My 16-month theanine self-experiment

Good to see such experimentation, especially when the person conducting the experiments takes the results with a grain of salt. I was first exposed to supplements when I started lifting seriously, a decade ago. Man oh man, some people go crazy on supplements in that space, literally wasting hundreds of dollars every month, for years. And in the end the only three things that seem to do anything for lifters are: whey protein, creatine, and ZMA (Zinc/Magnesium/B6). I did waste quite a bit of money as well until I looked at the actual evidence.

And of course, the ones that come from the end of a needle.

If most supplements actually worked, a pharma company would analyze it and reformulate it to get a patent, and then you'd hear about it on commercials.

Yeah. But I never took any of the steroid stuff. I only compete with my former self. Not being able to throw 400lbs overhead is fine. I also want to be able to walk when I'm old.

Boy, that hits diff these days. Just let me walk without major assistance.

> then you'd hear about it on commercials

Unless you lived in a normal country where marketing pharmaceuticals direct to consumers is -- of course -- banned.

That doesn’t invalidate the idea, because we’d see it happening in countries like the US, but we don’t.