Steroids

Anyone involved in the world of bodybuilding, and competitive sport generally, will understand the pressures that go with striving to achieve optimal performance. Sometimes athletes feel they cannot reach their peak without artificially enhancing their powers of recovery from intensive training. One way to speed up this process is through the use of anabolic steroids. In this article we’ll examine what anabolic steroids actually do. In a second article we'll focus on the dangers associated with steroid use. The main active ingredient in steroids is testosterone which is well known as the major male hormone. Testosterone affects the body in two ways, either as ... Read Full Story

A study by a team of Southern Cross University (SCU) scientists has revealed that there are more side effects of performance enhancing drugs than known till now. This SCU study, led by Dr Robert Weatherby, revealed that a nabolic steroid use can considerably raise susceptibility to viral infections and cancers. The study also raised questions about the possible dangers of use of banned substances in the long term. The study was carried out in conjunction with Mentorn, Channel 4 (UK) and New Scientist. From News-Medical.Net : Dr Weatherby said the study revealed that using anabolic steroids, even at doses 50 times less than those ... Read Full Story

A study by a team of Southern Cross University (SCU) scientists has revealed that there are more side effects of performance enhancing drugs than known till now. This SCU study, led by Dr Robert Weatherby, revealed that a nabolic steroid use can considerably raise susceptibility to viral infections and cancers. The study also raised questions about the possible dangers of use of banned substances in the long term. The study was carried out in conjunction with Mentorn, Channel 4 (UK) and New Scientist. From News-Medical.Net : Dr Weatherby said the study revealed that using anabolic steroids, even at doses 50 times less than those ... Read Full Story

Denial still frames American perspective on sport doping, and we party on over our games. And that’s the sure sign nothing is forthcoming to reverse widespread use of anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, and more tissue-building substances in sport. Muscle doping’s progress continues unabated despite decades of testing, anti-steroid education, blockbuster scandal, public bitching, and politicians’ posing as saviors. Football, for example, can celebrate 50 years of anabolic steroids based on the 1959 case of a high-school team in Texas, juiced with Dianabol by a doctor, according to Dr. Charles Yesalis, epidemiologist and drug historian. Muscle substances remain rampant in sport from preps to ... Read Full Story

Anabolic steroids have been so widely discussed in the past 10 years, it’s hard to remember when sports and steroids Duh! It's a drug, not a supplement, folks. weren’t cohabitating together. From Major League Baseball to Olympic sports to high school athletics to…gasp!…professional golf, steroid use, whether proven, admitted, suspected or denied, has permeated almost all sports discussion. Heck, I even remember the East German and Soviet women athletes in the 60s and 70s looking and sounding like men–and winning every medal in sight–due to steroid intake. And with the steroid controversy has come a lot of conversation about side effects. Pretty much everyone ... Read Full Story