My hobbies are :
- Hockey

- Walking, hiking

- Performing arts

I often come here to read some news, i find them very interesting.

Regards,

The thing about “solid science” is it’s a pretty shifting target. If by “solid science” you mean has Poliquin funded multi-million dollar studies that meet the guidelines for FDA approved clinical trials, no there isn’t any. But you’d be surprised at how much “solid science” is spun data for the purposes of marketing (i.e. Lipitor). In any case, my overall impression with Charles is that his stuff works and he knows what he’s talking about. I don’t really know all the specifics of his BioSignature program, but he’s a pretty smart guy and been doing this a very long time and he has a lot of clinical experience which shouldn’t be discounted just because he doesn’t have double blind placebo controlled studies to “prove” it. After all, does Phil Jackson of the Lakers have double blind placebo controlled studies to show how his coaching methods work?

I don’t mean to disparage good clinical studies. They’re deeply important. But i wouldn’t dismiss Charles work based on some nutritional gurus opinion, especially since- as you point out- there’s an awful lot of sour grapes going on in this field. Just my opinion.

warmly
jb

Given this update about your supplement catalog, I thought this might be an appropriate place to ask you the following question.

I have a friend who is a personal trainer and he recently asked me if I thought it would be worthwhile for him to take Charles Poliquin’s BioSignature course. I contacted some fairly prominent nutritional folks with a presence in the online world, and they, much to my surprise gave it a thumbs down, and were making claims that it didn’t have much basis in solid science.

Since you are a no-BS guy and are very well versed in many aspects of nutrition and a lot of the cutting edge stuff that goes on, I figured it would be great to ask for your take on it, to the best of your knowledge, and if attending this would be a quality investment. From what I can tell, Coach Poliquin is anyone but a guy who doesn’t base his practices on things borne out by research. And he clearly gets top results, so this made the opinions I received somewhat surprising, almost as if bordering on sour grapes.

Thanks for all the time you spend doing this hard research for us. What I’d really like to see is your list of the supplements you think every person on the planet should be taking. There are so many to choose from in the store, and a lot of them are for very specific things, I just want a simple way to choose my basic supplement stack, and then add the things I need for my individual situation.

Alan