Quote Originally Posted by BrokenBricks View Post
It is not that it is not taken into account. It is that it is not the preferred source of information. If I can show you *one* pro who *doesn't* use a given supplement (Glutamine for instance) who is as big as your pet pro you would be in quite a jam. That is the problem with expert opinion. There are many so called experts. Many people all claiming they know the answer. If the *only* information you have is that type...personal testimony..well, you don't ignore it. It is all you have to go on. But you retain in your mind an awareness of where the information came from.

I have a sort of kooky, new age neighbor who puts crystals in her pots to make the plants grow better. She says it gives them energy. I asked if she had ever tested it. She was sort of annoyed and said that last year her plants did not do as well as they had this year since she added the crystals. I told her that was interesting and asked if she had changed anything else. "Well yes, this year I moved them closer to the window". How she failed to consider the better growth was likely due to the *known* effects of sunlight rather than the *unknown* effect of adding quartz crystal was odd. I asked, had she ever tried to put a crystal in the soil of *half* the plants and not the other half. She looked at me like I had three heads.

Do you understand the placebo effect?
I understand it, of course.

But he's also trained many other athlete/bodybuilders...

Dont get me wrong BB, I see exactly what your saying, but it seems to works for me (gains in strength, mass, recovery) vs.
not doing it. And...I havent changed a whole lot either.

But I see your point doc.

When do you take your Whey and Creatine? Pre/post.