ABOUT EGGS

If you come from the “old school” and muscle gain is your main goal, you might even add an egg yolk or two to any of the shakes below. If you are going to use a raw egg, it might be better to throw out the white and use the yolk only. The uncooked white contains a substance called avidin which destroys the b-vitamin biotin. And although only 1 egg in thousands contains salmonella, it could be the one you use so unless you grew up using raw eggs in your shake, you just might want to skip it.

 

ABOUT HEAVY CREAM

We personally use heavy cream in some of the shakes to bring up the calories and help with the digestion of protein. Cream primarily because it tastes good and the saturated fats also help with natural testosterone production. Others that recommend this method are Rob Faigin (Natural Hormonal Enhancement), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding), Vince Gironda and Rheo Blair who taught this method to us. You can substitute flax, macadamia, and olive oil; or natural nut butters like almond butter or cashew butter if you are concerned with saturated fat.

On the diets where we recommend cream we are trying to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. The only way do to this is high calories (to build muscle - thus the cream) and low sugar and carbs to utilize fat for energy. The high fat diet was recently studied in the Journal of the American Medical Association and shown to have favorable effects on cholesterol, blood pressure and other markers generally thought to worsen from fat intake. (This was used to support Atkins diet which recommends more saturated fat than we have in any of our diets - up to 80% fat.) We also mixed protein with Half “n” Half in the old days on a weight gain plan. The problem with half n half (unless you are very lean) is that it does contain some milk sugar.