Columnist Peter Keating reveals his ignorance of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in the July 2008 issue Smart Money Magazine which is also reprinted in the Wall Street Journal. He suggests that the “utterly crazy law” DSHEA created an unregulated market permitting physicians at anti-aging clinics to prescribe anabolic steroids, testosterone, and human growth […]
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Steve Courson and the Myth of Steroid-Free Football Players
A letter by Steve Courson discovered posthumously reveals his disappointment with NFL players’ lack of honesty regarding their use of anabolic steroids. He believed the successs and popularity of the NFL and pro football arose from the myth of steroid-free football players (“Courson’s letter assailed ‘myth’ of drug-free players,” July 3). “I believe the NFL […]
Anabolic Steroids and Roid Rage in Bigger Stronger Faster Documentary
A scene examining anabolic steroids and roid rage that was deleted from the steroid documentary “Bigger Stronger Faster*” has been posted on Youtube. Roid rage is addressed by various experts including Rick Collins, William Llewellyn, John Romano and Harrison Pope. The number of interesting clips about steroids that were deleted from the final production of […]
Australian Mastermind Behind Chinese Steroid Trade?
Australian Customs and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) are telling the press that an Australian-born Caucasian man living in China is the steroid kingpin and mastermind behind a massive scale distribution of anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs to Olympic athletes competing in Beijing China this summer. The speculation is based on a case involving […]
RIP George Carlin on Anabolic Steroids
George Carlin, the great stand-up comedian, died of heart failure on Sunday, June 22, 2008 in Santa Monica at the age of 71. Carlin had a problem with many aspects of American culture. But one thing he did not have a problem with was steroids in sports. He wrote about steroids in his best-selling book, […]
Lonnie Teper Denounces Anabolic Steroids in Bodybuilding
Ironman Magazine’s Lonnie Teper, the popular bodybuilding writer, promoter and contest emcee, has denounced the use of anabolic steroids in bodybuilding competition on same day that Regis Philbin announced his support of steroids for bodybuilding. Teper’s comments were made in a recent interview with the Pasadena Weekly about the 2008 NPC Junior California Bodybuilding and Figure […]
Regis Philbin Supports Use of Anabolic Steroids to Build Muscle
Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa had a discussion about anabolic steroids this morning on “Live with Regis and Kelly” (airing June 19, 2008 on ABC). Regis wonders why steroids are demonized because they build muscle. Regis: Steroids have gotten a bad rap. Boy oh boy, everyone is condemning them and you are not allowed to have […]
Michael Mooney Speaks About Steroids in Deleted Scene from Bigger Stronger Faster
HIV activist Michael Mooney speaks about the therapeutic applications of testosterone and anabolic steroids for HIV wasting in a deleted scene from “Bigger Stronger Faster.” Mooney is the co-author of Built to Survive (along with Nelson Vergel) and wrote about steroids and HIV for the anabolic steroid and bodybuilding magazine Muscle Media 2000. I still meet people who […]
Sports Writers Just Now Learn Viagra Improves Athletic Performance
This week, the New York Daily News ran a series of articles “exposing” the use of Viagra (sildenafil) as a performance enhancing drugs in sports (“Source: Roger Clemens, host of athletes pop Viagra to help onfield performance,” June 10). Roger Clemens, whose claims he never took steroids are under federal investigation, has apparently discovered the […]
David Jacobs Continues to Take People Down Posthumously
David Jacobs, the convicted steroid dealer that murdered his ex-girlfriend and then committed suicide, continues to take people down posthumously. The lawyer for NFL football player Ryan Fowler, a linebacker for the Tennessee Titans, suspects his client faces suspension based on a so-called non-analytical positive arising from information provide by David Jacobs to the NFL. Jacobs previously […]