I was offered a presciption for steroids in 1952. I went to the library and found out what they were and I told my doctor no.
I knew all kinds of athletes who took them I don't think any one really benefitted from their use.
George Park
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I just now did a search on pubmed.gov. The number of studies on steroids is truly overwhelminig. I briefluy looked at titles to try to find one about steroid & atheletic behavior. Most concerned, oddly, detection. One about two body builders with liver prolbems come up (PMID 15849280). It says that body builders use large amounts of steroids. The other study said that trained rats performed better jumping into water than did untrained rats regarless of wether they took steroids or not. I believe their conclusion is that trained athelets always bet out nontrained atheletes. Those with steroids did better than their like rats without steroids. But overall the training seemed more important.
I don't think that steroids should be used but I also think that we really need to get the science out there to prove this point.
I just now did a search on pubmed.gov. The number of studies on steroids is truly overwhelminig. I briefluy looked at titles to try to find one about steroid & atheletic behavior. Most concerned, oddly, detection. One about two body builders with liver prolbems come up (PMID 15849280). It says that body builders use large amounts of steroids. The other study said that trained rats performed better jumping into water than did untrained rats regarless of wether they took steroids or not. I believe their conclusion is that trained athelets always bet out nontrained atheletes. Those with steroids did better than their like rats without steroids. But overall the training seemed more important.
I don't think that steroids should be used but I also think that we really need to get the science out there to prove this point.
