Anyone ever taken a banned substance not for competition?

[Eddy Current]

I've only ever taken whey protein and creatine. Are all banned substances bad news health-wise?

It seems like it could be fun to take a banned, but not illegal (if that exists?) supplement just to see how much better shape you could get into.

[Eff Pandas]

Anyone who's tried enough powders & protein mixes from GNC or fitness aisles at their grocery store have likely taken a banned substance without knowing.

Its a common practice of sketchy fitness product supplements to throw in a lil banned substance or two so that there product has impact on users beyond what most mixes of various legal products would have. There are sites that keeps track of illegal/banned substances found in various supplements from fitness mixes to gas station **** pills & you'd be surprised some of the sh^t business owners allow in their products or mix in a sketchy factory to save money where banned substances were previously mixed & not cleaned on the machine thats mixing the non-banned substance product.

[OctoberRed]

I took plenty of supplements over the years that were legal for years and then pulled off the shelves after someone died or they determined the substance had steroid like health risks.

[juggernaut666]

I never took anything you couldn't get over the counter . MOST what i took would be labled steroids today , i actually bought a liquid pro hormone bottle labled STEROIDS for just 2 weeks to shed 5 pounds to fit into certain cloths . I took the same stuff Mark McGuire was on before he was busted for the same pro hormones (they were legal then ) got ripped and lost 1 inch of waist in less than 2 weeks ......thais was around 2005 .

Really anything NON synthetic should be relatively safe with proper use ,the constant FDA interference makes supplement use worse bc companies just play around with the original chemical structures and make them legal but thats not exactly good bc its a guessing game with long term use .