Wheelhouse15 Member

Yeah, and to me a guy 222 is a monster lol.

There is no way to know what she does because we have no context and she's just a metaphor that doesn't exist anyway. Ask around all the "naturally" thin people you know how they maintain their weight and you'll get a ton of different answers and many will actually have lost weight to boot. By the looks of it you would…

Based on my love for dentists this might actually make more sense than a live one. :lol:

Second that, blood work first will determine if you need this. If you are eating iodized salt you should never have an issue and taking too much iodine is dangerous. Now if you end up with a goitre then you can worry about iodine.

For me it was after I had lost a lot of weight and then maintained for a few months that I started on a clean bulking program. Wow, I realized that I had former fat guy syndrome (ok not a real term but it fits) when every time the scale went up a little more than I wanted it to I would see myself getting fluffy in the…

Seeing the macros would help since keto is lower protein too.

Good luck with your bulk and keep us posted on the progress. Many of us have done bulking and can help support you when you are doubting yourself.

You also need to take Beta Alanine every day to get the effects and it doesn't need to be taken at a specific time. Also, Beta Alanine and Citrulline Malate both cause the tingling effect and some people can have issues with that.

Your bulk momentum won't be impacted since you are trying to gain muscle and the creatine doesn't really add much to muscle gain. Just take the plunge and go off the creatine and I doubt you'll miss it. I certainly haven't.

Hair loss during diets is not unusual since your body is trying to preserve nutrients when it feels it's starving. Although, if it's as dramatic as you seem to suggest you might want to talk to your doctor to make sure their isn't something else going on.

And we know that self-reports are so inaccurate you can just chuck them in the garbage and not feel guilty. Plenty of metabolic chamber studies have shown that people are horrible at self-reports and are usually under reporting consumption by half. People also tend to over report exercise by double. This originally led…

Actually, as far as net calories goes, those that can be absorbed, cooking increases the calories your body can actually access. This is one reason why we developed large brains because our hominid ancestors started cooking and that allowed for better energy absorption from food. Ok, nothing to do with the way you should…

True, tea with milk is a known combination for stone formation.

Doesn't hurt to do 5g but 3g shouldn't be much if any different for you. The problem is that this is a supplement so there isn't much fine tuning of actual dosage. I would say just play with the dosage a bit and see.

Loading is unnecessary.

It's also not very correct.

Not sure how a correlative study shows causality but it's curious that it seems to be limited to women who drink tea and no difference was found with men. I only did a quick read though but the authors seem to note that there are a lot of issues with many of the studies that included as well. I'll have to look more into…

Many would say it's the best thing to drink so no need to change unless you want to. Just know that if you want to switch some of your water for coffee or tea that it isn't going to be an issue either.

See my reply above, I'm just a sarcastic person late at night lol.

I don't think you have been accused of trolling, but accusing people of employing only bro science when you don't know the arguments is fallacious and won't win friends nor influence people. I skimmed through the article and found the usual suspects, correlational studies paired with rat studies but nothing even remotely…

So quoting a business magazine article makes you an authority on the state of the body of scientific evidence? Ok that makes so much sense. I'll turn in my neuroscience degree and take a subscription out on Forbes.

This is incorrect, the diuretic effects of these drinks is insignificant and has negligable impact on their ability to hydrate the body. You would have to drink a lot of coffee or tea to actually get the diuretic effect. I'm not surprised that your skin looks better since hydration levels can affect the apperance and…

Exactly, the 64oz per day is not exactly a myth but it's based on calculations of food intake to water requirements and the 64oz included water within the food itself, which is substantial. The marketing myth of being thirsty before you know it is another thing that needs to die. Your body is pretty good at letting you…

From examine.com section 19.1 There are no clinically significant side effects of acute creatine supplementation. Numerous trials have been conducted in humans with varying dosages, and the side effects have been limited to gastrointestinal distress (from too much creatine consumption at once) and cramping (from…

I stopped taking creatine a year ago and haven't really notice much difference. There is a small, incremental, advantage but I don't think it's worth it for me anymore. I also think I'm one of the non-responders or maybe I'm just normal and just not noticing that small boost. I would recommend stopping and seeing how you…

Why do you need a preworkout? Most of them are mostly caffeine or similar stimulants and they are seriously under dosed on the ingredients that might actually prove beneficial like citrulline malate and many of the ingredients have no or only weak evidence as to their effectiveness. Unless you are doing extremely intense…

I would say that you could get some good results but it would not be as good as a hypertrophy based weight training program. Bodyweight programs are great but size is not the primary goal whereas a hypertrophy based program is focused on the best techniques to maximize muscle growth. Even a powerlifting program does not…

That's another beast completely, and it's, how you might say, a much lower barrier crowd.

I've always wondered the success rate and assumed 0% was a pretty good guess, but what do I know I usually get all boring and say "Hi".

I've had a few PM's from "coaches" from a MLM I won't name. I find it annoying because I'm not here to buy a product.