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Think Muscle Newsletter #16December 26, 2001
Message from the Editor, Bryan Haycock, MS, CSCSControversial, Yet Important Issues... Happy Holidays everyone! We have quite an issue this month. We've got articles by Karlis Ullis, MD who is the Medical Director of the Sports Medicine and Anti-Aging Medical Group in Santa Monica, California and a faculty member of the UCLA School of Medicine, by MESO-Rx the most widely recognized steroid education website of its kind, by Sidney Gendin, PhD Professor of Philosophy of Law at Eastern Michigan University, and Rick Collins J.D. with an article he wrote that was originally published in the New York State Bar Association Criminal Justice Journal. Why all the big credentials? Well, many of you have expressed the desire to learn more about anabolic-androgenic steroids. Think Muscle hopes to provide information that can actually be classified as "educational". With the Olympics coming up and all of the hubbub about steroids and other performance enhancing substances it becomes us to discuss these issues in terms of facts, not fears, and to hear from educated people who are well known authorities on the subjects of psychology, ethics, fair competition, the law, and medicine. If you have absolutely no interest in hormones, don't worry. I have included some reader Q&A so there would be something here for you too. The topics include pre and post workout nutrition, dealing with blisters from running, and even protein needs for nursing mothers. For more Q&A please visit the Think Muscle Message Board. There is a lot of great content posted everyday, and as I always say, "The more the merrier!" There are some exciting developments emerging with the creation of a line of supplements specifically for ThinkMuscle readers. If all goes well, there will be a never before seen anabolic compound available soon. If you're thinking it must be a hormone, its not. We're still testing right now so it is a bit early to go into detail. In addition, I've scoured to research and have come up with what I think is the best proteins and have put them together in what I feel is the best way to enhance the training effect. Don't want to spill the beans to early though so I guess I'll stop there. Until next month, and the New Year, have a happy and safe holiday season. Drug Education and Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids by MESO/RxAs the founder of MESO/Rx, the most highly trafficked website devoted
exclusively to the discussion of anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing
pharmaceuticals, my name has become practically synonymous with MESO/Rx -
and by extension, anabolic steroids. My friends and colleagues repeatedly
ask me why I persevere in my efforts at anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS)
education. After all, anabolic steroids are still demonized and, as
controlled substances, are essentially illegal. Consequently, as an anabolic
steroid "advocate," I am often stigmatized, stereotyped, and the target for
drug war crusaders. Clearly, the subject of AAS is not something that will
be a popular topic during my family gatherings this holiday season! Contrarian Endocrinology: Testosterone for Women by Karlis Ullis and Josh ShackmanIn this series of articles, I will attempt to bring clarity to two common
myths about endocrinology. The first myth is the notion of the exclusivity
of "male" and "female" sex hormones. While it is true that men have higher
concentrations of testosterone and lower concentrations of estrogen and
progesterone than women, all of these sex hormones play vital roles in both
sexes. The second myth I will dispense with is the notion of "good" and
"bad" hormones. Some hormones such as DHT and testosterone have been
demonized and blamed for all sorts of health problems, but the fact is that
every hormone plays a vital balancing role in the body. Rather than be
labeled as "good" or "bad", each hormone has an optimal equilibrium level in
the body with respect to the other sex hormones. It is when your sex
hormones are out of balance—out of their proper ratios then you may manifest
health problem, not just because of any one solitary "villain" hormone. Ban Athletes Who Don't Use Steroids by Sidney GendinIsn't it time for the brainwashed public to know the truth about
steroids? In their ideological zeal to ban "performance enhancing" drugs,
national governments and the various local and international sports
federations have ignorantly and self-righteously declared that steroid use
is cheating, dangerous, and stupid. In fact, in general, it is neither
dangerous nor stupid and it is cheating only because it has been
capriciously commanded to be so. The Anabolic Steroid Control Act: The Wrong Prescription? by Richard CollinsAccording to the body of common knowledge, anabolic steroids are
dangerous and deadly drugs. The mainstream media have thoroughly vilified
these hormones for several decades. The use by mature adults of any amount
of anabolic hormones to enhance physical appearance is invariably labeled
anabolic steroid "abuse" and, consequently, the average American lumps the
athletic steroid user into the same depraved category as the heroin or
cocaine user. Law enforcement agents and prosecutors readily proceed
accordingly in furtherance of our national "War on Drugs." Only the most
progressive physicians accept the legitimacy of anabolic steroid use for any
but the most limited medical purposes. Understandably then, the proposition
that our current approach to the non-medical use of anabolic steroids is
flawed, failing and in need of reform is provocative to many. Reader Question and Answer by Bryan HaycockPre and Post Workout Nutrition, Dealing with Blisters from Running, and
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