I just saw this article at aralifestyle.com. I don't know what kind of website that is, but I thought it was an interesting article, nonetheless, about a natural muscle enhancement supplement called Stemulite.
ARALifestyle.com wrote:(ARA) - Researchers in New Jersey have developed an effective, healthy and legal alternative to steroids. The weekly parade of amateur and professional athletes being exposed for using steroids may be a thing of the past.
Do you think this is a legitimate discovery, or just someone's way of making science work for them (and their pocketbooks)?
Sounds ropey at best and like another Beta-ecdysterone.
There's no stats telling us what that 30% lifting increase equated to, like 5lbs, 8lbs, 10lbs?
It just started off as a boo Steroids, yay Eggplant Extract / Stemulite.
Steroids also affect things like Test and GH. To say they inflate muscle is a bit poor. I mean how could someone like Ronnie Coleman, Leg, (Sled), Press a tonne + for reps, if he merely was "inflated"? That just sounds like a big pump, especially coupled with the no permanent benficial results tag. Not permanent because you'd lose them if you stopped for good, but if you cycled on / off, you'd lose 25-50%, depending on how good your diet was, if it wasn't adequate, possibly the lot. So some of the gains could be permanent until you quit altogether.
There was no evidence of the doses used on people, no peer revied science to back up the stats, which they didn't show.
One guy saying it worked so well for him, and not only that, but using a pissy cross section of just 20 people, who have no stated age, or height or build genetics. Come on here, how hard could it be to get some pretty buff dudes of say 80-100 strong? It's Florida. Just go to a Golds, and then muscle beach, and probably recruit loads of people if needs be.
20 people might be more manageable, but i's two low ot get a good cross section of Ectomorphs, Endomorphs and Mesomorphs in say 21-45 age range. That's when you'd start taking gear, and 40-45 is when many probably stop, so then you're mimicing it's performance based on the physical differences and average age range of users.
You'd probably be looking for guys about 190lbs minimum, at roughly 5ft 10" or less, and 200lbs + at 6ft +, so you're mimicing the kind of people who would be okay to start doing it, rather than people who were 20-30lbs off a natural peak, and wouldn't be advised to use Steroids, incase they got more mass, and found it was good, and didn't need any more, then they avoid the Steroid sides, if they're only 180-185lbs, for example.
So how do we know it wasn't being use on 18 year olds, that had lifted for 2 years, made solid gains with their teen test levels, and were still getting the high test production?
If it's from Eggplant, they could probably give people 2x the doses, they'd be selling to you in shops, knowing it probably wouldn't cause you issues at 2x the does, but anything "naturally" anabolic has a limit where more won't equal better. Even Protein powders. Otherwise Whey Isolate, could help you get 40" Guns in 20 years, if the muscle fibres could grow as much as you could make them.
Then you'd have guys buying clothes in XXXXXXXXL sizes.
It doesn't say you'd get gains beyond a natural peak on it, (I.E. giving 6ft 2", 210 lb natural guys, 19.5" lean Biceps), or you'd get the same mass as you could get off Steroids. It didn't say if there was anything else in it, like a synergistic ingredient, because it might have been dosed with something else like Glutamine for example.
If it's that good, chances are it will be on a ban list in most sports, probably inside of 2 years I'd estimate, and if potent enough, maybe classed as an illegal steroid within the same timeframe possibly, although that last one seems unlikely.
Then they expect you to go on their site, to download a free report, what? So they can boost traffic stats, and get higher Google rankings? Maybe more of a profile, increases product sales potential.
Why not just post that stuff on that Arai site? How long would it take to paste it in, and just add a few HTML tags, like <font></font> text, or the <P></P> paragraph tags?
It's all too cloak and dagger, unsubstantiated claims, seemingly no proven stats with any independant or peer reviewed backup, and frankly, why not just eat the Eggplant / Aubergine anyway, and get the added benefits that would give you anyway?
If you cooked it, the Solinene content would go anyway, so no problems with Solinene content, in relation to Calcium depletion in Bones, as Solinene is destroyed in cooking, as it would be with Tomatos and Potatos. Allowing for the fact, that 70% of Potato Solinene is in the skin, so peeling gets rid of that anyway, but baking in the skins would destroy all of it anyhow, almost certainly.
This for me gets a big fat AVOID, until such time as credible, peer reviewed science, based on a better cross sesction of varing participants, and stated regular over the counter doses were used, happens to come along.
Be aware, such things may be as long as 5-10 years + in coming.
I don't appreciate sites that don't let me see all their goodies on such products, or allow me a direct download. I wouldn't use their website link, to procure what could be half baked information, without the credibility, the "appetiser" information doesn't give you.