In the News – FDA Warns About “Supplements” Causing Hair Loss

Snippet from the article from The Consumerist:

Earlier this week, the FDA sent a warning letter to Americell-Labs, the manufacturer of many popular lines of such supplements, and also warned consumers to stay away from the products. The “supplements” claim to act a little too much like steroids, and should be tested and sold as drugs if they are, y’know, drugs. If they’re anabolic steroids, they shouldn’t be sold at all.

Read the full article at Consumerist.com

The reason I’m posting this is because I get a lot of emails from bodybuilders inquiring about various supplements that I’ve never heard of. The products in question here are TREN-Xtreme, MASS Xtreme, AH-89Xtreme, HMG Xtreme, MMA-3 Xtreme, VNS-9 Xtreme, and TT-40-Xtreme. These supplements promote “no hair loss” in big, bold print on their websites… then followed by a warning that states, “Possible side effects include acne, hair loss, facial hair growth (women), aggressiveness, irritability, and increased levels of estrogen.”

And that’s just one of the things the FDA had trouble with. Read the full FDA warning here.