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I’m not sure that this question technically qualifies as being on topic or not, but consuming anything else will slow down the rate of digestion. So fiber, fat, or whatever else you decide to consume would do the job. I’m assuming that this question is in regards to body composition as it relates to rates of muscle protein synthesis.
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This looks like it's a combo Nitric Oxide + Creatine supplement.
Nitric Oxide is coming from the arginine and citrulline. Glutamine is for digestion. Creatine does creatine things (increases water retention in muscles).
Nitric Oxide gives a pretty good pump but the pump is temporary. If it allowed you to press your workouts further you could develop more ...
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This is not much of a fitness question, but a question about what constitutes science and whether a specific body of research is scientific.
One of the most common distinctions between science and pseudoscience comes from Karl Popper, who is perhaps familiar to you from your physics background. For Popper, what makes science different from pseudoscience is ...
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I do not agree with your insistence on a mechanism.
In 1964 the U.S. Surgeon General published a report where he concluded that smoking causes cancer. At that time the mechanisms behind this was not understood. However there was statistical evidence in the form of a study with over 1 million subjects that showed that smoking and cancer were highly correlated....
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Muscle growth physiology is not a pseudoscience as researchers are using scientific methods to collect and analyze data and make logical deductions.
It is true that our knowledge of muscle growth is limited and the statistical studies do not explain and prove the results, but this does not make the field non-scientific.
It would be called pseudoscience, if ...
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