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St1gzy

💊 BULLSHIT BAFFLES BRAINS: THE SUPPLEMENT AISLE

Before we start, I'm not here to pick a fight with the supplement industry. 😂 I use supplements. Some have genuinely helped me. Some have done absolutely fuck all. And some have probably just given me very expensive piss. What works for me might do nothing for you, and what works brilliantly for you might do nothing for me. That's actually what I want to know: What supplements have genuinely worked for you, and which ones were a complete waste of money? Because supplements are grand to a point. Creatine? Yep. Protein? Yep. Magnesium? Yep. Pre-workout? Absolutely. Sometimes I want to hear colours. But you can spend £147 on powders, capsules and something extracted from a Himalayan mushroom that apparently only grows during a full moon... And none of it is beating 12 hours of glorious, uninterrupted sleep. 😂 Walk down the supplement aisle and it's brilliant. ENERGY. RECOVERY. FOCUS. PERFORMANCE. IMMUNE SUPPORT. SUPER GREENS. TESTOSTERONE SUPPORT. CELLULAR OPTIMISATION. Fuck me. One more aisle and I'll have unlocked my final form. Every tub has a bloke on the front who looks like he was assembled in a laboratory. "ULTIMATE RECOVERY MATRIX." Mate, I'm pretty sure the ultimate recovery matrix is going to fucking bed. 😂 And we're all guilty of it. "Why am I absolutely shattered?" Well... I slept five hours. Skipped breakfast. Had three coffees. Drank approximately nine millilitres of water. Spent six hours staring at my phone. And trained like I'm preparing to fight Ivan Drago. Anyway, do you reckon I'm deficient in magnesium? 😂 That's the brilliant bit. We'll investigate seventeen micronutrients before considering the possibility that we're just fucking knackered. And with MS, fatigue obviously isn't as simple as "get more sleep". You can sleep brilliantly and still wake up feeling like your nervous system spent the night fighting a house fire. But good sleep, decent food, hydration, pacing and recovery? That's the boring stuff everything else sits on top of. Supplements can help around the edges. But sometimes we're buying racing stripes for a car that's got no fucking petrol in it. 😂 So yes, I'll keep my creatine, protein, magnesium and pre-workout. I'm not throwing the cupboard away. I'm just trying to remember that supplements are supposed to supplement something. So tell me: What actually worked for you? What did absolutely nothing? And what's still sitting at the back of your cupboard because you paid £40 for it and can't emotionally bring yourself to throw it away? 😂
@ClaireVS

I love the expression 'we're buying racing stripes for a car that's got no fucking petrol in it'! Sums it up perfectly! 😀

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