Dietary supplements came to being with the intention of providing nutrients to your body that you fail to ingest through diet/nutrition only. Sometimes they are taken in order to achieve a recommended healthy baseline of certain nutrients and some supplements are used to provide certain benefits related to training performance, energy levels and even cellular mechanisms that could not be normally attained through nutrition only.

Majority of the supplements are the least important part of your nutrition and they won’t make or break your progress of course under assumption that you do not have some type of nutritional deficiency or condition that requires them.

The tricky part is that most supplements are always marketed as scientifically proven but that’s hardly the case. Because there are so many supplements on the market and the data about their effectiveness is all over the place, we decided to create this guide where we’ll analyze every mainstream and some less known supplements in depth.

This guide will provide you with the list of supplements, broken into different categories. You will learn about the quality of evidence for each supplement, the recommended dosages, how to differentiate between the useful ones and not so useful ones and their relevance to strength and physique goals.

The sole reason why we created this guide is so you can make your own fact based, educated decision on which supplements could be useful for your particular situation.

We spent countless hours digging through scientific literature, comparing study results and discarding “false evidence” in case research has too many methodological flaws and all this so you wouldn’t have to.

Although we strongly believe everyone should do their own research and “digging” we also understand that some people are too busy and their life doesn’t revolve around training and nutrition only.

Every time you see a new “shiny supplement” in local supplement shop shelves or your favourite supplement brand website and read its ingredients, you can simply open this guide and see what the available scientific research says. After careful double checking and analysis you’ll be able to decide for yourself whether that supplement will be beneficial for your particular goal, general health or it’ll just empty your wallet without real “investment return”.