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Old 03-02-2006, 02:02 PM
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Never mind that last question! It must be the age difference Everything I do is about being a better man. When I was younger I did not care about that. I guess I got the wrong crowd to ask this question.
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Steroids do reflect the age we live in. Everyone wants 'it' now. From personal experience I think it's a self esteem issue that juicers deal with. They hate themselves so much they take steroids to be something they are not. I lost a really good friend to roids. He became so mental ... full of anger and rage then depressed!!! All so he look good! Like I said, I believe steroid users have WAY bigger issues to deal with than just the negative the effects of taking roids.
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Do you use a protein supplement? Creatine supplement? Multi-vitamins? Drink Energy drink? Do you use weights other then body weight when u work out?
Yes, but what's the parallel? These things do not harm me, they are not illegal, they do not contradict the values of my family or community (do you believe these things do not matter to you? or were you raised to think that its okay to turn to drugs to achieve your goals without regard to law), they are not inconsistent with my efforts towards good health, they are not drugs, etc.
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Old 03-02-2006, 02:13 PM
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Steroids do reflect the age we live in. Everyone wants 'it' now. From personal experience I think it's a self esteem issue that juicers deal with. They hate themselves so much they take steroids to be something they are not. I lost a really good friend to roids. He became so mental ... full of anger and rage then depressed!!! All so he look good! Like I said, I believe steroid users have WAY bigger issues to deal with than just the negative the effects of taking roids.
Damn! That hits home. Sorry for your loss man. and BTW, I agree with you.

You bring up a good point. The reason no roid users who have learned lifes lessons are not contributing to this thread is because they are all dead!
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Steroids do reflect the age we live in. Everyone wants 'it' now. From personal experience I think it's a self esteem issue that juicers deal with. They hate themselves so much they take steroids to be something they are not. I lost a really good friend to roids. He became so mental ... full of anger and rage then depressed!!! All so he look good! Like I said, I believe steroid users have WAY bigger issues to deal with than just the negative the effects of taking roids.
Yea but that isn't because he was a roid user.. He had issues long before he ever started.. and mostly shouldn't of been taking them, cause he was incapable of dealing with the ups and downs of cycling.. and as life continued he had a harder and harder time coping till eventually he packed it in.

People pack it in all the time... Sure roid use probably help to destabalize him.. but its not the roids fault, it was his fault.

Don't think that roid users hate themselves.. cause I don't hate myself.. infact I have alot of pride in myself.. I'm actually a quite healthy in mind. I also know very stable and well educated, and extremely pleasent people that use.. can you believe one of them is a neuro surgeon (just wrote his final examine) and a tri-athelete...

I have a different out look on use of steroids then you do... I don't see it as a big deal for me.. it's not like i have to hate myself to resort to their use, like that of a heroin addict.. . It's different. 1000's of older men are perscribed testosterone on yearly bases.. 10 of thousands.. Woman are without a blink of an eye prescribed estrogen to help them maintain their womanly appearance...

it's isn't a big stretch, to use it to build a bit more muscle... You don't have to be a crazy freak.. You just have to be a bit vain.
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Yea but ...
I like your points Poobah. Thank you for being so level headed.
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What is the main problem people have agianst riods?
That is what I want to know...
Is it becouse it makes you get to your goals when you hit that wall?
Is it becouse they envy the people that does use them?
IS it becouse they only want to look into the negative part where people over use and abuse them?
Why? Why? Why?
That is what I want to know?
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Yes, but what's the parallel? These things do not harm me, they are not illegal, they do not contradict the values of my family or community (do you believe these things do not matter to you? or were you raised to think that its okay to turn to drugs to achieve your goals without regard to law), they are not inconsistent with my efforts towards good health, they are not drugs, etc.
All i am saying is that you see using steroids as cheating, but you will use this other stuff to help you get your goals, and they are ok to use because the US govenment says they are ok for you.

Who says they wont hurt you? If you take in too much protein you will shut your liver down.

So if i move to a country where steroids are legal then it will be ok for me to use them? Becasue their government says they are ok for me?
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I agree with skibumm...
Its something that helps you get to your goals..
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Poobah, Im glad you responded to this post. You are one of the most level-headed, straight to the truth guys when it comes to this topic. I love to read what you post. Keep up the good work!


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What is the main problem people have agianst riods?
That is what I want to know...
Is it becouse it makes you get to your goals when you hit that wall?
Is it becouse they envy the people that does use them?
IS it becouse they only want to look into the negative part where people over use and abuse them?
Why? Why? Why?
That is what I want to know?
Q1. No. I know how to overcome a wall without roids. Are roid users ever so resourceful?

Don't have anything against the people who use them, so Q2 and Q3 are out.
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All i am saying is that you see using steroids as cheating, but you will use this other stuff to help you get your goals, and they are ok to use because the US govenment says they are ok for you.

Who says they wont hurt you? If you take in too much protein you will shut your liver down.

So if i move to a country where steroids are legal then it will be ok for me to use them? Becasue their government says they are ok for me?
If they were legal it would still be wrong for me to do them. Its not about them being illegal, it is about why they are illegal. I agree with the reasons and I already detailed 16 of my own.

The other stuff I do use does not endanger my health. Even oxygen can kill you, that is no reason not to breath it.
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Its not about them being illegal, it is about why they are illegal.
So it's all about politicians sitting pretty? I don't get it, you don't use gear so the politicians can look good? That's the only reason they're illegal, there have been no documented studies showing steroids to have life threatening side effects that I know of and I already mentioned the three federal agencies that testified against their ban. Believe me, there's studies on everything, if I'm wrong about that one I'd like to know it, post them up. As far as sharing needles and HIV, it really doesn't happen in the steroid community, I have never heard of that happening among gear users.

See I have no problem with people who don't want to use gear and go the natty route, that's fine and I can respect that. It really pisses me off though when someone comes on here all self-righteous about how steroids aren't fair and they're a better person because they don't use them.
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there have been no documented studies showing steroids to have life threatening side effects that I know of ... if I'm wrong about that one I'd like to know it, post them up.
The side effects of anabolic steroid use have been well documented (Hickson, et al 1987; Kennedy, 1992). It takes five minutes to find these and others. Deaths due to steroid use have also been reported (Butcher, 1993). The transmission of HIV through sharing steroid injecting equipment has been described as well (Scott and Scott, 1989). There are plenty more studies than these. If you do a half-assed search, you will find half of them in about 5mins. So what do you mean you know of no studies???

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It really pisses me off though when someone comes on here all self-righteous about how steroids aren't fair and they're a better person because they don't use them.
I would feel that way too if I heard someone say they thought they were better than me. That is not what I said. I said I am a better me without them than I would be on steroids. I also said I respect personal choice. How did you miss that??
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15. I never want to do something that distracts from my ultimate goal- to be the best me I can be. Taking steroids would make me less, not more. On the outside I would be bigger, on the inside, smaller.
That takes care of my first point.

I was wondering if you could provide links to those studies, I tried to google them and search pubmed but I couldn't find any of them, I'd actually really be interested in reading them. If I'm wrong about there being no studies then I'm wrong, it's not gonna change my mind but I would like to read them nonetheless so I can be more knowledgeable on the topic.
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This is going no where...
Everyone is stating there sides of the story and how they feel...
I know no one is trying to change anyones mind but this is going no where...
Its like sitting in parlement...
Argument going left and right but at the end it is still going to end up the way it started...
People using gear are bad people and they are cheating...
Well that is what I think...
So where will the world be in 10years...
There will always be people hating users.
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This is going no where...
I disagree. We are thinking. We are learning. Bodybuilders are capable of that, right?
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I'd actually really be interested in reading them.
Start here:

Key words: "anabolic steroids and HIV transmission"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

Key words: "anabolic steroids side effects Hickson"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

Key words: "anabolic steroids side effects Kennedy"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

Key words: "anabolic steroids death bodybuilders"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

That is just the tip of the iceberg. Also see this link: http://www.steroidabuse.org/

Do you have a way to get the full text articles? If not, let me know.
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