reality check to the author of this topic.
if u think anabolic steroids, the unhealthy diet needed to be a pro bodybuilder (such high protien and high calories), was not the cause of his kidney failure....then u are seriously deluded.
This is just simply not the case. Anabolic steroids and high protein diets have become the scape goats for an easy answer. I will answer try to answer your questions the best I can. This is simply my opinion, please do not assume I am giving medical advice, because ethically I will not do so. I am basing this off of 18 years in the medical field, and 20 years of being involved in the fitness industry. I completed a 5 year residency in General Surgery in an academic center. I have asked Nephrologists, transplant surgeons, and even a cardiologist, to show me one case of which anabolic steroids or high protein diets have caused a sequela of renal or even heart failure. I was not trying to defend steroid or high protein diet use, I just really wanted to learn more about it. You know how many cases I learned about, ready for this, not even one. Surely there must be one case, but not even one. For the sake of science, the population must realize that yes anabolic steroids can have negative sequela, BUT they are not primarily responsible for most of the pathologies (renal failure, heart failure, however, I do agree, if taken orally a lot of them will destroy your liver, but not as bad as alcohol) you guys are associating them with, and actually high protein diets are actually GOOD for the body (find a me paper published in a high power medical journal, which states otherwise). And for my radiation oncologist fellow, I am sure you have access to Pub med or even Ovid, go find me one well written article which has a high power. If you do please post the title, I would be interested in reading it. I can not find one, but it would be great because discourse in this subject is good. The population has to understand that taking anabolic steroids will not kill you FIRST, drinking 15 beers and eating a carb filled garbage diet will do much more damage than anabolics. I realize that I have not addressed the idea that high protein diets are bad for the health. This is simply not true, there is not one paper with a a high enough power, which has come to a statistically significant power to prove this.
It is very easy to justify your shortcomings on a lack of knowledge, I suggest all of you who believe otherwise get access to Pub Med and please prove me wrong. I am actually serious, it would be great if could have some proper scientific discourse.
cheers,
bodybuildermdpitt
