Bodybuilding Supplements Video - The SCARY TRUTH!

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if you’re one of the tens of millions of people that are working out and using supplements then you’re going to want to make sure you watch this video cuz it may change what you’ve been putting in your body and to me that would be a good thing what’s up guys Jeff Cavalier aex. com I decided to do something a little bit different this week you know I said let’s step out of the gym and cover a whole other aspect of something that I know you guys out there are most most likely doing and that’s using supplements in some way shape or form I grew up using supplements I played Sports in high school I tried Amino fuel Hot Stuff metrics with Dr Scott Connelly animal pack cybergenics the point of the matter is I used them all guys and and I believed in all of them when I took them so what I wanted to do this week was put together a video where we look at the bodybuilding supplement industry and really kind of cover some of the most shocking things that I discovered as I went through all right so one of the main questions that is always on the minds of everybody it should be on the minds of those that are taking supplements are right here on my computer I’m reading it Jeff are supplements worth the money or are they a waste of my money I’m not going to come out there and say that you absolutely need supplements you absolutely need you’re never going to see results no you’re going to see results from hard training and a good nutrition but if you want to see that extra Edge or if you want to make your job of nailing your nutrition easier it’s going to be far easier if you’re supplementing your diet with you know uh some of these ingredients because some of them simply can’t be obtained in dosages that are been shown to be effective in you through regular normal nutrition you have to sort of go to outside sources and and you have to be able to call the ingredients in certain you know certain amounts to get those benefits that you’re not going to be able to get from eating real food so are supplements a big benefit yes the first thing that you might hear is about fillers and what is in your supplements not really actually being on the label you’re going to want to look on any of the bottles that you have right now and see if anybody has magnesium ster in as one of the ingredients because I can tell you it’s not good for you and it’s not something you should be using in your body magnesium sterate is actually a filler that the goal this is the stuff that I told you guys that when I decided to do the athlan RX series when I found out about some of this stuff we were really shocked by it and determined to make sure we didn’t do it magnesium sterate the goal of the manufacturer is to put this agent into your supplements because it helps the ingredients when they’re mixing to not stick to the Machinery which requires less cleanup which requires less labor that they’re paying for which requires less uh maintenance of the machines because they do happen to break down if these things get gummed up well there’s no point at all for the consumer if you’re as a consumer taking you don’t need magnesium ster as a matter of fact it interferes with some of your ability to uh your immune system it kind of interferes with your immune system in certain cells in your body you don’t need it you certainly don’t want it in your supplements and all I’m saying is if you’re taking it now you’re going to want to make sure that you do something about it the next thing I think we should cover here is the percentage of active ingredient again this is something that’s not regulated by the FDA there are certain percentages of active ingredients that are standards for the ingredients that are in your products so for example if we take something like Cas and protein Cas and protein comes either most likely two uh potencies 80% or 90% what that means is that your body or your your body can process and absorb 80% of what’s stated in that amount so if you’re looking at let’s say 20 g of protein you’re really only able to absorb 16 G well not even forget absorb you’re really there’s only active Cas and protein stuff that can actually do something to help you build muscle in 20 80% of That So 20% Which would be four uh four G of it would go away so companies aren’t going to aren’t going to say that most often that oh well we have 20 grams of protein and casing protein in our our blend yeah that’s all well and good but 16 of it is really all you’re going to be able to use when we just set out to do the RX series I said tell me the bottom line I want guys to make a judgment on the protein they’re putting in their body from the bottom line of what what they’re actually going to get into their system what are they going to use because we know we’re still going to have to have some of that go away in the absorption process and when we break it down so if a company is telling you there’s 20 G when they know well and good that 80% of it is only is all you’re going to get you’re really looking at 16 on some of them and then less than that because your body’s going to break some of it down so when we talk about do supplements work yeah they they work if you know that you can trust the brand that you’re using because you might be thinking you’re taking 20 G but in actuality you’re only absorbing 12 all right so this next one might come as a shock to some of you guys and I have to admit it did to me as well I think back to what I went through as a teenager going into the supplement stores and I would ask them what is the best thing for me to take or best things for me to take I would save up my money to spend it on something if I felt like it would work but I’m putting my hand my my you know my my my own fate in the hands of one of these sales reps thinking that they’re tell me the truth and the reality is even today more than ever these sales reps are often times incentivized by the manufacturer to recommend things that they may not necessarily feel are best why because it means more money in their pockets you might find that you go into a specific supplement store and ask for a specific you know product and be swayed towards something else when you might have heard good results from your friends on on this other product the sad fact is is and then sometimes even the sales rep themselves have used the product that you initially went in there for but are going to be paid more by the manufacturer as an incentive as a kickback to recommend that brand over the other and that’s where I think it it’s it it all comes down to trust guys it comes down to finding a brand that you trust because you know that it delivers what it says it’s going to deliver and you know that you can put your faith in that and your hard earn money and realize that you’re not being sort of told something just because there’s an incentive to do that next on a hit list the safety of ingredients i’ I’ve come out here guys in the in the I don’t even remember when it was 2011 I think and I made a statement on the inclusion of 13 dimethyl aamine in pre-workout products and I said that this stuff is going to be banned you know a matter of fact it should be banned but it’s going to be banned at some point in time because it’s just not a healthy ingredient and it’s one that many many many supplement companies were using in their pre-workouts guys you’re going to be ultimately responsible for what you put in your body and I can only recommend things to you that I feel as good advice and things that you should listen to and then I can only help that from there you’re going to you’re going to listen and make your own well-educated decision that was one of the videos where I sort of stepped out of character a little bit and I said emphatically guys do not use this try not to use this I know it’s a very popular supplement in a