Orrin Hatch publishes rebuttle to Roger Clemens “supplements” claim in Washington Post
A longstanding advocate for the dietary supplement industry, Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, published a response to the Roger Clemens steroid scandal and the general argument “Supplements Made Me Do It” that so many professional athletes utilize when caught using dangerous & illegal steroids.
He eloquently writes, “As a child, I couldn’t get away with rule-breaking by saying, “The devil made me do it!” Yet this is essentially what some Major League Baseball players say when accused of steroid use: “The supplements made me do it.”"
This Washington Post article is very well written and worth a close read. This is surely not the last we will hear of steroid usage in professional and Olympic sports this year, but we can only hope that the monotonous blaming of supplements for positive steroid tests will grow as old in consumers ears as it does in ours.
-Patrick
-Patrick
Related Topics: Sports Nutrition, Consumer Health News, Supplements, Uncategorized
March 6th, 2008 at 4:00 am
I find it an interesting point about no professional athletes suing a supplement manufacturer for anything in the big steroid scandal. Oh please. These are the guys who have the most at stake. They seek actively, and test whatever enhances performance. They can afford all the best advice, access to experts, researchers, and any resource money can buy. And we all get to marvel and speculate about just what goes into that optimal performance.
Linking nutritional supplements to steroids is like saying all crack heads started by drinking milk.
I think we should be turning the tables on this and get aggressive. It all started with deliberate finger pointing at nutritional supplements in a clumsy attempt to tie them to steroids because they work. That’s a point I don’t think is fully appreciated. Supplements work really well. Performance, health and longevity, sounds like the natural products industry to me.
The fact that many professional athletes would never be without their nutritional supplements and in some cases their steroids, tells me the body of knowledge on performance enhancing substances is really good. Why else would so many professional athletes be using them? Professionals, with advisers and coaches, agents with interests to protect, all know how to use them safely and most effectively without jeopardy to the athlete/franchise.
These are the early adopters leading the way and expanding the body of knowledge. It’s in our interest to educate the public about that trend. Most are woefully ignorant about steroids or hormones in general. (Just think about the recent move to ban bio-identical estrogen). There’s no outrage about that yet, but we should be thinking about what a powerful message might be when it does.
I’m betting whoever gets the ear of the public with a better story, one about their optimal health, backed by flawless, cutting edge research, gives them the ability to implement and test on their own, live and perform at a high level, for longer, with energy and feel ready and eager to make a contribution. . . . well I think that could be an interesting way to be a real consumer advocate.
Wonder what that would look like, don’t you?
April 4th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Make your life healthy and fit with the good quality nutritional supplements.
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