What I am going to tell you is that it will not make me a very popular person with many supplement manufacturers. Some of them will be very angry with me. On the other hand, some of them are going to be happy. Someone threw the beans and told the truth.
Eventually, some of them will be unaware of this information and will be amazed when they read it. I fully expect that this article will be a sh *% storm that will resonate throughout the supplement industry.
The only people I know who will be happy with this article are users, but I'm moving on from myself. As we all know, creatine is one of the best bodybuilding supplements ever discovered. It increases strength, lean body mass, and endurance to a certain extent. If that wasn't enough, it would be relatively cheap to boot!
What more could we ask for from a supplement?
When creatine was first introduced it was kind of expensive, but nobody cared because it worked so well. As time went on and more companies started selling creatine, an inevitable price war broke out and prices plummeted.
At the time, creatine was only produced by a few companies, so creatine was creatine and price was the main consideration. As is common in the marketplace, once Cretan became a big business, many new manufacturers emerged and it was no longer a price war as a standard war. The expression "creatine is creatine" is no longer valid. More on that soon.
At the moment, perhaps four to five companies are large enough to produce large amounts of creatine for the sports nutrition market. In return, these companies sell their products in large quantities to various distributors around the world.
As far as large-scale producers are concerned, there is one large German company, two from China and two from the United States. Although there are many other companies, for this article we will be concerned about the five major producers who possibly account for 80-90% of the creatine production market.
Why I had to write this article
The supplement industry in the United States is largely self-regulating. Unlike other countries, our (US) government does not constantly tell us what we can and cannot do with our supplements. Although they have been trying to discredit supplements for decades, the FDA and the pharmaceutical / medical industrial complex have largely failed to do so.
As a self-regulating industry, we must do just that. Let me tell you here and now, I am against regulation and completely against government regulations when it comes to supplements. When we find out the overall problems, we have to expose them no matter what the cost. Any supplement that is potentially dangerous, terribly misleading, or otherwise a complete scandal should be exposed.
If we do not, then we allow the "powers that be" (who are interested in defaming the supplement industry) to move one step closer to the other countries' orvillian scenario. I thought long and hard about whether I should write this article or not, but in the end, as a person with a good conscience and morals, I knew I should write this.
In the end, it will cost the entire supplement industry more than that, which could hurt a single company if it does not have problems with a particular product.
As far as I'm concerned, we're broadcasting our dirty inter-industry laundry and polishing our own, instead of waiting for the popular media or other groups to come after the supplement industry.
I know it sounds like I'm almost apologizing for writing this article, and in a way I am. This could cost some people a lot of money. On the other hand, it can make a lot of money for another person, depending on where they fall (it makes more sense to the reader when you read).
In the end, the truth can never be denied, it can only be delayed. With each passing day, the value of each increase. Naf said.
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