The Extra Goodies in your Supplements

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When you take a prescription drug in the United States, you can be reasonably sure of what's in it. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that all pharmaceuticals be thoroughly tested in humans, that they contain whatever ingredients are listed on the label, and that they have evidence to back their marketing claims.

Unfortunately, the same isn't true for dietary supplements.

Database with Supplement names and contaminants contained. Is yours there?

http://www.vox.com/a/supplements

Alf Veedersane

The vast majority seem to be for burning fat/losing weight or for enhancing your sexual.

Hanley

That IOC study, and the follow up one a few years later, where all the "contaminated supplements" outrage originally stems from look specifically at pro hormones and stimulants.

Things that purport to giving you steroid like effects, ironically may cause you to fail a test.

Shock.

Horror.

And that's back when there was looser regulations around pro hormone production and sale anyway, so aren't entirely relevant 20 years later.