How Many Different Supplements Do You Take?

[Damien]

How many different supps do you take? Vote and post your comments...

[Damien]

Me?

- Whey
- Dextrose
- Creatine
- Complex Carbs (when bulking)

Total, 4.

[DenAsh50]

Protein
Creatine Ethyl Ester
NO supp.
Glucose
L-glutamine (when im really sore)

5 total

[rooboy_25]

Protein x 2- Whey and Casein
Creatine
Glutamine

4 In total

[yitmy]

none, maybe I will have a post exercise protein bar once in a while but too pay an unregulated industry money on products without thorough research is just....__________!

Sure there is research done on protein. But long term effects of Creatine supplementation have yet to be done. How about the other products currently in vogue, any studies on them? And your what ingesting them and to what effect? There is a whole unregulated industry in which you choose products based mostly on word of mouth or relying on the representitive from GNC to steer you in the right direction. Hmm... seems alot like them hokum sellers from them movies, trying to sell you the next best thing (snake oil salesmen) for what? For the feeling that using this ____product will get you____. If it doesn't work then they might add, "oh you really should be doing it this way, and/or with this product here...just ante up another $50 and you will feel the changes this time, you'll see". You can see why most bodybuilders are poor. Save your money and find a good sport nutritionist who can point you in the right direction.

I'll get off my soap box now.

-M

[Doug]

Originally Posted by yitmy

none, maybe I will have a post exercise protein bar once in a while but too pay an unregulated industry money on products without thorough research is just....__________!

Sure there is research done on protein. But long term effects of Creatine supplementation have yet to be done. How about the other products currently in vogue, any studies on them? And your what ingesting them and to what effect? There is a whole unregulated industry in which you choose products based mostly on word of mouth or relying on the representitive from GNC to steer you in the right direction. Hmm... seems alot like them hokum sellers from them movies, trying to sell you the next best thing (snake oil salesmen) for what? For the feeling that using this ____product will get you____. If it doesn't work then they might add, "oh you really should be doing it this way, and/or with this product here...just ante up another $50 and you will feel the changes this time, you'll see". You can see why most bodybuilders are poor. Save your money and find a good sport nutritionist who can point you in the right direction.

I'll get off my soap box now.

-M

Hi, I'll get on to your box, mines in the gym....

Sports nutritionist, do you mean me.....lol

I thought sports supplements in the US was regulated by the FDA. See FDA Consumer Regulations

I agree with some of what you say, but disagree with what you say about creatine, long term effect....it was first discovered in 1832 how long do you want for any long term effects to be discovered.

Supplements come onto the market place through scientific research (normally on muscle of rats) I agree that supplement companies say theirs will do this or do that, but the ingredients you will find will do what they say, its just what amount is really required to do what they say,

A lot of supplements come from herbal preparations, that have been around for thousands of years, most prescription drugs come from herbal supplements,

Udo's essential oils is a supplement and there is no finer way to get your essential fats in the diet, it is organic, pesticide, herbicide free, sold in dark brown bottles and inside a cardboard box as light destroys oil, like the virgin olive oil you get from supermarkets etc,

What about carb supplements, Vitamins/Minerals, Digestive enzymes, etc etc

[Gunner010]

5 For Me:

ON 100% Whey
Cellmass
NO X-Plode
Udo's Blend Fish Oil
GNC Mega Men

[yitmy]

Oh the soap box is free... I read the article you posted on your response and this reflected what I had indicated in the previous post:

Under DSHEA, dietary supplements are regulated like foods. Unlike new drugs, dietary supplements don't have to go through review by FDA for safety and effectiveness or be "approved" before they can be marketed. But manufacturers must provide premarket notice and evidence of safety for any supplements they plan to sell that contain dietary ingredients that were not marketed as dietary supplements before DSHEA was passed—except that the premarket notice is not needed if the new dietary ingredient had previously been used as in ingredient in food.

So the regulation you speak of I do not see. They are not tested like medications too prove that the claims on the product will do what they say it will. There is no indication that the product will do anything...its a supplement, FDA will make certain that it won't poison you, but lots of medications(Vioxx...Celebrex) have been fast tracked through the approval process, and according to the article this research is not even done on supplements.

The c-p energy cycle may have been discovered years ago but I have not seen any research from peer journals that indicate supplementing this process with an outside the body source of creatin does anything to the process that naturally occurs in the body. Please direct me if you can so I and others can make educated choices on the use of these ____potential health claiming products.

I must get off now so I can work out, Have a good day- and think before you ingest!

[Doug]

Originally Posted by yitmy

The c-p energy cycle may have been discovered years ago but I have not seen any research from peer journals that indicate supplementing this process with an outside the body source of creatin does anything to the process that naturally occurs in the body. Please direct me if you can so I and others can make educated choices on the use of these ____potential health claiming products.

I must get off now so I can work out, Have a good day- and think before you ingest!

So what your saying is the scientific research on creatine supplementation on human muscle is not true......pmsl

[Bill-3954]

Just one, ON 100% Whey.