Rhetorical Supplements
“Gym supplements will kill you!” Assertions like this are said every single day to high-
performance athletes, or even to people who are just starting a new fitness life. JACQUES
POORTMANS and MARC FRANCAUX, researchers of the prestigious Université Libre de
Bruxelles, are conscious about this. In their scholarly article called “Long-term oral Creatine
supplementation does not impair renal function in healthy athletes,” they write about one of the
most commonly used supplements, creatine. As for some medicaments, creatine consumption
causes a lot of controversies. Therefore, Poortmans and Francaux had to use a convincing tone
during this article. The article focuses on using rhetorical strategies and theories in order to
inform the readers about why the supplement is not as bad as most people say, and it uses many
