Kybosh - I agree 100%. The natural products lobby is pretty strong though and have been able to prevent proper regulation. People complain about the greed of the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry, but seem to think the multi-billion dollar natural products industry is some altruistic entity, and that it's only because they care about us that they don't want to have to test their products to make sure they're safe and that they work.
Personally, questions about efficacy/safety aside, if I was going to take IGF-1 I'd rather get it in a purified form with a controlled dose rather than from a deer antler extract that probably has little or no quality control. But I'm not an athlete trying to fool drug testers.
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