If you mess with after horny Bull, you might get more than just the horns. Be warned, I’ve seen it on YouTube. If the violent goring doesn’t kill you, the irrepressible raping will! What does this have to do with bodybuilding and supplements? NOTHING!! I was just in repulsive shock and so ghastly petrified at witnessing such a video, that I had to write about it! Don’t be randomly clicking on stuff when you’re bored, you might not like what you experience. Although, now that I think about it, the old aphorism of; “mess with a bull, and you get the horns”, could apply to bodybuilding and supplementation after all.

Now, bodybuilding doesn’t NEED to have the stigma of anabolics married to it. It just so happens that bodybuilding is an EXTREME undertaking and with an extremist attitude, comes the search for all the tools that would allow for maximum performance enhancement. It is only natural for any physique athlete to want to push the natural and physical boundaries. Therein lies the problem…or attraction! Depends on how you look at it! The point being, that when you take those radical approaches, you must be ready to suffer the consequences of your actions. With take, there must be a price…and that price for men, is usually a trade for your erection, or, growth of feminine, shapely, boobies. Supplementing with anabolics, or the current crop of powerful pro-hormones (1-DHEA, 4-DHEA, 19-Nor-DHEA), WILL lead to maximum performance in the gym and recovery and, ultimately, bigger and stronger muscles, but what are you willing to sacrifice? Let’s be truthful, not everyone experiences the dreaded “side-effects” of anabolic supplementation. Those dirty bastards are the few lucky ones, but for the rest of us, the post-cycle reaction may not be favorable. And some may be worse off than others!

-Nostalgic Break-

In the 60’s and 70’s it seemed like our bodybuilding icons NEVER experienced the ugly side effects of the anabolic game. Could it have been that they didn’t indulge in as much usage? Could it have been that their “gear” was just that much better? Or perhaps, could it have been that they were just genetic freaks? It’s really tough to say, because even 1981 Mr. Olympia, Franco Columbu, took home a Sandow with a hooter hanging off his right pectoral! The thoughts on usage back then were simple; stay on and then taper off. Simple enough, right? And for the most part, it seemed to work! Eventually, however, good, old fashioned, side-effects manage to persevere, as was in the case of Franco. It’s my opinion that our silver age bodybuilding fathers were just plain LUCKY. We only ever heard about and saw the GREATS from that era, but what about the local bodybuilders that we never knew existed that were pounding Dbols and Primo?? My guess is that there were TONS of users experiencing estrogen bloat, gynecomastia, and plummeting sex drives, but we just never heard about all those poor fools.

-End Nostalgic Break-

Our fathers were kind of on to something with regards to the “tapering off anabolics” idea. In essence, it makes sense! Let the anabolics slowly leave the system, while at the same time, your own body recognizes the decline in exogenous hormone and correspondingly begins to prepare and produce its’ own natural hormone levels again. Sounds like a win/win right? Well, it will work for some and it won’t work as well for others. The anabolic pursuit is completely individual in response. What do we do about this dilemma? We attack post-cycle with a state of readiness (#RedCon1), and come prepared in case we face the hormonal backlash that we all but expected to endure. The best offense is a good defense, which surprisingly, I didn’t quite understand what my football coach was saying, until I compared it to anabolic use.

Given our current age in supplementation, we are at a brand new apex in over the counter effectiveness. In most cases of “Post Cycle Therapy” (PCT for short), we can now get away with effective supplements bought online! Sure, in some cases, pharmaceutical preparations will be necessary, but for the most part, Post Cycle Therapy can be handled via supplementation. Remember our silver age hero’s? By using the old “tapering” schema of anabolics/pro-hormones and then adding in estrogen management/aromatase inhibitor supplements when needed, for example RedCon1’s SHEILD, you have effectively placed your own body’s hormonal production factory in a much better place. If a stronger plan of preventative attack is needed, a more cohesive product with estrogen management with added pituitary stimulation, could be used, for example; RedCon1’s AFTERMATH. Like I stated previously, there will be extreme cases that will need pharmaceutical help post-cycle, but those are NOT majority cases, especially in the case of pro-hormone supplementation!

Let’s take a moment to get into WHY estrogen management is the key to post-cycle therapy for men. When coming off anabolic support, natural testosterone is extremely suppressed. Your anterior pituitary, in your brain, senses that the balance is off and sends a few hormones out (Luteinizing Hormone and Follicle Stimulating Hormone) to help stimulate the testicles to start producing more testosterone. The problem is, as testosterone is being produced, much of it is being aromatized into estrogen! And before a good ratio of testosterone to estrogen can be reached in the male body, there is a period in which estrogen becomes the dominant hormone. This is the main culprit as to WHY when coming off anabolics, side effects like muscle loss, fat gain, loss of sex drive, and potential gynecomastia becomes an issue! Control the estrogen repercussions, and you can recover like a champ! As a side note addition, if you control estrogen production the whole time WHILE using anabolic supplements and into the post-cycle phase, your body can recover much more optimally without experiencing the dreaded estrogen backlash! Take, for example, a 12 week cycle of SOMAL-4 and SOMAL-1 (4-DHEA and 1-DHEA). The SOMAL-4 will produce an estrogenic response via aromatization. If you used an aromatase inhibitor, such as SHEILD, WHILE on cycle the whole time, not only would you keep estrogen levels in check, you would make the most of your cycle while keeping side effects at a bare minimum. More importantly, however, because estrogen levels would have been in “normal range” the entire cycle, there is a good chance that natural testosterone production would NOT being drastically effected, and so recovery post-cycle would be optimal!

Ah, the beauty of hormonal manipulation. To quote Brian Fantana; “68% of the time, it works EVERYTIME.” I quote this because, number one, it’s hilarious, and number two, it is also somewhat relevant (kind of like our horny bull analogy). You are NOT smarter than your hormonal feedback loop. You simply cannot outthink your metabolic, hormonal, and biochemical pathways. However, what you can do is be prepared and have the right defense on your side! If you are going to play with the laws of nature and use powerful anabolic agents, or, powerful pro-hormones, such as SOMAL-1, SOMAL-4, or SOMAL-NOR (#RedCon1), then you should play a good defensive game and be ready to battle estrogen if you need to. SHEILD and AFTERMATH would be a great place to start. Be smart, use wisely, and be prepared, or make provisions for accepting a giant bull’s penis. Choose wisely, my friends.

~by Vijay Puri BS DC

Trending. Seems to be a relatively new word for my limited un-John Romano-esque vocabulary, but apparently, even the word “trending” is, in fact, trending on social media right now. Oh, the irony! As are with most things that people tend to follow, trends or patterns seem to take shape. Trends in the money market place. Trends in the fashion forum. Trends in Hollywood movie productions. Trens in trenning (see what I did there?). Bodybuilding has long been intimate bedmates with Nutrition, and as bodybuilding trends progressed, as did the nutritional world. Like old lovers trying new positions, or, new lovers trying old positions…a topic I know very little about. Nutritional requirements for Bodybuilding have been waxing and waning since the 60’s, just like the escalating and undulating sand dunes of Sleeping Bear (shout out to all Michigan-ites!). The Bodybuilding trends during these Instagram and Facebook fueled times have a proclivity towards staying leaner in the offseason/improvement-season, and in an amusing coincidence, the posting of weekly junk food meals. Also, there seems to be an inclination towards NOT pounding the protein down, as 1990’s supplement marketing ads would have you believe. If you weigh 200 lbs., then you NEED 400+ grams of protein. Seeing as how that’s what an advertisement told me to do in the 1997 June’s edition of Flex Magazine, it seems accurate? As eye-opening as that experience was to read, as was the realization that I was terribly under-eating the number of egg whites and tuna cans per day, looking back, it wasn’t all that crazy?? Although, here’s the rub; what most muscle building aficionadas had believed at the time was that it would require 2g of protein per pound of bodyweight, but did the same rules apply to someone who was 200 lbs. and 50% body fat?? By my mathematically challenged calculations, that leaves 100 lbs. of fat free mass, and something was telling me that those bulbous beautiful fat cells didn’t “need” protein NOR did they need any help growing. As trends progressed, so did the science, and my little brain was on to something! Sure, 2 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight was a decent start, but as trends would suggest and to be more accurate, perhaps 2g of protein per pound of LEAN bodyweight would be a better target? Now we’re talking.   Great SCOTT! Leaping ahead “Back to Future” to the Insta-Era, and you’ll see various coaches and newer coaches and brand new coaches that just decided they were going to start coaching because they lost some weight and placed 14^th in a local Bikini lineup #NPCNationallyQualified, preaching waffling levels of protein intake dependent upon dietary needs, lean mass, and of course, based on balance of other macronutrients. I can agree with this, and I can also disagree with this to a certain degree. I can agree that, YES, in the instance of a ketogenic style diet where macronutrient intake is devoid of any carbohydrates, caloric intake will need to come from Proteins and Fats. In such a case as this, a protein intake amount maybe higher than the generally accepted decree of “2g/1lbs LEAN MASS”. However, where I can disagree is in the example of taking in minimal amounts of protein, in hopes of building or maintaining muscle, while increasing fats and carbohydrates in the objective of “sparing” the proteins that are being consumed. Let me tell you something, the human body is a lot smarter than you are. If you think that the human metabolism agrees with mathematics, then you are off your abacus. Don’t expect to eat 100g of protein per day as a 200 lbs. bodybuilder and presume to spare those “protein calories” by eating a surplus of carbohydrates and fats. Not only would you be a spare tire away from a muffin top, but you would probably (for a hard training bodybuilder) be entering into a muscle wasting state sooner or later. Under-eating isn’t good, and over-eating isn’t ideal. So what’s the answer? Answer is: it depends!   I can say “it depends” for a couple of reasons, firstly, because in this now highly litigious society we live in, by saying “it depends” it protects me from legal dispute and threats of; “I’m suing you because you said I needed etc, etc, etc…” What ever happened to the good-old “I’m gonna kick your ass” threat??  And secondly, because it is the absolute truth! The standard statute of “2g/1 lbs. of LEAN MASS”, although scientifically undefined and unproven, is a great place to start because it takes a little more work to figure out just how much protein is right for you, but is also not the be all/end all Edict of Protein Axium. Let me address something quickly, I wholeheartedly understand the fact that if someone is 10% body fat at 130 lbs. it doesn’t mean that that person is 117 lbs. of solid muscle! There is also weight that needs to be accounted for in terms of bones, internal organs, skin, central nervous system tissue, peripheral nervous system tissue, water, glycogen, etc, it just means that 13 lbs. of body fat are chronicled and understood. Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble, but it needed to be done. In light of this information, I will use myself as a guinea pig for this example. VEEJ CASE STUDY: At a whopping 210 lbs., I measure 11% body fat and 1% donut, that is 12% total giving me a staggering 184.8 lbs. of fat free/donut free mass to play with for my approximate calculations. Now using our “Law of Protein Intake” formula, that would put me at a daily intake of 369g of protein/day!! That’s some pungent methane production! I know from a couple of decades of bodybuilding playtime, that that number is ridiculous for me and, thus, highly ineffective. Now given what I already know about my body, I don’t tolerate fats very well, but do tolerate carbohydrates to a certain degree. I also know about myself, again from years of personal self-testing, that I only need roughly 2300 overall calories per day in order to “grow” and not get too fat. Given that there are 4 calories per 1g of carbohydrate, 4 calories per 1g of protein, and 9 calories per 1g fat, AND also understanding that I need a diet that is calorically split among 50% Carbohydrate, 10% Fats, and 40% Protein, I can extrapolate from the estimated 2300 calories that I would need; 287.5g carbohydrate, 230g protein, and 26g fat…give or take 2g of donut. -END CASE STUDY- Taking this case study into consideration, you can begin to understand why protein intake “depends”. Getting enough protein in your diet is vital for muscle growth, but equally as important is the QUALITY of protein! Don’t get me started on quality proteins (COUGH** VEGANS **COUGH). How about this as a newer Proclamation of Protein Perseverance; just get 30-40g of protein per meal and eat 5-6 times a day and adjust your diet accordingly… Oh, and use RedCon1’s ISOTOPE because it is HIGH QUALITY WHEY ISOLATES, brimming with essential amino acids and amazing taste, and a welcomed and convenient addition to any diet style with the goal of consuming a great quality protein source, and so that I can keep my job. ~by Vijay Puri BS DC

I have a terrible habit of being nostalgic. I can’t help it. I’m OLD, back off!! And I’m not going to give you the age old speech about, “back in my day, we had to choke down a mix of raw eggs, dry milk milk powder, sheep’s blood, and thumbtacks”, because that would be a bold faced lie…we didn’t use raw eggs. However, starting my fledgling bodybuilding foray during the sweltering and portly summer of ’93, I can tell you that we didn’t have great tasting protein powder options.

I distinctly remember buying a generic can of “milk and egg” protein from a local health food store, and being head over heels excited about the potential of ingesting this entire can and it translating into newly developed pectorals to hide my little boy boobies! Boy, I was wrong on SO many levels. Half of you reading this won’t be able to relate, and the other half will be able to identify with the dry wall mix ability, the water repellent fluffy powder, and the abusive callow taste that needed honey, brown sugar, and ice cream just to make it palatable. And at that stage of protein project preparation, you’ve completely defeated the purpose of clean protein powder ingestion!! Hell you could have just showered your can of tuna with some maple syrup and called it a day, which I have also actually done. I can see you with your judgey eyes.

You damn kids, lifting noobs, and youthful “brand ambassadors” don’t quite grasp just how great you have it. Today you can go into any Super-WalShopMart and grab a pretty decent tasting protein powder right off the dusty, grimy store shelves! Now, it is true that the taste might be quite charming, but it is also true in that the quality of this WalShopMart brand may not even be up to ocean floor scraping industry parameters, and is most likely a cheap blend of Soy, Whey Concentrates, and Cartilage, with an added “Amazing Amino-Acid Recovery Blend” of L-Glutamine, L-Septuline, and L-Getyouline.

I could have saved you the time and the trouble of ingesting this by taking your money and scissor kicking you in the stomach. Either way, you would have made the same amount of #gainz and would have had less enteric problems in the long run. My point is, that great taste doesn’t amount to great quality. Luckily, there are a handful of excellent protein powders out there that are exquisite in quality and are also wonderfully toothsome.

An industry standard, as set forth by the notorious, Dan Duchaine, in 1993 in the shape of “Designer Whey”, whey protein would become an ocular piece in a bodybuilder’s supplemental arsenal. It didn’t take very long after this immense introduction that this protein species would be improved upon by “isolating” the pure protein fraction that composed the Whey Protein source. It was aptly titled; Whey Protein Isolate – End historical break. Given this random historical interlude, it leads me to my next point for all of you protein seeking sycophants; Whey Isolate is the KING source of protein powder, period. There is no other protein source available (that we know of) that has a higher bio-availability rate, a higher digestibility rate, and a higher protein/amino-acid content to mass ratio of ANY food out there! It is the Bentley of the luxury sedan world, the Ferrari of the sports car world, and is the Shelby Cobra Mustang of the pinnacle that is the hillbilly, Friday night, farm-town, drag racing spectacle. Oh? And what do you know? Right here, at RedCon1, and because I have a post-workout angry and sweaty Dallas McCarver breathing down my neck, menacingly, yet ever so patiently, waiting to see if I’ll finally hock some product in this whey cool article, we have Redcon1’s ISOTOPE! A fine and delicious protein powder devoid of any proprietary blends, inferior proteins, or added “amino-acid recovery” infusions.

There is a time and place for everything. I myself am a believer in multiple protein species in specific meals. That being said, however, there is also an UBER important time and place for a Whey Isolate direct injection (again with the car analogies). As I said before, the digestibility and high blood amino acid yield from whey isolate is unbeatable. Because whey isolate is so quickly absorbed and readily utilized by the numerable metabolic processes of the human body, a whey isolate booster would be helpful around times of anabolic/anti-catabolic needs! In my long-winded efforts, what I am getting at is that there is NO better source of protein than Whey Isolate, specifically around times of hard training. For example; as part of a pre-workout meal, or, as just a pre-workout meal in and of itself, a Whey Isolate like RedCon1 ISOTOPE, is the PERFECT food. In addition, post-workout, when the body is searching for a pool of essential amino acids, this is another perfect time for an ISOTOPE inoculation! To best utilize a product such as ISOTOPE, here is an example for a 130lbs fit-chick and 210lbs gym-bro:

Fit-Chick; Pre-Workout: 1 scoop ISOTOPE w/1 teaspoon Peanut Butter, Intra-Workout (if that’s your thing); ½ scoop ISOTOPE w/1 scoop Cluster BOMB, Immediately Post-Workout: 1.5 scoops

ISOTOPE

Gym-Bro; Pre-Workout: 1.5 scoops ISOTOPE, ½ cup oats, 1 teaspoon Peanut Butter, Intra-Workout (if that’s your thing); 1 scoop ISOTOPE w/1-2 scoops Cluster BOMB, Immediately Post-Workout: 2 scoops ISOTOPE

Now, I don’t need any hate mail over this ISOTOPE protocol (although if you absolutely have to, forward all hate mail intended for me to my very own, personal email; mattmeinrod@gmail.com), as this is just a well thought out and effective way to implement a FAST absorbing protein source. That’s not to say, however, that in a pinch, ISOTOPE can’t be used as an effective meal replacement for the on-the-go personality! Actually, it is quite the opposite! With the correctly added nutrient profile, a whey isolate like ISOTOPE can be extremely effective at being a fantastic part of a regularly scheduled “meal”. As a fatty by nature, I have to share this with you, as this is a personal concoction that works for me as a sometimes pre-workout meal, or post-workout meal, or quick breakfast, or even as a night time meal if I want a cheat food without too much guilt!!  Brace yourself, here comes the magic:

Mix 1 scoop of ISOTOPE Vanilla with 1 scoop of ISOTOPE Peanut Butter Chocolate, and 1 tablespoon psyllium husk, with 20oz water. Next, grab the biggest bowl you can find in your cupboard and FILL IT with Reese’s Puffs Cereal. Gently pour your ISOTOPE mixture, evenly over the Reese’s Puff at a slow enough rate as to NOT disturb the uniformity of the Reese’s Puff balls. Gradually bathe each Puff with your ISOTOPE glaze, but without soaking or saturating the tranquility of Puff homogeneity. When all of your ISOTOPE mosaic is fluidly poured on, reach for your tablespoon and penetrate the cereal dish. You’re welcome.

Protein powders have come a LONG way since when I first picked up a can of Weider’s Dynamic Muscle Builder. I honestly look back in wistfulness, but also in a bit of anger at all the money I managed to persuade from my parents which, ultimately, was flushed right down the toilet anyways…both figuratively and metaphorically. So lesson learned younglings, spend your money on a QUALITY protein that will absolutely aid you in your quest to lean mass acquisition. Invest in High quality Whey Isolates, such as RedCon1’s ISOTOPE. Now somebody, PLEASE get Dallas McCarver something to eat!

Ectomorphs! This is NOT for you. Ecto-Mesos, you neither. Mesomorphs, you just wouldn’t understand, but still, you just might look this way to get that last 1% off of you. Meso-Endos, now we’re talking. Endomorphs, us poor, poor fat bastards, we need all the help we can get! Some guys and gals need that extra metabolic help. We just weren’t born with that amazingly trim, fatless body that sparkles in the sunlight like the Cullens from Twilight. We don’t have that tight skin, those stacked abdominals, and twin beautifully etched deltoids all year long. No, instead, we have to fight daily to keep away the unforgiving sight of rotund love-handles, side boob, and unsightly jiggle whenever we brush our teeth. We can put on muscle pretty easily, sure, but we are also blessed with the innate ability to walk into a Dunkin’ Donuts and magically gain orangutan titties. These are the cards we were dealt, and so we play them handedly. We wear our thick zip-up hoodies, even in the heat of summer (if we missed our summer-bod deadline), and we avoid participating in outdoor play where one team is “shirts” and the others are “skins”, for fear of being a dreaded “skin”. And worst of all, we have to watch our ripped up friends, feast on pre, post, pre-pre, and post-post workout Pop Tarts and then down a few burgers, fries, and milkshakes before bed in the name of #gainZ, only to see them, week in and week out, metamorphosis into leaner and stronger versions of themselves.

Life isn’t fair. Especially for us fatties. But every once in a while, the Gods of Obesity look down at us from above, then look at each other’s pendulous bellies, then look at us again, and concoct a special helper that descends upon us when we need it the most. RedCon1’s “Double Tap”, is the kind of helper that we embrace with a full-figured hug! Given the myriad of overpriced, ill-assembled, mindless ingredient added “fat-burner” products out there, it is a breath of fresh-baked air when a product like Double Tap rises…like the crust of a deep dish pizza. Of course, this type of product isn’t just for us adipose challenged lifters, it can be used for just about everybody (except you goddamn Ectomorphs). It all depends on “how” you use it. Let me give you an example.

I myself, am a self-professed meso-endomorph, although now that I am getting older, the meso portion, that used to somewhat keep me one-foot in with the cool crowd, seems to be rapidly atrophying. I have to fight to keep not only the fat accumulation to a minimum, but also to keep my devastatingly maniacal hunger at bay! Such a symptomatic system stresses systemic structuring (alliteration, you’re welcome). So, for a 210 lbs hard training brown-beluga, like myself, I need to time my meals accordingly, and equally as important, I would need to time my Double Tap precisely as well! Here is what I would do:

Upon Waking: 3 Caps RedCon1 Double Tap, 30mins prior to 30mins Fasted Low Intensity Cardio

Meal 1: 10 egg whites, 1 cup oats

Meal 2: 2 scoops Whey Isolate (ISOTOPE RedCon1)

Meal 3: 8oz Lean Ground Beef, 2 cups rice, 1 tablespoon Black beans, some green veggies (yuck!)

Pre-Training: 3 Caps RedCon1 Double Tap, 1 scoop Big Noise, 1 teaspoon of generic Wallgreens Creatine Monohydrate

Post-Training: 2 scoops Whey Isolate, ½ cup Oats, 1 banana

Meal 5: Same as meal 3

Meal 6: 6 egg whites, ½ cup non-fat plain Greek Yogurts, green veggies (yuck!)

If staying up late to finish client work, podcast editing, writing, etc, and can’t eat anymore food because I’ve already met my caloric quota for the day (sad face); 1-2 caps Double Tap depending on how close it is to bedtime and how hungry I am.

To understand why I would use this product, the way I have described it, let’s briefly get to the yellow-marrow of what is in Double Tap to allow for such a dosing schedule! First and for-most, every fat burner begins with the notorious C-word. No, not the dirty curse that rhymes with “runt”, I’m talking about Caffeine! By now, we all understand the fat burning properties of properly placed caffeine in the diet. Double Tap has a HEFTY dose of caffeine in the forms of Caffeine Anhydrous, Di-caffeine Malate, as well a sprinkling of caffeine from caffeine-like Teacrine and Green Tea Extract. Green Tea Extract, although also being a source of caffeine, has many other fat burning properties, for example; general increase of metabolic rate, increase in fatty acid oxidation, releasing energy from stored glycogen in addition to glucose disposal, and finally, it is a chemical sibling to Clenbuterol. KIDDING! It is a MUST-HAVE that compliments the various actions of the multiple forms of caffeine. In addition to this blubber-busting stack, we have Acytl L-carnitine. This is a personal favorite of mine because it is invaluable in its ability to mobilize fatty acids for energy use when working along side stimulants such as caffeine, but it is also active in neuronal function! So it keeps the brain highly functioning when I am sitting at my computer and trying to write an article, while keeping thoughts of Pizza Hut lunch buffet at bay. Lastly, we have two stimulants that are reactive with fatty tissue, as well as neuronal tissue; Octopamine HCL and 2-Aminoisohaptaine. The former being a powerful beta-adrenergic receptor stimulator on adipocytes (just like our old friend Ephedra), and the latter being similar to 1,3 DMAA and being a power CNS stimulant.

So with all this sciencey goodness in mind, look at where I place Double Tap in my general day! First, before morning cardio, to best take advantage of the already free floating fatty acids and double my fat-burning efforts, secondly, before training at the gym to get my sluggish metabolism ready to liberate fatty acids to spur on even more fat burning, especially taking advantage of the fat-burning EPOC effect post workout (EPOC being “excess post-exercise oxygen consumption), and lastly after all my food is eaten for the day and I’m up late working away in my hungry misery, 1-2 caps of Double Tap is a savior in order to stave away devilish nightly cravings and enhance my focus on my work…instead of counting down the days until my next visit to Five Guys.

To all the vein popping, concrete in-appearance, and carved out Ectos and Mesos out there, good for you. I’m happy for your genetic gifts of always being beach ready. And to all my Endomorphic friends out there, yes you’ll always be hungry, and yes you’ll think everyone you see is a piece of KFC, but with properly timed Double Tap, there will be a gateway to a leaner and less flubbery self. I’m not saying that you can go donut for donut with your peeled workout friends, but I am saying that getting leaner won’t be a hard as it used to be. Of course, that means that everyone else will be able to get a lot leaner much more easily too, BUT, it’s more important to us metabolically extra-chromosomed behemoths. Seriously, who’s more impressive; the gal or guy who went from hard and sexy to harder and sexier?? Or the roly-poly troglodyte that went from bountifully bulbous to beaming beauty? My dumpy friends, time your Double Tap right, and they’ll NEVER know… (insert Vincent Price laugh, NOW).

~by Vijay Puri BS DC

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am more than just a Bodybuilding Nerd. I am a nerd on several different levels. Like an onion, but smaller, brown, and drizzled in a paste made of turmeric and curcumin. One of those nerdy layers is my love for Bodybuilding Podcasts, and just podcasts in general. Because I don’t have many friends, I like to imagine that the people I listen to on-the-line, via podcasting, are right here in my lonely office, speaking directly to me! Sounds pathetic, I know, but you don’t know what happens in make-belief land after each podcast is over (insert seductive grin and raised eyebrow). Recently, I listened to a podcast by Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D., which featured Dr. Valter Longo, a director of the longevity institute of Southern California. Aside from imagining that they were both naked together while making suggestive innuendos about “IGF-1 protein folding” and and acting out the process as to which way “folds best”, they brought about an ultra-interesting topic that immediately snapped me back into reality; Intermittent Fasting.

The whole concept of intermittent fasting is one that goes against the grain of thinking, especially for bodybuilders! As a young lad, or lady, entrenched in the methods of bodybuilding, the idea is to pound as much food as you need in order to “grow” your muscle. Give the muscle an anabolic environment 24/7 through training and then bathe the muscle cells in rich nutrients of essential amino acids, proteins, glycogen, water, and essential fats. If you are a bodybuilder and you have missed a meal, well then, you might as well quit now and take up Cross Fit (zing!). Because you’ll NEVER grow with that kind of attitude! Such is the mentality that we have conditioned ourselves to believe. And for the most part, it is correct! However, the human body has a biochemistry that is smarter than you are. Wrap your head around this one; Dr. Scott Stevenson is one of the smartest guys EVER. Can you imagine how smart his own body and biochemistry is if even HE can’t out-think it???!! How’s your paradigm doing? Shifted? The point is, you can’t keep doing the same thing all the time and expect to progress! You know this about training, so you should know this about diet too!

Prepare yourself, it’s about to get brainy. As per the stunning research suggested by Dr. Valto Longo, Fasting Mimicking/Intermittent Fasting will start a cascading biochemical reaction within the human body. The reaction causes damaged cells to die and re-proliferate, and re-proliferate at a higher functioning level than before. Without boring you to tears with chemistry and physiology, this process impacts human biochemistry, hormonal pathways, neuronal activity, and aging/metabolism at several different levels! Ponder this for a moment! Take, for example (and this is just one of thousands of simple examples that could be used), a damaged muscle cell that is “tired” and “overused”. That muscle cell will not function optimally, which will effect muscular contraction, cell function, muscle protein synthesis, and recovery from workouts. Through the process of Intermittent Fasting, damaged cells “die off”, and new cells take their place, stronger and better than ever. – Detour, Engaged – When man existed in the Ice-Age during times of feast and famine, their bodies managed to cope without food for months. Yet they remained strong enough to persevere and land that big score wooly mammoth that they were able to feed off of for equal time, or less, than their period of starvation. You think these periods of prolonged fasting along with timely intermittent wooly mammoth re-feeds had anything to do with their ability to survive?? It is a SURVIVAL mechanism that is within our DNA and is programmed into every cell in our body through millions of years of evolution! And here we are today, with this same information coded into our present DNA and we get “hangry” when we’ve not eaten for 3 measly hours. How’s that for a humbling revelation!  – Resume Present Course – So given this information regarding fasting, how do we, as bodybuilders use it?

The research being done by Dr. Longo is slightly different than how we, as a bodybuilding breed, would apply it.  Whereas his approach would be to fast for a prolonged period with calculated re-feeds of high fats, low proteins, low/no carbohydrates, a bodybuilder may only fast for 13-16 hours and have a select portion of the day for when fit-grow-foods can be administered. I like to use the word “administered” because it makes me feel like a scientist, and you, a science project! Sixteen hours is a long time to go without food for a bodybuilder, I can feel you sweating right now, and it’s unpleasantly moist. However, with proper food timing and proper supplementation, you can have the best of both worlds. Look, you are a bodybuilder, so you should be used to “starving” anyways! Unless, of course, you aren’t a real bodybuilder that understands what suffering is (Ooooooo, SHHHALLANGE!). A specific Intermittent Fasting protocol would need to be precisely calculated and generated (another science-y experiment-y word) with augmentation using specific supplementation. Let’s take your average “keto” style 130lb female and a “carb” eating 200lbs male as examples, and seeing as how this article is on the RedCon1 website, I should probably use RedCon1 supplementation as examples, or else risk being whipped, water-boarded, and terminated:

For a 130lbs Fit-Chick Potential Plan:

-fasting period from 9pm – Noon the next day

– Pre-Morning Cardio stack: 2 Caps RedCon1 MENTAL FOCUS, 1 Cap DOUBLE TAP

– Meal 1 (at noon) – 6 egg whites, ½ avocado, 1-2 cup spinach

– Meal 2 (at 2pm) – 1 scoop RedCon1 ISOTOPE, 1 teaspoon Macadamia Nut Oil

– Meal 3 (at 4pm) – 5oz. Chicken Breast, 2 cups green veggies, 1 teaspoon Olive Oil

– Pre-Workout – 1 Scoop TOTAL WAR, 1 Scoop BIG NOISE

– Post-Workout – 1 scoop RedCon1 ISOTOPE, 1 teaspoon Macadamia Nut Oil

-Meal 6 (no later than 9pm) – 5oz. Lean Beef, 2 cups green veggies, 1 teaspoon Olive Oil

– SLEEP, FAST, AND DO IT ALL AGAIN!!

For a 200lbs Gym-Bro Potential Plan:

-fasting period from 9pm – Noon the next day

– Pre-Morning Cardio stack: 2 Caps RedCon1 MENTAL FOCUS, 2 Cap DOUBLE TAP

– Meal 1 (at noon) – 10 egg whites, 2 whole eggs, 1 cup Oatmeal

– Meal 2 (at 2pm) – 2 scoops RedCon1 ISOTOPE, 1 tablespoon Macadamia Nut Oil

– Meal 3 (at 4pm) – 10oz. Lean Beef, 1 Cup Rice (cooked), 2 cups green veggies

– Pre-Workout – 1 Scoops TOTAL WAR, 1-2 Scoops BIG NOISE

– Intra-Workout – 1 Scoop CLUSTER BOMB, 1 scoop ISOTOPE (lots of water and sip throughout workout)

– Post-Workout – 10oz. Chicken Breast, 1-2 cups rice (depending on hunger)

– Meal 6 (no later than 9pm) – 8oz. Lean Beef, 2 cups green veggies

– SLEEP, FAST, AND DO IT ALL AGAIN!!

Understand, I’m taking averages here. Everyone’s body is different and everybody’s metabolisms are different. If you feel as though you fit into one of those general categories above, then fine, give it a whirl! If not, well that’s fine too, this is just an example of how to include “Intermittent Fasting” into one’s diet plan while still meeting general nutritional requirements for building muscle. The health benefits and anti-aging bonuses cannot really be denied given what current research is saying, so it maybe wise for you to starve a little. I can tell you this, it will build character and discipline, AND build muscle! So stay hungry, my friends.

~by Vijay Puri BS DC

After a slew of wannabe’s and “ephedra free” knock-offs over the past decade, the pre-workout subcategory of supplementation has been hit and miss. Only in the past few years has a major jump been made with more heavily and proven researched ingredients to take the fit-fam to new levels of training intensity. Let’s take a look at the “new school” and try to understand some of the ingredients that would assemble a winning pre-workout formula:

First and foremost; CAFFEINE! Do NOT underestimate the power of caffeine. There is a reason that this psychoactive stimulant is a part of EVERY pre-workout/energy drink out there. Number one; it works, number two; its safe, and number three; its effective! Seriously, does anybody know of anybody that knows of anybody that died from caffeine?? NO! Of course not! It is the world’s most widely used stimulant, and not one illness or malady reported. “Doctor, my nail beds won’t stop bleeding, I think it’s the caffeine”, said no one, ever. In addition to it’s energy bumping effects, there is heightened focus, better muscular contractility, and the effect of increased free-fatty acid liberation for energy use! Can’t beat that!

It used to be fashionable to pound L-Arginine pre-workout because it would give you vaso-dilation and a ridiculous pump. And for some it did! The problem with L-Arginine supplementation is that after a while, your body would adapt to it and the effects would be lost. It would stop working, although, but that didn’t stop it from remaining expensive! So the science geeks figured out a better way of doing things. Those wacky brainiacs discovered an amino acid with a certain ability to “round up” free Arginine that was already consumed in the diet via protein sources, and thus increasing general plasma Arginine levels! GENIUS! Citrulline Malate is its name, and what does it do for you? It increases Growth Hormone secretion by the anterior pituitary and makes your adrenal glands produce more testosterone, nandrolone, and naturally occurring oxymetholone. KIDDING! Actually, higher plasma levels of Arginine will lead to a chemical reaction which results in increased nitric oxide production and a delay of ammonia build up in the hard working muscle cell. Train harder, get more reps, and experience less fatigue on those brutal drop sets. Sure, not as fancy as naturally occurring Anadrol, but way safer and way smarter too! While we are on the subject of delaying muscular fatigue via amino acid supplementation, let us also talk about Beta-Alanine and Taurine. Both amino acids act similarly to Citrulline Malate in the effects of higher muscular endurance. Beta–Alanine works to increase Carnosine plasma levels (which is actually a di-peptide), which in turn increases muscular endurance, and Taurine acts a powerful anti-oxidant to help defeat those nasty “free radicals” that would impede those extra reps and cause a decrease in strength of muscular contractility! As you can see, these three potent amino acids work back to back to create the best environment for your performance.

Did someone say Agmatine Sulfate?? Of course they didn’t. It is so NOT a common thing to just blurt out into the open! In truth, I couldn’t think of an appropriate segue, however, in relation to pre-workout “pumps” and nitric oxide release, Agmatine Sulfate is showing strong anecdotal promise among bros and fit-chicks in gyms worldwide. Although technically classified as a neurotransmitter and is showing some promise as a treatment for neuropathic illnesses, it has some ability to inhibit the Nitric oxide synthase enzyme. So basically, it may allow for higher natural blood levels of Nitric Oxide for that wild, skin splitting pump! As a result of this action, it is included in a lot of the cohesive pre-workout formulas out there.

So what do we do about no ephedrine? After all, the old E/C/A stack (ephedra/caffeine/aspirin) was the original energy pill. SOAP BOX RANT – Ephedra was banned because two idiot kids died while they were “taking ephedra”, and working out, bodies draped in garbage bags, while inside of a boiling hot sauna. But naturally, it was the ephedra that killed them. You know what? Those two idiots were so dumb that they would have found a whole new and unthought-of  way of killing themselves devoid of any ephedra, and of course, the FDA would still find a way to blame Ephedra. – END SOAP BOX RANT. Lucky for us, the wizard bodybuilding chemists alchemized DMAA, or 1-Dimethylamylamine, but those frigid foiling feds took that away too. Again, the bodybuilding wizard chemists whipped up another LEGAL potion, and this time 2 different strains similar to the short lived DMAA called: N-Phenethyl Dimethylamine and 2-Aminoisoheptane. So far so good with these two stimulants. Both are powerful CNS stimulators, much like their older brother DMAA, and thus, are a welcomed addition to any high octane pre-workout supplement. As if these two hybrid DMAA clones weren’t enough to kick things into super overdrive, there is are a few more stimulant that would be a hell of a stack to complete the Fantastic 4 of stims.

Yohimbine HCL has long been a go to for those seeking fat loss. Where most stimulants would affect the beta adrenergic receptors (smooth muscle constriction, fatty acid liberation), Yohimbine HCL would counter effect the down regulation of alpha 2 adrenergic receptors, while at the same time increasing cardiac contraction! Sounds scary yah? It’s not all that bad. They work hand in hand to make the heart work harder, arteries constrict, liberate fatty acids for energy expenditure, keep adrenalin high, and they make rocket thrusters grow out from all your hinge joints. I kid, I kid, but the former points are all true. Here’s the rub; Yohimbine HCL is NOT well tolerated by everyone. It can and has caused nausea in a lot of cases and trials and it can also inhibit fat loss if used to long, or, at too high a dose because of it’s antagonistic nature of the alpha 1 receptor. Yes, there are a lot of receptors and a lot of nomenclature that is being thrown around, but it will all make sense. The answer: Rauwolscine. Very similar to Yohimbine HCL in action and structure, but from a different plant altogether and ONLY stimulation of the alpha 2 receptors! So fat loss NEVER gets impaired. It should be noted however, that Rauwolscine is a powerful substance that can cause “jitters” and anxiety in those who are sensitive to stimulants. User beware.

The last stimulant that would complete the Fantastic 4 of the current stimulant scene, is Theobroma Coacao Extract (yielding Theobromine) if: N-Phenethyl Dimethylamine and 2-Aminoisoheptane were Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman, and Rauwolscine was The Thing, then Theobromine would be The Human Torch. Take that Marvel Comics vs. Real Life Supplement cross-over! Theobromine is a chemical cousin to Caffeine and strong stimulant, but with the absence of the psychoactive focus/energy properties. So although you won’t “feel” it working, you will notice yourself feeling hotter and perspiring more. And so the Fantastic 4 of stimulants is complete and ready to aid you in attacking your next workout, but just like in the Fantastic 4, every once in a while, a new mysterious character shows up to help.

Just like the Silver Surfer’s first appearance (in FF #48), Higenamine HCL is a mysterious figure that looks like it maybe pretty powerful! The flying surf board is a dead give away. I kid, but Higenamine HCL is chemically a beta-receptor stimulator (kind of like Ephedrine HCL), and so it has great potential to make a HUGE impact on fat loss, specifically during training! Hey, if the Fantastic 4 with the Silver Surfer can’t take on and beat Galactus, who can??? Sorry, I went ultra-nerdy there, but you get the general gist of it. Four main heavy hitting stimulants, plus Higenamine HCL more than makes up for the lack of DMAA or Ephedra in any pre-workout formula.

Finally, the cherry on top is an important fixture for any narcissistic, megalomaniac, and uber powerful pre-workout formula. Like a prom-queen without a tiara, a pre-workout concoction would NOT be complete without Bioperine. Sounds pretty fancy, I know, however, Bioperine is just a trademarked name for Black Pepper Extract. Here you thought you were getting a diamond, but instead you got a Cats Eyes Aquamarine Topaz. Trust me, it’s not as expensive, but she’ll never know (insert evil laugh). Black Pepper Extract is a nice addition to a pre-workout formula because of it’s innate ability to slow intestinal transport, or in other words, increase the bioavailability of other ingredients! So really, that prom-queen was gonna look pretty hot anyways, but drop that tiara a-tilt on her big, bold-hold hair, and that hotness factor just went through the roof!… I didn’t have a lot of friends in high school.

I can read your minds. How on earth are you supposed to get ALL of these ingredients in the proper reported doses and not spend a small fortune while taking up precious kitchen counter top real estate?? The fact is, it is not worth the trouble. Without sounding to “frony”, luckily all of these powerhouse ingredients can be found in TOTAL WAR, from Redcon 1. There may not be an Ultimate Orange anymore, an effective one anyways, but we are in a great time and place with supplementation because TOTAL WAR supersedes its’ predecessors by leaps and bounds. If Ultimate Orange was “Dutch”, and TOTAL WAR was the Predator, and if this was real life, Dutch wouldn’t stand a chance. Proceed with caution though, fit-fam, Total War shows no quarter for the weak…

~by Vijay Puri BS DC

When last we met, we talked about the magic that is Liposomal Technology and how it applies to today’s batch of the Pro-hormones ugly step-children; 1-DHEA, 4-DHEA, and 19-Nor-DHEA. Remember that girl, or guy, in High School that was butt-ugly, awkward and shy? Remember how they use to keep to themselves, and have long hair that covered their zit infested face, and liked someone who didn’t like them back, and was mortified by the fact that that miserable bitch laughed and teased me behind my back and said I had a disgusting body!!! Remember that!???…Sorry, a little to close to home there. Anyhoo, that misfit guy/girl in High School, that ugly duckling that you remember, would one day grow up to be the studliest, most stunning, and beautiful creature when they finally hit their gorgeous sprout Post-High School/Post-College. Eat that shit Melissa, who’s fat now!??? Well the same can be said about the current Bodybuilding’s darling Pro-Hormones known as; 1-DHEA, 4-DHEA, and 19-Nor-DHEA. They were designed and put out there, but users thought them useless because you had to take such a high dose that the cost per dose wasn’t warranted! Years later, a delivery system known as “Liposomal Technology” would come along and change these lagging, ill absorbed DHEA metabolites into pro-hormone powerhouses! Kind of like the whole “ugly duckling morphing into a swan” analogy, but more so an analogy of a Prince Adam grabs the Power Sword and speaks; “BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL…”, you get the picture.

Let’s address the giant pink lemon in the room right now, the days of Super DMZ, Methylstenbolone, and off-the-storeroom-shelf pure pharmaceutical grade encapsulated Metandienone disguised as “Tribulus”, are OVER. We, the bodybuilding supplement industry cannot do that anymore. Those goddamn Feds, who would crash a Cure4Aids party because the band was to loud, like to take away all that is fun and fair in the Bodybuilding Supplement industry. All because some idiot senator was scorned by the fact that he sucked at High School baseball and had a tiny wiener, when other kids were using anabolic agents and killing the game!? Let me tell you something, that prick senator could have taken 8 tons of Super DMZ and he would STILL suck at baseball, he would still suck at getting laid, and he would still be stuck holding his tiny limp wiener in his hand! You’re still an asshole, Joe Biden! Off soapbox rant… So what happened next was that chemists needed to get creative. Because DHEA is a legal supplement, off-shoots of the hormone known as DHEA are also LEGAL supplements. Here is the genius at work, DHEA is a “master hormone” from which other hormones can be created from within the human body via enzymatic pathways. Here’s a next step conversion for you to wrap your head around; DHEA can EASILY convert to Androstenedione, which can easily convert to Testosterone/the king of muscle building hormones. The problem is that DHEA can easily convert to Estrogen too, not optimal. What did those wacky wild chemists do? They used naturally occurring metabolites of DHEA instead of DHEA itself! For example, a natural occurring metabolite of DHEA is 1-DHEA and here is where it gets anabolically delicious: 1-DHEA converts to 1-Andro, which converts to 1-Testosterone! If you are as old as I am, you’ll remember when 1-Andro was the ELITE pro-hormone on the market! No major side effects other than pure lean mass accrual! So 1-DHEA converts to 2 amazing anabolic miracles. You really can’t lose! To make it even better, the original problem of “absorption” of these DHEA metabolites, SOLVED by the sensation known as “Liposomal Technology”.

After speaking with the DHEA metabolites patent holder, Eric Marchewtiz, it has become clearer than ever; You’ll never keep pro-hormones down and out (eat a cock, Mr. Biden). The pro-hormone game is stronger than ever thanks to the fusion of 1-DHEA, 4-DHEA, and 19-NorDHEA with Liposomal Technology delivery systems! Need a “wet” bulker like the good old days of Deca from the 1980’s? No problem, we got that handled too. Back in the later part of 1990’s, Norandrostenedione and Norandrostenediol were all the rage and a POWERFUL pro-hormone that you could get right off the Supplement store shelves! Users would find from these pro-hormones, a very familiar pump and the effects of “size and strength gains”. So familiar, in fact, that they thought they were on a cycle of Deca! Alas, with the original ban of Andros/Norandros in 2004, we had to say rest in piece to the possibility of having another nandrolone converting product. Until NOW! The DHEA metabolite called 19-Nor-DHEA, is a 2 step conversion to Nandrolone. Prepare yourself for this:

How’s your mind? Blown? As well it should be, as 19-Nor-DHEA is a legitimate metabolite that will convert to Norandro-diol/Norandro-dione, which easily converts to the anabolically exquisite hormone, Nandrolone. Just take my money, NOW!

We might as well talk about the 3^rd brother in question. If 1-DHEA was the lean and trim modelesque brother, throwing out that blue steel pucker, and 19-Nor-DHEA was the overly muscular and strong brother, with great hair and looked like a tank-top Mr. Olympia competitor, 4-DHEA would be…well, this brother would be pretty much be a fusion of both brothers, but with not as great of hair as 19-Nor-DHEA, and WAY hornier. Like it’s other brother’s, 4-DHEA converts to Testosterone, in 2 steps. First from 4-DHEA to Androstenedione, or, Androstenediol, and then to Testosterone. So pretty much exactly like a cycle of Testosterone, you can expect huge strength gains, massive pumps, lean mass gains, an aromatization reaction into Estrogen (which explains the horniness) and a reduction reaction into DHT (which explains the body hair, and the intermittent boners like a 14-year-old boy) depending on personal biochemistry, of course. Biden may have taken away our “designer steroids”, but the pro-hormone game is stronger than ever! And the best part, they are all considered supplements because they are DHEA offshoots, completely legal, and non-toxic to the liver **cough-Anadrol-cough**.

The good days of super-supplements are NOT over, my friends. The Avengers Trinity of Pro-Hormone Power are here to stay. And as Mr. Trump would say: they will grab you by your, um, hair? And lead you to muscular greatness (disclaimer: with correct nutrition and training). In closing, Biden can go to hell. Melissa too.

“Life is too short to be small, bro.” ~ Mighty Mike Quinn

~by Vijay Puri BS DC

“Milk is for babies, when you grow older, you have to drink Beer” – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Circa 1975

A classic line from a classic movie that we all adore. In a way, and as crazy as it sounds, The Oak was right! Besides for just busting a reporter’s balls, Mr. Olympia was talking about a general idea that was beyond him at that moment. Evolution.

In this day and age of supplementation, we as consumers, cannot afford to be forking over our dollars over the interwebs for concoctions of Shark Cartilage and Boron capsules in hopes that these purchases will translate into the accrual of lean mass and lost body fat! We have become to smart for the good ol’ Weider tactics of “Crash Gainer” and “OKG” with a dashing photo of Achim Albrecht to catch our attention anymore. The consumers don’t care about the big, beautiful, round, shiny, and oil-drizzled ass of Amy Fadhli in a onesie thong swimsuit…I’ve lost my train of thought… Oh yes; we, the consumer, DEMAND science, scientific studies, and scientific proof! You want me to buy a supplement?? Well, it had better be backed by Bayer and have numerous peer reviewed studies on PubMed……AND be accompanied by a big, beautiful, round, shiny, and oil-drizzled ass of Amy Fadhli in a onesie thong swimsuit. Or Trish Stratus. Either or.

Here is a scientific word for you backed by tens of thousands of hours of research and application in the real world and used in current modern medicines today: Liposome. Sure, it sounds like a secret alien crystal that yields the power of Class 100 Super-Strength accompanied by an indestructible Muffin Top, but let me assure you, it is something entirely different. For a moment, let’s travel back to 8^th grade study of the human cell. One of the first thing that we learn about “the cell” is that it is round in shape and has a “cell wall” around each little orb-like structure. Here is another scientific word for you: Phospholipid Bilayer. It’s a big one, so bear with me. This magical bi-layer is comprised of two specific layers; a hydrophilic part (water loving) and a hydrophobic fatty part (water fearing). In short, how this structure is comprised is that the “water loving” heads of the phospholipid bi-layer are on the outsides of the structure and the “water fearing” obese tails are on the inside of the structure. Here is the connection that you so desperately need at this moment; a Liposome is a spherical vesicle (kinda like those “cells” we studied in 8^th grade) that is comprised of a phospholipid bilayer and has “stuff” inside it. So you see, this ball acts to protect the inside ingredients from being destroyed by water or highly acidic environments!

Scratching your heads yet? Don’t do that, you’ll lose your hair and NO amount of Liposomes can help you then. So why are these liposomes important in modern medicine?? Because, quite frankly, your stomach is an asshole. Not literally, but metaphorically, your stomach seeks to destroy stuff and contains one of the world’s most recognized corrosive acids, known as Hydrochloric Acid. There are many ill patients out there that need specific medication which needs to be taken orally. The problem is, that the medication needs to be able to survive the entry point into the world of human “Innerspace” (shout out to Dennis Quaid and Martin Short), that entry point being the stomach! Enter Liposomal Technology… You take a delicate dainty medicine and wrap that little sucker in a network of liposome vesicles, and just like that, you’ve protected that whiney little bitch of a medicine from the dangerous hydrochloric acid and harsh environment of the stomach! Once that initial pass is complete, the Liposome-wrapped-RX finds its way into the small intestine where that fatty layer of the Liposome is completely digested away, and voila, the skinny defenseless turd of a medicine is released and absorbed, HANDIDLY, by the small intestine and into the blood stream and carried off to where ever it needs to go. Pretty brilliant stuff, eh?

 Why is that so important for current supplementation? Let me enlighten you. Since our wonderful federal government decided that they would take away ALL of our beloved and highly effective Pro-Hormones, we were left with the useless ones only. Kind of like being the last few kids to be picked for a Dodgeball team. But why were they useless?? After all, they were still “Pro-Hormones” and the name alone should make you grow muscle, right? Not the case. The big problem with the left-overs, being 1-DHEA, 4-DHEA, and 19-NorDHEA, was that you needed to ingest SO MUCH of each structure per dose because the stomach would literally destroy 95% of it! That’s a terrible investment of your dollar and terrible for your gainz!! This explains why the early anecdotal trials of these super supplements went to shit… literally and figuratively. Until now. So the tale goes, Jared Wheat, of Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, came to the aid of these beaten down, bruised, and bleeding pro-hormones, dressed in a sparkling adamantium/vibranium alloy armor and mounted upon a steed that was half Stallion and half mega-hung Myostatin Negative Bull. He gathered up all the fallen 1-DHEA, 4-DHEA, and 19-NorDHEA, spoke in Warlock tongue, and casted an incantation which engulfed and wreathed each pro-hormone bound in Liposomal Technology. Thus making them more powerful than ever and able to fully withstand the wretched torment of the human stomach and fully maximize their anabolic properties in human Innerspace (shout out to Dennis Quaid and Martin Short)…. Now, that’s just how the story goes and that’s pretty much how I like to believe it all happened. I wasn’t there so I couldn’t say whether that is all fact or fiction. I guess nobody will truly know?

But in the end, supplement companies can rest easy again. The good old days are NOT behind us. Thanks to Liposomal Technology, the aforementioned pro-hormones that those dirty, disgusting, overzealous, Federal Government pricks took away from us, won’t be in vain. In fact, these current crop of pro-hormones are now better than ever, all due to Liposomal Technology. Brought to us by Jared Wheat. On his Stallion-Myostatin-Bull. With an enormous penis. How’s that for science backed supplementation?

~by Vijay Puri BS DC