McCain Not Giving Up Easy-Update »
It was reported earlier in the week that Senator McCain had dropped support of his own Bill with regards to more FDA oversight into the supplement industry. A huge grassroots letter writing campaign by supplement users across the U.S. was what brought on his sudden change in legislation. As I said in my column yesterday [...]
United States Senate levies tax on fake tans »
Senate leaders have cut out the five-percent tax on elective cosmetic surgery, colloquially known as the Botox-tax, and replaced it with a 10-percent tax on indoor tanning. The proposed tax would apply only to tanning beds that deliver UV radiation, not spray tans or airbrush tans, and will be added directly to the price of [...]
American Academy for Anti-Aging Medicine trained doctor, Jesee Haggard, pleads guilty »
Dr. Jesse Haggard, a doctor who had received training from the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, announced that he would plead guilty to federal drug charges. He is the final person in the 12-defendant case tied to the Applied Pharmacy Services involving the illegal distribution of anabolic steroids and growth hormone. One of the 12 [...]
McCain’s Supplement Bill Loses Support »
Senator McCain recently introduced the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010, S. 3002 to Congress but in less then a months time he has withdrawn his support of his own Bill. It seems that there was a huge grassroots response from supplement and vitamin users across the U.S. to stop this bill in its tracks. [...]
Halodrol and Novedex - No longer being produced by Gaspari Nutrition! »
- Originally Found on Anthony Roberts Blog.
Gaspari Nutrition has just shocked the nutritional supplement world with the announcement that they will be discontinuing two of their most popular products, Halodrol (Liquigels and MT) and Novedex XT. Halodrol was arguably their flagship product, and has been reformulated several times, from it’s original – and steroidal [...]
Platelet-Rich Plasma Treatment – a Bust? »
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections are something fairly new in the world of sports medicine. It probably received its most press in early 2009 when Pittsburgh Steelers wide-out Hines Ward used it to try and speed the healing of a medial collateral ligament (MCL) sprain. Whether or not the treatment actually helped, Ward played in the [...]
Vitamin D: Sea, Sun and Sex Drive »
I follow a ton of medical journals and health and fitness-related blogs, and one topic doing the rounds lately that I have already promised to discuss in a previous article is vitamin D. And thus, without further ado.
Let me first state what vitamin D is not; a single compound. It is actually a group of [...]
Yohimbine and the infinite erection »
Brief and to the point this update, but regular readers will recall a previous article I wrote accounting the tribulation of an Italian bodybuilder who was hospitalized after ingesting five grams of yohimbine. It wasn’t a pretty picture, and neither is this one. The previous article made note of the ability of yohimbine to increase [...]
Science of HGH Testing »
So yesterday I commented on the news of rugby player Terry Newton receiving a two-year ban because he tested positive for growth hormone. Now I’ve had twenty-four hours to look the story up I figure its time to discuss the actual test itself.
Growth hormone has long thought to be untraceable due to its incredibly short [...]
HGH test leads to ban of rugby player »
It has just been reported on ESPN’s website that the first successful test for Human Growth Hormone (HGH) has been used to ban a rugby player. With this test now being available for use in all anti-doping arena’s I don’t expect this to be the only athlete caught using HGH. I guess the big question [...]
