DMAA Is Synthetic And Needs NDI Notification – Study

Research sponsored in part by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency concludes that DMAA, an ingredient in strength-training dietary supplements and the subject of recent FDA warnings, is potentially an unsafe synthetic that is not derived from plant material, as some manufacturers long have claimed.

Researchers led by Mahmoud ElSohly, a professor in the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University of Mississippi, question some dietary supplement manufacturers’ contention that previous research shows...