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What Joe said. One reason you might find better results on animal protein is because of hormones and other growth factors. That said, animal protein does raise levels of IGF-1 to a greater extent than most plant proteins (save for processed ones, which still might not approach animal products, I don't have specific studies comparing the two). This issue here is that IGF-1 (Insulin-Like Growth Factor), besides signaling anabolism, also signal growth elsewhere, including cancer cells. Give and take. There is one study showing that a highly alkaline (vegan or mostly vegan) diet seems to prevent sarcopenia (muscle waisting) in the elderly. Whether this carries over to a young person trying to build muscle, I don't know. In the end, I think meat probably has a slight advantage. Nothing major, though.

1 g/lb should be just fine. I've found better results with higher protein, but that is probably hard for women to do, with not as many expendable calories.

Squatting in the curl rack! You animal!

I was certified through a school specifically for personal training - NPTI. I actually did most of it in the Boston area, Waltham to be exact. Look up their site, I highly recommend the Boston school. The teachers there are amazing. Much more so than the Chicago school I transferred to. Other than that, look into NASM, ACSM, NSCA, ISSA or ACE. At least around Illinois, they are the best known. Might be different for Boston, I didn't spend enough time there to find out.

Sweet, I love Emilie Autumn! Maybe this is why Bryan from VAC promoted her so much when she was first starting.

I love it. It is morbid, but I love morbid art. Especially morbid and abstract. I will only get a tattoo if it is morbid in some way, because I am more likely to appreciate it in the long run, haha. I am working on an animal rights/atheist combo tattoo with my artist. She isn't vegan, but got all vegan supplies just for me. Right now, my animal rights tattoo just says vegan on my left arm, but it will be expanded into a full sleeve, hopefully soon. I am itching for a partner for my other sleeve.

Try chewing some fennel seeds after meals for a few days, or crushing some seeds and steeping them for tea. I always chew some after a meal, because I eat a ton of beans. They help immensely.

If you want to follow Martin Berkhan's method, the guy from leangains.com, you can have a longer feeding windows as a woman, about nine hours. Due to hormonal differences, most women apparently find it easier to follow a 8-10 hours feeding window, instead of the common 7-9. As far as what amounts to eat, basically the same amount you eat right now. You MAY find yourself become leaner on the same number of calories, as has been found for some in the Ramadan studies. I don't know the possible mechanism behind this, but my guess is that de novo lipogenesis probably happens to a much greater extent with big meals than small ones. Basically, the body tries to convert more carbs to fat, instead of storing as glycogen or burning them, and therefore loses about 1/4 of the energy in the conversion. So, I would say, eat the same number of calories you normally do, minus a small amount to lose weight slowly, then reevalute several weeks later. I agree about feeling better during a fast. You can concentrate more and feel more like moving. That is why I take the opportunity to go for a walk during them, but also because fat burning is generally ramped up a bit. Whole foods are a great idea, but I find I get too much fiber with them, but I am going for a high protein intake, which equals lots of beans. I am going for something more along the lines of 80-90% whole foods now (still with lots of veggies, of course, which are part of the fiber problem). I think you have a good idea with keeping the shakes around. Cheating every other week or so is fine. If it is one meal, it will not hurt anything. If you want, you can just make the rest of that day high protein and low in other calories, or just not worry about it at all. Depends on how it affects your goals.

They're sort of the same thing. Yohimbe contains yohimbine. My bottle states: "Yohimbe Bark Extract (Pausinystalia yohimba)(2% Yohimbine Alkaloids = 9 mg) 450mg". Yohimbine HCL is also marketed towards male sexual enhancement, it was pretty much thrown out as a bodybuilding supplement years ago because it failed to boost testosterone. But its use weight loss gets mixed reviews. Yeah, they are similar. Yohimbine is supposed to help you get it up, because it increases blood flow. I think it is basically useless for weight loss unless you are already pretty lean. It helps with the last few pounds.

That confused me too the first time I read the study. It says their body mass did not change significantly, but their fat mass did. I figure they said that, because, say two pounds is an insignificant change in total body mass, but if those two pounds lost are all fat, and the subjects are lean, that is a significant change in fat mass.

http://www.mesomorphosis.com/articles/volk/yohimbine-02.htm Bumped into this. Seems to be a fairly reliable article. Has lots of information on yohimbine, and cites a lot of studies I want to have a look at.

Milk has mammalian estrogens, which are far more potent than phytoestrogens. Phytoestrogens are pro- and anti-estrogenic. Mammalian estrogens are basically only pro-estrogenic. Milk, like all other animal products, is far more highly concentrated in xenoestrogens. People grow fine on tons of milk. I wouldn't worry. There are some stickies around here on soy. Give them a read.

Haha, yeah, that smell would keep me away, too. I had to look up DMSO. So, the idea is, DMSO penetrates the skin, so yohimbine can enter in a specific area easily? But yeah, the yohimbine is working quite well. It seemed to take a few days before anything really started to happen, but these last couple days, each morning I have had less of a pouch down there. I expected a little something to happen in a few weeks of use, but never imagined it would happen this quickly and dramatically. It seems to work on a "woosh" effect. I haven't been weighing myself, so I don't know if the fat is just burning off, or burning off and then being redeposited once I eat, just not in the same area. Either way, I don't really care. Losing fat is easy, losing that pouch has been a bitch. I guess that is what I get for being so damned fat at 275 before. That sounds like a potent stack you used to use. I can't imagine being short on energy using that. What I am doing for a stack, is brewing one strong ass half gallon of iced green tea, and slamming 24oz of it with each dose of yohimbine. I have some green tea extract coming from trueprotein.com in a few days. After one of the doses, I go on a brisk walk. I'll tell you one thing, I throw off some heat on that walk!

I had no issue with the jitters. Some people do, it is individual. I use 25mg, which I worked up to. I can't measure out 20mg easily due to my scoop, so I went with 25mg. Some guys over on intensemuscle.com go up to 50mg per day, some even higher. It is the (unscientific) semi-consensus over there, that for a man, 50mg is the max you should try. Some of the huge guys go higher, but they are huge. I think the recommended dose is around 1 mg per ten pounds of weight. So, I am going about seven mg over.

So, starting another supplement roundtable. I always learn a lot from these. After reading Martin Berkhan's post on supplements awhile ago, I've been rather interested. http://leangains.blogspot.com/2010/01/supplements-you-might-actually-find_09.html To cite what he cites and anyone who supports yohimbine cites: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17214405 That said, yohimbine is supposed to block alpha-2 adrenoreceptors, which downregulate the release of epinephrine and norepinephrine, two primary lipolytic hormones. This also gives beta receptor stimulators, like caffeine and synephrine/ephedrine a more powerful effect. Also, alpha-2 receptors are supposed to be dense in the trouble areas in men and women, such as the stomach, hips and thighs. The blocking of these receptors apparently helps to mobilize fat in those areas, so it will be preferentially burned. The great think about yohimbine, unlike caffeine, synephrine and ephedrine, is that there is no negative feedback loop associated with the blocking of alpha-2 receptors, or so I am told. Basically, your body won't release less epi and such from yohimbine. I don't know how much truth there is to that, because the body sure loves homeostasis. Correct me if there is any misinformation there, I just want to get the basics on it down, so everyone can be on the same page. Like Martin says, though, all this does sound rather hokey. I got some in powder form (yohimbine hcl) from trueprotein.com, which you must dose very carefully. I felt like a crack dealer, measuring out on a milligram sensitive scale. It has been about a week since I started, and I have this to say: it works. Maybe it is placebo effect, but I can definitely see it in the mirror, and I can only pinch half the fat I used to be able to. I am not going to say the pinch amount, because it is embarrassing. Intermittent fasting got me most of the way there, and yohimbine seems to work great for that last little push. Also, yohimbine hcl, 11-hydroxy-yohimbine and alpha yohimbine are recommended over yohimbe extract. Yohimbe is supposed to contain alkaloids (same family as caffeine, theobromine, etc.) other than yohimbine. These can have certain negative effects that you aren't as likely to get from pure yohimbine. You want yohimbINE, not yohimbE. Thoughts? I will get some pictures up in a week or two or three, and you guys can be the judge.

Stove, oven, microwave Legumes, grains, tubers, fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds. Protein powder and/or BCAA/EAA and creatine Gym Squat, bench, deadlift and military press Eat train sleep repeat Mirror The bible and the Koran I would like to add "See Spot Run" to the book list. Greatest spiritual book I've ever read. You really have to read between the lines. Hint: Spot is God. I would like to add chin-ups to the exercise list. And for serious reading, go to www.ironaddicts.com for training info. For vegan nutritional info, just read around here. Robert is writing a book that will be out on the 9th of April. That will be good, especially for motivation. Robert is an incredibly motivational speaker and writer.

I definitely have a bit of a Spanish accent and it IS sexy. Ask Zack. Spanish accents can definitely be sexy. They are just a little less likely to be sexy to me than a lot of accents, because there are lots of Mexican immigrants in my area, so I hear them a lot. Though, Mexican accents sound a bit different than other Spanish accents, so other types of Spanish accents are more likely to sound sexy. That said, I have a thing for Mexican/Hispanic/whathaveyou women, just not necessarily their accents. I am sure your accent is sexy, Lena. Zack?

Thank you, sir. I still don't understand the whole accent deal. Guys here also say it's hot. And most foreigners work really hard to get rid of it... I doesn't make sense to me. Definitely a "grass is always greener" thing like pazios said. It is just something different. I am around girls all the time who have either a standard American (TV personality) dialect, or Spanish accent. So, those two aren't very sexy, especially the American dialect. "Exotic" is appealing.

Genetics uber alles.

I love it, some hate the how much it fluffs. Their rice protein is much thinner, if you like that in a protein.

That is an excellent question sir. Unfortunately I have no answer but I don't know. They would be even more enamored of you than the Swedish girls, thanks to your accent. You would definitely slay them.

I swear, I am the only person who likes maca. Straight, it is nasty, but in a smoothie, delicious.

Do you just mean creatine mono or CEE? You can grab some mono (or CEE I think) from GNC or something to try if you don't want to order it online. If you want the highest quality, I would recommend trueprotein.com. They also carry CEE

Are you going into general medicine or a specialty?

Or how he is on a first name basis with the top scientists in the food industry and government, even the ones he has harsh things to say about. He has been a nutrition researcher, literally, for 50 years. Longer than many of his critics have even been alive. I think both he and Dr. Esselstyn have already lived Dr. Atkinson. My father is near their age range. The fact that these guys are touring around the country, writing, speaking etc amazes me. That is why I always recommend The China Study to anyone interested in reading about veganism at all. I know there are a few small issues with his reasoning, but as a whole, the book is pretty much impenetrable. Usually when I see Dr. Campbell's name pop up on some regular bodybuilding board, people say the low cholesterol "conspiracy" is around to help drug companies. They say how people who believe that are unthinking automatons and don't know how to interpret research. Then they throw up a link to Dr. Mercola, who bases at least one of his views on his mother's intuition. Enough said.