The mirage of supplements

Edited by Roberto Rillo - Book Author: Calisthenics BodyBuilding

How can we realistically succeed in discussing "integration" if on the one hand there are the industries that produce the products, whose only interest is the economic profit and on the other the buyers, whose only hope is to buy miraculous products that legally and without side effects, can they mimic the results obtained with doping?

The integration industry is so powerful and devious that by leveraging this barely concealed hope of buyers, it will continually launch new products, new names, new advertisements, new sponsors into the market, creating the mirage of the miraculous product. The industries exploiting the communication of colossal advertising campaigns, candidly declare for example, that scientific studies have not been carried out to demonstrate the validity of such a product, since this does not interest the scientific community: we are at the most total paradox !!

Eventually, after a period of time sufficient to generate the desired economic profit, the product disappears to make way for a new one, which in turn for a certain period of time will constitute the muscle mirage in the collective imagination.

Try to ask yourself if among the dozens of products that you have surely bought and tried, has there been one really able to make you gain muscle mass and / or definition? There is not, there has never been and never will be. If there were doping, it would be illegal and could not be sold in supplement stores, which are equated with herbalists. Have you ever wondered why in the seventies the then nascent integration industry proposed dried liver, brewer's yeast, fenugreek and wheat germ and today these products are almost gone? Because use has shown that they were almost useless and today's consumers would no longer be willing to buy them.

The real supplements deserve a mention, that is to say the proteins in powder, the branched amino acids and why not also the bars. But these, even if defined as supplements, are nothing but food in a form, more practical and faster. Here the only problem is that of not completely replacing the real food with these products or adding them without criteria to an incorrect diet at the start.

What else to say? A mirage is a mirage, it is up to you to choose whether to die of thirst hoping to find the oasis, or to study the map and with compass and compass find the right path.

See also: The mirage of the miraculous card