Re: Creatine Hysteria Begins!

Harvey Newstrom (harv@gate.net)
Fri, 19 Dec 1997 08:56:04 -0500


Twink wrote:
>
> At 07:43 PM 12/18/97 -0500, James Daugherty <daugh@home.msen.com> wrote:
> > Just heard on the TV News that the FDA
> >is looking to blame the use of creatine for
> >the rash of wrestler deaths! Taking creatine
> >while they attempted to lose as much as
> >20 lbs exercising in hot rooms with rubber
> >suits!?
> >
> > Tryptophane ban all over again?
>
> Sounds like it. The only solution is to kill the guardians -- er, the
> government.:)
>
> Daniel Ust

Last night on the ABC News they reported three recent wrestling deaths.
They described all sorts of different methods used by wrestlers to lose
weight, and I also know that wrestlers also take all sorts of
suppliments. The highpoint (lowpoint?) of the piece was that conclusion
that "the FDA believes that one of the three wrestlers may have used
creatine."

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Harvey Newstrom  (harv@gate.net)