Psych 100
9/9/15
A major problem in the field of health and nutrition is a law passed in congress called the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, or DSHEA. This law essentially requires the Food and Drug Administration to assume that dietary supplements are safe until proved otherwise. Making supplements used to be like making prescription drugs, you had to prove your product was safe and effective before you could sell them. Since DSHEA was passed, the supplement industry has become a multi-billion dollar business with manufacturers free to make all sorts of grandiose claims for their products and even include ingredients that are harmful to the consumer’s health.
One supplement that has gained popularity is deer …show more content…
It is sold online and with a statement on the back of the bottle indicating that the product has not been evaluated by the food and drug administration and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. I believe that the claims made by DVX Pro Liquid are too good to be true, and it is truly not that effective. I believe that products similar to this have just taken advantage of a sudden increase in popularity and demand for deer antler spray and are covered by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 to sell their product without backing up their claim. In order to prove my hypothesis, DVX Pro Liquid would need to be …show more content…
All the participants will be given the same workout schedule and workout routine. Of the 100 participants, an experimental group of 50 would be administered the serving size indicated on the back of the label of 30 drops every morning and night. The Independent variable is the 30 drops every morning and evening. The remaining 50 in the control group will participate in the same workouts, but will be given a placebo in place of the actual DVX Pro Liquid Supplement. Neither the participant nor the experimenters will now which is the actual supplement and the placebo in order to eliminate experimenter’s expectancy or bias. The dependent variable in the experiment is the amount of muscle growth, endurance, and strength the participants have at the conclusion of the experiment. Third-variable problems may include physical acumen prior to the study, genetics and gender. Random sampling may combat this issue. At the end, their size will be compared to the participant’s size at the beginning of the experiment and participants will be tested on aerobic as well as anaerobic ability. The results will be compared to see if there is a correlation between deer antler spray and the claims they make in their