Ecdysterone is the main compound in spinach extract. It is a phytosteroid — that is, a steroid that occurs naturally in plants and belongs to a class called phytosterols, which are "structurally similar to cholesterol."
Previous studies in mammals have shown that ecdysteroids have a wide range of beneficial effects. In the 1980s, researchers dubbed ecdysterone the "Russian secret," following suspicions that Russian Olympic athletes were using it as a performance boosting supplement.
Other studies have demonstrated that ecdysterone "increases protein synthesis in skeletal muscle." In fact, as Prof. Parr explains, previous tests in vitro and in vivo showed that ecdysterone is more potent than other steroids banned in sports, such as methandienone.
Results revealed that the participants who took ecdysterone had "[s]ignificantly higher increases in muscle mass." In vitro experiments replicated the findings, and Prof. Parr and colleagues showed that ecdysterone interacts with the estrogen receptor beta. The tests also revealed significant "increases in one-repetition bench press performance."
Prof. Parr adds that the participants who took a low dose of the supplement received two pills of ecdysterone daily, which is the equivalent of anywhere between 250 grams (g) and 4 kilograms (kg) of spinach, depending on the quality of the plant.
So, to reap the benefits of such a low dose, a person would have to consume 250 g to 4 kg of spinach every day for 10 weeks. To mimic the high dose in the study, a person would have to consume anywhere between 1 and 16 kg of spinach every day for 10 weeks.
What's the best way to buy spinach? When I go to the grocery store, it is already washed and wrapped in plastic. Is this good?
Mason Wright
But I'm bulking. I don't have time or money to eat 0 calories
Bentley Evans
>tfw I have to cook the spinach otherwise I get kidney stones Is there anything else I could buy?
Cooper Richardson
> butt fucks your kidneys
Benjamin Gonzalez
I dump half a bag of frozen spinach into whatever I make for dinner.
Camden Cox
>eat kilos of spinach to slighgly raise your testosterine level for a short moment Honestly, just shoot up roids if you need a higher t level at this point
DON'T LISTEN TO OP IF YOU DON'T WANT KIDNEY STONES AND MALNUTRITION. Spinach has a fuckton of Oxolates, literally toxins/gains goblins that do more harm than good. Causing kidney stones and stealing minerals from your body. And you want to fucking eat 9 POUNDS of this fucking poison???? Please don't fall for the plant and grain jew brahs. Stay safe.
you need vegetables too not a lot of them though I was eating a really high in veggies diet and had plenty of times I would be fine all day then shortly before bed become nauseous and have to puke
now I just make sure I eat them once a day or twice and not a shit load, I do love broccoli though
Samuel Collins
If it's poison when it's raw, don't you think it's a bad idea to eat it?
Dylan Davis
YIKES!! We got a toxic male over here. Shoo shoo
Daniel Price
raw chicken is poison but then you cook it and its all fine
Matthew Long
bc you kill the poison when you heat it up. poison cannot live above 120°F
>raw chicken is poison Maybe if it was sick or poorly handled after its death. Healthy and well treated chicken or any other animal will not make you sick when you eat their raw meat.
But you're also killing everything else nutritious by cooking it. Including cooking meat.
Ayden Reyes
milk has steroids, why would I eat spinach which is fucking toxic?
Anthony Ramirez
enlighten me as to which cooking method most reduces the antinutrients (oxalates) in spinach , and by what percentage.
Anthony Price
Wtf, I've been eating raw spinach all this time? I'm using it as the base for all my salads and throwing it in my blender from time to time. You're telling me it's poisonous?
Ayden Cook
Milk has puss and estrogen, you fucking retard.
Adam Ross
Dont forget about the pounds of onions and the IR light treatment on your ballsack for an hour a day. CMON
Luke Rodriguez
Yes. Google Oxolates and see for youself. Better get checked for kidney stones as well. Shit is painful when it's fully there.
For whatever reason I’m very autistic about my diet and i like eating the same meal every night or something similar. I was eating beef(ribeye steak or ground beef) spinach, and eggs for dinner every night and Jow Forums convinced me that was bad because keto sucks and spinach gives you stones. I stared eating oats and shit and now I’ve got a gut lol
Leo Howard
>Significantly higher increases in muscle mass were observed in those participants that were dosed with ecdysterone. The same hypertrophic effects were also detected in vitro in C2C12 myotubes. Even more relevant with respect to sports performance, significantly more pronounced increases in one-repetition bench press performance were observed. No increase in biomarkers for liver or kidney toxicity was noticed. These data underline the effectivity of an ecdysterone supplementation with respect to sports performance. Our results strongly suggest the inclusion of ecdysterone in the list of prohibited substances and methods in sports in class S1.2 "other anabolic agents". ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31123801
Grab it while it's still legal.
Joseph Smith
>god, you putrid numale cunt, fuck off back to twitter with that and rope yourself. kek, laughed way more than i should have here.
>milk and vegtables make my tummy ouchy p-p-please dont eat it kidney stones are largely genetic and vegetarians have a lower rate of stones despite eating more vegtables. >Cox proportional hazards regression was performed to calculate hazard ratios (HR) and their 95 % confidence intervals (95 % CI). Compared to those with high intake of meat (>100 g/day), the HR estimates for moderate meat-eaters (50–99 g/day), low meat-eaters (High intakes of fresh fruit, fibre from wholegrain cereals and magnesium were also associated with a lower risk of kidney stone formation. A high intake of zinc was associated with a higher risk. In conclusion, vegetarians have a lower risk of developing kidney stones compared with those who eat a high meat diet stupid faggot, maybe the lack of carotenois impaires your reading ability
>In the 1980s, researchers dubbed ecdysterone the "Russian secret," following suspicions that Russian Olympic athletes were using it as a performance boosting supplement. those researchers are fucking downies russian olympians were swallowing orals like skittles in those days
Liam Edwards
Could you imagine the shits?
Jace Harris
based and popeyepilled
Aiden James
So how much was the high dose? The study itself is locked behind a pay barrier and the abstract doesn't state what the low/high dose amounts were.
The product is labelled to contain 100 mg of ecdysterone from spinach extract plus 100 mg of leucine. The volunteers out of the Ec1 group took two capsules of “Peak Ecdysone” per day as recommended on the label of the product. The Ec2 group took a high dosage of ecdysterone (eight capsules of “Peak Ecdysone” each day) over the entire intervention period
800mg a day
Ian Foster
Based user. This is fantastic, one because it provides the exact mg doses, and two because it names a specific supplement brand that we all now know has been studied by credible researchers and has been proven effective.
Owen Bell
Why can't I just supplement the ecdysterone? Seems like a shit ton of eating and terrifying shits
Jordan Long
Kidney stones only happen if you don't drink enough water or have a deficiency in magnesium in your diet, or too much magnesium absorbing things like high sugar foods. Oxolates in foods are overblown, only 10% come from your diet, the majority is synthetized by your own body.
Sebastian Brown
They weren't eating spinach, they were supplementing the ecdysterone
Leo Robinson
Im not an idiot to eat shit that will cause gout and kidney stones, and has fuck all bioavailability, so no
Cameron Wood
>87 replies/54 unique IPs Be honest, are you samefagging with this kidney stone crap?
Gabriel Lewis
>Ecdysterone is the main compound in spinach extract. It is a phytosteroid — that is, a steroid that occurs naturally in plants and belongs to a class called phytosterols, which are "structurally similar to cholesterol." Good to know, I'll just keep eating cholesterol
Alexander Allen
>Be honest, are you samefagging with this kidney stone crap? Not really, this should be common knowledge by now youtube.com/watch?v=d5KbDq6eM4A
Connor Ramirez
Holy fuck lmao this supplement is completely sold out worldwide. Everybody is afraid this shit is gonna get b& and are stocking up.
Henry Butler
>HR >isnt even 1 >thinks its statistically significant
Camden Perry
>Holy fuck lmao this supplement is completely sold out worldwide. Everybody is afraid this shit is gonna get b& and are stocking up. You realize cholesterol is better than this right? Its even in the OP post >a steroid that occurs naturally in plants and belongs to a class called phytosterols, which are "structurally similar to cholesterol." Are people that fucking stupid nowadays? Just eat eggs and bacon
Eli Morgan
Based
Popeye was actually the inspiration for superman. For some reason was hearing my hero academia music when he drill punched Pluto and ora ora ora ora when he was flurry punching.
Aiden Allen
genetic? God you are retarded
Jordan Brooks
I found this article that I've been going over since I saw this thread on ecdysterone, cause nobody is going to be able to eat spinach more than a supplement, which are available. So far it seems very interesting.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4447764/ >Within this study the anabolic potency of ecdysterone was compared to well characterized anabolic substances. Effects on the fiber sizes of the soleus muscle in rats as well the diameter of C2C12 derived myotubes were used as biological readouts. Ecdysterone exhibited a strong hypertrophic effect on the fiber size of rat soleus muscle that was found even stronger compared to the test compounds metandienone (dianabol), estradienedione (trenbolox), and SARM S 1, all administered in the same dose
