likely forced to do it due to health issues. Kidneys or whatever. Often they will not be open about all their issues untill it's really bad... like time for dialisys.
Absolutely, I think he says it's for health considerations, plus realizing you didn't really need all that juice you did at high dose for years. He emerged as a "truth teller" of what stacks of advanced guys looked like and he was correct. But now they try to compensate with adding other chems and chems for actual health benefits and protection, hopefully. In the 90s they didn't give a shit about BP, never mind blood glucose and inflammatory markers like c-reactive protein and so on. And he showed standard medical treatment might not be the correct one always either, the drugs they give might make a situation worse sometimes. Like UDCA (TUDCA without the taurine) in his case. I got a script for a year of this compound for my gallbladder stones and it's hard to know if it still might be beneficial in certain situations, and at what dosage, without frequent blood work. And who's competent in reading blood work without being a doctor anyway. Or even a doc unfamiliar with PEDs. For example, one pro bb MD says don't go just by creatitine for bodybuilders looking at the kidneys, you need cystatin-c too.
And for liver ALT and AST do not give a complete picture, you want the GGT. And so on.
This fella says he remains very positive despite setbacks.