Turns out creatine is now a possible treatment for people with Muscular Dystrophies , but wouldn’t it be safe to say that steroids the real muscle building drugs, would help more? If steroids can save a life, why not stop making them so evil?
I think the recent media attention towards steroids forgot the MANY positive benefits of steroid use.

Creatine Supplement May Help People With Muscular Dystrophies
Creatine, a popular nutritional supplement used by weightlifters and sprinters to improve athletic performance, could lend muscle strength to people with muscular dystrophies. Muscle strength increased by an average of 8.5 percent among patients taking creatine, compared to those who did not use the supplement, according to a recent review of studies. Creatine users also gained an average of 1.4

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Well it looks like Barry Bons might be out of the woods on his steroid investigation, check it out.  It is my understanding that he is a lot more standoffish towards these athlete for drug free america hearings.  He might be out of the woodworks on the legal side about his steroid use but never in the public eye I am guessing.

CONCERN over a possible perjury indictment will keep Barry Bonds from co-operating with Major League Baseball’s steroids investigation, the star’s lawyer told the San Francisco Chronicle today (AEDT).

The newspaper reports that George Mitchell, the former US Senator leading a probe into steroids in baseball, has sent letters urging players linked to the BALCO steroid scandal to co-operate.

Bonds, Detroit’s Gary Sheffield and others who co-operated with a BALCO grand jury, were asked to answer questions from Mitchell’s inquiry and to submit their medical records to the panel looking into performance-enhancing drug use.

But Michael Rains, Bonds’ lawyer, told the Chronicle that the San Francisco Giants outfielder cannot co-operate as long as he faces possible indictment. A grand jury is looking into perjury and tax charges against Bonds.

It does seem like Bons will keep denying he KNEW he took any steroids.

Bonds, 43 in July, has denied knowingly taking any steroids but his trainer, Greg Anderson, was among five men convicted in the BALCO scandal. Anderson has been imprisoned for more than three months for not co-operating.

I guess the reality is somewhere in the middle, we all know he KNEW he took steroids, just too much BS for my tastebuds!

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Well the story continues, these guys not only didn’t have a medical license to prescribed steroids, they were prescribing steroids to bodybuilders.

Two New York doctors and the owner of a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Providence for allegedly running a scheme to illegally prescribe anabolic steroids and human-growth hormones for bodybuilders and others in Rhode Island.

So this raises the question, is it legal to run a steroid prescription service online? HRT clinic to prescribe testosterone and human growth hormone? I don’t think it’s legal!!!! come on just read all this.

The company sold the drugs, the two doctors wrote prescriptions without ever seeing the customers, and all three shared in the ill-gotten profits, according to federal court documents. About 30 percent of their customers came from Rhode Island and used pharmacies in this state, and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, according to a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente.

These drugs are not federally approved for use in bodybuilding, weight loss, or anti-aging techniques, although that’s how Daniel McGlone, 54, of North Brunswick, used his American Pharmaceutical Group for customers who saw his ads in bodybuilding magazines and on Web sites, according to the federal indictment.

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Low testosterone in men may be diabetes risk factor  - is it true?

 So , there are use for steroids after all! I mean take a look:
 Men with testosterone levels in the low-normal range are much more likely to have diabetes than those with higher levels, whether or not they are obese, researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care.

It turns out that low testosterone levels might cause diabets, meaning? well if you USE steroids then you are in luck! you have a LOT less of a chance to get diabetes!

“Low testosterone levels are common among men with diabetes and there is growing evidence that low testosterone may be a risk factor for developing diabetes,” Dr. Elizabeth Selvin from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore commented to Reuters Health.

She and her colleagues analyzed data from 1,413 men 20 years or older who participated in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Diabetes had been diagnosed in 101 men.
 
After the influence of age, race and obesity was factored in, men with the lowest levels of testosterone were four times more likely to have diabetes than men with the highest levels. Similar results were found when only the bioavailable testosterone was measured.

The association persisted even after men with low total or free testosterone levels were excluded, suggesting, the researchers say, that the association is not entirely driven by failure to produce enough testosterone.

“Obesity affects testosterone levels; testosterone levels drop in men who are overweight or obese,” Selvin pointed out. Yet, “even after accounting for the effect of obesity, low testosterone levels still appear to be an important risk factor for diabetes,” she said.

These data, the researchers write, support the hypothesis that male hormones directly influence sugar metabolism and the development of insulin resistance, which is seen just before diabetes occurs, independent of the effects of obesity.

Selvin added that doctors should keep in mind that “low testosterone is a common finding among men with diabetes and may lead to other clinical problems.”
 

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