Dit is het: (bron: Lyle McDonald, The Rapid Fat Loss Handbook)
Dosing the EC stack
The rather standard dose of EC for dieting purposes is 20 mg ephedrine (or the herbal
equivalent) and 200 mg of caffeine (or the herbal equivalent) taken three times per day. This is what has
been used in the clinical research and shown to have the greatest effect on caloric expenditure. Note
that some studies suggested the addition of aspirin (making it an ECA stack) would improve the effect.
But this was only shown for obese individuals and taking 300 mg of aspirin three times per day is a
good way to burn a hole in your stomach/get an ulcer. Whether lower doses of aspirin (say the 81 mg
children’s size) would have the same effect is unknown.
But, again, if you’ve never used the EC stack before, jumping straight to the above dose
(20/200 three times per day) is a recipe for disaster. DO NOT DO IT unless you have used EC before
and know you can tolerate it. Rather, start with a half dose, 10 mg of ephedrine and 100 mg of caffeine
taken once per day and see how you react. If you have no problem, move to a full dose taken once
per day. If you have no problems there, you can add a second dose, then a final third dose (note that
some hardcore dieters will add further doses in between the main doses).
In general, you should make sure your last dose of ephedrine comes no later than about 6 hours
before your normal sleeping time (i.e. no later than 4pm if you normally go to sleep at 10pm); the
stimulant effects keep many people up. So you might take a dose at 8am upon awakening, at 12 pm,
and again at 4pm (assuming a 10pm sleep time). Just spread the three doses throughout the day,
assuming you can tolerate all three. Note again that the stimulant effects tend to decrease with regular
use (so do the appetite blunting effects, unfortunately) but the calorie burning effects continue unabated
with at least one study suggesting that they increase with regular use.