Doc Said Protein/BCAA's Are Bad

Nutrition
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[quote]drip wrote:
The proof is in the picture. How does he look? If he looks like Lou Ferrigno and he’s saying this that’s one thing. But more than likely he looks like jackie gleason.[/quote]

X2. Take advice from those who you’d like to emulate. Heard the phrase “physician, heal thyself?” Well i’ve never seen a healthy-looking doctor. I know a lot of med students (my girl’s one) and their idea of diet is red bull, coffee, subway sandwiches. They think drinking water is ‘faddy’. I think most medicine is about stopping you dying, not encouraging you to optimum hypertrophy and growth.

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because there is no $$$ in prevention

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[quote]dannyrat wrote:
Well i’ve never seen a healthy-looking doctor.
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??

You don’t get out much.

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Thx for the ppl that responed to me alotta good things to learn here and some good arguements i can take to other ppl who gave me the advise on not lifting heavy at a young age.

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[quote]The Greek wrote:
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And anyway, the FDA doesn’t monitor what it deems as “nutritional supplements” including protein, creatine, and BCAAs. For all you know, you’re paying for whey protein, and you end up with processed cow shit.

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It amazes me that people don’t realize this.

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[quote]doinktheclown wrote:
You know what they call a medical student that finishes last in Medical school?? Doctor
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That same DOCTOR still went through over a decade of training regardless of where he graduated in his class. You don’t get that title because of charity.

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Doctors DO work hard, very very hard. Priorities shift. Many people who are mentally very strong are physically sedentary.
One doctor told me to stop smoking (when I smoked) and then followed me out the door as I was leaving, went round the corner and lit up a cigarette.

Not all doctors need be frail/not workout, that has just been my experience. They are also often pasty in complexion, from all that time inside a clinic. I guess that doesn’t fit with you either X (irony)

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[quote]dannyrat wrote:
Doctors DO work hard, very very hard. Priorities shift. Many people who are mentally very strong are physically sedentary.
One doctor told me to stop smoking (when I smoked) and then followed me out the door as I was leaving, went round the corner and lit up a cigarette. Not all doctors need be frail/not workout, that has just been my experience. They are also often pasty in complexion, from all that time inside a clinic. I guess that doesn’t fit with you either X (irony)[/quote]

I’m just laughing at the generalizations. Before I started shaving my head, nearly every barber I personally went to was fat.

Therefore, I should be making statements about how most barbers are fat?

It was only my personal experience and isn’t even a representation of ALL barbers.

I have friends right now who are doctors, one of which is more developed and leaner than nearly every poster on this site…but he was always like that even in school. I have lifted seriously for years…but people still make huge generalizations.

Either way, it takes a shit load of focus to make it through schooling like that. Considering how few people across the country actually train seriously, to expect your doctor to somehow be a health nut is a little over the top. They are out there, however.

As far as the bashing of doctors on this board and others, it is getting old. the OP wasn’t even going to an MD. That makes all of these negative comments completely out of place.

Not to mention that most patients wait until problems are out of hand before they even see a doctor making comments about “prevention” laughable. I’ve seen 4 patients today who could have prevented thousands of dollars worth of treatment had they simply NOT let the problems get out of control before they looked for help. How could “prevention” possibly work on people like that?

How many people here have even had a check up this year?

How many guys over 35 have had a prostate exam?

All?

Yeah, there goes that “prevention”.

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[quote]Artem wrote:

So, I went in today and first, he had me lie down and put some electrode things on my back that sent very light electricity into my back muscles and made them pulse; this lasted 20 minutes.

Then, he had me lie down and cup my hand. He kept experinemting with putting different pills into my hand. He later told me that he was testing which ones I needed with electronegativity, somehow.

thank you[/quote]

WTF?

This guy is not a real doctor; sounds like a chiropractor or such. Find a real one specializing in sports and athletics.

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Doctors are trained to keep people alive. They aren’t trained to keep people functioning and performing optimally.

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[quote]benmoore wrote:
Doctors are trained to keep people alive. They aren’t trained to keep people functioning and performing optimally.[/quote]

That is possibly because most people on the planet are NOT interested in performing optimally. Most won’t even see a doctor until whatever problem they have is causing severe pain and is too large to “prevent”.

I could see if the majority of people on the planet were all in great shape and had the goal of getting even better…but medical facilities across the country are used to only seeing people who barely move enough to keep their heart pumping.

It isn’t about what doctors are “trained” to do and more about what is actually needed.

If most of the people in this country are high blood pressure risks who don’t workout and who think exercise involves getting up and walking all of the way to the fridge during commercial breaks, where are the people who are trying to be so “optimal”?

Why would “optimal performance” even be a minor focus in most medical offices? Because of 40 year old Patient A who weighs 290lbs at 5’2" who came in today because her foot needs to be amputated due to undiagnosed diabetes?

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[quote]benmoore wrote:
Doctors are trained to keep people alive. They aren’t trained to keep people functioning and performing optimally.[/quote]

Depends on the type of doctor. Don’t see a heart surgeon if you have a bad knee.

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A friend that finished med school told me that out of all his years of med school, he had ONE class on nutrition. Nutrition and Medicine are two different things. You’d need a doc that actually practices bb’ing or lifting. My doc told me lifting heavy would cause me to have a stroke he said “keep it light”.