IMO, in many cases with nutritional supplements, it is quite well known what it does, because that stuff has been used for ages and a bunch of observations on it has been gathered.
Indeed! And - I'd meant to mention this and forgot, maybe I edit it in later - in the cases of plenty of nutritional supplements, there's actually science out there to read. That science may be insufficient to the FDA's purposes - for instance, it might be toxicology research that addresses only risk not reward, or it might be efficacy in an animal model, or it might be research into how a substance is metabolized and used by the human body that doesn't address efficacy, it may be small weak-powered studies - but that doesn't mean there's no scientific literature on this stuff.
Also, boggling at 100% pure caffeine. I see the appeal to great stupidity there...
I thought of an application last night after posting: caffeine is an appetite suppressant. The population of people who aren't just dealing with regular kitchen equipment, the population of people with milligram pan balances and an possible interest in appetite suppressants? Body builders abusing steroids. It was a subculture I tripped over on the net when I went looking for reviews of milligram pan balances. They literally make their own capsule pills. If they're using caffeine in pills, 100% pure powder would be super convenient for them, and they're mostly up to handling it.
Indeed! And - I'd meant to mention this and forgot, maybe I edit it in later - in the cases of plenty of nutritional supplements, there's actually science out there to read. That science may be insufficient to the FDA's purposes - for instance, it might be toxicology research that addresses only risk not reward, or it might be efficacy in an animal model, or it might be research into how a substance is metabolized and used by the human body that doesn't address efficacy, it may be small weak-powered studies - but that doesn't mean there's no scientific literature on this stuff.
Also, boggling at 100% pure caffeine. I see the appeal to great stupidity there...
I thought of an application last night after posting: caffeine is an appetite suppressant. The population of people who aren't just dealing with regular kitchen equipment, the population of people with milligram pan balances and an possible interest in appetite suppressants? Body builders abusing steroids. It was a subculture I tripped over on the net when I went looking for reviews of milligram pan balances. They literally make their own capsule pills. If they're using caffeine in pills, 100% pure powder would be super convenient for them, and they're mostly up to handling it.
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