question about natural diuretics?

[needsize]

shows coming up in three weeks, pretty sure conditioning is bang on, but I always hold a ton of water. This time instead of waiting till I start the heavy diuretics the week of the show, I wouldnt mind trying some of the natural ones, see what I can peel off in the meantime....
so far I have green tea, dandelion, and apple cider vinegar, nothing about amounts and how well they work. Anyone have any other ones, or more info about these ones?
thanks

 

[DannoMight]

I used the OTC stuff at the vitamin shop called Taraxatone. Its a 10 day's worth bottle. I read before that you were going to use Aldactone before but I have heard negative things from a couple of IFBB pro's about how it pulls water from the wrong places and also messes up[ the carb up process. They said to use straight dyazide starting 2 days from your show. For example if the show is on Sat then start Dyazide Thursday night at 25mgs then take another 25mgs fri morning and then another 25mgs 12 hrs later then pending on how you look in the morning take another 25-50mgs around weigh-ins. One of my best friends won his weight class at nationals 06 along with his pro card as well as another friend of ours just won his class at the USA's in July using the same system. But the Taraxatone couldn'e hurt.

PM me if you want more info bro

 

[DJ_UFO]

shows coming up in three weeks, pretty sure conditioning is bang on, but I always hold a ton of water. This time instead of waiting till I start the heavy diuretics the week of the show, I wouldnt mind trying some of the natural ones, see what I can peel off in the meantime....
so far I have green tea, dandelion, and apple cider vinegar, nothing about amounts and how well they work. Anyone have any other ones, or more info about these ones?
thanks

check this out:

http://proteinfactory.com/shop/product.php?productid=919&cat=4&page=2

Haven't read comments about it yet but seems like a good product. Way better than those walmart or walgreens diuretics at least.

 

[needsize]

I used the OTC stuff at the vitamin shop called Taraxatone. Its a 10 day's worth bottle. I read before that you were going to use Aldactone before but I have heard negative things from a couple of IFBB pro's about how it pulls water from the wrong places and also messes up[ the carb up process. They said to use straight dyazide starting 2 days from your show. For example if the show is on Sat then start Dyazide Thursday night at 25mgs then take another 25mgs fri morning and then another 25mgs 12 hrs later then pending on how you look in the morning take another 25-50mgs around weigh-ins. One of my best friends won his weight class at nationals 06 along with his pro card as well as another friend of ours just won his class at the USA's in July using the same system. But the Taraxatone couldn'e hurt.

PM me if you want more info bro

I'll see if I can find that stuff
as for the aldactone, this is the approach me trainer had me use last time, she is an IFBB pro who is actually coming out of retirement to do the arnold this year...seems to work well for her guys...the head judge trains at my gym, he is saying the same thing, he wants me to have diazide on hand for the day before just in case
right now I am looking to strip away just a bit of the extra to make sure the fat is pretty much gone at this point

 

[Nelson Montana]

check this out:

http://proteinfactory.com/shop/product.php?productid=919&cat=4&page=2

Haven't read comments about it yet but seems like a good product. Way better than those walmart or walgreens diuretics at least.

Yep, as for natty diuretics, that's the one. I tell peole they can use a double dose. For needsize, I'd say a quadruple dose becaise I know he knows his body and will drink plenty of water. It really can't hurt and more than that won't make much difference. That's the thing with natty supps. The down side is they'll only do so much, but the good side is, it's hard to O.D. Take too much Lasix and you're seriously fucked.

 

[Sassy69]

The only other OTC diuretic I can add to the list is similar to taraxatone but is a 5 day cycle instead of 10 - MHP Expel. Also contains potassium & I think Magnesium as well -these are the things that help deal w/ the cramping due to lots fo water loss. I've also heard of people combining Expel w/ Aldactone .

 

[Nelson Montana]

The only other OTC diuretic I can add to the list is similar to taraxatone but is a 5 day cycle instead of 10 - MHP Expel. Also contains potassium & I think Magnesium as well -these are the things that help deal w/ the cramping due to lots fo water loss. I've also heard of people combining Expel w/ Aldactone .

A few corrections here.

Potassium removes sodium, not water. Sodium will retain water. But a dosage can only contain 99 mcg BY LAW because if sodium levels go too low you can go into cardiac arrest. (Thus, diuretics are so dangerous).

MHP Exel has mostly the same ingredients as DEFINITION but in a "belnd." What that means is that they can include any amount of cheap stuff and put in almost inconsequential amounts of the more expensive effective stuff and the "total" will be high, but you're not really getting what you're paying for. As a rule of thumb, NEVER by formulas that contain "blends."

DEFINITION has the amounts listed right on the label. The price for both is around the same.

 

[needsize]

thanks guys, problem is I am less than 3 weeks, and I start the aldactone at 5 days out, so not really enough time to get this stuff, so I am looking at grabbing some stuff I can find around here....

 

[needsize]

went with dandelion root, from everything I read this seems to be pretty effective, nothing ever is with my water, but worth a try