Is the Nutritional Supplement Industry Feeding You Bull Balls for Breakfast?
My patient had been feeling unusually irritable lately. Nothing had changed in his home or work life to bring on such a shift in mood. He wasn’t taking any medicines that could cause such symptoms either, being a strappingly healthy young guy. A weightlifter in fact. “Are you taking any kind of steroids?,” I asked him non-judgmentally. I knew that such chemicals could affect mood.
“Nope. Wouldn’t touch the stuff. Just some nutritional supplements,” he told me.
I asked him to bring the supplements in at his next appointment. When he did that, I discovered that one of the supplements listed “ground bull testes” as an ingredient. My patient was unwittingly ingesting testosterone. How much? Impossible to know. The label was as vague as middle school prose… (Read more and view comments at Forbes)