I didn’t write the following; it’s paraphrased (mostly for language) from Cracked.com.
It’s humor, it’s not scientific, but it’s a message that needs to be told and learned.
I’ve my own story about supplements, but I’ll get into them later. Suffice to say, no more. Ever. No more protein drinks, ‘energy’ boosters, or anything else. Taking Creatine messed with my kidneys. Pre-workout drinks like NO-Xplode messed up my kidney function and digestive tract. My doctor demanded I stop them all. NO more. Four months clean of ALL of that… and I’m feeling fine. Workouts going fine. Recovery time is fine. I miss none of it.
The original article on Cracked.com is here: Link
Health: How to Stop Throwing Your Money Away on Snake Oil
Go to the drug aisle in your grocery store. In between the pills and the vitamins will be a huge shelf full of herbal supplements that promise to do everything from helping you lose weight to easing joint pain to making your brain work better.
And it’s all BS. All of it.
Worse, it’s BS that we spend $34 billion a year on, almost a third as much as we spend on prescription drugs that actually do something.
Just to be clear: Scientists have spent billions in government money carefully testing the effectiveness of this stuff. Their results? No, echinacea can’t cure your cold. Gingko doesn’t do anything for your brain, glucosamine and chondroitin won’t fix your arthritis. Hoodia gordonii won’t help you lose weight.
If it were good for you, it probably wouldn’t be covered in horrible spikes.
Don’t get us wrong; we completely realize that lots of the drugs we have now were once naturally occurring in plants and that it is therefore possible that out there, somewhere, is a leaf yet undiscovered by science that will cure your diabetes. But if so, these rip-off artists in the grocery aisle aren’t going to be the ones who find it.
They’re scam artists.
They’re so sure their supplements don’t do anything they don’t do any actual quality control to track how much of the supplement is in each pill. They just throw a little bit in there and shrug. Aren’t they worried about people accidentally overdosing? No, they’re not. They know you can’t overdose on a placebo.
All they’re doing is “curing” ailments that either naturally go away on their own (colds, joint pain) so you wind up falsely attributing the relief to the supplement, or they’re claiming to cure conditions that are hard to quantify (see supplements for “alertness” or “stress relief”). Snake oil salesmen have been getting away with that technique for thousands of generations.
Students, we’re counting on you to make sure that ours is the last.
Some Truths Include:
- Pharmaceutical Companies Are Jerks, But at Least They Use Scientists;
- Why Hippies Have Never Discovered a Single Disease Cure;
- “Homeopathic” is Another Word for Voodoo BS;
- Just Go See a Doctor You Big Baby.
Read more: Original Article
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