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Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« on: January 18, 2017, 05:54:55 AM »
I remember when the whole Cybergenics, dibencozide, EAS thing took the bodybuilding community by storm...

  I was an avid reader of MuscleMedia 2000 back in the early 90's...I spent over $200 on the EAS "boxed kit" that had the supposed supplement of the future, vanadyl sulfate and HMB. Oh to go back in time and get my money back lol!

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2017, 05:59:49 AM »
Hahaha yeah I bought cybergenics when I was a gullible teen.i remember all the ads with Franco santoriello I believe.Still good times and I'd probably take it again given the chance as it's a learning experience you could say.

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2017, 06:39:53 AM »
take your pick from:

1) twinlab MCT fuel orange flavor
2) Vandal sulphate
3) nettle root extract - forget who made it
4) Muscletech Acetabolan
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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2017, 06:40:18 AM »
Also lost my $200 to Cybergenics.  It had a training regimen and diet plan that was very very hard so it gave them an out if it "didn't work."  But it was a great learning experience also.  Learned a lot about micromanaging my food intake and it also opened my eyes big time that it was all scams.

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2017, 06:41:37 AM »
take your pick from:

1) twinlab MCT fuel orange flavor
2) Vandal sulphate
3) nettle root extract - forget who made it
4) Muscletech Acetabolan



Acetabolan !!!!  who ever came up with that crap is still counting the money he made out of it



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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2017, 06:41:45 AM »
I remember when the whole Cybergenics, dibencozide, EAS thing took the bodybuilding community by storm...

  I was an avid reader of MuscleMedia 2000 back in the early 90's...I spent over $200 on the EAS "boxed kit" that had the supposed supplement of the future, vanadyl sulfate and HMB. Oh to go back in time and get my money back lol!

I bought Myoplex / MetRx but it was probably better than what my dumb ass would have eaten at the time.

Dumbest thing I did was over eat constantly and not stay lean and in good cardio condition.
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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2017, 06:41:53 AM »
I remember when the whole Cybergenics,




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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2017, 06:45:44 AM »
Maybe the original androstenedione back then. I totally would've gotten taken by the the old HMB/V2G/GKG, etc.... stack, but I was too poor to afford it all, so it was just protein and creatine for me the first couple of years. While I don't feel taken by it, the worst tasting supplement I ever tasted, original Phospagain in the tin can came out in that era. Jeez it was awful.

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2017, 06:46:54 AM »
Not really as have always had the "everyone's trying to rip you off" mentality even when Young.
I got a free copy of Bill phillips sports supplement review and it was the first real info I had on bodybuilding back before Internet acess wasn't commonplace and hardly any newsagents sold the mags, and bought some creatine to try first, got the shits and no results and never bothered again.
Learned some basic info on how to train and eat from that book though as handnt a clue

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2017, 06:47:19 AM »

Acetabolan !!!!  who ever came up with that crap is still counting the money he made out of it



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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2017, 06:49:15 AM »
Maybe the original androstenedione back then. I totally would've gotten taken by the the old HMB/V2G/GKG, etc.... stack back then, but I was too poor to afford it all back then, so it was just protein and creatine for me the first couple of years. While I don't feel taken by it, the worst tasting supplement I ever tasted, original Phospagain in the tin can came out in that era. Jeez it was awful.

I had to get Creapure lol not creatine
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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2017, 06:50:48 AM »
Yes, I spent a couple hundred on two boxes of this shit.  Yes I still feel like a dweeb for doing it.  Yes it did jack shit.


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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2017, 07:41:08 AM »
After years of wasting a lot of money on supplements I can tell you that they are a waste of money they dont build muscle, spend your money on a healthy diet with nutrient dense foods like salmon, sweet potatoes, kale, berries, almonds etc, if you are not satisfied with your natural build after this then start out with 500mg of test to add more muscle then if you want to keep getting bigger just simply add more anabolics.

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2017, 09:52:41 AM »
none they've all been worth every penny

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2017, 11:23:49 AM »
Probably lost a couple Gs over the years to various bunk UGL gear.

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2017, 11:23:53 AM »
Hahaha yeah I bought cybergenics when I was a gullible teen.i remember all the ads with Franco santoriello I believe.Still good times and I'd probably take it again given the chance as it's a learning experience you could say.

I was working part time at GNC as a grad student during the Cybergenics craze.
I actually trained in the same World gym as one of their main spokesman , Franco Santorello (sp?).
Had an 8x 10 autographed color pic of me with Franco S. in the gym.
It was kept on the GNC store counter , with a contest pic me of me winning some Mr Podunk.

Plenty of younger dudes came in to buy their Cybergenics kits from me.
I feel a twinge of guilt now, but, wtf, I bought/used the same crap myself at the time.
A few females bought it , but they bought mostly fat burners and ripped fuel.

It was a cool looking box with the fat calipers and routine booklets.
Of course it was overpriced, especially past the initial purchase.
Once you had the routine down , most of their supplements were nothing special.

I was paid an  hourly wage plus sales commission , so I feel a bit bad now, for pushing it so hard.


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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2017, 05:19:19 PM »
Don't forget Gamma Oryzanol.

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2017, 05:24:03 PM »
Thank God I didn't have money in high school or I would have definitely bought cybergenics.  LOL.

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #18 on: January 18, 2017, 05:28:46 PM »
none they've all been worth every penny

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #19 on: January 18, 2017, 05:29:37 PM »
hmb i remember eas pushing this for monthes before it even came out comparing it to deca

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2017, 06:05:53 PM »
Sarsaparilla (Smilax).  Around mid 80's.  Just one bottle though.

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2017, 08:31:46 PM »
I was working part time at GNC as a grad student during the Cybergenics craze.
I actually trained in the same World gym as one of their main spokesman , Franco Santorello (sp?).
Had an 8x 10 autographed color pic of me with Franco S. in the gym.
It was kept on the GNC store counter , with a contest pic me of me winning some Mr Podunk.

Plenty of younger dudes came in to buy their Cybergenics kits from me.
I feel a twinge of guilt now, but, wtf, I bought/used the same crap myself at the time.
A few females bought it , but they bought mostly fat burners and ripped fuel.

It was a cool looking box with the fat calipers and routine booklets.
Of course it was overpriced, especially past the initial purchase.
Once you had the routine down , most of their supplements were nothing special.

I was paid an  hourly wage plus sales commission , so I feel a bit bad now, for pushing it so hard.


Cool story but GNC didn't pay Promotional Money, as they called it, for selling Cybergenics. You would have had to sell the GNC house brand Pro Performance bodybuilding kit to get the extra money.

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2017, 10:14:17 PM »

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2017, 11:05:36 PM »
It just blows my mind when the government claims that it doesn't have the money to regulate this industry.

Total bullshit.

But we have all known this for a long time.

When it comes to bodybuilding supplements, it really is caveat emptor.

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Re: Biggest supplement scam you were taken by...
« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2017, 11:14:16 PM »
EAS stuff. HMB was stupid expensive when it came out.

You had Bill and Shawn Phillips juiced to the gills doing photo shoots and living like kings....so naive.