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Sports Supplements Are A Waste Of Time
A new study shows just how worthless many sports supplements are
Sports supplements occupy a weird space in the world. It’s almost impossible to go to a gym regularly and not have some sort of supplement shoved in your face with the advice that it will massively improve your fitness journey. The fitness space is absolutely filled with impossible-sounding claims that some powder or pill is going to drastically improve your health overnight.
There are several issues with this, but one of the biggest ones is that sports supplements — and supplements in general — are very poorly regulated. As a consumer, you basically just have to trust the manufacturer that the product contains what it says it does and that it has the effects that it should.
Which is a problem. As a new study has shown, many of these supplements don’t contain the listed amounts of the substances they say they do. Many supplements have no active ingredients at all. Some even contain illegal additives.
The Science
The new study that’s just been published as a letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open was a very short and simple review of supplements. The authors purchased 63 sports supplements that listed 5 different ingredients online:
