Comments on: Got Supplements?

By: Darrin

Darrin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:41:23 +0000

Hi Navid – by me saying that I don’t support it for people under 20 yrs old, I simply mean that all the studies I have found on creatine (and there are a ton) use people in their 20’s or older.

Since there haven’t been studies (that I know of) saying creatine is ok under 20, I err on the side of caution and say don’t. Nobody “needs” creatine anyway…

By: Navid Nadali

Navid Nadali — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:30:45 +0000

Forgot to mention, Animal pak for me too, for a year now! Great stuff.

By: Navid Nadali

Navid Nadali — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:29:17 +0000

Darrin, i read a post that you mentioned you do not recommend Creatine to under 20s, Just wondering if there is any science behind that, i searched for a while now and cannot find any studies,

Thanks,

By: ben

ben — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:41:52 +0000

i find that if something is FDA approved, it’s probably not bad. but the next question is do you need it.

By: mass

mass — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:43:51 +0000

Well said. Start with the foundation which is a balance diet. Avoid junk food. Don’t eat excess amounts of food, you need to look at food as a fuel (energy), and you need to supply your body with the right amount to function properly. Once you have that down, you can supplement your basic supplements, starting with a Multi-Vitamin and Minerals formula.

By: Alex Kay

Alex Kay — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:35:36 +0000

That’s too bad!

Here in Scandinavia, we generally eat a lot of fish.

Very few places are more than 200 kilometres from the ocean.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:07:36 +0000

Sean- Yep, diet could be compared to the base of the “supplement pyramid” if there were such a thing. I find it kinda funny that people will blow alot of money to buy an expensive supplement when the nutrient intake needed to build muscle isn’t there in the first place.

Witmonger – Interesting article. I’ve read others that cast doubt on the usefulness of multivitamins, but not as much as that article does.

lol on the protein shakes. I prefer a nice solid protein as well most of the time so that I can actually stay full for a while. The powders are absorbed pretty quickly and seem to go through you pretty fast.

By: Witmonger

Witmonger — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:29:25 +0000

I read a pretty interesting (and fairly neutral) article in Reader's Digest recently titled The Vitamin Myth. Overall, however, it gave the thumbs down to most specific supplements AND multivitamins, citing recent university research and medical journal reports. It can be found here: Articleness That aside, I downed a double dose of ON's 100% Whey Protein shake powder (providing 48g of protein) after every lifting session for the first few months, but said "screw it" when the tub ran dry. So far as I can tell, it did seem to lessen my recovery time, but that's about it. It was mostly too much of a hassle, though. Because after that, I was still starving for real food and would often grab something high in natural proteins anyway.