why is ephedrine important?

[gymrat]

what function does ephedrine play in fat burners? is ripped fuel without ephedrine worth while?

[syntekz]

ephedrine == speed == faster metabolism

[Superwoman]

I dont see the sense in using ripped fuel with out the ephedrine.

Ephedrine is a fat burner, it increases your BMR and contractile strength of muscle fibers...u and your body work harder!

[PowerManDL]

Originally posted by Superwoman
Ephedrine is a fat burner, it increases your BMR and contractile strength of muscle fibers...u and your body work harder!

If it does that, its purely through psychological means. There's no physical mechanism for that to occur.

[Tryska]

word.

although...one other thing it does do is decrease inflammation of bronchial passageways....

[Severed Ties]

Ephedrine cannot increase the contractile strength of muscle fibers themselves what it does is increase the number of contractile fibers the nervous system activates. This is a characteristic of all amphetamines hence why almost all powerlifters use it before a meet unless it is banned at the comp and why powerlifters are strictly checked for drugs like speed and cocaine.

ST

[syntekz]

Learn something new everyday.

[Marcel]

yea but ephedrine = crazy temporary shrinkage! why is that?

[PowerManDL]

Hmm-- I should have figured it would improve motor unit recruitment, but it never really clicked. Guess what I'm popping before workouts from now on?

[Severed Ties]

Marcel it's your bodies natural way of protecting the testicales. Ephedrine stimulates the adrenal grands, generally your adrenals only start pumping when your fight or fligh instinct kicks in, so your body doesn't know your popping some ECA stack, it thinks your gonna throw down or run from a hungry bear or something. Two situations you don't want the testicles to be hang'en low because they fun the risk of being injured in a fight or in a full run. So it's basically a survival mechanism, it's perfectly natural and poses no real danger to your boys.

ST

[Marcel]

Severed Ties - LMAO! Thank you for answering my question bro! Yea I stopped taking eca because I didn't wanna mess my boys up any but now I understand. LOL hungry bear that was funny. Laterz. :cool:

[gymrat]

thanks for the input & answers! Re:shrinkage..guess i can leave my jock@home if i use ephedrine!

[CLPgold]

Ephedrine can also work the heart too hard, can cause anxiety and panic attacks, mess with chemical messages in the brain due to too much adrenalin in the body, overuse of the heart (such as joggers and cyclists who seem healthy but drop dead at young ages) can actually cause the heart to atrophy (this is true!)

Unless for medical reasons such as Tryska stated, learn more self control when eating and stay off that s***. Literally, it can kill ya.

[syntekz]

Don't you think in the cases of death, especially in teenagers. It's because they were abusing ephedrine?

[Reinier]

"Marcel it's your bodies natural way of protecting the testicales. Ephedrine stimulates the adrenal grands, generally your adrenals only start pumping when your fight or fligh instinct kicks in, so your body doesn't know your popping some ECA stack, it thinks your gonna throw down or run from a hungry bear or something. Two situations you don't want the testicles to be hang'en low because they fun the risk of being injured in a fight or in a full run. So it's basically a survival mechanism, it's perfectly natural and poses no real danger to your boys."

how long after you pop the last eca pill will your stuff get back to normal?

what do you guys think about what clp gold sayd?

its not that dangerous to use ecas is it?
when you keep the normal dose.

[Tryska]

actually ephedra has a lower death rate then aspirin. however if abused it can cause your adrenals to go haywire.

[syntekz]

I think it could be dangerous if you have health problems already. Especially heart problems.

[Podium Kreatin]

hmm... i just noticed that this thread's title is: why is ephedrine important?

shouldn't the answer be, it isn't? there's a difference between necessity and supplementary, and ephedrine isn't that important to lose weight, or whatever

[Severed Ties]

Podium you would be right except in this case you must add the title to the question then divide by the coefficient of the remainder to come up with the new title adjuncted to the question of "why is ephedrine important in a fat burner."

ST

[CBates]

I have an additional question to add to this thread. How much of a difference could ephedrine aid in losing fat? Like for example, if I was to use it for 6 weeks compared to not using it (I know the diet play a bigger part than any supplement, but the diet would be the same in both scenarios). Last time I was cutting I used Ripped Fuel for 8 weeks and I got down to like 7 or 8% body fat (not sure exactly but from pictures I have posted of me, I'm pretty ripped.) Well it's time to begin cutting again and I really want to use Ripped Fuel again because of the results I had from it, but it caused a lot of sexual problems for me so I want to try to do it without the use of ephedrine, but would I see better results with it? Or does it not play that big of a role, just minimal results? Never stuck on a cutting diet long enough without it to see if I could get the same results.

[pastdoubt]

I dunno I just like the mental boost it gives me, don't think I care really if it helps us lose fat, hehe. Ephedrine helps me focus really well and get in a good mood for my workout.