Archive for the ‘Steroids’ Category

DEA Wants to Classify Superdrol & Prostanozol as Schedule III Anabolic Steroids
By Millard Baker

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants to add Superdrol (methasteron) and Prostanozol to the Controlled Substances list. They have argued that these steroid compounds meet the criteria for Schedule III Anabolic Steroids as defined by the Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 2004. The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on November 23, 2011.

The popular Superdrol and Prostanozol have been sold as “dietary supplements” for several years. They have been often marketed as “prohormones” or “pro-steroid” supplements.
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Study Links Heart Disease to Low Testosterone
By Frederik Joelving

(Reuters Health) – In the ongoing saga of testosterone and male aging, a new report concludes that low levels of the sex hormone might raise men’s risk of dying from heart disease.

Researchers followed more than 3,600 elderly men living on their own for about five years on average. Over that time, about six percent died due to heart disease, with men who had low levels of so-called free testosterone leading the pack.
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Doctors urge caution as clinics for men with “Low-T” thrive
By Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel

Middle-aged men seeking to restore their energy and sex drive are flocking to South Florida clinics promising renewed vigor through testosterone, the male sex hormone.

Influenced by an abundance of television commercials, Internet ads and billboards asking if they have “Low-T,” many say they had been depressed about the aging process and were seeking a way to regain the stamina they miss from their youth.

They say the hormone has revived their endurance and virility, although some doctors caution that extra testosterone can have side effects and could cause long-term problems that have not yet been thoroughly studied.
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Training stimulates action of Methandrostenolone

Training makes methandrostenolone – the active ingredient in the classic steroid Dianabol – more active. According to an animal study soon to be published in Archives of Toxicology, intensive training boosts the muscle-growth effect of methandrostenolone… in muscles you haven’t even trained.

The researchers, working at the German Sport University Cologne, are doing fundamental research on anabolic steroids and their side effects. For this experiment they gave half of a group of male rats the equivalent of 50 mg methandrostenolone per day, and the other half nothing. The researchers ‘dissolved’ the steroid with DMSO in groundnut oil, and injected the rats with the oil.
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Growth Hormone Two (20kDa Growth Hormone)
by Anthony Roberts

Synthetic Growth hormone, alternately known as rhGH, is the 22kDa isomer of the growth hormone found naturally within the human body (kDa denotes kilo dalton, a measure of mass on the atomic scale). It has increasingly been called “Growth Hormone 1? in emerging scientific literature, out of respect for the characterization of other isomers of GH. Each isomer of growth hormone is a distinct chemical species comprised of both the same number and types of atoms as the other isomers, but possessing different properties. The products being sold by every pharmaceutical company in the world for the use of treating growth hormone deficiency (the same stuff being used by athletes and bodybuilders) is the 22kDa isomer.
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Feds go after baseball, but not bankers?
By Roland S. Martin, CNN Political Contributor

Roland Martin says everyone should tell the truth, but something is amiss
investigating baseball players isn’t terribly important, he says our Legal system should focus on banking practices that crashed the economy, not pro sports.

(CNN) — Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds were long considered first ballot Hall of Famers, but the steroids scandal that has dominated baseball since the ’90s has destroyed their reputations and could very well keep them out of Cooperstown.

Clemens is spending his days in a federal court in Washington accused of lying to Congress about his own steroid use. Bonds is appealing an April conviction of obstruction of justice for giving an evasive answer to a grand jury, but was acquitted on the more serious charges.
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Victor Conte Launching Anti-Doping Task Force VADA; WADA Aims to Develop Advanced EPO and HGH Testing

He was once the center of federal investigation and served a jail term for providing professional athletes with performance enhancing drugs. Considered as one of America’s top sports scientist, Victor Conte will again plunge himself into the sports industry by sharing his expertise in performance enhancers. But this time it is not about providing athletes with designer steroids. Conte will be launching a new anti-doping agency together with other health experts in the country.

Conte told Dennis Guillermo of Boxing Scene that a new anti-doping task force will soon become operational. Its goal is to provide athletes with the most comprehensive drug testing. Conte calls this VADA (Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency.) “We’ve been working on this since September of last year and we hope to implement it in the near future,” Conte said. However, a definite date has not been set. “How soon that can be, whether it’s going to be in days, weeks or months, I can’t tell you. But it’s going to be in the near future.”
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Too much cholesterol lowers testosterone level: animal study

Cholesterol is the raw material the body uses to make testosterone and all other steroid hormones. So, goes the reasoning of some in the strength sports world, a diet that is high in cholesterol keeps your testosterone level up. The more cholesterol you eat, the more testosterone you produce. But animal studies show the opposite to be the case.

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The indications that a cholesterol-rich diet is unhealthy are not very strong. Every egg yolk the average person eats raises their chance of a heart attack by 2 percent, according to epidemiological studies. [Am J Clin Nutr. 2001 May;73(5):885-91.] That’s nothing. Other epidemiological studies have also found a higher risk of cancer among people who eat large amounts of egg yolk – the most important source of cholesterol in our diet – but the relationships were probably the result of pollution and not cholesterol. [Am J Clin Nutr. 2004 Jul;80(1):58-63.]
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Testosterone as a Prosocial Hormone
by Anthony Roberts

Testosterone has been demonized as an anti-social hormone responsible for everything from bar fights to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s infidelity. But regular readers of my blog know that it’s not all bad – in fact, it’s not bad at all. Unfortunately, over the past few years we’ve seen the “testosterone concept” co-opted by a stunning array of boneheads, ranging from the tools over at T-Nation (formerly called testosterone.net), to the Madison Avenue advertising guys who use the concept to sell everything from sports cars to sports bras.
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The Third Largest Newspaper Company Calls Clenbuterol a Steroid and Compares it to Cocaine
By Millard Baker

Clenbuterol is not an anabolic steroid. Let me repeat that. Clenbuterol is not a steroid. After almost a decade of witch-hunts involving athletes using performance-enhancing drugs, you would think that most journalists would have a basic understanding of anabolic steroids. Just because a drug is a performance-enhancing drug (PED) doesn’t make it an anabolic steroid. Yet journalists seem to inaccurately identify PEDs such as human growth hormone (hGH), erythropoeitin (EPO) and clenbuterol as anabolic steroids when they have no pharmacological relation to the substances. With the media failing to do the most basic research on these substances, it is no wonder that most laypersons mistakenly assume that all performance-enhancing drugs are anabolic steroids; they are ignorant to the wide variety of drugs that comprise the banned substance list because the journalists who write about them are ignorant too.
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Low Testosterone Linked to Varicoceles

ScienceDaily – As many as 15 percent of men have varicoceles, masses of enlarged and dilated veins in the testicles. There is new evidence that varicoceles, long known to be a cause of male infertility, interfere with the production of testosterone — a crucial hormone to maintaining men’s health.

There is good news too: Microsurgery can increase testosterone levels in these men. Results of new research by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are in a recent edition of BJU International.

“Varicoceles are a much more serious problem than previously thought. Low testosterone causes significant health problems in men. Besides causing low energy, decreased muscle strength and sexual problems, it is a major risk factor for osteopenia/osteoporosis and can also cause changes in cognitive and psychological function, in particular, depression,” says Dr. Marc Goldstein, who initiated and led the study.
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Clenbuterol Threshold Discussion Opens Door to Major Changes in WADA Anti-Doping Protocol
by Millard Baker

Bodybuilders have used clenbuterol for its well-known fat loss properties and its purported anabolic properties ever since Dan Duchaine recommended the substance over two decades ago. Clenbuterol is a well-known drug within the bodybuilding world but has remained largely unknown to the mainstream up until recently.

The news that Tour de France champion Alberto Contador tested positive for clenbuterol at the 2010 Tour de France added a new drug to the public’s lexicon of performance-enhancing drugs. Contador was caught with infinitesimally small amounts of clenbuterol. Contador claimed the clenbuterol resulted from the consumption of contaminated. Many experts think this is a very plausible explanation for the small amounts of clenbuterol discovered.
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NPC bodybuilder arrested – largest steroid bust ever in Austin, TX
by Anthony Roberts

What do you get when you mix a National Physique Committee bodybuilder with a fetish for guns, suicidal tendencies, a buttload of steroids, and leave him alone in his apartment for weeks at a time? I have no idea, but in this particular case, you get Damon Beshears, 38, a competitive bodybuilder from Texas, who had previously taken 5th place (novice) at the Ronnie Coleman Classic in 2007, followed by a first place finish (novice middleweight) at The Heart of Texas Bodybuilding, Figure, and Fitness Championships, and finally a 6th place finish as a light heavyweight at the Ronnie in 2008. He was arrested in possession of raw steroid powders, around 5,000 tabs, and 240 vials of anabolic steroids.
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Nandrolone Beats Testosterone for Weight Gain (*study)
by Anthony Roberts

Nearly everyone who has used both testosterone and nandrolone (Deca) will tell you that, at an equal dose, testosterone will build more muscle and strength. Despite this commonly accepted wisdom, nandrolone boasts a 25% higher anabolic rating than testosterone, as measured by Vida (on rodents). And now, a human study performed on AIDS patients, has also suggested that nandrolone is about a quarter (*give or take) more anabolic than testosterone (enanthate). And guess what else? Quality of life markers also showed a greater improvement with nandrolone over testosterone.
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60 Minutes Says Steroid Allegations Against Lance Armstrong Are Truthful
by Millard Baker

The Lance Armstrong legal and public relations machine has, for the most part, squashed the doping allegations that have followed the seven-time Tour de France champion for most of the past decade. He has used his considerable influence to discredit journalists and cyclists that have accused the cancer survivor of using performance enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids and erythropoeitin (EPO). This strategy succeeded against people like Floyd Landis, Greg LeMond and Frankie and Betsy Andreu. However, the aggressive strategy seems to have lost some of its bite recently.
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