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The Badass
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Well, another person has died from abuse of an ephedra product, and this time it was a baseball player...someone sorta in the spotlight. So now, as expected, anti-supplement folks are coming out and screaming that all ephedra based products should be banned.
My question is why?
Out of all the fatalities that have ever been linked to ephedra and ephedrine (same thing), each and every one of those deaths was due to the consumer NOT following the directions on the bottle. In the case of the Orioles player, he had a pre-exisiting condition, high blood pressure and he KNEW he had it. In addition to that, he took THREE Xenadrine pills before going to a spring training workout....it was almost an inevitability that he would encounter some kind of problems that day. The recommended dosage is two pills MAXIMUM at any give dosage time, and to not exceed six pills a day. He pumped himself with 75mg of ephedrine! Then he went to work out which made him sweat and dehydrate himself even more! Any ECA is going to be stronger if you are not properly hydrated. Well, I don't want to speak ill of the dead, however before people start claiming ECA's are murderers, they should look at the facts first, but of course no one ever does that.
Over the course of this year, I can almost guarantee that every major sport will ban the use of these supplements...and for what....because people cannot be responsible and follow simple directions? Ridiculous.
Soon after, you will start seeing all the fat burners eliminate their real products and replace them will all these half-ass fat burners with the words "EPHEDRA FREE" splashed all over it. And it will not sell. Whoever says that stuff works even remotely as well as the real thing, is kidding themselves cause they don't want to face the fact they wasted their money.
I for one will be stocking up on my ECA's pretty soon before the inevitable ban occurs. But isn't it a shame that those of us who actually know how to follow directions will lose out on a very good over the counter fat-burner because some over-zealous, irresponsible dipshits had heart attacks or lost their lives cause they couldn't read the damn label?
Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
My question is why?
Out of all the fatalities that have ever been linked to ephedra and ephedrine (same thing), each and every one of those deaths was due to the consumer NOT following the directions on the bottle. In the case of the Orioles player, he had a pre-exisiting condition, high blood pressure and he KNEW he had it. In addition to that, he took THREE Xenadrine pills before going to a spring training workout....it was almost an inevitability that he would encounter some kind of problems that day. The recommended dosage is two pills MAXIMUM at any give dosage time, and to not exceed six pills a day. He pumped himself with 75mg of ephedrine! Then he went to work out which made him sweat and dehydrate himself even more! Any ECA is going to be stronger if you are not properly hydrated. Well, I don't want to speak ill of the dead, however before people start claiming ECA's are murderers, they should look at the facts first, but of course no one ever does that.
Over the course of this year, I can almost guarantee that every major sport will ban the use of these supplements...and for what....because people cannot be responsible and follow simple directions? Ridiculous.
Soon after, you will start seeing all the fat burners eliminate their real products and replace them will all these half-ass fat burners with the words "EPHEDRA FREE" splashed all over it. And it will not sell. Whoever says that stuff works even remotely as well as the real thing, is kidding themselves cause they don't want to face the fact they wasted their money.
I for one will be stocking up on my ECA's pretty soon before the inevitable ban occurs. But isn't it a shame that those of us who actually know how to follow directions will lose out on a very good over the counter fat-burner because some over-zealous, irresponsible dipshits had heart attacks or lost their lives cause they couldn't read the damn label?
Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
