Nicotine.. how to increase your Metabolic Rate by up to 10%!!!!
Recently "BajanBastard" posted a topic concerning Nicotine as a fat burner, .. He got a lot of mixed responses but most people didn't like the idea of using nicotine as a fat burning aid...
Well, that is what got me started initially, ..
General Information about Nicotine
Nicotine is an alkolid of the tabaco plant. In higher doses it can be toxic, but smaller doses are pleasantly stimulating. One cigarette contains approx 0,8 - 1,0 mg nicotine. Nicotine promotes the release of Adrenaline and Dopamine which leads to a rise in Blood pressure, blood-sugar-level and heart rate and a feeling of well beeing on the other hand.
The Dopamine release is the main cause for a possible addiction as u might expect.
Nicotine and Fat Loss
Any substance which promotes adrenaline release is very promising in regard to fat loss. The thermogenic effect of nicotine was tested in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study [ http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/77/6/1442#FN2 ] and it deliverd some very interesting findings. As i do not want to bother you with the exact study setup up and testing procedures (you can look that up under the link i posted above) i will get dircetly to the results:
Nicotine gum/caffeine--->Increase in MBR
1mg / 0mg -------> 3,7%
2mg / 0mg -------> 4,9%
2mg / 50mg -------> 6,3 %
1mg / 50mg -------> 7,9 %
1mg / 100mg ------> 8,5%
2mg / 100mg ------> 9,8 %
In conclusion we can clearly see, that 1mg of nicotine is able to boost your metabolisim up to almost 4% in a 2 hour period. 2 hours after consumption of the nicotine / caffeine gum, Metabolic Rate droped to normal values. Adding 100mg of caffeine can improve the thermogenic effect more than a 100%!!
Increasing the nicotine dose to 2 mg does not significantly increase the thermogenic effect but produces side effects in most subjects (strong nausea, etc..). So taking a dose higher than 1mg is not advised.
Moreover there is evidence that nicotine blunts the release of insulin (!) This may be of special interest as insulin inhibts lypolysis and promotes fat storage. In addition to that nicotine acts as a strong appetite supressant.
Another positive effect is nicotines ability to promote lipolysis (Chen H, Vlahos R, Bozinovski S, Jones J, Anderson GP, Morris MJ. Effect of short-term cigarette smoke exposure on body weight, appetite and brain neuropeptide Y in mice) and its possible ability to stimulate the uncoupling protein in fatty tissue (UCP1). This is the same effect which occurs when DNP is ingested but to a lot smaller extend.
Possible side effects
- rise in blood pressure
- nausea
- vomitting
- nicotine is not a tumor promoter, but it can delay cell-death(in Laymans terms: a possbile tumor cell may live longer than it should be)
and last but not least: Addiction. But when using nicotine chewing gums the chance of becoming addicted to nicotine is less than 1%.. so don't sweat it :lol:
Hope this one helps some guys. I will most certainly use nicotine gums in my upcoming cutting cycles.
RG
credits go to bulkolly, fronit (both androgen-steroids) and PartyBoy (muscletalk).