subject: How Should You Use Performance Enhancers? [print this page] Assuming you are comfortable with using performance enhancers, you will have to decide on appropriate dosages. But prior to that you will have to decide which performance enhancers are acceptable for you. This article deals only with vitamins and puts them in the same class as anabolic substances.
When you go to the MD, you generally come away with a prescription. Written on it, are the directions. Take one every six hours for four days, etc. Then, there is a limitation on the number of refill;ls. You can only get three refills, for example.
As much as MDs have a bad habit of discouraging things such as exercise, supplementation and even a co-op food based diet, they do well when it comes to prescriptions. They tell you how much, how often and when to stop, prior to seeing them again for an evaluation. All of that is good. In fact, it's wonderful considering the side effect potential of most of what they prescribe.
When it comes to performance enhancers, you are on your own. Your Md probably does not believe in these, does, not use them, and won't suggest that you go and get some helpful over the counter varieties. Yes, there are exceptions. There are some MDs who are supportive of an an athletic lifestyle, but they tend to be in the minority. Perhaps most are under thirty, just out of medical school.
In short, you have to answer the hard questions if you are going to a responsible job with performance enhancers.Which ones should you choose, and why? What do you want them to do? Then, there is the issue f how much. You believe that you are either the same size as most folks, or bigger or smaller than average. That should impact how much of a dosage is right for you. You can start with what it says on the bottle, but you have to assume that the manufacturing company had a certain subject in mind before attaching its recommendations. Are you like this person? Are you the same same size? How about the same sex? Do you place the same amount of physical demand on yourself as they do? Is your body chemistry the same?
Then too there are the generic warnings, either implicit or explicit. For example, vitamin C is almost never found in two gram bullets, so it must be that there are studies suggesting that that is universally too much. But vitamin C can help you recover more quickly from a pulled muscle, so might you try one gram per two hours for 3 days, let us say? That is only vitamin. What about a multi? How about antioxidants? You really should have good answers to these questions before committing your self to a daily regimen.
This may sound like all too much, but that is what you have to do if you are going to a responsible job of using performance enhancers. Sure it's work, but isn't that a lot better than grabbing a bottle of the health food store shelf and just taking it because the commercial said it would work wonders?
