Nutraceuticals and nootropics for anti-aging

More salvos in the war against freedom

Although the efforts of freedom-haters to ban nutritional supplements and physical enhancers continues unabated, we’ll limit this month’s coverage of this subject to a handful of interesting news items.

As usual, sports figures are leading the mob in demanding an end to freedom of choice in physical enhancement technology. Conor O’Brien, a member of the Irish Sports Council, voiced some especially outrageous opinions recently — some of his claims were so false that it would be easy to assume that he was deliberately lying. But one really has to laugh at his statement that “Many of those food supplements have all been showed to cause medical side-effects.”

Link to the news story:

Supplements can lead to positive tests

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A story in a university campus newspaper, the Grand Valley Lanthorn, shows how the sports media — even at the college level — are circulating rumors and unsubstantiated scare stories to drum up support for governmental action against supplements.

Link to the news story:

GVSU athletics continue tests, reprimands for supplements

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The anti-supplement witch-hunt has become a world-wide phenomenon. A news story from Africa shows the same style of reporting as we see in the U.S. and Europe: the dropping of hints about unknown dangers; the use of notorious, but poorly established, claims of injuries supposedly caused by one supplement or another.

Link to the news story:

Why Sportsmen Are Saying ‘Yes’ to Supplements