As crazy as it may sound, the nutritional supplement “Progenex” no longer contains the thing that made it Progenix! I’m speaking about two factors here: The Progenex formula has been changed – it no longer represents Dr. Connelly’s original formula ! Dr. Scott Connelly...

The inside word that I’m hearing at the moment is that MusclePharm is teetering on the verge of going out of business. They’re several million dollars in the red, and have failed to turn any kind of profit in the time they’ve been operating. A recent phone call to their office revealed...

Ever since my first article and blog post about Bulbine Natalensis, the supply chain has been evolving in various ways, both expected and unexpected – and both good and bad. We haven’t seen any Bulbine-based products released on the market since my original article, and that’s a very...

Although it’s early, and I’m still going through a lot of this information, I’ve just received word that the 1,3 -dimethylamylamine (*geranamine, methylhexanamine) positive doping tests in Minor League Baseball have been linked to players ingesting (totally legal) nutritional products...

Guilty Plea in Investment Scheme: A Venice man pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to bilking elderly investors out of more than $300,000 after the stock market crash in October, 1987. Assistant U.S. Atty. David A. Katz said John Ernest Giovanoli, 28, was soliciting investments in coins through...

Do you know what a tox screen is? It’s a routine toxicology test performed to check for poisons, pharmaceuticals and/or illegal recreational drugs. Hypothetically, if you suffered liver failure from ingesting a product (usnic acid, perhaps), and were admitted to the hospital, this is one of the...

At this stage, MusclePharm’s financial losses are looking less and less like the typical growing pains of a start-up company, and more and more like the kind of nutritional-industry trainwreck that’s engineered by people who have no idea what they’re doing. They reported a quarterly...

Recently, there have been a slew of minor league baseball players who have tested positive for Methylhexanamine (aka 1,3-dimethylpentylamine, geranamine, geranium oil, etc…). The irony is this: Methylhexanamine is a legal substance (for now), although it is banned by most professional and amateur...

Yesterday I received an email from a national level NPC bodybuilder, claiming that one of his personal training clients had been using Lipolyze and subsequently was forced to undergo a liver transplant. The email wasn’t anonymous, and I was able to quickly check out the identity of the bodybuilder...

For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, Aaron Singerman (host of Off Topic) recently made a return to the stage, competing in his first bodybuilding contest in several years. For his efforts, the 224 pound superheavy weight earned himself a second place trophy, and a trip to the emergency...