It seems like a lot of people complain about the dishonesty of the supp. industry and their sneaky tactics to sell supplements. This could easily be squashed if people had even a basic understanding of how their body works and how supplements/drugs/training interact with the body. If everyone had a basic understanding of their body, you could easily see right through the "lose 20lbs of fat and gain 20 lbs of muscle in 6 weeks" type of claims and you would know thats just not possible. We walk around in these bodies our whole lives, yet the majority of us know very little about whats going on inside us and how food, training, supps etc work in the body? I've been guilty of this as much as the next person in my past. I remember buying a motorcycle to fix up and work on when I was younger. I didnt know shit about bikes when I bought it, but after 2 years I had learned a ton and could easily trouble shoot most issues that could go wrong, and I knew enough to understand what upgrades would be most effective to increase performance etc... I remember thinking about all I had learned about motorcycles in the last 2 years, and realizing that I didnt really know how or why a lot of the supplements and drugs I was using at the time worked in my body? Kinda funny to think about as the bike I worked on is now long gone now, but I'm still using the same body! Fortunately for me I took the lesson to heart and got my shit together and began to study up, but how many of us will spend money and use all of these different supps, workout routines, drugs but we don't even know how or why they do what they are suppose to do?
If we took a little time to get some basic understanding of how our bodies work, and understood our individual genetic potential better we could easily see through the bullshit outlandish claims being made and not get duped into buying all that garbage.
On another note, I can understand why so many guys long for 'the good ole days' when there was not as much bullshit to sort through. However, I think the advancements in everything related to health, fitness, drugs, supps etc we have today far and away much better and a net positive. There is just so much more research and improved science today then in the past, we just have to have the patience to sort through it and understand what it means.