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I just ordered some DAA( D- Aspartic Acid) that was recommended by a friend. I am 51  and started working out about two years ago.  I have made decent progress but am looking for a little more.  Is this stuff safe to take? Anything that I should know? I read articles and get differeing opinions. Has anyone here tried it? If three are any bad side effects, I have no problem pitching it in the trash right after it is delivered.

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Why not just eat whole, natural foods, train hard, and stay hydrated?  

Or take steroids.

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Either take steroids or go the natural route - 99% of the other stuff that supplement companies try to sell is snake oil and a waste of money. Creatine may help; but most likely it will make you piss like a racehorse.

Getting your diet and training right should be enough for you to make progress. At 51, if you want to look like a bodybuilder or enter strongman events; then it's needle time.

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Either take steroids or go the natural route - 99% of the other stuff that supplement companies try to sell is snake oil and a waste of money. Creatine may help; but most likely it will make you piss like a racehorse.

Getting your diet and training right should be enough for you to make progress. At 51, if you want to look like a bodybuilder or enter strongman events; then it's needle time.

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This for sure.

You're ingesting substances that are untested, unproven, and questionable ingredients at best.  The long term side effects are unknown.  At least with steriods, you'll get the results you're looking for.

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Ive taken it with no bad effects.  No noticable benefits.  Powder form tastes like crap.

Try ZMA at night before bed.

Eliminate carbs and increse protien intake.

Sleep. Eat. Train. Train Harder. Repeat.

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The only supplements you should be using are multivitamins, whey protein, and perhaps creatine.  Everything else is pretty much fluff, and so is the creatine really...so maybe the list should only have 2 members.

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This 100%.

I tried the "legal stuff you can buy online" once. You know - the stuff people on forums RAVE about because it's oral and legal.

You know what it did? Horrible kidney pains for starters. Then my gums started to bleed randomly throughout the day. Groggyness all day. And not a single positive result in terms of strength or fat loss / weight gain.

Screw that. Save your money for better stuff that's proven to give results (take that for what it's worth) or don't bother at all.

Then best thing I ever did for gains was to stop listening to bullshit about how your body can only ingest a certain number of grams per protein per hour and how the magic formula is 1g per lean bodyweight. Fuck that. 300g+ protein per day and I started making real gains. Anything less than that now, and I can feel how choked/starved my body is.