RobRegish wrote:Sounds like you know what you're taking about. I still think the risk/reward raio is too much, but that's a personal decision...
I honestly was always against them until I started to research them more.
Everyone knows our body produces Testosterone naturally, but did you know the body also produces small quantities of Nandrolone as well?
I think the thing that really has made me change my mind about the whole thing is I see how they have been villified to the point people believe that taking one dose or running one cycle is going to kill you. Yet these same doctors have no problem prescribing drugs like statins to their patients like they are dispensing Pez, half the time to people who don't even need it and will derive no benefit from it since they just proved Cholesterol levels have a near ZERO correlation to heart disease.
Statins can be linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths and many other adverse cardiovascular events from heart attacks and strokes, but these are held up as some modern miracle. Hell, even aspirin has been linked to numerous problems because about 1/3 of the population has what is known as "aspirin resistance" which means it CAUSES clots and thickens the blood instead of preventing clots and thinning the blood. Don't get me wrong, in a lot of people the aspirin regimen is perfectly safe, but in the 1/3 of the population that is aspirin resistant it can be deadly. But they don't even bother testing for it. Nor do they tell their patients to simply use Bromelain or Nattokinase instead, two perfectly safe alternatives that have no potential deadly side effects.
They talk about Atherosclerosis being the number one killer in this country because it causes heart attacks, yet they continuously pump calcium into our bodies by fortifying all the foods with it, but don't worry about the co-factors needed t deal with all this extra calcium---namely Vitamin D3, K2 and Magnesium, so Soft Tissue Calcification runs rampant, causing potentially millions to suffer from wide ranging chronic conditions that only worsen over time and others to die for no reason. Vitamin K2 has been shown in clinical trials to reverse atherosclerosis by over 50%(in only 6 weeks!!!) by clearing the arteries of calcium deposits because it is needed by the calcium binding protein Matrix GLA Protein(MGP) to activate it so it can do its job. But do they tell people to take K2? No! They give them some BS drugs that do nothing to help, other than create a patient for life and make the pharmaceutical companies rich!
So where do steroids come into this? For me, it shows the stupidity of the medical practitioners and legal bodies of this country. In fact, the ONLY federal agency in favor of the ban on steroids was the FDA---all others cited lack of evidence that they caused any harm. In fact, 60 minutes actually ran a piece(I believe I even linked to it on this board a while back) where they basically had people asking if steroids were so dangerous, where are all the bodybogs from it? Don't get me wrong. I know they can be dangerous if they are abused. Just like anything else. I mean you take 1 Vicodin for pain, but if you take 10 you might not wake up. So in that way they are no different than anything else, regulated or unregulated. Use and abuse are two different things, however. If we are going to take all the prescription drugs that are out there and make a list of the most dangerous drugs, the first steroid might not be until 400 or even higher...testosterone might be like 3,000...
The problem comes from these idiots running around who have no idea what they are doing, don't do any research on things and don't do the proper PCT and wreck their body for life, but is that the steroids fault? Would we blame Draino if some idiot decided to drink it instead of pouring it down the drain?
So to sum up my rant, I guess what I am saying is the double standard they have is comical in that far more dangerous substances are prescribed to be taken on a daily basis, but far less dangerous things like steroids are illegal. Give me a break---if you took all the steroid deaths in human history they would pale when compared to the deaths from prescription drugs, cigarette smoking, and even alcohol use.
