Is It True That Eca Is Anti-catabolic

[DIRTY LUKE]

I HEARD THAT SOMEWHERE IS THE TRUE? LUKE

 

[phattboy]

yes it is true. however im not sure how effective it is. there are alot better things to prevent catabolism than eca. all anabolics are a more effective choice.

 

[Italianboy]

Mmm I didn't know.
I know that ECA is catabolic because it makes muscles resistent to insulin action.Insulin is anabolc.

 

[decem]

good question.

i'm compelled to agree with italianboy in that eca is catabolic.

 

[riskybiz007]

i read somewhere that ECA is anticatabolic for the first 2 hours, after that it turns very catabolic turning towards muscles. If this is true i don't know.

I wondrer about Norephedrine as well if it has the same properties.

 

[TxLonghorn]

I don't know if it's full on anti-catabolic, but it's muscle sparing in the sense that it will help you burn fat preferentially before muscle tissue.

In other words, take two genetically identical people, put one on eca, the other clean, and the eca one will have more muscle at the end of the diet than the control.

But if you are taking it just for it's anti-catabolic effects...I would ditch it and use dbol. Now that's anti-catabolic!

 

[MUSTANG_18]

I think it has some anti-catabolic effects as I have cut with and without E/C/A and I lost a lot more muscle which on a low cal diet without E/C/A then I did while on it.

M18

 

[e2]

OK, hold on a second, what is anti-catabolic???? Anabolic, so you're saying eca is anabolic???!??!!?!?!?

Let's think people.

 

[ultragainz]

LOL...

 

[mrfoofu]

E2....Is it possibly that something can be "anti-catabolic" and not necessarily be anabolic. Anabolic means building something up, Catabolic means tearing something down. Anti-catabolic is preventing the tearing down, that doesn't mean it builds anything up. Somethings, such as, AS are definately both anabolic and anti-catabolic. I understand what you are saying that anabolic and anti-catabolic are so closely related that it's hard to differentiate, but isn't it possible for a compound such as ECA to prevent catabolism while doing nothing to increase anabolism. I'm just speculating about this.