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What are the benefits of heavy upper body weight training combined with bicycle riding?

Is this a good thing? i did notice i dropped a couple sizes in my waist yet ive gained over 20 pounds since early july. I guess muscle really does weigh more than the fat that was there before. Im particularly interested in upper body muscle mass and mostly just toning of the legs as i have naturally always had athletic large calves and thighs. Anything else i can do to enhance my progress?

Hi If you want to gain muscle mass then you need to include the three main muscle building exercises in to you weight training routines. The bench press, Squats and Deadlifts these will really pack on muscle, use heavy weights with low reps ( always have a spotter for heavy weights). Bike riding is a great cardio exercise to go alongside weight training and will keep your body fat percentage down, which will enhance your muscle definition.

Forget about checking your weight, for as you have found out muscle does weigh more then fat, use a tape measure and a mirror as you progression guide.

Stick to a healthy diet and you will see the results.

I hope this helps.

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Does the body become resistant to the benefits of Allopurinol over time?

I have been on it for about 10 months. I’ve been chronic for about 5 years, but had a near death (from the pain) gout attack a year ago that lasted a month, and thus I got on da pill. It seems like it may be losing its effectiveness, though. But to be sure, I have been testing the limits a little lately yet still drinking tons of water. No alcohol either.

Allopurinol is an inhibitor that suppresses the degradation of purine to uric acid. Everyday, there are millions of body cell die off and the breaking down of the DNA structure produces huge amount purine. Part of these purines will be used by the body for the formation of new body cells while the rest of it will be sent to the liver to be further broken down to uric acid for disposal through urine.

When just started to take Allopurinol, the drug works fine in delivering the promised result, lower down your blood serum uric acid level. But the doctors forgot to tell you that this effect is only temporary.

Here is the flow of the purine disposal cycle, excess purines enter the liver to be degraded to uric acid, and the the uric acid is carried by the blood to the kidneys for disposal. There are 2 possible causes of hyperuricemia, the increased purine input or decreased uric acid output. If you have cut down or abstain from the high purine diet but your blood uric acid level still remains high, then the major cause of your gout is because of the weakened kidney function which results in the decrease of uric acid disposal capability.

Taking Allopurinol can only hold the un-degraded purine in the liver for certain period of time, eventually your body still have to get rid of the purine. If it cannot get rid of it through conversion to uric acid, it will force it to find some alternative channels such as through the skin to get rid of the unwanted purine, and that is why some gout patients experience skin rashes after they start taking Allopurinol.

And since the liver is holding up huge amount of purine, you CANNOT stop the consumption of Allopurinol, at least not suddenly stop it. This is because once the suppressing factor is removed, hell break loose! The liver is start churning out huge amount of uric acid and cause a serious spike of uric acid level that result in series of serious gout attack.

Sad but true, none of those gout drugs can remove the urate crystals that have already formed inside the gouty joints. As long as those tiny nasty crystals are still there, you will alway have chronic gout attack. You cannot depend on those chemical drugs for the rest of your life for those chemical residues will only further destroy your kidneys and send you to dialysis unit.

If conventional medicine works, you won’t be suffering from the awful gout pain for years. It is time to give yourself a chance to try some alternative solution which makes more sense than the crazy pills.

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