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To supplement or not to supplement – that is the question on more bodybuilder’s lips than ever before. Are they safe? What works and what doesn’t?

Lets have a look at the basics.

There are various reasons why athletes may be interested in supplementation.

 Concern about getting adequate nutrients from our food supply.

 Suspicion of pharmaceuticals.

 Belief that diet alone will not achieve optimal nutrition

Supplements include the following:

 Vitamins
 Minerals
 Amino Acids
 Herbs

The concerning thing about supplements is that anything classified as a dietary supplement is not required to meet any FDA or other standards! Think about that! there are no regulations in place that guarantee the safety or purity of something sold as a supplement.

They are also not made to meet the similar safety requirements as prescription drugs or any other manufacturing standards. They are not required to meet product potency or purity ratings and are not required to prove the effectiveness of any health claim that is made.

Studies suggest that a number of supplements may deliver on advertising claims. However, trainees are spending large sums of money on products that have little or no proven usefulness.

Personally I find the use of supplements over rated and as with strength training, supplementation asks the same question “if a little is good then maybe more has to be better”

Supplementation and steroids started to proliferate when volume strength training became the training system of the day. Young strength trainees slaving in the gym for five to six days a week was seen as normal. All this without making any progress or putting on any size whatsoever.

They then turned to the latest supplement or steroid thinking that this is the magic bullet to put on that added muscle when all the time they were just plain “overtraining”

The cold hard facts are that the majority of the regular trainees in your gym are overtraining. The sad reality is that the type of training that you find in bodybuilding books and magazines (and used by the stars) are irrelevant to the majority of
the population and has a high failure rate.

If more bodybuilders started using more infrequent, short, high intensity weight training sessions, followed by the required amount of time to recover and become stronger…

MOST OF THE WEIGHT GAIN SUPPLEMENTS AND STERIODS AVAILABLE TODAY WOULD NOT BE NEEDED.

The bottom line on weight gain supplements

 Before taking a supplement try to make modifications to your diet that might achieve the same goals.

 Only choose products that show the amount of active ingredients on the label that are required.

 Be aware that “natural” does not mean ‘safe’

 Some herbal supplements may have unpleasant side effects.

Listed below are some popular bodybuilding supplements available on the market today:

Creatine monohydrate

Creatine was first introduced to the market place some eight years ago and has since become the most popular bodybuilding supplement of all time.

Creatine is said to significantly increase lean muscle mass,
improve performance, increase energy levels and speed
up recovery rates. Creatine also stimulates the uptake
of amino acids in the proteins, which means that the
more that it’s used the more muscle that may be grown.

Dosage: A loading phase of 20grams a day for the first five days then a
maintenance phase of 5grams a day from then on.

Whey Protein isolate

The highest yield of protein currently available
and is extracted from milk. This is another popular supplement
for athletes and bodybuilders because of its high proportion of
amino acids. It is supposed to be high in potassium, which is essential
for muscle growth and is an antioxidant and a good
immune system builder.

Dosage: 20gms – 100gms a day.

Tibulus Terrestris

Tribulus terrestris is a plant that grows in many
tropical and moderate areas of the world and is
very rich in chemical compounds such as saponins,
flavonoids and alkaloids.

Tribulus terrestris is supposedly a testosterone enhancer.
and increases sex drives in both men and women.

Dosage as per bottle.

Glutamine

Is a non-essential amino acid, which makes up to 60% of the amino acids in the bodies muscles. Glutamine containing products are protein
shakes and good quality protein powders; it can also
be added to protein shakes for added potency.

Dosage: 5grams to 15 grams per day.

So please remember a supplement is something added to the diet to make up for a nutritional deficiency or imbalance they are not intended to substitute for eating a balanced diet. If they are to be taken at all they should only be used to supplement the diet and not replace it.

Poisoning By Prescription Drugs On The Rise

New study indicates US hospitalizations for poisoning byopioids, sedatives and tranquilizers increased 65 percent from1999-2006

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Numerous people are not mindful that doctor prescribed medicine dependancy has become this type of significant dilemma. This can be accurate in all parts on the globe, and just about every year it kills thousands of individuals of all ages. With so many doctor prescribed medications obtainable for abuse, it is effortless to see why this difficulty has gotten out of control around the previous number of years. As well as this, most who abuse conventional drugs do so simply because it is easier to acquire their hands on them.

Treatment for conventional medicines is just about every tad as significant as that for unlawful prescription drugs such as heroine, cocaine, and speed. So, what are some on the most popular prescription medicines that people get addicted to? Some which have brought on major concerns include: Adderal, Ativan, Barbiturate, Benzodiazepine, Codeine, depressants, Dilaudid, Kadian, Librium, Lomotil, Narcos, Nembutol, Oxycontin, Percocet, Percodan, Ritalin, Soma, Stimulants, Toridol, Valium, Vicodin, Zanex, and tranquilizers.

Those people in need to have of prescription pill dependancy cure can go towards the same facilities as men and women who are addicted to unlawful medications and also alcohol. While it might not make a lot sense to people who have in no way had issues, it may be incredibly complicated to prevent making use of conventional prescription drugs – some locate it subsequent to impossible without the proper assist and guidance.

The correct drug rehab software can assist anybody who’s addicted to doctor prescribed drug treatments. Prescription drug abuse is nothing to take lightly. This may be every bit as risky, and often situations as deadly, as illegitimate medications. For this explanation, treatment need to be sought out as soon as possible.

The Food and Drug Administration issued an ‘early communication’ yesterday that they were “investigating a possible association between the use of Singulair and behavior/mood changes, suicidality (suicidal thinking and behavior) and suicide.”

It is important to note that this ‘early communication’ is not any kind of alert or warning and that no link has yet been found between Singulair and suicide. Instead, as with all medicines, the FDA tries to trace back reports of problems that people have while they take a medicine to see if they are actually caused by the medicine or are just a coincidence. The report on Singulair should be done in about 9 months.

While your kids don’t need to stop taking Singulair for their allergies or asthma, it is a good reminder to monitor them for any new symptoms or problems that they develop once they start taking Singulair or any other medicine. And then report those problems or side effects to your pediatrician and the FDA through the Medwatch Reporting System.
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Now I know there is no “official link” between Singulair and suicidal thoughts, but let me tell you my brother Matt’s story.

Four years ago he had a terrible asthma attack.  We really thought that we were going to lose him.  He was only 11 years old at the time.  He was in the hospital for about a month, his lungs began to fill up with fluid and they had to induce a coma.  It was very touch go for about two weeks.  They had him on a number of prescription drugs during his stay.  One of those drugs was the prescription drug Singulair.  When he finally came out a hospital one month later he had been on Singulair or about three weeks.  The doctors had told us that he is asthmatic and would need to be on Singulair and also some steroid that I really can’t remember the name of at this time.

We were so very grateful that the doctors saved his life, but we noticed something very strange.  He came out of the hospital a totally different Child.  He cried constantly, he had nightmares, he was hallucinating.  We did not know what the hell was going on with him.  So we took him back to the doctor.  They told us it was very normal for a child to experience depression after a traumatic event.  OK so we thought he would get over it.  Well we were wrong.

Six months later he began to get worse.  He was afraid to go to sleep, and he was terrified of school.  Getting him up in the morning was not easy to do.  When we were finally able to wake him up everything seemed OK, but 5 minutes before the bus came he would go into these panic attacks.  It would just break your heart.  We tried to drive him to school drop him off and hope everything would be OK, that once he got into school the tears would stop.  Well they didn’t stop, and it just got worse.  He would go down to the principal’s office and beg to sit in her office all day.  For some reason he was terrified of being around all the other children.

The school than approached us offering to have him home schooled.  At this point we really had no choice the panic attacks were everyday, and he was learning nothing.  You could imagine at this point we all were feeling lost and helpless.

So for two years we had him home schooled.  It worked well but in my opinion is not a substitute for the real thing.  Children need that social interaction with their peers.

One morning I was sitting having my morning coffee and watching the news.  They had a short blurb on the TV about Singulair saying that they were researching possible links between Singulair and suicide, and also depression.  After I heard that my world went into a tailspin.  I immediately called my doctor and he advised me to take Matt off of Singulair right away.  So I did.

Now come to find out Merck had known about the side effects the whole time and never conveyed the information.  Within three days of Matthew being off of Singulair he was back to his normal self.  I was stunned that it was that easy!  Now came the anger.  Why we were not told of these side effects?  This child lost 3 years of his life sitting in the house in fear, wanting to die.

So how is he doing now?  Well he is back in school, he has straight A’s, he is happier then I have ever seen him.

I’m not trying to bash this prescription drug, or have it pulled off of the shelf, I just want information to flow freely, and not be held up because pharmaceutical companies do not want to hurt their bottom line.

Please also take a look at this video.  This is a report cbs news did on my brother.