Chromium

[Synpax]

This week I'm rocking a supplement - Thermo Hydroxine (the old kind with Ephedra and 20 mg Ephedrine HCL) - on top of my usual Ephedrine dosage. I use to take a vivarin with my E dosage, but had this sitting on the shelf and figured I'd give it a try.

One of the ingredients hyped on the label is Chromium.

I did my homework and there looks like nothing but bad things to be said about this ingredient. It *might* increase metabolism, but it has a lot of speculation about down sides. Cancer, toxicity, etc.

What is the EF consensus on Chromium?

 

[Veretta9]

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[bigstve12]

chromium helps to lower blood sugar...there has been rumor of it having some bad effects, but i believe that was in doses that no normal human being would ever consume!! I wouldnt worry, just the FDA's way to scare people from a natural product that actually has the same effect as some of their drugs...their just watching their own ass

 

[anthrax]

The supposedly harmless chromium in popular weight-loss agents and muscle-building supplements may be converted into cancer-causing chromium inside the body, claims a study in the current issue of the Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

'Nough said

 

[Veretta9]

I want to know more about that ^^^ and how true that is.....

 

[bigstve12]

I would too. B/C then anyone who takes even a multi-vitamin would have cancer

 

[RussianRocket]

Chromium Picolinate is an entirely safe and extremely effective supplement - don't get caught up in those B.S. online studies.

There are oodles of different chromium supplements offered in the marketplace. All those labeled "GTF" for "glucose tolerance factor" are B.S. Walter Mertz proposed the existence of a chemical complex he called GTF in 1955, but it has never been identified.

Ther are also some products that use the word "chromate" in literature and advertising. Chromate is a toxic hexavalent form of chromium firmly linked with bronchial cancer. Despite use of the name, no supplement products are permitted to contain this poison.

The best form, as I said, is chromium picolinate. It is five-fold better absorbed than the common supplement form of chromium chloride, and is the only form shown to have beneficial effects in overt diabetes. I personally use it with R-ALA when taking creatine - it actually made me a responder.

Studies by Leugh Broadbent and colleages at the US Departement of Agriculure, show that the chromium picolinate is also better absorbed and retained in the human body than the other popular supplement form chromium polynicotinate. And the recent research by Richard Anderson has refuted malicious claims of toxicity by commercial rivals, giving chromium picolinate a clean bill of health. It is the only form I recommend.

The colgan institute (the pinnacle of sports nutrition) feed their athletes daily supplements of 200 - 800 mcg of chromium as chromium picolinate. Most appear well supplied with 200 - 400 mcg. They have found no toxicity with this range in 16 years of use.

 

[LeanMeanHockeyMachine]

Chromium is bunk, 'nuff said

 

[RussianRocket]

Chromium is bunk, 'nuff said

No. You're an idiot.