Even bodybuilders have taken note and are starting to sort of police eachother. Not the least because death sort of interferes with reaching your full potential. They are trying to come up with solutions to protect your CV system and trying catch issues earlier, before symptoms manifest. Question is how much you can mitigate the risk while still being successful. Remains to be seen.
Very well said, Van.
Look what happened in the UFC when USADA testing actually started being effective - it diminished the quality of the UFC's product, and there is no way that the UFC can claim to have the world's best fighters, but somewhere in some university in Quebec City [hypothetically] there could be some 285-lb superheavyweight wrestler on juice who hits hard, who could probably beat the UFC's top fighter.
Not to say that juice makes all the difference - but it does make some difference.
Remember when you caught a cycle I had done through pictures and called me out on it, but I denied it? LOL. "I'm not on steroids" [yeah...technically true, but I WAS in the pictures you called me out on]. I guess I was technically not lying, but I consider deception to be a form of lying, and autistics are never going to hold onto lies. I think lying is stupid for anyone [since liars will always eventually be caught, IMO], and I should also point out, I have a very limited history with steroid use. I always found I drop back to 170-lb anyway, and I feel that's where my natural genetics take me.
Maybe 175-lb and 15% body fat, without sticking to an unsustainable lifestyle. I need to be realistic. I also think it's healthier for me to stay in the 170's. I don't know what Andy was weighing recently [into his fifties], but probably at least 250-lb. He could well have been 275-lb and in-shape, but not ultra-ripped, at about six feet even, or just over.
I wonder if he was just feeling fine, then all of a sudden dropped from a heart attack.
I think steroids, drugs, drinking, smoking, etc, is fine - but only if moderation is applied. I want to smoke two light cigarettes every second Sunday evening. I don't have strong evidence that level of smoking will hurt me, although in the video of John Meadows discussing his heart attack with his cardiologist, Meadows stated that if you smoke over 55 cigarettes in your life, you are at risk for impacting your heart's ejection fraction. That's literally one cigarette a month for under five years.
But then...we trade off some quantity of life for some quality of life. But dying before your 55th birthday...that is just too young, IMO.
