A reminder to check before you buy

So often we get advice from our fit friends. "What supplements should I take? Your muscles are awesome! I want to look like you." Our friends who have been working out for years and have a fit body by fact of time and discipline give us all the same answer. "Whatever they take." For many people they just get on the same protein or pre workout that their buddy is on, because they trust their friend and like how he or she looks. The cycle continues and we lose the reason why we are even taking that supplement to begin with. Simply, it becomes a bandwagon product.

So maybe your above the shake weight and crossfit obsession. But when it comes down to supplements, you trust that if it is being sold by a store with a good reputation, then it must be good right? Sadly their is billions of dollars to be made on your body and health. You could stop reading here and just take away from this post that you must investigate anything before you can trust a product. I want to expose one supplemental giant for you today.

Bodybuilding.com seems to have it down. But I discovered in Scoobys hall of shame that he gave them three thumbs down and wrote this post on his site.

Until now, my fitness hall of shame has been reserved for individual products but in the case of bodybuilding.com I am making an exception.  I am inducing their whole company into my Fitness Hall of Shame for their continued pushing of untested supplements and their incredible greed.  The FDA fined bodybuilding.com $7,000,000 for selling laced supplements but its still cheaper for them to just pay the hand slap fines than it is to test the products they sell to insure they are safe.  Congratulations bodybuilding.com!  You could have lead the industry to successful self-regulation but now you have doomed it to FDA control.

So why would I ever buy anything from these guys again? Well, lots of people still do. Until the public begins to educate themselves on these topics we are still going to be battling the same problem. So here is just a friendly reminder to watch out for you. Nobody, the government, your doctor, your trainer, or even me is going to care as much about the health of you and your loved ones as you will. So take care of yourself and do you homework before you buy.

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~Namastae