Question about a well known nutritional/bodybuilding supplement?

[battleknight24]

I've heard a lot about Ergopharm's product '1-AD', which is a "prohormone"... Is this basically a steroid? If it is, I'm not interested in taking it... (I think it used to be called Androsteniodol...)


Peace,

[Paragon]

1. "androstenedione"

Do NOT take it. Even Mark McGwire stopped taking the stuff.

[battleknight24]

2. No... this one is called androsteneDIOL... but...

... it probably is, in all practicality, the same type of supplement...

[Paragon]

3. Is it worth risking your health?

Isn't "getting healthy" the whole point of working out?

[battleknight24]

4. What I don't understand is...

... why doesn't the FDA or some other administrative board oversee the production and sale of these products???

[Paragon]

5. Not part of the $$$ pharmaceutical industry

The supplement & herbal remedy industries generally aren't touched by them - except when it's good PR, like in the case of the ephedrine ban (which is quite safe when taken correctly and/or heeding the label warnings).