Re: Sustamine(TM) Maintains Performance Levels for Collegiate Basketball Players, Study Shows - MarketWatch

March 22, 2012

After reading this one, I have some questions. First of all, Dr. Hoffman is

clearly well connected - but the comments did not state whether or not he will

profit from the sale or usage of the product personally in any way - that is to

say, conflicts of interest, stock options, what have you were not laid out. A

man with his widespread high connections likely draws a lot of possible

opportunities... whether he or his affiliates are going to benefit is always a

good question. There is clearly interest (financial) in marketing this product

already since the note is on a financial channel.

Second, I'm not sure this study is really that meaningful. They took 10 ladies,

and sweated them down - then rehydrated with water or the subject plus water.

They did not compare to any currently used and less fancy hydration fluids

either - e.g. Gatorade (trademarked etc). It's far more fashionable perhaps to

intake some peptides with a fancy name vs the old standby - but if they work in

a similar effectiveness, what are the odds the old standbys will be less

expensive than peptide preps?

The same claims for performance improvement can be made for water seeing as

they did 11 percent better than without hydration. There was water added to the

subject supplement - thus most of the " performance improvement " is due to water?

The difference between the 11 percent and 12.5 percent isn't enough to convince

me to use more than the current sugar/water/electrolyte preps. I suspect we

might be in that near area of 12 percent or better with the standard old

Gatorade...

Other than these points, sounds like this wasn't much fun as a study - and he

used women instead of men, perhaps he was short volunteers? Probably risked

being pelted with basketballs from a lack of sense of humor as the water loss

become more pronounced....

the Phantom

aka Schaefer, CMT/RMT, competing powerlifter

Denver, Colorado, USA

Sustamine Maintains Performance Levels for

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Driscoll

Sydney, Australia

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