Zom, you aren't serious, are you? If you are, then we cannot possibly be on the same wavelength. Please elaborate. I assumed that the subject under discussion was
nutrient supplements, not anabolics, not drugs (pharmaceuticals, as opposed to recreational). If we parted company on that point, then how come we started out talking about protein powder? Granted, protein powder could technically be somatotropin, or even abrin, either of which could have dramatic effects, but that was not the sort of thing that Nusc seemed to have in mind!
So, anticipating a favourable response to that question (please pull me up if I presume too far) you are saying that if a couch potato eats protein extracts and the like, he will "gain muscle mass and strength and other aspects of the body"?
You really didn't mean that, did you?
OK, so maybe you meant that someone who was eating a good, balanced diet with plenty of protein, plenty of vitamins, plenty of creatine, plenty of all the (theoretically) good stuff that (theoretically) goes into the supplements will "gain muscle mass and strength and other aspects of the body"? The good healthy principle that if a little is good, a lot must be a lot better? Even if that "little" was about as much as the body could handle?
No? Somehow I am reminded of Jack London's story "A Piece of Steak". Why, I wonder? If you would like to see whether I am having an idiosyncratically characteristic moment, you might like to find the story in google. (
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/steak.html) But do not do so if you are feeling sympatico or generally fragile.
Well then, what? That it is good to take a little extra of whatever is good, just in case it can't do you much harm? Like some people take a multivitamin once a week instead of, as recommended by the marketeers, daily?
Here I reckon that I side with FD's: "If you don't NEED supplements, it's just more work for your kidneys, and your wallet."
In general man, give me a hint! What are you on about?
Cheers,
Jon