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Legal or illegal, they are still secretive about it. And, in any case, you can't do science on a supplement using people on a cocktail of various substances.

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I know quite a few body builders, and let me tell you, they are not even a tiny by secretive about taking supplements. Why on earth would they be?

It's NOT drugs. It's supplements. Think vitamin C, not cocaine. Most of them beyond protein don't do anything much at all, there's a lot of marketing hype.

I'm not talking about supplements, I'm talking about drugs. Many of them are on drugs and they are notoriously secretive about it. It's difficult to study supplements on bodybuilders because they are on stuff they won't tell you about.

They are secretive about taking drugs though, because they're things like unsafe doses of anabolic or 'not for human consumption' experimental or substances intended for animals.

Science has been done on food and vitamins, and in some cases those are literal cocktails.

In controlled environments on people who don't typically take exogenous compounds without a doctor's approval.

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