Guys seriously, you are always soooo quick to point out that you know a lot of people who have
been juicing and never ever had any health issue.
Even with my limited actual Steroid knowledge I know that most "Complications" will become obvious when you get older,
but by than you can always say, well he was 50 years old many people have a heart attack with 50, or Flex Wheeler... well his kidney failed... happens to many people.
You don't need to be a scientist like Mr Arnold here or a Doctor to figure out that if you take a lot of Insuline and god knows what else you damage your body.
The reason you guys never know or don't want to talk about people that have been damaged by irresponsible (that word is important inn my opinion) Steroid use (I include HG and insulin in that category) is that these people tend to "fade" away.
Hey were is Karl... uh Karl don't feel so good, he has some issues with the Kidneys... yeah a birth defect, he can't train no more.. ANYWAYS you heard the latest...
See what I mean? The initial problem with Steroid use is that it's so hard to prove that they actually harm you, god damit if somebody could prove to me without the shadow of a doubt that they don't harm you.. I be the first to take some.
But until than i find it incredible stupid and irresponsible to use them (and I do not mean the guys who make money of it nana) I mean the average wannabe gym rat.
And Camel Jockey don't even get me started on Alcohol... that fucking shit makes me so angry.
Does this help?
*Over-all health risk:
Anabolic steroids are used widely in the medical field without any serious health risks to users, and no scientific evidence has shown any long-term serious health defects from correct use of anabolic steroids. While risk of death is present in many drugs, the risk of premature death from use of anabolic steroids seems to be extremely low(1)
*Roid Rage:
One of the most common misconceptions regarding the side effects of anabolic steroids is known as ‘roid rage’. There seems to be little or no evidence such a condition actually exists. Most studies done on "angry behavior" and anabolic steroid use show no psychological effect, implying that either "roid rage" doesn't exist or that anabolic steroids' effects on aggression are too small to be measured. Many scientists and medical professionals conclude anabolic steroids have no real effect on increased aggressive behavior.(4, 5, 6,)
*Suicide:
With the suicide rate this high among teenagers, concluding anabolic steroids are responsible for the suicides of teenagers who happened to be taking them prior to committing suicide is a post hoc logical fallacy. Also, even though teen bodybuilders have been using steroids since at least the early 1960s, only a few cases suggesting a link between steroids and suicide have been reported in the medical literature (7,
1. The National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health.
2. The National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health.
3. The New England Journal of Medicine
4. Archives of General Psychiatry
5. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
6. National Center for Biotechnology Information.
7. Jack Darkes PhD Department of Psychology University of South Florida
8. National Institute of Mental Health
Note: all studies listed above were done with amounts of AAS that are considered above HRT purposes. In other words, the amounts used in studies were what are typically reserved for performance enhancing purposes.
First off, the NEJM stance on AAS is nothing new...you'd already know this if you had done a little bit of, you know, that word you like to throw around "research."
Fudala P, Weinreib RM, Calarco J, Kampman K, Baordman C> “An Evolution of Anabolic Steroid abusers over a period of 1 Year.” Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Bhasin S, Storer TW, Berman N, et al. “The effects of supraphysiologic doses of testosterone on muscle size and strength in normal men.” New England Journal of Medicine 1996; 335: 1-7
Harrison G, Pope, Jr, MD, MPH; Elena M. Kouri, PhD; James I. Hudson, MD, SM. “Effects of Supraphysiologic doses of Testosterone on Mood and Aggression in Normal Men.” Archives of General Psychiatry. 2000
Tricker R, Casaburi R, Storer TW, Clevenger B, Berman N, Shirazi A, Bhasin S. “The effects of supraphsiological doses of testosterone on angry behavior in healthy euogonadal men—a clinical research study” Division of Endocrinology, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California 90059, USA
Darkes J. “Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids and Suicide: A Breif review of the Evidence.” Dept. of Psychology Director of Interventions, Alcohol and Substance Use Research Institute. University of South Florida 2005.
Moscicki EK. Miller M, Azrael D, Hepburn L, Hemenway D, Lippmann SJArango V, Huang YY, Underwood MD, Mann JJ. Kessler RC, Borges G, Walters EE. Petronis KR, Samuels JF, Moscicki EK, Anthony JC. Gould MS, Greenberg T, Velting DM, Shaffer D. Brown GK, Ten Have T, Henriques GR, Xie SX, Hollander JE, Beck ATLinehan MM, Comtois KA, Murray AM, Brown MZ, Gallop RJ, Heard HL, Korslund KE, Tutek DA, Reynolds SK, Lindenboim N. Meltzer HY, Alphs L, Green AI, Altamura AC, Anand R, Bertoldi A, Bourgeois M, Chouinard G, Islam MZ, Kane J, Krishnan R, Lindenmayer JP, Potkin S “Suicide in the U.S.” Statistics and Prevention. National Institute of Mental Health 2006