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@stasmodeus Taurine has been historically used as a treatment for heart disease, hepatitis and other metabolic syndrome comorbidities. I have yet to find a study concluding that taurine boosts performance in healthy humans outside of petri-dishes. Creatine supplementation, on the other hand...

@kwang23 Hello, sorry for the late response, I normally don't check reddit on weekdays as I'm pretty busy. Loose skin is a natural process of degradation that comes with age and weight loss (if you've maintained a higher weight for a long time). Sadly, the only two proven ways of toning up...

@artsy23 Anytime, I'll probably make more of these as this one was pretty popular. Cheers!

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@kitkat_6 Sadly, I'm european and the certifications range from country to country even here. It's a completely different system in the USA. Unless you're spanish I can't answer your question.

@eyeofthebeholder As I've answered here and here, the most important factor to muscle growth as vegan is caloric intake, not macronutrient ratio. It's so especifically in our diet because it's richer in fiber and water, you can find more info on that on those answers. Here, as a side note, I...

@jamedoc I do not use a macronutrient formula anymore, as caloric intake and food quality is way more important for long-term muscle gains and health, but the science seems to agree that between 1,4 and 2,2g/kg works for almost every single professional athlete (which you get with sufficient...

@ireneste Sorry for the late response, I'm pretty busy on weekdays and then to check reddit only on the weekend. I've had several clients with different stages of cardiovascular disease, some of them had had heart attacks and anginas. Most of them with elevated BP. A whole-foods plant-based...

@jamedoc B12 and omega-3's are definitely the biggest offenders, even for non-vegans. ·Vitamin-D as supplementation as there are very few foods that contain them and most of the population suffers from deficiency (even in countries with good climates most of us need supplementation during...

@dawn16 If you had told me about any other plant-based food group I'd told you to eat as much as you want, but fruits are the only ones that can cause a real protein and mineral deficit as well as even hypervitaminosis on any diet. I'd say it depends on how many calories you eat, even if the...

@jennkzoo It's even better to join the gym while you can't do anything else. Calisthenics has a significant entry point, it requires certain conditioning that most of us didn't start with (you can even injure yourself easily by trying difficult exercises early on, even with those push-ups if...

@jennkzoo You have exactly the same problem I've had for years. I've been ectomorph basically all my life (I weighted 68kg at 186cm tall when I was 18 years old), way before being vegan and exactly the same after I started being able to eat a lot more (I'm at 87,5kg now, so that's a 44 pound...

@padraig_leigheanach Sorry for the late response, just came back from work and am catching up with everyone. Well, there are a couple of misconceptions in the statements leading to your question. Fatty liver is only the common term used to describe a serious disease called hepatic steatosis...

@gagurl You're welcome, I'm here to help. As per your question: losing muscle mass doesn't necessarily mean you're unhealthier. So far your mileage isn't as high as to make me worry for your health other than potential hip/knee/foot injuries, which can be prevented with a good strength...

@johnnyray Sadly, our bodies haven't evolved with efficient mechanisms to gain muscle mass without gaining body fat. Simply because we didn't have such an eady access to calories as we have nowadays until only a few decades ago. Thus, yes: the most important factor to build muscle mass is...

@thailandmissionary Hit me up with some more information and I can give you a deeper answer, I need to see how a typical day of eating and a session of your workout is. For now, anyways, number-wise you're spot-on where I'd tell you to be to start training to lose belly fat. The training most...

@elizottino Good question, and I can bet my arm that the problem is insufficient caloric intake, which is the most important factor to maintain body weight. Now, if you're losing fat faster than muscle, a slight increase in calories and training volume can leave you more ripped than ever before...

@sdegrad The logic behind this is as sound as it can get. Sadly though, aesthethics reign in our egocentric society and a bigger body will always be praised over a stronger or healthier one in our day-to-day, this is the main objective of most long-term workouts. Image is everything and the...

@sdegrad Stay with me on this one, as gaining weight is never healthy, but that can be okay for you (I've just recently put up 10kg (22 pounds) in two months of a hypertrophy mesocycle myself). I'll start answering your question directly, all those foods you told me about (even PB) are healthy...

@da13ba What I usually tell my clients is that what I think is irrelevant, what matters is the science and understanding how to apply it to our daily lives effectively. That said, I have a higher-than-expected volume of questions and I've answered about daily protein intake here: Edit: reddit...