Filled with Estrogen, Dangerous Chemicals, Not Even Very Much Protein.
The number one indicator that someone has no idea what the hell they are doing when it comes to health and fitness is that they have a tub of protein powder.
If you use them, don’t be ashamed. They’ve been shilled for harder than financial aid to Israel. So if you’ve fallen victim, you can’t really be blamed.
But you need to know that these products are not only worthless – they’re dangerous.
Dangerous A huge study last year by The Clean Label Project, a nonprofit that tests various foodstuffs to see what kind of poisons megacorporations are putting into their products, found that the protein powders are literally brimming with poison.
They tested 134 products from 52 brands – which would more or less be all of the protein powders you’re going to find on the shelves of any of these snake oil “supplement” shops – and found over 130 different toxins, including heavy metals, pesticides and, worst of all, bisphenol-A (BPA).
Sadly, traces of heavy metals and pesticides are going to be in most food at varying levels. These protein powders have huge amounts, because they are unregulated by any government body, because they are “nutritional supplements.” So they can just feed you whatever – caveat emptor.
The most concerning thing though is the BPA. This is the endocrine disruptor and xenoestrogen which mainly comes from plastic and other petrochemical based products. It artificially spikes estrogen levels in the body in the same way that onions does. Only depending on the amount, it is much, much worse than onions.
The legal limit of BPA should be effectively zero. But, because of the corruption of the FDA by lobbyists, and the cheapness of plastic – as well as a general desire of the system to lower the testosterone levels of men – there is an official “safe amount” that the FDA allows. And some of these protein powders were found to have 25 times the government-ordained “safe amount” of this brutal, feminizing poison.
Because again: “nutritional supplements” are not FDA regulated, they are not regulated by anyone, and they can just feed you anything.
Aaron Scott
As another example, pre-workout powders often contain a bunch of untested stimulants similar to amphetamines. Since they don’t directly regulate the products, the government keeps outright banning ingredients in these pre-workouts, and the companies just keep changing the names and slightly altering the chemical makeup, and keep on selling them to unsuspecting dupes.
Interestingly (but not surprisingly), the Clean Label Project study found that protein powders labeled “organic” were even more poisonous than ones without that label.
Harvard University-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital nutrition director Kathy McManus has said that protein powders should never be used under any circumstances, unless under medical supervision if you have some kind of very serious and very specific medical condition. I don’t even understand it in that context, but that certainly means that normal gym bros shouldn’t be messing with this crap
Useless Beyond the incredible health risks involved, there are literally no health benefits.
Because all supplements are a gigantic scam, most of these protein powders do not even contain the amount of protein they claim to contain. They use various chemicals to fool the testing process. They just dump empty amino acids into the mix, and because proteins are made of amino acids, this fools the testing process. This is called “protein spiking” and it is an industry standard practice.
But beyond all of this, what is the point of these products? Why would you not simply eat food? Most of these protein powders claim to have between 20 and 60 grams of protein per scoop.
Even if they really have that much protein, and even if you are okay with ingesting the BPA and heavy metals and all the other poisons, it is still confusing how your body is going to absorb that protein in the form of a chemically processed powder that you are slurping.
It is almost impossible that your body will absorb much of that protein at all, in fact. If you’re talking about 60g being absorbed in a chemical ooze drink, then this is on par with pills that extend the length of your penis.
Who knows though – maybe it will. But a single chicken egg has 6g of protein. Meaning a dozen eggs have 72g of protein. A pound of ground beef has about 90g of protein. And this is real food protein that your body is going to absorb at a rate much, much higher than you are going to absorb protein from a mysterious chemical ooze.
All of These Supplements are a Hoax The entire “workout supplement” industry is a snake oil scam.
All of these people on YouTube hawking this shit are just doing it to get paid. No matter how sincere they may seem, they are lying to you. You never see anyone who knows what they’re doing at the gym carrying around a tub of protein powder.
If you see someone who is jacked messing around with these pills and powders, they are on steroids and don’t have any more of an idea what they’re doing than any skinnyfat goofjob carrying around a tub of “100% gold standard whey 60g.”
And from the protein powder, you get into even weirder, stupider stuff. The only thing that probably isn’t a scam is creatine. There are real studies on that that seem to actually indicate that it actually does what it is supposed to do.
Other than that, some of the pre-workouts are just massive doses of caffeine, which can be helpful in the gym. And the powder mixed with water probably has less sugar than a can of Monster.
All of these supplements are the equivalent to a get rich quick scheme or some idiot “pick-up artist” manual. All of that bullshit is just bullshit. In real life, there aren’t any shortcuts to good things that don’t involve dangerous criminal activity.
Sure, you can get rich through robbery or insurance fraud, you can get jacked using steroids and you can get laid by slipping flunitrazepam in her drink. But all of these behaviors have risks and consequences that are likely to be much greater than simply doing the thing the correct way.
If you want to be fit and strong, you need to eat real food and workout doing real exercise. There is no way around that. youtu.be/qup2uNod270?t=73
This wouldn't be surprising at all but in the UK protein powder and other food supplements are regulated under EU laws. So as long as you buy a reputable brand from a reputable source you'll be OK in the EU
My two cents : search for brands that also make medicine they are under stricter law
Gabriel Robinson
all those problems exist in al lthe food products you consume protein just has more protein and less contaminants rice has arsenic meat and dairy have lead seafood has huge quantities of lead, arsenic, mercury, DDT, a fuckton of pesticides and plastics everything you eat has contaminants protein powders should be the least of our worries since they're optional, while the food we eat is mandatory and is all contaminated.
Stop buying preworkout and whey protein powder with labels designed to attract gymrats then. There are plenty of organic, grass-fed whey protein formulations that'll give you the mass-spectrometry results, proving no heavy metals contamination.
Rich Piana does 8 scoops and he's fine. Just came back to this board after a few years off and you all are so dumb
William Wood
Grass fed is just another meme to appeal to people who think they're too smart for regular whey though
Robert Murphy
>talking about health risks >suggests eating a dozen of eggs
Eli Evans
Worthless advice, dumbass. Protein powders are all shit. Good luck consuming literal shit.
Christopher Murphy
is this a gains goblin?
Owen Morris
>he consumes dairy products from cows fed food that they cannot fully digest cringe. you are what you eat also applies to the things you consume for food. if you grow plants and livestock in low-nutrient, toxic environments, then they will also be low-nutrient and toxic too. the former is just common sense, the latter is something called bio accumulation.
Aiden Hughes
tell me in what way would grass fed whey be better than conventional whey grass fed beef and milk have more contaminants because they are more exposed to the outdoors so it doesn't matter at all which you pick, except for the price that is.
Aiden Cruz
>common sense that's not how life works brainlet.
Jace Lee
>no actual amounts Guess what, faggots. 70% of steak has detectable levels of lead, cadmium and mercury. DON'T EAT STEAK!!!!!11!! You misleading motherfucker.
this all this protein powder scaremongering is just cope all foods have detectable levels of contaminants, seafood and dairy are the worst, even rice has some, doesn't stop those foods from being healthy
Angel Hughes
SHOO SHOO GAINS GOBLIN
Leo Baker
Where does one find this flunitrazepam? So I can avoid going to those places of course.
>Dangerous chemicals It's literally just milk powder.
James Jones
>>he consumes dairy products from cows fed food that they cannot fully digest >he thinks we don't add digestion enzymes during feed production.
Shit's dirt cheap, nigga.
Landon Cooper
>bodybuilders are obsessed with squeezing out the smallest incremental improvements in their body >bodybuilders have been taking whey protein for decades >but I should stop because some faggot is blogposting on a gay imageboard post body
Oliver Thomas
Such a scam website. Here's from their FAQ:
"Can I see the raw data?
The five star system is our way of telling consumers how contaminated their pet’s food is compared to the rest of the products we tested...." blah blah blah "Our system is designed to save time...."
In other words, no, you can't see the raw data. They give arsenic or whatever substance a star rating, but fail to mention what the actual levels were tested at, compared to toxic levels. No lab results, no peer review, no objective statements, just their star rating and lots of pretty infographics.
Leo Adams
>bodybuilder user please. Bodybuilder are huge because of roids, food and a strict training regime. Sure a lot of them shill for protein powders but they're literally just marketing figures. That's how they make money and that's the only reason why the want to win any competition because it boost their popularity and gets them sweet marketing contracts from supplement companies.
Ayden Wright
What about myprotein?
Ayden Jones
>The legal limit of BPA should be effectively zero
Sadly that's effectively impossible now. Hell, with fucktons of BPA in almost every piece of receipt paper it means basically every box, newspaper or other piece of recycled paper contains BPA.
Chase Parker
Does BPA affect you negatively even if you just touch a receipt? lol
I've read here that yes, it does. Test is fucking pussy ass cowardly hormone.
John Roberts
lol wtf why source?
What whey do you use? Is creatine safe?
Isaiah Martinez
This is dumb. It’s fucking protein powder. It’s a supplement for people who for whatever reason don’t consume enough protein. It’s not magic and it’s not poison. It’s literally a supplemental source of protein.
Brody Johnson
doesn't make a significant difference and as such it's not something you should care about unless you sleep in a warm bathtub filled with receipts
I swear you retards have no common sense, do yo uthink you're gonna get more exposed to estrogenic shit from random things you touch with your hands or from things you fucking eat and drink?
William Sullivan
You copy and pasted the entire article. Based and groundbreaking.
Yeah it's not even on their tested list because it's a British brand so they have a certain standard of ethics and morals they have to adhere to. Not like America where they can poison their customers as long as they continue to pay politicians
I like it because it doesn't have much bullshit on the package. It literally just says "MP-whey". American brands always put a lot of shit on the package like "Super Booster Whey with 1000 Vitamins for Super gains".
>worrying about BPAs >worrying about lax regulations >worrying about basic amenities being contaminated for profit God, feels good to live in the EU. Americans can't even touch receipts for the purchases they make to fill their lives with a sense of fulfilment.
Imagine being such a cuckold that you think signing off your freedom to a bunch of bureaucrats in return for the illusion of safety is a good idea
Daniel Baker
Imagine being deluding into thinking you have a choice
Parker Green
>Freedom
Kek. Imagine thinking you're free in a democratic country
Jeremiah Cruz
Can we get safe brands and non-safe brands? How's Optimum Nutritions?
Jace Barnes
>freedom is to consume toxic stuff mutts everyone Either way, Switzerland is greatest country. Sucks to be norcuck
Nolan Ross
now that's a gif I need a sauce for!
Nicholas James
>Stacey Donovan is an American former pornographic actress and model, who reached the height of her career in the 1980s Couldn't find the movie this gif is from tho
tastes like shit and i've tried a lot of taste samples(~25+) including the unflavoured prozis unflavoured "natural whey" which is whey with sunflower as lecithin tastes like milk foam if you mix it with milk, same as myprotein organic unfdlavoured been wanting to try bulkpowders protein though, the organic one which is 100% whey
>just eat food! sometimes I travel and others I'm working and need something to eat that absorbs quickly ie. 30m-1h so I can lift after work
Aaron Foster
unflavoured myprotein impact whey is better than any whey i tried, the taste never gets old unlike any artificial flavour and there's nothing wrong with it
casein is too foamy and fucked up, but the whey is fine
Kayden Nelson
>unflavoured myprotein impact whey is better than any whey i tried, the taste never gets old unlike any artificial flavour and there's nothing wrong with it
either shill or shit taste buds sorry pal that shit is completely awful
Matthew Hughes
are you a woman? fucking deal with it you big fat pussy
Jace White
GIVE ME WHAT I WANT
Ryan Nelson
Imagine being so naive to believe that the ruling class in any country would allow you to vote if voting made a difference.
