Your Grandkids Are Already Taking Steroids, Whether They Know It Or Not
So yesterday I wrote briefly about Bill James’s hyperintelligent futurist essay about how one day all of your grandkids or great-grandkids will be taking steroids because it won’t be such a big deal to them morally in the year 2050, or whatever. It all rang true. But did you know — this is where my broadcast voice would rise into creepy-scary-mode — that your grandkids might already BE taking steroids! And they didn’t even KNOW IT? Cue dramatic music!
Two over-the-counter dietary supplements that anti-doping officials say are popular among high school football players contain steroids, according to court papers filed by federal authorities on Thursday. The supplements, Tren Xtreme and Mass Xtreme, are manufactured by American Cellular Labs and marketed as a “potent legal alternative to” steroids. But authorities alleged in search warrants executed on Thursday that the supplements contain illegal man-made steroids, also known as designer steroids. One of the substances is Madol, which was first identified six years ago during the investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative.
I am absolutely shocked — shocked — that something you could buy over the counter at GNC as a “potent legal alternative” to steroids actually has steroids in it. What is this world coming to? What’s next? Red Bull being bad for you?! Pshh. Yeah right.
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It's just the same people who were clueless about the use of steroids and PEDs in baseball and other sports until recently who are now discovering that steroid products have been legally available as dietary supplements for over a decade. It is amazing how blind people are to these issues in our society
Some steroidal products have been legally and openly sold during the past 10+ years on supplement store shelves. This has been legally permitted, under certain strict conditions, by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994. (Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority steroidal products are NOT legally sold as dietary supplements.)
Most steroidal products sold as supplements during this time period were legally reclassified as "anabolic steroids" with the passage of the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004.
But several steroidal products continued to be sold. Some legally. Some not.
While the supplement industry is highly regulated under the conditions of DSHEA, the FDA has been virtually absent in its enforcement of DSHEA.
So, many supplement companies have been violating the law by selling steroids that are misbranded and unapproved new drugs and NOT supplements.
Finally, it looks like the FDA is starting to enforce DSHEA.
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