!!!1[/quote]
Care to elaborate?
Charles,
I’m just returning from Afghanistan and have been on rations for around 6 months (yuk). Do you recommend a detox and if yes what should I do? I live in the Ottawa area and would appreciate any referals you could give.
Also, I’ve recently come accross some literature on Osteopaths. What are they and do you recommend them?
Thanks in advance if you have the time to answer this.
Picture attached: GET SOME TALIBAN
[quote]hardcoreukno0359 wrote:
IamMarqaos wrote:
ha!
Funny. OK, I’ll bite:
Type IIa fibres are very infrequently found in humans so no need to worry.
Marc
huh?, research shows a conversion of type IIb fibers to IIa with resistence training and during detraining convert back to type IIb[/quote]
I know, I know, I should have said un-trained humans. Both endurance and weight training can cause a hybrid of Type I and Type IIb fibers, which we name Type IIa. Type IIa fibers can also have an increase in cross sectional area resulting in hypertrophy with resistance exercise. And you are right, without training they convert back to Type IIb fibers. Hence my statement. The general public, the un-trained individuals, will not have many of them.
I made the comment actually to draw the guy out because he appeared to be trolling.
By the way, I am not an expert on fiber types so I am very much open to be corrected if my conclusion is proven wrong.
The above is merely the best of my recollection from classes and articles.
Thanks,
Marc