Quote Originally Posted by Thorn View Post
If you use flax seed, you must grind it first. The whole seeds just slip through the system. But, both flax seed oil and ground flax go bad quickly. Shelf life is quoted as just a couple months, at most, with a steady degrade. Keep them all in the fridge. I'm a believer. My morning yogurt gets ground flax seed along with walnuts, dried cherries or blueberries and oats. Since that switch, I feel much better. Of course, it replaced a donut so do I really know it is that good for me?

As for athletes not knowing. Maybe I'm naive, but I can believe it. Suppose your full-time job was working out. How tired would you be during hard periods? Would you take the time to research, buy your own? Or would you trust your coach to do the shopping and just take what they gave you? Coaches become family. You are trusting them to train you into a fantastic athlete, why would you draw the line on "vitamins and supplements"?

OK, with the news of the last couple of years, everyone should be paranoid, but, still, isn't it human nature to trust?
It depends on the human. It depends on education. Given the culture and atmosphere of elite level sports it would take someone who just fell of the turnip truck not to suspect something when their muscles suddenly become huge and performance not just improves but leaps to incredible levels.

The more important point of my post thats getting lost in this tangent are the properties of medium chain triglycerides as anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatories. I knew these things were good but I didn't know they had that property. It's just the headline that caught my eye.