Do You Need Supplements
For Healthy Weight Loss?
Let's get something clear before we begin: You do not need additional supplements to burn fat naturally, although a few of the right ones can greatly help with your health, muscle maintenance and subsequently fat loss (if you are exercising as recommended).
You don't need any additional drugs, or artificial enhancers. If anything , I'd urge you to stay away from these things as it will causes major effects later - just do a little in depth research on anyone that has been known to use drugs to artificially enhance their performance and you can see how it started effecting them later in life.
Here are a few examples of drugs that are commonly used to enhance people's workout and fat burning programs that I would stay away from:
- Caffeine: Yes, caffeine is a drug. I'm not talking about the occasional latte with your friends, but I am talking about caffeine pills. I find that caffeine just gets you hyperactive and increases your chances of injury during training.
- Steroids: Steroids affects the body by increasing nitrogen retention in the muscles, increasing healing and recovery, and affects the mind by promoting thinking that you are invincible. This allows you to workout harder and recover faster. The side effects of steroids include muscles being pulled loose from tendons because the tendons are too weak to hold back the massive increase in strength in the muscles, your heart and cholesterol levels soaring, fatty acids deposits increases causing heart problems and an increase in blood pressure.
- Aspirin: Aspirin reduces soreness but also seems to interfere with the nervous system's stimulation of muscles. It also has other side effects including heartburn, stomach irritation (which can lead to bleeding in the stomach), indigestion, pain and nausea.