By increasing the use of fat, it can spare the loss of skeletal muscle/LBM, for example. It’s effects are small but do add up and it has been shown to have the benefits I listed above during a diet as well as others. On the one hand, EC is really a dieting/fat loss supplement. In that sense, it could conceivably be used forever. EC gets more effective and safer over time. In addition, the side effects of the EC stack, which include things like increased heart rate, blood pressure and general stimulation decrease with regular use. But it does and that would tend to suggest chronic use is better. So, honestly, I have no idea why EC becomes more effective with regular use. But the only study I’m aware of in humans shows that, if anything, EC decreases the amounts of BAT. But humans don’t actually have much BAT (we have beige/brite fat and I discussed this, along with how to impact and increase it in my Stubborn Fat Solution 1.1 Patch). The thing is, nobody is quite sure how this might happen.Įarly ideas revolved around Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT) and the idea that ephedrine might increase it. Ephedrine becomes more effective over time (and the idea that it must be cycled to avoid a loss of effect is not only wrong but exactly backwards). I do mean that this is unusual in that most drugs lose, or at least appear to lose, their effect over time (it’s a little more complicated than this but I’ll save my explanation of this statement for next week or something). One thing worth mentioning is this: EC is unusual (and possibly unique) among fat loss compounds in that chronic use actually makes it work more effectively. In any case, back to the question, how long should EC be used? And the answer sort of depends on your perspective. It was also never clear if low-dose aspirin (81 mg) would have the same benefit as the full 300 mg used in the studies and honestly, if someone is going to use EC (often just called the stack), I don’t recommend the aspirin. I don’t recall offhand when it really came into use but it was at least in the 90’s when it was found that the combination of ephedrine and caffeine were thermogenics (meaning that they increase energy expenditure), suppressed appetite, mobilized fat and had many other potential benefits for fat loss on a diet (other thermogenics such as green tea, capsaicin and nicotine were also studied).Īspirin was sometimes added as well (for once I’ll spare you the mechanisms involved here) but, outside of the obese, didn’t really have any benefit. For those unfamiliar with the acronyms, RFL is my own Rapid Fat Loss Handbook and ECA is a combination of Ephedrine Caffeine and Aspirin. this is what it looks like : 25mg Ephedrine HCI, 200mg Caffeine, 162mg Aspirin once in the morning and another in the afternoon.Īnswer: Since I appear to be officially out of ideas for things to write about (cut me some slack, I’ve got 500 posts on the site), I’m doing another Q&A this week. I really just want to know how long is safe to run an ECA stack!? I have only taken two doses a day instead of the suggested three. And have also been taking the ECA stack for about 5 months now. Question: Hello! I have purchased your RFL handbook about 6 months ago.
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