? -Like Substance Found in 'Craze' Workout Supplement!
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I guess now is a good time to stock up cause this ? might get taken off the market. I have heard of people selling old formulas of Jack3D for 3 times what they paid for it after the formula was changed.
The popular body-building supplement Craze contains a chemical that's similar to methamphetamine, according to researchers who've tested its ingredients.
Craze is marketed as "performance fuel" that provides "the ultimate in pre-workout power," but the research project stemmed from several failed ? drug tests by professional athletes after taking the supplement.
Craze, which is widely sold in the United States, tested positive for the methamphetamine analog N,a-diethyl-phenylethylamine (N,a-DEPEA), according to the report. Furthermore, the researchers noted that N,a-DEPEA is not listed on Craze's ingredient label.
"So I think they're playing with stimulants to try and find something that will get people juiced up, revved up to work out and make them feel better," said Dr. Pieter Cohen, an internist at Cambridge Health Alliance in Somerville, Mass., who has conducted extensive research on supplements and was involved in the report.
Cohen and his colleagues tested three samples in their report -- two purchased online and one from a store.
The report, released Monday in the Drug Testing and Analysis Journal, was conducted by researchers from the global public health organization NSF International, Harvard Medical School and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment.
The researchers go as far as to call the compound "a potentially dangerous designer drug," but they admit that Craze's "effects in humans are entirely unknown" because no one has studied them.
Also cited in the report as a, "conflict of interest," is the fact that NSF International's clients include dietary supplement manufacturers.
An attorney for Driven Sports, which makes Craze, defended the product, telling ABC News that the researchers have it all wrong.
Driven Sports cites its own testing that found no methamphetamine-like chemical in their product.
The company's "conclusions regarding the safety and composition of Craze have not changed: The product is safe and effective," Driven Sports says.
Plenty of testimonials praising Craze can be found on YouTube and it received BodyBuilding.com's New Supplement of the Year award in 2012.
It's unclear what will become of the report results. But don't expect the U.S. government and the Food and Drug Administration to step in because supplements aren't treated like drugs.
"With supplements, it's really the wild, wild west," ABC News chief medical editor Dr. Richard Besser said. "There's no proof that they work and they only take them off the market if someone's been harmed."
SOURCE: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/? -substance-found-craze-workout-supplement-report/story?id=20572095
I guess now is a good time to stock up cause this ? might get taken off the market. I have heard of people selling old formulas of Jack3D for 3 times what they paid for it after the formula was changed.
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*doesn't take pre-workouts*
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I only use ECA
but that product was getting praise from all angles, and now they're alleging it contains chemicals untested in humans -
I still use it and will until this tub is gone...explain to me why "? -like" should scare me if the side effects aren't "? -like"
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The effects are likely ? -like to an extent
amphetamines have very similar effects -
Other than great workouts and sometimes trouble sleeping (typical side effects of most PWO drinks) I haven't noticed any other effects.
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All this banning of PWO's is starting to ? me off though...prior to Craze, the only PWO that was effective for me was jack3d. Then they banned that formula and came out with some weak replacement ? . I'ma just hit up Walter White for my PWO from now on.
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Ephedrine is still legal.
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I was under the impression that Ephedrine was for fat people, but let me look that up
edit: Yeah looks like I was right, I'll pass -
Ephedrine is for energy rly. Good for cutting cause it gives you energy when on a cal deficit
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It's also apparently an appetite suppressant...and with my metabolism I don't anticipate there will ever be a time when I'm "cutting"
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I was taking a few fat burners once, but not for fat burning, was dropping one or 2 here and there when felt like wanted a coffee but couldnt be ? drinking the ? , and being caffeine sensitive lol the pills would kick in in like 20mins lol and one time was so ? jacked and amped that my eyes looked so ? gone but brain was buzzing real fast, and friend said I looked like was coming down off a drug LOL
since stopped after few tries, as felt would make my stomach hurt a little afterward hours later