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Thursday, 05 January 2012

Do Pro-V Penis Pills Work?

Guys who have used pro hormones or anything else similar know that it can effect your sex drive. This is why I also supplement with Male Enhancement pills. Not that my sex drive goes down but that pro hormones can effect the power of my erection.

I usually stick with when I get off of my pro hormones but I have been looking for something I could take while I was on them. The reason why I don't take it while I am on a cycle is because it had DHEA in it. I DHEA is a mild form of testosterone and I don't need to stack it on with what I am already taking. So, i was curious if Pro-V Penis Pills work? I don't have any problems trying new and different things, but I haven't heard much about Pro-V and I don't want it to be a total waste of money.

There are some positives about it. I like that it has Horny Goat Weed in it, and I have always noticed good results with that particular ingredient. I also like it has Yohimbe in it, and it is a good amount in it. The one problem that I do have about it is that it seems to be low on all the other ingredients.

If anyone has tried Pro-V (Pro Plus Pills) please let me know. Or if anyone has a different product that they like that would be helpful.

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Feel Good With Phenylalanine
Phenylalanine Stimerex ES

Overview:

Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid (a building block for proteins in the body), meaning the body needs it for health but cannot make it. You have to get it from food. Phenylalanine is found in 3 forms: L-phenylalanine, the natural form found in proteins; D-phenylalanine (a mirror image of L-phenylalanine that is made in a laboratory), and DL-phenylalanine, a combination of the 2 forms.

The body changes phenylalanine into tyrosine, another amino acid that's needed to make proteins, brain chemicals, including L-dopa, epinephrine, and norepinephrine, and thyroid hormones. Because norepinephrine affects mood, different forms of phenylalanine have been proposed to treat depression. Symptoms of phenylalanine deficiency include confusion, lack of energy, depression, decreased alertness, memory problems, and lack of appetite.

On the other hand, a rare metabolic disorder called phenylketonuria (PKU) occurs in people who are missing an enzyme that the body needs to use phenylalanine. That causes high levels of phenylalanine to build up. If it is not treated before 3 weeks of age, PKU can cause severe, irreversible mental retardation. In the United States, newborns are tested for PKU during the first 48 - 72 hours of life.

People with PKU must eat a diet that avoids phenylalanine and take tyrosine supplements to have optimum brain development and growth.

Uses:

Chronic pain

D-phenylalanine (but not L-phenylalanine) has been proposed to treat chronic pain, but so far the studies have not shown good evidence that it works. Two studies that appeared to show positive results had flaws that made the findings unreliable. Other clinical studies have found D-phenylalanine to be no more effective than placebo in reducing pain. No randomized controlled trials have been done in the past 20 years to study any possible benefit of taking D-phenylalanine for chronic pain, so more research is needed to determine its safety and effectiveness.

Parkinson's disease

One animal study suggests that D-phenylalanine may improve rigidity, walking disabilities, speech difficulties, and depression associated with Parkinson's disease. However, there is no evidence yet whether it would have the same effect in humans. More research is needed.

Vitiligo

Some preliminary studies have found that L-phenylalanine (oral and topical) strengthens the effect of UVA radiation for people with vitiligo. Vitiligo is a condition where irregular depigmentation (loss of color) causes white patches of skin. L-phenylalanine may lead to some darkening or repigmentation of the white patches, particularly on the face. However, more research is needed to see whether L-phenylalanine is truly effective.

Depression

Some clinical studies suggest that phenylalanine may be helpful as part of a comprehensive therapy for depression. However, most of the studies were done in the 1970s and 1980s and were not rigorously tested. People have reported that their mood improved when they took phenylalanine. Researchers think this is because phenylalanine increases production of brain chemicals, such as dopamine and norepinephrine. More research is needed to tell whether phenylalanine has any real effect on depression.

Dietary Sources:

L-phenylalanine is found in most foods that contain protein such as beef, poultry, pork, fish, milk, yogurt, eggs, cheese, soy products (including soy protein isolate, soybean flour, and tofu), and certain nuts and seeds. The artificial sweetener aspartame is also high in phenylalanine.

D-phenylalanine is made in the laboratory but is not found in food.
Available Forms:
- D-phenylalanine
- L-phenylalanine
- DL-phenylalanine (50/50 blend of D-phenylalanine and L-phenylalanine)
Phenylalanine can be taken as a capsule, powder, or tablet. It can also be used as a topical cream.
How to Take It:

Recommended dosages of phenylalanine vary depending on the health condition being treated. Speak to your doctor about what dose is right for you.

Precautions:

Because of the potential for side effects and interactions with medications, you should only take dietary supplements under the supervision of a knowledgeable health care provider.

People with phenylketonuria (PKU) and women who are breastfeeding or are pregnant should not take phenylalanine supplements. Aspartame, found in artificial sweeteners such as Nutrasweet, is a source of phenylalanine. People with PKU should not use aspartame. If you are pregnant, ask your doctor about using this artificial sweetener.

DL-phenylalanine should not be used in people taking antipsychotic drugs, as it may cause or make worse symptoms of tardive dyskinesia (TD). TDs are involuntary movements of the tongue, lips, face, trunk, and limbs that can occur in people taking antipsychotic drugs long term.

DL-phenylalanine may cause symptoms of anxiety, jitteriness, and hyperactivity in children.

Doses higher than 5,000 mg a day may be toxic and can cause nerve damage. High quantities of DL-phenylalanine may cause mild side effects such as nausea, heartburn, and headaches.

Tuesday, 08 November 2011

Forskolin products may help with weight loss
I see many guys in the gym who want to lose weight, but all they do is arms. It's a weird dynamic at the gym. What is the big deal about having big arms, and who says that doing arms makes you lose weight in the arms. I mean sure if you get bigger arms it would help a little, but shouldn't be the main focus. I was reading a good article about loosing arm flab and I thought the writer did a great job in introducing a great way to start.

He mentions to start using Forskolin. The plant is related to mint, historically grows in India, and has been used in traditional Indian medicine for hundreds of years. Apparently Foskolin is beneficial in many ways and is an all natural product that is helpful in many ways. One of the biggest ways it is helpful is by it boosting metabolism.

Metabolism is crucial for anyone who has an excess of body weight. What often happens is peoples metabolism begin to slow down and when this happens people are unable to eat like they used to. Many trainers are able to tell you what you resting calorie burn is and this is a great way to start. Once you know how many calories you can burn without doing anything you can compare this to how many calories you eat in a day and do the math from there. Now obviously if you are working out your metabolism will be higher but. When lifting weights you tend to burn more calories because your body needs energy to build muscle.

Forskolin supplements have many benefits for the fitness enthusiast. Forskolin may help:
- Promote healthy testosterone levels*
- Support lean muscle mass and strength*
- Improve body composition*
- Support fat loss*
- Promote healthy metabolism*
- Encourage optimal thyroid function*
If you are dedicated to transforming your body, and you're already committed to a balanced diet and active exercise program, supplementing with Forskolin may help support your goals!

Tuesday, 01 November 2011

Anabolic Muscle Growth

The anabolic window is a term that is thrown around loosely by a lot of supplement companies. It is used often out of context and with many false promises. Many companies nowadays will use sugar to help the anabolic window, so what is the anabolic window and what makes it so anabolic?

Anabolic window is a term that expresses the amount of time you have, that your body is able to produce muscle. So after a workout your body would be anabolic, because it is ready to produce muscle. This is why many companies can call high calorie sugary drinks anabolic, because it feeds muscles some kind of nutrients.

Now another key term is catabolic. Catabolic is where your body begins to deteriorate muscle. Think of it this way, catabolism. When your body has no fuel or energy (glycogen) then it begins to use muscle before fat. This leads to no gains and no results, but sadly this is what many people tend to do.

So if being anabolic is increasing protein uptake, then we can assume this is good to do all day – not just after workouts. There are a few supplements that will be good to help this process, for anyone looking to put on muscle. Now remember these are for people looking to put on size, not that magical steroid look, but natural muscle building size.

Leucine- The amino Acid L-Leucine is the building block of building blocks… if that makes sense? Let me explain. L-Leucine allows the breakdown of other amino acids, allowing your body to uptake more amino acids and causing the body to be to have faster recovery, and build muscles quicker.

D-Aspartic Acid- Is a recent product that has been shown to boost free test (testosterone) up to 30%. I have seen multiple studies on this product, which is promising. Not all studies show a boost of 30% but still boosting free test allows the body to increase protein metabolism and faster muscle growth. This is not a steroid, and depending on how much you take you might need to take an estrogen blocker afterwards.

Muscle Milk- Some might think that Muscle Milk is overrated and overpriced, but these people probably also do not realize what it was originally designed for. Yes, Muscle Milk is pricier than most protein, but it’s not a cheap whey protein, and it is more than just milk by product. Muscle Milk was designed to help the body’s metabolism and protein synthesis up all day. This allows the body to continually be fed amino acids so that it can build muscle faster.

Once again these supplements are good for allowing the uptake of more protein and helping the body to continually be anabolic. This is different than the steroid anabolic, but also is safer and in the long run no negative side effects. Remember to drink a gallon of water a day and these supplements can be taken with any other supplement on the market.

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

BCAA's and Muscle Growth

For those who are still very vague about BCAA's, let us start with the explanation of the term. BCAAs or branched chain amino acids are the necessary and important aminos in our body and those are isoleucine, leucine and valine. It is these three amino acids that together make up for about one thirds of skeletal muscle tissue in our body. These Amino Acids play a very significant role in protein creation and muscle growth.

How do BCAA's work? Well, as the Amino acids are the basic building blocks of proteins, when ever we eat food containing protein, they get digested through the intestines and stomach. During this course the protein get simplified into individual short chains of amino acids that are small and simple enough to get absorbed into our bloodstream easily. And once we get these amino acids into our bloodstream, we can see their extensive and wide spread effects over our entire body.

BCAA's main role is to help muscle growth in our body. They help the muscles to synthesize other amino acids required for anabolic muscle action. The simpler amino acids are combined to form a complex whole muscle tissue.

Muscle growth & BCAA’s

During an extreme weight training program, our body gets is a highly catabolic condition and its glycogen stores are getting depleted fast. The liver during this time is busy converting L-Alanine that is nearly half of those amino acid content released from muscles during exercise, into glucose.

The release of BCAA's is generally a signal to the body to stop protein production in the muscles, particularly during the periods of stress. By introducing in the body those Branch Chain Amino Acids, especially during these stress times, may greatly affect this signal and continue the protein synthesis.

Important amino acids cannot be prepared by the body and one must get them from complete protein foods or different mixture of incomplete vegetable foods. Our body can build non-essential amino acids by itself from vitamins and other amino acids.

The vital BCAAs are very important for athletes since they are metabolized in the muscle, rather in the liver. Hence, with them, they are expected to be used for building muscle rather than burned up for energy.

Intake of BCAA’s for muscle growth

Recent research shows the BCAAs supplements of 5-20 grams per day in or 1 to 7 grams for every liter in liquid form has no negative side effects. It is better to avoid higher intakes so as to prevent gastrointestinal distress. The most common form of the BCAA supplements are in form of pills but are also available in powder and liquid form. The suggested dosages range from 10-40 grams per day, again it will depend on the physical activity, fitness and bodyweight. Always take these supplements as per the guidance of your physician and fitness expert. A higher dosage is more effective for increased performance and speedy recovery.

BCAAs are naturally found in protein-rich foods. The superior the quality of the protein source, the higher amount of BCAAs will you get. Whey protein is known to be the best BCAA content of all the protein sources.

When Should You Take Amino Acids?

BCAA's are taken before a work out and after. It is seen that taking BCAA's before, during a demanding workout or cardio session immediately will boost their performance and give best results. For optimum results, take these separately from the other amino acid groupings.

To conclude, we can infer that the Branched Chain Amino Acids are among the most useful and effective discount supplements in any nutrition program for athletes and fitness experts.

The scientific perceptive of their role in the exercise performance is rich and clear.