Do a google search on Synthol or SEO and its enough to scare anyone with all the pictures of abuse that pop up. Funnily enough a lot of it will be implants labelled as SEO abuse which is frustratingly misleading.
Regardless, you are on a bodybuilding board where there are countless recorded logs, posts and pictures of people that have used and still use SEO. No offense but your friends are talking out of their ass and im willing to put money on the fact that they, personally have never used it.
We have.
If you are ready to use an SEO make sure its Syntherol, the fact that its been used by so many with only good things to say about it should tell you something about the quality of this product compared to the rest.
But be prepared to run the protocol EXACTLY as Big A describes it. If you do, you will have no problems. If you are not prepared to do everything as it is described, do not do it at all. There is no inbetween or you will most likely not be happy with the results that you get.
Here is a brief list of people off the top of my head that have used Syntherol and did not have any horror stories... should tell you something about how true those 'stories' really are.
-Big A (IFBB Pro & wrote the protocol for SEO's)
-Phil Hernon (IFBB Pro)
-BigKiwi (IFBB Pro)
-Big Danny
-Rocco
-Maldorf
-Saudades
-Big Bapper
-Myself
If you do a search you will find pictures of 8/9 listed above.