Comments on: Supplements: What you don’t know (and probably wish you didn’t, after reading this)

By: philip

philip — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:23:01 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Krista.

By: women's workout

women's workout — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:51:28 +0000

Whenever I read about the supplement industry I find myself a little angry… 90% and more of the shelved supplements are a bunch of crap and won’t don’t anything for giving benefits… or they end up being taken off the shelf a year later (hyroxycut for example) for being harmful for your health.

If you just eat healthy, workout like recommended toward the goals your wanting supplements are a waste of time. Plus, who wants to put something in their body that they have no idea the long term affects or how it will affect you even right after consumption… caffeine highs, fast heart rates, anxiety, messed up stomach, you know what i mean.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:08:00 +0000

Except ecdysterone doesn’t have any effect on humans. “Studies in my lab have shown that ecdysteroids are completely innocuous in mammals,” says Ronald M. Evans, a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego. “Spinach, for example, is loaded with [ecdysteroids], but these molecules provide no muscle-building properties in humans.”

Oh yeah? Well, what about Popeye the Sailor Man, huh?

I especially like the part where they’re selling steroid prohormones that don’t contribute to muscle gains, but do cause all the other side effects of steroids — beards on women, breasts on men. All the drawbacks of banned substances with none of the benefits, but hey, it’s legal!