When I first heard of the FDA bringing Ephedra products to court in an attempt to ban them I was furious.
For the 12+ years I've been using it I know what's it's capable of, negative effects and positives. The entire time this stuff was on the market, the FDA tried to take it off, but this was the first full on assault in court attempt yet, and considering they still hadn't had any conclusive studies to prove that it was harmfull at recomended dosages, I was hopefull the FDA would get slapped down by the judge.
Afterall, the ONLY thing the FDA had to go on was past persons who abused the substance that died over the last 15 years, (I'm not sure of the number, but I believe it was approximately 12 or so)
I said all along (even in my rant in the G-A OT thread I made) that ephedra is SAFER than caffeine, because of it's blood dialating properties compared to caffiene's constricting properties.
You see ephedra really does work for mentl alertness, boosts of energy and increased blood circulation as well as helping asthma patients breathe better when under stress, BUT when it's taken with caffiene it's a whole new beast.
The combonation of caffiene and ephedra work incredibly synergistly together, meaning that if both had a strength rating of 1, instead of 1+1 = 2, when combined it's more like 1+1 = 5, and even moreso when taken with asprin for a prolonged and heightened effect.
I said it in the thread I made on the old board, but I knew it would never happen, that if either should be pulled from the market, it should be caffiene, not that this is even an option.
I followed this court hearing as closely as I could considering it was kept as hush hush as possible, and the results are as close to what the FDA could want considering they actually lost the case, and had 1/2 of thier case slapped down like the little whiney bitches they are.
Basicly the judge said they couldn't pull ephedra products from the shelf becasue 1, they never conclusively proved it was the ephedra that caused the deaths of the dozen or so poeple over tha last 15 years since most those who died were taking many other things that were just as risky. (like the georgia football player who died of heart failure last summer in full pads. He was also loaded with creatine, which is a very strong signal to pull water into your muscles, and when overheated it can rob water from organs such as your heart.)
EPHEDRA is still being sold, online and offline, it just can't be combined with .........(drum roll please...............caffiene!, also it can't be marketed for weight loss anymore, it's still legal to buy/sell ephedra, but now it's only reason to market it, is for asthsma patients.
So if you Have to have ephedra or just love the mental sharpness it provides on days you have a tough time getting started, just buy a few packs/bottles of ephedra and combine it with your ephedra free stacker 2 or whatever caffine based eightloss capsules being sold that you preffer and it's the same thing that was being sold a month or more ago.
So, to the hater in the thread I made about this months ago talking out of his asss spouting only things he read from recent newspaper articles or whatever halfass researched media presentation all I can say is.............. I was right & the FDA = owned.
Articles from the media on ephedra are NO damn different then the half ass researched propaganda that they spout about the video game market.
The media aren't specialists in ephedra.
