Post: #26

So which eggs do you guys recommend?

Are the organic ones from Whole foods legit?

Or should I go farmers market?

Some brand from the regular grocery store?

Which?

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Also, how long can they stay in your fridge where you can still eat them raw?

Post: #27

(01-20-2013 01:00 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  So which eggs do you guys recommend?

Are the organic ones from Whole foods legit?

Or should I go farmers market?

Some brand from the regular grocery store?

Which?

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Also, how long can they stay in your fridge where you can still eat them raw?

Just get the best you can out of accessibility/costs. If your near farmers markets - get the local farm stuff. If a WF is close to - you go there. Unless your big on trying to eat local and such I don't stress to go travel miles and miles for local foods like some granola types do.

The edge that a Farmers Market has is that you can ask the Farmer dude to hook you up and just buy a shit ton in one swoop. He will sell you a crate or two of 24/32 and you can just pack them in the fridge.

Eggs can stay in your fridge for a long time. I've never heard of a egg going "bad" in a fridge if kept consistently cold. They do turn stale like lets say bread in the fridge, as you can smell it on the shell. The egg just has a flat smell to it and when you crack it the yolk looks very weak and bland, but nothing to the point of it being rancid (you would know, it would smell like funk). My parents rarely eat eggs and sometimes a carton sits in their fridge for 2 months if I am not around and I never had a issue with them.

This is what happens with mass-farm-market eggs they sit in refrigeration/warehouse for my guess close to a month before you get it from store into your stomach. Farmer Market eggs cuts that transport/warehouse period down considerably and you end up getting a way fresher more healthy product.

Just like fresh Fish or Meat smell and touch your food you can tell when things are off., everything should always have a nice clean smell and feel to it.

For brands its all location specific. Stores in different regions will source their eggs from different spots as it makes no sense to truck eggs from Vermont to Texas. States may have stupid laws too, in Ontario only mass-farm eggs are allowed to be sold in stores for instance.

Here is a list of a bunch of farms and where they are sourced this should lead you in the right direction:

http://www.cornucopia.org/organic-egg-scorecard/

Post: #28

I felt queasy for a day the Last time couple times I ate raw eggs.

Post: #29

(01-20-2013 12:43 PM)IRTdenialist Wrote:  

(01-20-2013 12:24 PM)Enigma Wrote:  I've gotta thank you guys for putting me onto raw eggs. I started adding three to the big shake I was already taking daily and I already notice a huge difference. It doesn't effect the taste of my shake at all but my testosterone is through the roof. I'm ridiculously horny at all times and I literally cum twice as much...it's almost excessive at this point. Women already commented that I came a lot before, now it's shooting out like a cannon and ricocheting off shit onto my sheets and walls.

Glad to hear it bro. I have six raw eggs per day along with 6 tablespoons of olive divided between my two shakes. Add a table spoon of high strength fish oil and a healthy dose of zinc and you'll be a machine. Also great for your body modification and general health goals.

I already fuck with fish oil and zinc. Fish oil in gel capsules and zinc from my multi and food.

Right now my shake is:
2 bananas
1 tablespoon raw cacao
3 raw, organic eggs
1/2 cup oats
2 tablespoons natural peanut butter
3 tablespoons organic coconut oil

Then I add a few cubes of ice and fill it with milk until everything is submerged. Bam, delicious peanut butter fudge shake.

I might try splitting it while keeping the number of eggs the same (thus doubling my intake to 6) and adding some olive oil. Take one in the morning and one at night. There's no way I could down two of these a day as it is over 1000 calories.

Post: #30

(01-20-2013 01:31 PM)kosko Wrote:  

(01-20-2013 01:00 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  So which eggs do you guys recommend?

Are the organic ones from Whole foods legit?

Or should I go farmers market?

Some brand from the regular grocery store?

Which?

---

Also, how long can they stay in your fridge where you can still eat them raw?

Just get the best you can out of accessibility/costs. If your near farmers markets - get the local farm stuff. If a WF is close to - you go there. Unless your big on trying to eat local and such I don't stress to go travel miles and miles for local foods like some granola types do.

The edge that a Farmers Market has is that you can ask the Farmer dude to hook you up and just buy a shit ton in one swoop. He will sell you a crate or two of 24/32 and you can just pack them in the fridge.

Eggs can stay in your fridge for a long time. I've never heard of a egg going "bad" in a fridge if kept consistently cold. They do turn stale like lets say bread in the fridge, as you can smell it on the shell. The egg just has a flat smell to it and when you crack it the yolk looks very weak and bland, but nothing to the point of it being rancid (you would know, it would smell like funk). My parents rarely eat eggs and sometimes a carton sits in their fridge for 2 months if I am not around and I never had a issue with them.

This is what happens with mass-farm-market eggs they sit in refrigeration/warehouse for my guess close to a month before you get it from store into your stomach. Farmer Market eggs cuts that transport/warehouse period down considerably and you end up getting a way fresher more healthy product.

Just like fresh Fish or Meat smell and touch your food you can tell when things are off., everything should always have a nice clean smell and feel to it.

For brands its all location specific. Stores in different regions will source their eggs from different spots as it makes no sense to truck eggs from Vermont to Texas. States may have stupid laws too, in Ontario only mass-farm eggs are allowed to be sold in stores for instance.

Here is a list of a bunch of farms and where they are sourced this should lead you in the right direction:

http://www.cornucopia.org/organic-egg-scorecard/

Yep, that's about right. Try a few egg sources near you and then decide. One thing you will notice is that the free range (chickens free to roam) eggs is that the yolk will be a very deep orange colour, whereas the mass produced egg yolks are a nasty pale yellow. The free range eggs also have much larger amounts of omega 3's.

Post: #31

Raw eggs? It doesn't sound that delicious.

Is there a reason against scrambled eggs instead of raw eggs?

Post: #32

i take creatine hcl and creatine monohydrate. Also 1 muscle milk shake per day. Besides that I try to jack off 3-5 times per day

Post: #33

Took a niacin supplement this morning, it aparrently helps burn fat which is good I guess, but I'm really only taking it to help me cleanse the weed from my system for an upcoming piss test. The label says: "dosage over 50mg may cause transient hot flushes of the skin" - I took 100mg and started burning the fuck up, and broke out in a red rash all over. It's gone now, a few hours later and it seems to be working as the weight is cutting quite nicely, but a word of warning to time your dosage so you don't have to go out glowing bright red.

Post: #34

(01-21-2013 09:18 PM)LooTa Wrote:  Took a niacin supplement this morning, it aparrently helps burn fat which is good I guess, but I'm really only taking it to help me cleanse the weed from my system for an upcoming piss test. The label says: "dosage over 50mg may cause transient hot flushes of the skin" - I took 100mg and started burning the fuck up, and broke out in a red rash all over. It's gone now, a few hours later and it seems to be working as the weight is cutting quite nicely, but a word of warning to time your dosage so you don't have to go out glowing bright red.

Serious? Weight is cutting that fast?

Post: #35

I second the raw eggs. Growing up when we went out to the farm, which was pretty much everyday, we would help my grandma pick the eggs fresh from the nest. She would bring them in the house and my Grandpa would have 6 raw ones right on the spot. He got my brother and I doing the same thing. He lived to be 91 and was still 6'3 200lbs. My grandma is still alive and is 92 now and no signs of slowing down.

Even today I have already thrown back 6 eggs and I will be having 6 more at some point tonight. In all my years of doing this I have never once gotten the slightest bit ill, same with my brother and I don't recall my dad or grandpa either.

I am sure to buy the free range, grass fed chickens though. Just like what we had growing up. I would not recommend eating raw eggs from a mass produced farm that keeps chickens caged up.

Another supplement I have mentioned before that everyone should look into is astaxanthin. It is by far the most powerful anti-oxidant on the planet.

If you are supplementing with fish oils and it does not contain astaxanthin then you are wasting your money. Your pills are already rancid before you opened the package. You receive no benefit from omegas that do not contain astaxanthin.

Post: #36

My favorites are:

Source Naturals NADH
Aloha Medicinals Cordyceps
True Athlete ZMA with Theanine

Post: #37

(01-20-2013 02:20 PM)Enigma Wrote:  Right now my shake is:
2 bananas
1 tablespoon raw cacao
3 raw, organic eggs
1/2 cup oats
2 tablespoons natural peanut butter
3 tablespoons organic coconut oil

Why the cacao? What are the pros and cons?

(01-22-2013 01:57 PM)rivex Wrote:  My favorites are:

Source Naturals NADH
Aloha Medicinals Cordyceps
True Athlete ZMA with Theanine

Can you break these down a little? Pros/Cons?

Post: #38

(01-22-2013 03:44 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 01:57 PM)rivex Wrote:  My favorites are:

Source Naturals NADH
Aloha Medicinals Cordyceps
True Athlete ZMA with Theanine

Can you break these down a little? Pros/Cons?

I've only been taking NADH for a week and ZMA for a month but the effects were noticeable right away. I've taken Cordyceps on and off for several years. So I've noticed the benefits when taking it, and they disappear when I stop. Those brands were the only ones I've tried so far.

Since I started taking NADH I've felt more energetic, focused, happy, and ready to accomplish work and chores. No negative effects so far.

I'm taking ZMA for the immune benefits of Zinc and the sleep/relaxation benefits of Magnesium. I fall asleep faster and sleep deeper. It causes me to remember my dreams more often and they are very vivid and powerful. I had my first lucid dream in years after I took it for a few days. No negative effects so far.

When I take cordyceps I feel more energetic and less hungry. It is supposed to help support the immune system, increase oxygen utilization and regulate blood sugar. One minor side effect is that when I take the max daily dosage I get the sensation that I have to yawn, but I'm not able to yawn as easily as I normally would. However, that doesn't happen when I lower the dose.

Post: #39

(01-21-2013 09:18 PM)LooTa Wrote:  Took a niacin supplement this morning, it aparrently helps burn fat which is good I guess, but I'm really only taking it to help me cleanse the weed from my system for an upcoming piss test. The label says: "dosage over 50mg may cause transient hot flushes of the skin" - I took 100mg and started burning the fuck up, and broke out in a red rash all over. It's gone now, a few hours later and it seems to be working as the weight is cutting quite nicely, but a word of warning to time your dosage so you don't have to go out glowing bright red.

Its similar to the tingle that Beta-Alanine gives (I find the Niacin flush more warming and soothing while the Alanine tingle is a kind of more annoying). Niacin flushes and dilates the hell out of you which is why you get such a rush and flush from it. Its actually a good thing to take pre-workout but a lot of dudes don't because it turns them red as a tomato. I am dark skinned to the redness is not noticeable to others only me. Its dirt cheap also if anybody wants a bargain pre-workout use:

Niacin
Caffiene
B-12

All three won't cost you more then 20 bucks and will last you 3 months+.

Post: #40

Creatine doubled my endurance in workouts. I have no idea why, and evidently that's not normal, but for me that stuff is worth its weight in gold.

Post: #41

Regarding eggs and cholesterol: 90% of the cholesterol is being produced by your own body, only 10 % comes from food intake. I don't really see how eating many eggs a day will significantly increase your T levels....any studies on this ?

A good scource on supplements btw. is http://www.ergo-log.com/index.html

Post: #42

(02-10-2013 08:08 PM)sheesh Wrote:  Regarding eggs and cholesterol: 90% of the cholesterol is being produced by your own body, only 10 % comes from food intake. I don't really see how eating many eggs a day will significantly increase your T levels....any studies on this ?

A good scource on supplements btw. is http://www.ergo-log.com/index.html

Your body can make all the cholesterol it needs, problem is it makes more LDL than HDL. I am sure most people know the difference between the 2 and the harmful effects of LDL.

Another big reason for dietary consumption of cholesterol is the micro nutrients that go along with it. Many vitamins are useless without being accompanied by dietary cholesterol. Those include A,D,E,K and minerals zinc and Iron.

Post: #43

(01-22-2013 03:44 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(01-20-2013 02:20 PM)Enigma Wrote:  Right now my shake is:
2 bananas
1 tablespoon raw cacao
3 raw, organic eggs
1/2 cup oats
2 tablespoons natural peanut butter
3 tablespoons organic coconut oil

Why the cacao? What are the pros and cons?

Didn't see this earlier.

Raw cacao is supposedly rich in antioxidants (more so than blueberries, red wine, and green tea), neurotransmitters (promote healthy brain function and serve as an antidepressant), fatty acids (raises good cholesterol and lowers bad), and contains essential minerals such as zinc and magnesium.

It definitely makes the shake taste better. Raw cacao is very bitter if you use too much though so start small.

Post: #44

I've been taking this every day,

1000 mg salmon oil (only bought this cause it was cheap and it has the same effects as regular fish oil)
10 mcg vitamin d

And my little going out supplements are:
100 mg Niacin
400 - 600 mg L-Theanine
200 - 400 mg caffiene (either from coffee or energy drink)

I find this little going out supplement has also made alcohol get you way more fucked off of less beers. So it's a good rule of thumb to either not drink or coast off of 1 - 3 beers for the night. But regardless, the little going out supplements I take get me in the zone and motivated. I get all of these from my GNC in Canada, but I have to order the L-Theanine from amazon; I suggest sticking to either naka brand or suntheanine if you want L-Theanine as I bought a generic brand and it most certainly did not do anything for me at all (a article I found on google said that it was a result of them mixing low quality and d-theanine with the L-theanine).

Post: #45

(01-21-2013 09:18 PM)LooTa Wrote:  Took a niacin supplement this morning, it aparrently helps burn fat which is good I guess, but I'm really only taking it to help me cleanse the weed from my system for an upcoming piss test. The label says: "dosage over 50mg may cause transient hot flushes of the skin" - I took 100mg and started burning the fuck up, and broke out in a red rash all over. It's gone now, a few hours later and it seems to be working as the weight is cutting quite nicely, but a word of warning to time your dosage so you don't have to go out glowing bright red.

Niacin is known for this, it's not harmful it's just uncomfy and looks funny. I'm dark skinned so you can't see the redness but close up I notice it. Niacin dialates the hell out your artiries and gets the blood flowing and heart up which is great for fat loss as it ramps up your metabolism.

I think I took 10 pills 50mg once in a day. I was trying to stay alert for a test and the warm tingle from Niacin kept me weird and awake.

A quick hack for a super low budget pre-workout Is Niacin + Caffine most designer pre-workouts have those as primary ingredients. You can get 2 months worth of the combo for like 8 bucks.

Post: #46

Can we have par-boiled eggs instead of raw eggs.

The risk of salmonella too great.

Post: #47

As for where to get supplements, I often use iherb. Even for Europeans it can make sense because they do a $4 delivery rate (no tracking), but it takes up to three weeks for the package to arrive.

Post: #48

(01-05-2013 12:49 PM)Superman Wrote:  Currently I take creatine and protein powder.
I want to start taking fish oil and a multivitamin are there any suggestions?

I am baised in Japan so I get my supplements from iherb.com and bodybuilding.com

I have a discount code for iherb.com pm if your interested.

So what does everyone else take and where do you buy them from?

I am currently taking this which is amazing:

http://uk.bodybuilding.com/store/clabs/o...combo.html

Also, PM me the discount code

Post: #49

How much fish oil are you guys taking a day?

I ordered NOW Ultra Omega 3, which has 1000mg fish oil, 500 EPA 250 DHA.

Is one a day in the mornings sufficient to benefit from it, or is twice a day optimal?

It will be a big difference, either it lasts me 6 months or 3.

Post: #50

Taking creatine and beta alanine plus some different types of vitamins.

Wrote two articles on the workings of creatine and beta alanine recently, if anyone's interested - they are on my blog.

Has any of you guys heard of Fenugreek? I just ordered some of it. Seems to have some rather interesting effects on both testosterone and creatine absorption.