My model for the supplement space is a high-noise, low-signal environment where the vast majority of products are marketing artifacts with negligible effect sizes. It seems correct to mentally partition protein powder from ‘supplements’ entirely. This is a tool of convenience for hitting protein targets that is otherwise undifferentiated from chicken breast or lentils.
Obsessing over the marginal gains from exotic pills before your sleep, training, and whole-food diet are 95% optimized which is a classic failure mode of misallocating attention and resources. The rational approach seems to be nailing the fundamentals for months, using protein powder only if it solves a genuine dietary logistics problem, and then, maybe, adding the one or two compounds with a high burden of evidence behind them, like creatine.
My model for the supplement space is a high-noise, low-signal environment where the vast majority of products are marketing artifacts with negligible effect sizes. It seems correct to mentally partition protein powder from ‘supplements’ entirely. This is a tool of convenience for hitting protein targets that is otherwise undifferentiated from chicken breast or lentils.
Obsessing over the marginal gains from exotic pills before your sleep, training, and whole-food diet are 95% optimized which is a classic failure mode of misallocating attention and resources. The rational approach seems to be nailing the fundamentals for months, using protein powder only if it solves a genuine dietary logistics problem, and then, maybe, adding the one or two compounds with a high burden of evidence behind them, like creatine.