Hi Picard120

I've been to the GNC website. I doubt very much that the supplements shown on their website contain such powerful metabolic drugs such as steroids. I would also strongly state that taking steroids without medical supervision is extremely dangerous to your long term health no matter what anyone says. Steroids can seriously affect the heart, liver and kidneys and make you go a bit mad.

Taking any performance enhancing drugs when competitive cycling is pointless anyway. It is called cheating and its use has severely damaged the image of competitive cycling. There has been many a promising young cyclist that has died in their sleep taking drugs such as EPO without constant medical supervision. In fact I have known some clean international competitive cyclists, including a world hour record holder and an international track sprinter who have despaired at the situation with drug abuse in the sport that they have given up competitive cycling because they feel it is not worth it anymore.

It used to be safe to eat raw eggs, but now unless you know where they are sourced, the eggs can be contaminated with salmonella. This is the result of industrial farm practises. In the United States I doubt if anyone’s diet has a protein deficiency unless they were Vegan. I would suspect that most have multiple times the daily requirement of protein in their diet. Adding addition protein either in the form of raw eggs or body building supplements will only cause problems for the digestive system i.e constipation. Therefore I would forget about all the nutritional supplements, drugs and gym folklore about how to eat. Just concentrate on good quality organic nutritious food, eating plenty of fruits, vegatables and porridge oats and limit the amount of red meat to one or two meals per week by increasing the amount of fish you eat. Also the less processed food you consume the better. So enjoy your food, being a cyclist you should be able to eat lots without getting fat.