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Old 01-31-2008, 03:34 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by spirez View Post
Thanks for this.

I was a little confused with how much should be ingested before this. I looked on the back of bottles but was a bit put off by the fact that they stated no more than 3 capsules per day.

but then i realised this is most likely for sedentary people, much like vitamin and kcal RDAs.
Plus, think of the manufacturers point of view; for legality reasons, they want to recommend the lowest effective dose, since it has the highest therapeutic index, with the least amount of side effects.

Total assumption on my part, but that's the reasoning I presume for low-dose recommendations.
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