Anabolic steroids- where are the bodies.

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Ralph Giarnella MD wrote:

You apparently missed the point of the article. There are numerous case

studies of young weight lifters and body builders who abused AAS and died

and subsequently underwent autopsy. These are individuals who had no other

risk factors for heart disease. When a person dies of heart disease because

of a bad diet the death certificate does not state that they died because

they had a poor diet. It just states they died of a heart attack. Death

certificates do not state that an individual died because of obesity nor

does it state that they died as the result of smoking. Death certificates

list the conditions caused by these conditions such as heart diseasea,

diabetes, emphysema or copd. As a matter of fact in my state (Connecticut)

only recently has there been a box to check off is smoking might have been a

contributing cause of this persons death. There is no box to check for

alcohol abuse, obesity or eating at Mcs. a

There is plenty of science available in the literature concerning the

dangers of AAS, however the AAS apologists conveninetly ignore the science.

Casler writes:

I think it is extremely important to take an informed viewpoint that looks

at all the implications. Anabolic Steroids and other endocrine drugs can be

abused or they can be used. This means don't be an apologist nor an

alarmist regarding the subject.

We also need to disassociate their medical use with the abuse and cheating

usage in sports.

While you can draw associations with cases that may have been caused by

abuse, we should not let that hamper the proper medical use of such

medications to improve health and the quality of life. There is MUCH

evidence that the proper medical use will NOT cause heart and coronary

disease, but it will reduce or prevent it. The hysteria that surrounds

hormonal abuse is likely warranted, but it need be tempered and disconnected

from their positive medical implementation.

Insulin is another hormone more commonly used in a medical sense and is

arguably more anabolic than testosterone. It is also even more dangerous if

abused or used improperly, so I think we need adapt the same viewpoint to

all exogenous hormonal use. Broad brush hand waving creates a strange

phenomenon whereby the " good " that can be done thwarts the amount of

research that needs to be carried out to be truly helpful.

HRT (hormone replacement therapy) is beginning to gain an interest and it

would seem that if the " balancing act " of using the medications properly is

more sophisticated that it will in fact REDUCE cancers, heart disease, sarco

and osteopenia, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and many other ailments that

manifest (especially) males as they suffer a reduction in testosterone

production.

Enlarged hearts and other heart conditions assigned to steroid abuse may

certainly be true, but years before steroid abuse was around these same

conditions fell many former athletes.

I'm just suggesting not to throw the baby out with the bath water. I think

in the future, if we can get beyond this publicity generated hysteria, so

that endocrine science will advance and health and the quality of life will

be enhanced and improved with greater understanding and implementation.

Just like we now know more about nutrition, and how manipulating our intakes

can be positive, we will likely see that we can also learn how to control

hormonal/endocrine levels to a better and healthier result.

Regards,

Casler

TRI-VECTOR 3-D Training Systems

Century City, CA

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