Q: Is there a supplement I can take to combat the ammonia-like smell that I emit while training and after? It’s really noticeable to friends and family. I feel like a pariah at social gatherings, because often, it happens residually, long after I’m done training and showered. If I sweat at all after that, it still come out. What’s it from anyhow, and how can I stop it? A: Ammonia smell is urea being emitted from your body. The largest organ of exit and elimination from your body is your skin, remember, so all of the toxins that you emit during perspiration and at rest usually originate from this exit organ. Remember, too, that when you work out, you are boosting your metabolic functions and causing a constant cycle of waste and regeneration of cells. So that means that you ...

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Q: What can I do nutritionally to increase the volume of my muscle cells? A: Muscles get bigger due to cells getting bigger – it’s what we call muscular hypertrophy. This can be achieved in two ways. Firstly, by increasing the volume contained in the muscle and, secondly, by increasing the amount of contractile muscle protein that the cell is made of. Most people, consciously or unconsciously, focus on the second type of hypertrophy. The really smart trainer, however, will work hard to get both happening at the same time. It should be noted, here, that some people believe that increases in muscular size are also due to what is called hyperplasia – that is, the splitting of muscle fibers to create new ones. Others state that humans cannot increase the number of muscle fibers in their body. Even, if ...

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