What is Ecklonia Cava and what bodybuilding context does it have?

Ecklonia Cava 20:1 Full Spectrum ( EC )

Disclaimer: As a potent blood sugar lowering ingredient, diabetics must seek a physician’s approval before touching this or any other supplement

Ecklonia cava is the world's most studied and researched seaweed.

The vast amount of health benefits from this one ingredient is outstanding and holds an extremely vast amount of polyphenols.

What we added it for was the benefits such as assisting building muscle, burning fat increases your endurance/energy expenditure , increases blood flow , lowering blood sugar and  epicatechin EC also lowers myostatin and increases follistatin.

In a human study, 141 young adults were given a beverage containing ECE at 200 mg daily. In two weeks their regular weight dropped nearly 2.5 pounds, muscle mass increased by nearly 2.5 pounds, and body fat dropped by 4 pounds, or 7.48%. 

How does it do all this?

EC is a potent vasodilator and funny enough was studied and put up against the likes of viagra.

Not only that but EC scored higher than the viagra from the users with no reported side effects increasing blood flow controlled by NO by 50%- 60%

 EC is a ACE inhibitor which relaxes the veins, lowers body fat levels , increases fat metabolism in liver, assists in processing sugars faster, increases insulin and glucose uptake into muscles, increases nutrients into muscles and direct positive effects in muscles overall ( possibly through increasing IGF-1 ).

EC has been shown to inhibit DGAT by roughly 50%.

Higher DGAT levels are usually found in people with diabetes and in animal studies was shown to reduce fat and increase physical activity.

Below is a Korea study done by scientists experimenting with EC and the students' endurance levels on the treadmill.

One time the students were given a placebo half an hour time before the test, the other time a supplement with 72 milligrams of Ecklonia cava extract.

Results
The supplement improved the time that the students could keep running by more than 25 percent. The supplement did not significantly increase oxygen uptake.

After the session, the researchers found more glucose and less lactate in the blood for students if they had received Ecklonia cava extract. The Koreans suspect that the supplement stimulates the burning of fatty acids, or speeds up the removal of lactate.

Conclusion
"This study demonstrated the effect of Ecklonia cava polyphenol on enhanced endurance performance for the first time", write the researchers.

We sourced the best EC at a 20:1 ratio with the highest dosage so ensure you reap all the benefits.