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Gossip & Opinions / Re: Hormones and intense excercise builds muscle
« Last post by Krankenstein on Today at 04:49:58 AM »Just to harp on semantics. I know what you mean, though some or many researchers make a distinction between testosterone and anabolic steroids. Lots of scientific articles say "testosterone and anabolic steroids" as if there's a difference. The difference is that anabolic steroids a lot of times is meant to mean testosterone or other androgen derivatives (whether 19-nors, DHT, or testosterone derivatives*) with a steroid structure which were specifically developed for heightening the anabolic effect versus the androgenic. Of course test is anabolic too and of course it is a steroid as you say. And I know you know all this too, I'm not arguing you don't. But the distinction is sometimes made and it's based on something real but perhaps irrelevant in some discussion. I got into this debate on IG where I explained this and someone said, "fuck you, test is an anabolic steroid." Yes and no, sometimes the distinction is made, and I explained why.
Of course someone might not want to say they are on "anabolic steroids" for different reasons, like for claiming they are actually natural, and sometimes the difference is irrelevant. Semantic discussion of peace
There are other terms used that might be irrelevant too, like bioidentical and prohormone. I think many are a bit unclear on what is meant by bioidentical. Same with prohormone. Prohormone is often used by scientists but a drug testing org like WADA makes no distinction between anabolic steroids and what is sold as "prohormones" or "andro"-whatever. Some common anabolic steroids might actually be termed prohormones as the active metabolites formed in the body might be what causes most of the anabolic or whatever else response.
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No argument with you on any point. People freak out when they get prescriptions for "a steroid" from their PCP to reduce inflammation. Then there is the explanation that those are the corticosteroids. He argues he's not on 'drugs' yet the clear cut definition of a drug says otherwise. There was a prescription bottle of his that clearly stated 'drug'. Synthetic or bio-identical....the effect is the same, right? Are their distinctions in side effects or other things? Yeah...but thats not the point.
He HAS to enter the non-tested things because he is using, by most (if not all) sports organizations' definition a PED. He argues on here relentlessly that he is not...does he do that when he enters things? Nope. He just shuts his mouth and signs on the line and accepts it.
