| About Supplements
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An old instructor of mine said that when he actually opened up a dojo, rather
than teaching people for free at odd hours, he was going to sell vitamins
and supplements. He thought that they were the great money maker.
However, when I talked about that observation with someone recently, they
had the following points to make:
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Many, many nutritional supplements are nothing but traces of something useful
-- in other words, just stealing someone's money (e.g. the amount of rose
hips in a "rose hips" vitamin C supplement may not be visible under a x10
power microscope).
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Costco sells many of the useful ones at top quality and a low price -- in
other words, you aren't adding any value by putting a private label or selling
a more expensive version of fish oil. Creatine is creatine, the cheapest
brand is pretty much the same as the most expensive, and an eighth of a
tablespoon a day is all anyone needs. Sesamin? --
Try sesame
seed oil. Worlds cheaper as the oil.
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Many take large doses to make a difference. Fish oil takes three grams
a day. Some take up to 18 grams or more a day (think of eighteen large
fish oil gel caps of something a day).
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Most of the effective ones end up illegal (think of prohormones).
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Think twice, then think again.
Not that there are not supplements that work. Some do, some might.
All that said, I admire Rhadi for deciding not to sell branded supplements.
It says a lot for the man. A lot. He would be making seven figures
a year if he was pushing supplements.
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