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 OK WE ALL KNOW ALA IS A SUPPLEMENT TO TRY IN A CYCLE. NOW WHAT ABOUT RIBOSE?
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| Author | Topic: OK WE ALL KNOW ALA IS A SUPPLEMENT TO TRY IN A CYCLE. NOW WHAT ABOUT RIBOSE? | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder 
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i 'm buying all the supplements for my next cycle but i still have to decide on ribose, since is not even really cheap. do we have anyone showing up ribose has the potential to be another great supplement as ala?    | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder 
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quote: Ribose is just a simple sugar. The theory goes that increasing ribose will increase the amount of adenosine available. Then adenosine ges converted to adenosine phosphate, then to adenosine di-phosphate(ADP), and then by the by the addition of another phosphate to adenosine tri-phosphate(ATP), which is the energy currency of the cell. One big flaw here. When you excercise a lot ATP levels fall and the phosphate that shoud be added to the ADP to make ATP is not added because phosphate production gets seriously curbed. There is nothing ribose can do about this. Therefore ribose by itself is a complete and utter waste. Now, lets imagie a compound that can up-regulate phosphate production so that ATP gets produced from ADP. Well guess what, Creatine does exactly that. So, what I'm trying to say is that Creatine+ ribose is synergistic. While ribose increases the level of adenosine, creatine makes sure that the extra adenosine gets converted to ATP by the increase in phosphate production. This is a rough sketch BTW. Hope this helped..... Godspeed  | ||
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Cool Novice 
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fONZ FOR PREZ!!!!!! | ||
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Pro Bodybuilder
Posts: 483 |
thanks fonz, i'm always taking 5-10 gms of creatine in my post workout shake, so do you think using ribose with creatine (along with ala and glutamine) is worth the money? | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder 
Posts: 88 |
i think i would pass on the RIBOSE, not enough evidence that it really works!!!!! | ||
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Elite Bodybuilder
Posts: 1064 |
quote: I have to second blackdream. But if you still want to go ahead and do it: 1. 10g Creatine+75g carbs+3g Ribose+200mg ALA+10g Glutamine should do the trick. Godspeed | ||
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Novice 
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Fener, Don't know much about ribose, but it has been shown(see ref. bellow) that adding 1g of glucose to your creatine intake can greatly increase its uptake into the muscle. Green AL, Simpson EJ, Littlewood JJ, et al. Carbohydrate ingestion augments creatine retention during creatine feeding in humans. Acta Physiol Scand 1996;158:195�202 ------------------ |
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posted March 15, 2001 02:46 PM