One of the largest nutritional supplement retailers in the world known as Bodybuilding.com just had their offices and warehouse raided by the Food and Drug Administration(FDA). The FDA claims that they were selling Anabolic Steroids under the guise of nutritional supplements. This is either true or false depending on your definition of Anabolic Steroids and your definition of nutritional supplements for that matter. The products the FDA was going after all contained a new breed of Designer Hormones that were becoming very popular among athletes since they worked just like the illegal steroids but could be bought at your local supplement shop. These designer steroids have proven to be just as affective and dangerous as the Anabolic Steroids that we all know about from the many fighters who have failed drugs tests. You may ask yourself how any nutritional supplement manufacturer can get away with putting real steroids in something they sell over the counter and market as a nutritional supplement. The answer is more amazing than you might think, you see at the time the US government passed the laws to criminalize Steroids, they had to list and specify which steroids would become illegal. A broad criminalization of steroids could not have worked since it would have included birth control pills and even some asthma inhalers since they all contain steroids. In order to criminalize the performance-enhancing steroids and leave the medicinal ones still available to the public, the guys responsible for writing the law had to specify which steroids where to become illegal. Clever supplement designers began to find ways of getting around the ban on Anabolic Steroids by creating new and improved Anabolic Steroids that were not specified in the 1991 bill that criminalized compounds like Winstrol, Dianabol and others we have heard about. These new designer steroids are not listed anywhere as being either illegal or even banned and that is just the stuff that the FDA was looking for when they raided the warehouse of Bodybuilding.com one of the largest supplement retailer in the world. Although there aren’t any laws that make these designer steroids illegal, the FDA has the power to seize and recall any products or ingredients they deem to be a danger to the public health. This power has been exercised repeatedly over the past several months as they have raided and confiscated large amounts of stock from over seven different supplement manufacturers and retailers, all of which were selling designer steroids. The Designer Steroids that have become the most popular and used among fighters have been the: 2a, 17a-dimethyl-5a-androst-3-one-17b-ol also known under the brand name “Beastdrol” and also 4-chloro-17a-methyl-androst-1,4- diene-3-17b-dio one of the ingredients in the popular product “Katanadrol” this is because these two are the ones that cause the most strength gains and fat-loss with the least amount of water retention. Most guys trying to cut weight and even go down a weight class have been known to use these two designer hormones to maintain their strength and muscle mass while cutting down layers of fat. Every company that sells these products are getting rid of them fast and will not be stocking them again. A visit from a federal agency is something nobody wants. The guy who makes “Beastdrol” and “Katanadrol” (needtobuildmuscle.net) still has some products left in stock and announced on Friday that he will discontinue all of them by Oct 2nd. This is a smart move in my opinion. Check out these 2 videos for more info:

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