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No need to apologize man. I'm sure I was projecting personal life shit in my tone of text. But to see someone like John Meadows dying last weekend just makes you think a little. I haven't looked to see the actual cause of death. I know he had heart problems last year but I'm sure years of heavy anabolics didn't help any. Just want people to be healthy ya know.
I get it. I'm at that age where people who are younger than I am, who (some of them) look like they're in better shape than I am, but are still dropping dead. The one that made me scratch my head is (I can't remember the guy's real name) Kimbo Slice, the MMA fighter who died of a heart attack in his early 50s. That guy was lean, muscular, and appeared to be very fit and not just muscular. I mean he did fight in the UFC and that requires serious cardio fitness and not just power or strength. Shocked the shit out of me. But I'm entering that stage of life where anytime I look over my shoulder I see the Grim Reaper back there somewhere. Sometimes close, sometimes far away, but always present.

On the other hand, my gear use appears to have actually done me a solid. The health problems I've been dealing with are more or less all about bleeding to death because of bleeds high up in my GI tract, so high I didn't know I was even bleeding. When I got so weak I couldn't walk up three stairs without panting like a dog, I went to see my doctor (who knows of my gear use).

My hemoglobin was so low that he stuck me in the hospital and I had to have whole-blood transfusions for a couple days before I got out of the danger zone. He warned me that even with the whole blood and iron infusions (via IV) it would still be a long road of recovery. But instead in less than a month my hemoglobin levels were normal. He decided that since I was on gear, and gear faciltiates a positive nitrogen balance and protein synthesis, and since hemoglobin is just an iron-containing protein, it had to be the gear that made me bounce back as fast as I did. It was supposed to take weeks, even months.

I have no family history of cardiac issues, including things like atherosclerosis, which can be worsened by gear use. If I did I probably wouldn't take the chance at my age.
 
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