What if Government authorities develop an interest in you? What if they focus on your online activities, and decide to develop a profile on your habits and contacts? They seek to identify your associates through the email addresses of those you’ve corresponded with. One surveillance approach the Government has used in recent years has been […]
Anabolic Steroid Articles
Our steroid articles provided detailed, practical information on how anabolic steroids are used to build muscle size, strength and otherwise improve physical performance. They cover topics such as the history of steroids, steroids in baseball, the medical uses of steroids including testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), the side effects of steroids and how to manage steroid side effects.
Insider’s Update on the Regulatory Issues Surrounding Sports Supplements
There was a 22-year-old aspiring bodybuilder who claimed that he used creatine monohydrate at recommended doses for three and a half months. What happened to him? Well, here’s how journalists presented the case in the papers. The story begins by describing the “deep blue and red scar [that] carves the skin on the outside of […]
Using Testosterone and Cocaine Together Cause Strokes
Many famous people believed to have “died” from steroids were also using recreational drugs, especially cocaine. An Italian experiment with blood platelets explains why the combination of steroids and cocaine can cause lethal strokes. “Coke” reinforces the dangerous qualities of testosterone and counteracts good ones. The researchers performed two series of tests. First, they extracted […]
Anabolic Steroids, Growth Hormone, and Hypertrophy of the Heart
The debate on the effect of anabolic substances on the structure of the heart reached another phase, since Finnish scientists studied twenty local bodybuilders who had just finished their cycles. Steroids don’t damage the heart, the researchers found. But the combination of steroids and growth hormone does. Context Since the eighties scientists have been discussing […]
Pumping Up Steroid Hysteria
Perhaps because I lagged well behind my peer group, physically at least, until I was well into my twenties, most of my childhood associations with sports are unpleasant. The shortest and most physically maladroit kid in class after class after class, I was the perennial last-pick when teams formed on playgrounds or PE classes. Today, […]
Testosterone Replacement Therapy – A Recipe for Success
My Current Best Thoughts on How to Administer Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) for Men We have already learned a practical bit about the various hormones that make up the metabolic “symphony” which comprises our hormonal milieu. We know where these hormones are produced, what modulates their production, and the target tissues of their various and […]
The Weighting Game
I have been an athlete all my life, having participated in everything from basketball to figure skating, but focused on volleyball and rugby as a York U Varsity athlete. Sport wasn’t just something I did, it represented who I was and, more importantly, what I wanted to become. I first started training with weights after […]
Androgen Action and the Androgen Receptor
Introductory Physiology and Pharmacology of Androgens Endogenous androgens are well known for their many functions in promoting sexual differentiation and the induction of the male phenotype. In the male, the two endogenous androgens most active in promoting these effects are testosterone (T) and dihydroxytestosterone (DHT). T is the most quantitatively important androgen in systemic circulation […]
Female Bodybuilders and the Feminine Mystique – Where Bev Francis meets Betty Friedan
Will there ever come a day where women become separated from how the world views their bodies or are they destined to forever be defined by them? The female physique is a constant topic of debate between those intent on controlling it and those who wish to be freed from its constraints. Female bodybuilders pose […]
Anabolic Steroid Classification System – Class I and Class II Androgens
Classification corresponding to synergistic effect: pharmaceutical androgens A method that has proven useful in predicting stacking behavior of androgens other than testosterone is to systematically group them as either “Class I” or “Class II.” Pairs of androgens which combine with little or no synergy are assigned to the same class. Androgens combining very synergistically are […]