Can You Survive on JUST Supplements?

Being a ridiculously big Rocky fan I have the 36 Maffia song from Rocky Balboa on many of my workout playlists. I like to sing along and pretend it's me giving the threats like 'you'll be drinking fried chicken through a crazy straw' etc which helps motivate me during a workout (I always imagined they deserved it though...). As it turned out however it was I who was to end up drinking fried chicken through a crazy straw after getting beaten up in Bournemouth (In my defence though I was drunk, outnumbered and apparently still took an abnormal number of hits to the face seemingly with a knuckle duster without falling over or going unconscious). I literally had fried chicken in one straw and the vegetables in another. The straw wasn't technically a crazy straw but it was crazy in that it was a Halloween straw with a skeleton on it. That's pretty crazy right?? I mean why would a skeleton be on a straw?

So anyway, that wasn't particularly nice and was tough work to suck through a straw. So I moved on to complan. That actually is quite nice - I had the banana one and that's nice anyway. In fact it was just like a protein shake... which got me thinking; why wasn't I having one of those instead? This was the perfect opportunity to get some hyper lean muscle - for Rocky 3 Stallone allegedly lived off just protein shakes and burned toast - why couldn't I? I would turn this unfavourable situation around and make my lack of mouth the catalyst for a great new bodylab experiment - I would live off of just supplements.

Of course though protein shakes only really contain one essential aspect of our diet - that being protein, and as I advise elsewhere on this site you need every aspect of your diet to stay healthy. So I decided that to do this properly I'd need some more supplements and training foods. Namely Berroca - for every vitamin and mineral I wasn't getting from vegetables (and everything my body needed to repair itself), Omega 3 for fats, and Lucozade for energy. I now had my carbs, my minerals and vitamins, essential fatty acids and my proteins. The only thing I was missing here was fibre but of course the prospect of a 'drinkable' fibre doesn't make any sense.

This meant I was getting high concentrated quanities of everything my body needed without anything extra, and all readily available for its biological purpose. As you might imagine then this lead to a rather more ripped physique pretty quickly and surprisingly on this meagre amount I wasn't too hungry either (though my apetite had been somewhat ruined). It doesn't sound healthy, but as a diet it's certainly preferable to the Atkins or some shit like that and I can't see anything immediately wrong with it. For bodybuilders looking to cut before a competition... why not?

At the same time I started to suspect that supplying my body with concentrated vitamin E and protein could help it to heal the scarring and broken bone, and that I could help this with other supplements. For that reason I added GABA to the mix to give myself extra growth hormone that my body could use to heal the wound and added vitamin E cream to my face at the advice of the doctors. Vitamin C I suspect helped fight infection (along with the antibiotics) too.

Oh and I took one other supplement for the swelling 'Arnica'... which is a 'Homeopathic Remedy' - read as bullshit. I can't believe a Nurse recommended it to me, but it's a substance claims to be so diluted by sugar that if there was just one particle in the observable universe it wouldn't be that diulted by all of the others. This only goes to prove a) that it has nothing in it b) that homeopaths are liars and c) you should always research anything before you start taking it - even if it was prescribed to you.

So I got a lot more ripped from this extreme diet, how did the supplements do at helping the healing? Well the Arnica unsurprisingly will have done nothing (my friend purposefully overdosed on them to demonstrate their lack of active ingredients and surprise surprise was fine), but the rest might have. In theory extra protein and growth hormone should have aided the healing and in fact both my cheek bone and my sewn up lip are showing more signs of recovery than the hospital staff predicted... It could be that my weird science worked, or just that I'm magic. Either is possible.

In the future I hope we'll have access to extracellular matrix for healing wounds, which has shown to be able to grow back the tips of fingers. Until then, other transhuman/bodybuilding methods might be able to help. As a way to get super lean fast then eating just supplements works well too; and until I can get KFC in a curly straw that will be my new liquid meals plan.