Welcome to the Weekend!! This week our local health inspector (who is a mate of mine) called in with a food recall notice for a protein powder. I get asked a lot about which product is best for weight loss or pre-workout/post workout, and there are some good products for these things BUT unless you are doing a hard workout or your nutritional needs are not being met through what you eat... your just adding extra calories, and possibly something else to your system - back to the product recall - Pre workout powders are designed to give you energy for the workout so you can push yourself harder/do more and feel pumped. Many do this through replicating amino acids we already have in our body (like our natural supply of redbull), others -like the recalled product - do it by adding excessive caffeine (like redbull!) and other pharmaceuticals. In this case it is oxedrine - a natural drug (natural state is Bitter Orange supplement) that works similar to adrenaline, it gets the blood pumping! In taking this pre workout supplement DEXAPRINE XR Green Apple, the caffeine will increase your heart rate, elevate blood pressure, deliver heat to muscles in the same way a good warm up does. And so does the oxedrine...and then you do a warm up. The term adverse events refers to reported side effects from people that have used the product - for this supplement the side effects are fainting, increased heart rate, heart palpitations, increased blood pressure, stroke and heart attack...some of these events were in healthy teenagers. If you have this product return it to place of purchase for a full refund. If you take supplements and experience adverse effects stop using the product! There are many safe and fun ways to get primed for exercise that wont permanently damage your health. HEALTHY IS THE BEST FASHION STATEMENT YOU CAN MAKE :)
Posted on: Sat, 10 May 2014 00:20:26 +0000