I was looking through some different products and i was looking at this one called LOADED, here are the nutrition facts on it do you guys think its worth buying?

Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 2 Capsules
Servings Per Container: 30
Amount Per Serving % Daily Value*
Glycocyamine (Guanidinoacetic Acid) 250 mg
Alpha Lipoic Acid 100 mg
R-Alpha Lipoic Acid 100 mg
3-0-Methyl-Chiroinositol 100 mg
Vanadyl Sulfate 10 mg

I just bought some chromium today but i was just reading the forums and they reccomend R-ALA the most for shuttling glucose. I've never fooled around with glucose disposal agents before, very interesting. Should I take my chromium (which is all i have right now) during my carb up and at the beggining of my low carb phase to establish ketosis quicker, correct? I bought these at the 99 cent store haha i was walking around and I seen the bottle so i said F*** it and i purchased em. Each tablet is 200mcg, how many should i take a day? When should i take em exactly? And should i get something more potent than this for glucose disposal? if so should i stop taking chromium or take it with that? also what would be the effects of supplementing pottasium and magnesium in CKD? what is pottasium and magnesium used for exactly? too many questions sorry peeps....im very inquisitive and beleive me i had more i just forgot for the moment. Tommorow is my first depletion workout and I organized it and wow its gonna be killer haha im excited! ill probably have to pop a caffeine pill to help me get through it but ill let you guys know how it went! DUCE!

......Cantorious
"The universe is nothing but a random sequence of meaningless events"

Unless you want to go through a diabetic seizure I wouldn't take more than 200mcg on a carbup, that's some very powerfull stuff and it can be dangerous if you take to much.

Chromium builds up in your system so only take one a day. If anything I'd skip taking it on a carb up and take it during your keto phase.

Which part of this would lead to diabetic seizure?

are you serious? i was planning on taking 4 of those a day during my carb up phase, wow is it really that dangerous? diabetic seizure? what exactly happens during one of those? and how would taking more than one 200mcg of chromium a day put me in one of those?please respond..

Chromium. It can increase the blood sugar spike big time which is pretty painfull. Seizure is not a given, but it gets you close and it hurts. I've been through it :^(.

I'm confused. Isn't a diabetic seizure caused by a DROP in blood sugar? That's why it can be induced by an insulin overdose - which has been used for certain psychiatric conditions, for example.

A SPIKE in blood sugar in a body without sufficient insulin for its disposal can make you really thirsty and appear drunk, but I hadn't been aware of any seizures from this. And I don't think we're talking about folks without type I (insulin dependent) diabetes.

Got more on this?

I have been using R ALA, Chromium, Vanadyl Sulphate and never had any problems.
Right not I am only using R ALA and ALA
R ALA pre and Posts workouts.
Ala Daily in the AM.

Also, Chromium doesn't seem to do much for me.
200mcg three times a day no results no problems.

Jag

Yeah, I remember a whole lot of hype surrounding chromium piccolinate, which I had to buy on the grey market in Canada a few years back. Didn't do a damned thing.

???

I found the info built, I was a bit off but this is what happens:

Chromium is supposed to help with insulin resistance. The down-side is that it can cause hypoglycemic attacks because it helps insulin too well to remove glucose from your system.

I had it backwards but if you take more than 200mcg a day it can cause problems. NEVER overtake this stuff, I'm sure there are plenty of people who can attest to its negative effects.

Well, I've never actually heard of this before, but I don't think chromium is all that shit-hot anyway, so it's a moot point as far as I'm concerned. It never did ANYTHING for me.

I don't like pre-fab stacks. If you want ALA, TAKE ALA. That way, you can more easily control the dose.

Couple of studies using chromium picolinate supplementation:
These researchers gave one group 500µg twice a day (click to go to source)
(if I'm remembering my grade 8 math, this is 1000µg, or 1mg)

This source suggests a theraputic dose of 200µg 3x a day (click to go to source)

In searching for adverse reactions, I found this (click paragraph to go to link):

Although adverse reactions have not been widely documented, particularly when chromium is taken at dosages of 50 to 200 mcg daily, there may be some risk in taking 1,000 mcg or more a day over time. In one case, a woman who took 1,200 mcg or more daily for several months developed kidney failure.

What are some people THINKING!!!

wow, 1200 mcg of chromium a day?! well, im gonna take my ass to the store to buy me some R-ALA

you know what, that chromium doesn't feel that effective. No wonder they sold it at the 99 cent store...

Yeah, that was my feeling on it, too.

Only I paid a LOT more than 99 cents...

So whats my best bet guys??? R-ALA sounds good, is thier anything better than that?? I heard vandyl sulfate works well, im probably gonna purchase some R-ALA this friday with the small amount of money i have left...