That's an interesting critique, odw777, and I'm eager to hear a reply myself. I've been following bremac on another discussion about prohormones and honestly, I don't know what to make of his rambling, pseudo-scientific fearmongering. Honestly, once you get past the professorial vocabulary, the guy has cited nothing more than his own lab experience (in...
what, exactly??), and a friggin'
Wikipedia article (tenuously linking Epi to chemotherapy drugs, then hedging his bet on whether the 17-methyl config rendered it a completely different compound, potentially negating his entire objection), and yet he can't even name the actives in any of the products he's poo-pooing!
I like bremac's skepticism and the fact that he doesn't trust most of the clinical trial methodologies used to assess drug safety. But then people like that will find a problem with
any scientific method.
Not to mention, I personally could give a rat f*ck what the Food & Drug Administration approves. These are the same idiots who claim that the way General Mills markets Cheerios classifies it as a drug. The FDA is nothing but a rubber stamp for the pharmaceutical industry and their lobbiests, who have no problem at all putting millions of Americans on psychoactive mood altering drugs, creating 4-hour boners, and researching a chemical cure for obesity.
Anyone who thinks anti-estrogenic compounds
proven to reduce or even eliminate gynocomastia and mitigate breast cancer didn't get approval because of their
dangers betrays a glaring naivite about the real nature of pharmaceutical research and approval in the US. Frankly, some of the
approved crap they peddle here on primetime television designed to fight insomnia, acid reflux, osteoporosis, arthritis, or even seasonal allergies have side effect lists that would make an old-school D-Bol abuser blush.
I know it's a long shot, but maybe -
just maybe- Some of those "Eurorip artists" know a little more about physiology than the FDA's lawyers.
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