Posted by ciocc on March 20, 1997 at 09:54:39:
In Reply to: To Animal, RE: pyruvate posted by Cycling Steve on March 20, 1997 at 09:38:29:
: You asked a couple days what amounts of pyruvate I'm taking...sorry if my response ends up being too long. I started out using MedPro's MP Force product. Two caps had 710 mgs of pyruvate along with 125 mg arginine, 125 mg lysine...there's some sodium and calcium in there, 66 and 31 mg respectively, as it's a naturally occuring biproduct of pyruvate (I guess since it's calcium/sodium pyruvate). Couple of problems: #1- why they put the two aminos in there is not understood and to me only serves to jack up the price. #2-to get the original 5 gram dose I had to take 14-15 capsules a day. Great, a f***ing $50.00 bottle of product lasts around two weeks or less (too early to do the math!). Since I went ahead, bit the bullet and had gotten a dozen bottles (they sold it to me for $44.00/bottle...wooooo), I started taking enough caps to get around 8-9 grams of pyruvate a day. That's too many pills and too expensive but I went ahead and did it to see if I'd get better results which I did. That's when I started making calls to people I knew who might have access to bulk qtys without all the other shit in there that I didn't need. I think I'll be a much happier guy when Unique has it available in bulk because I have no doubt that it'll work even better in larger amounts and without such a high investment. If you were to use it I think that's the route I'd go because I believe you'd see a better result for your investment and it'll probably be so much less effective than some of the stuff I am guessing you're using or have used. What I mean is that using 5 grams a day is going to seem like nothing compared to other things you've used and it's not worth the dough. I'll be using 10 grams a day or more when it's available in large qtys and that's what I'd suggest trying. Definitely go with Unique. Have a good one.
: Steve
Steve, where did you get the product and do you ride bikes competitavly?