Posted by: Curt | Under: 40's/fit, 50's/fit, General Fitness, Health, Prime/fit, Seniors/fit, Supplements, Youth/fit | (0) Comments
Reuters has a report of research that ought to make us step back and question some of the supposedly safe natural supplements that are on the market. Since the FDA has a very hard time keeping up with and tracking all the “herbal” products, they often only find out about health risks after it is too late. This is the case for 2 men who believed that a product they were taking would improve their sexual performance and increase muscle mass. Maybe it did, but the cost was very high.
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Two men seeking to boost sexual performance and grow bigger muscles instead ended up with advanced prostate cancer after taking “herbal” supplements, U.S. doctors reported on Tuesday.
They said many supplements marketed as “safe” and “natural” could contain unknown and potentially dangerous ingredients, and noted that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has little authority to regulate them.
They analyzed the product, which they did not name for legal reasons, and found it contained two hormones — testosterone and estradiol. When they tested it on tumor cells in the lab, they found it fueled the growth of prostate cancer cells more potently than testosterone alone, they reported in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
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So, stick with supplements that you know will help instead of hurt. Anything that promises to increase your sexual performance and increase muscle size ought to make you suspicious. Unfortunately, most guys don’t care until it is too late.
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