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Originally Posted by King Kabuki
However, much to my delight, Hany names some of the common mistakes people typically make that inhibits their response to Nitrous Products:
1) Taking them on a full stomach. If you've eaten food, particularly with protein or fat within an hour of taking a Nitrous Product the food will inhibit the absorption and down-regulate it's effects.
2) Taking caffeine or ephedra products with the Nitrous Products. These stimulants have vaso-constrictive effects, and will defeat the purpose for trying to force more blood into the muscle to get the better pump.
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From the NO-Xplode cannister...
Taking a product that contains ephedrine will also diminish the effects of NO-XPLODE.
This jives w/ your post.
And from the Q&A section on BSN's site...
Q: How much caffeine is in NO-Xplode?
A: Approximately 100 mg per scoop (about 1 cup of coffee, depending).
This would not add up w/ mistake #2. Hmmmm -- I'm wondering if BSN feels that there is not enough of an inhibiting factor from caffeine, as opposed to ephedrine, to leave out a stimulant of some sort.
Incidentally, I've been using NO-Xplode along w/ Cellmass for a few months now, and I really like them both. I, too, read a lot of the stuff saying that NO2 is useless, but like Kabuki, I know what my body responds to and I use that response as the most important analysis of whether I feel something is worth taking.
A side note on dosage: I'm 6'-0", about 209 lbs. and only take one scoop before my workout, despite the 2-3 scoop recommendation. I feel like this has worked very well for me. More may work even better, but I, personally, will stick w/ this because a) 2-3 cups of coffee in one serving would make me WAY too jittery and b) I'm a firm believer that manufacturers want you to finish your cannister of whatever-it-is as quickly as possible so you'll come back to buy more, thus, they recommend the max they can get away with.
Kabuki, what flavor do you have? I've got the Fruit Punch and I don't find it offensive at all. Certainly, it wouldn't be the first drink I choose for the sake of having a drink, but it goes down pretty easy for me.
Finally, I've posted this before in other threads. After researching the crap out of it, I've found Mass Nutrition to have the best prices on BSN supps. by quite a bit.
http://www.massnutrition.com/categories.cfm?cur_man=BSN