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Borassus aethiopum for bodybuilders?
Not all bodybuilders are impressed by Solid, if the postings on forums are anything to go by. "Another piece of crap from BPI", is kevO's opinion on supplementreviews.com. [supplementreviews.com September 05, 2011]
"I really dislike BPI", comments Tsunami2k in the same thread. "They are most likely hoping that stupid kids at GNC look at the label on this product and see a bunch of fancy herb names and fall for it."
We'll not beat about the bush: we find the article a little hard to believe, and we wonder whether the experiments described in the article were actually carried out.
The researchers gave rabbits 62 mg Borassus aethiopum extract every day for four weeks [curve B in the figures below], and observed that these rabbits grew faster than rabbits that were not given the active ingredient [curve C].
The extract reduced the amount of broken down protein [Urea] in the blood, which is an indication of improved protein metabolism.
The growth-promoting effect of Borassus aethiopum was similar to that of fluoxymesterone, the researchers write [curve A]. The administered the fluoxymesterone dissolved in water: they dissolved 25 mg steroid in 100 ml water.
That's pretty strange: fluoxymesterone doesn't dissolve easily in water. It's possible to dissolve 6.7 mg fluoxymesterone in 100 ml water, and no more. [drugbank.ca] So how did the Nigerians managed to get 25 mg of the stuff into 100 ml water?
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