Has anyone heard of this supplement or is familiar with it? Would love for coach Chad to follow up to see if he knows anything about this supplement. You take it with carb meals and it is suppose to help your muscles store glycogen as opposed to turning excess glycogen get stored as fat. Increase…

Looks expensive. I recognize a couple of the ingredients, but I can’t say whether you’d find them useful or not. Berberine behaves a little bit like metformin, a drug commonly prescribed for diabetics because it reduces production of glucose in the liver (gluconeogensis; from either protein, or t…

[image] gcarver: Berberine behaves a little bit like metformin, a drug commonly prescribed for diabetics because it reduces production of glucose in the liver (gluconeogensis; from either protein, or the glycerol’s on triglycerides [fat…]). Doesn’t seem to me you’d want to reduced gluconeogenesi…

Resurrecting an old thread as it was the only one that came up when I searched. My fiance who is into bodybuilding got a free bottle of Magnum Nutraceuticals MIMIC “Natural GDA”. In theory it sounds like it shuttles blood sugar from consuming carbohydrates into muscular glycogen stores rather than l…

Sounds more like marketing. The body is going to convert carbs to muscle glycogen until it is replenished preferentially, regardless of supplementation. Any surplus is going to be converted to fat, because well, it’s a surplus and that’s what the body does. I do not know of any drug that can plump s…

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Shrike May 26, 2019, 6:22pm 2

And he’s of course provided you with evidence of it increasingly cycling performance?

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