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“Nutritional supplements can be as powerful as drugs”
Oh, My Gosh! This is probably the biggest fallacy you can find amongst hundreds of different advertisements in bodybuilding magazines. Here you have some examples picked from the last issues of well known bodybuilding magazines:
- Next generation in anabolic supplementation…
- Made from compounds that have the same molecular structure of testosterone…
- Nobody boost testosterone more than we do…
- This is hardcore; the most powerful stimulant ever…
- As close molecularly to anabolic steroids as we seen in a legal product…
- Raise your testosterone up to 154% with your first dose…
Notice the same manipulation pattern? They try to convince us that nutritional supplements work like drugs. The whole concept is completely nonsense. Consider the following idea: FDA approves any nutritional supplement because they have tested the products as innocuous. These products receive the label of nutritional supplements. Drugs, on the other hand, receive their specific label that complies with drugs regulations and requirements.
I’ll always remember when Dan Duchaine (the first and only true steroid guru) stated some years ago:
“Anabolic steroids are drugs and nutritional supplements are just food”
This is the epitome, the quintessence of bodybuilding common sense. This simple phrase ends with numerous false myths, fallacies and half truths so common in the nutritional supplement industry. Always remember the wisdom of Dan Duchaine!
PS. I must admit that food by itself has not the same effects of the drugs, but I also admit that food causes an hormonal response in the human body. But this hormone response is very limited and absolutely not comparable with the effects exerted by drugs.
