Underground Steroid Handbook 2

I'm pretty much ambivaient about this continuing notoriety, mostly because I never
imagined that the USH was going to be considered all that great or cataclysmic a book
about steroids. I still wonder, why is the general public SO interested in these drugs;
very few people use them. I was always a little embarassed in calling it a 'book', as short
as it was. I'm a college graduate but the only college science courses I took were in
Astronomy. I never worked with a medical doctor, nor are there any pharmacists in my
family. Actually I never took any medical or biology courses in high school or in college. I
did dissect an earthworm in elementary school. In spite of all this (maybe because of it?)
I will say with complete confidence that I have turned out to be the most competent
expert on practical steroid use. No doctor, researcher, coach, or also-ran guru can
match what I (sometimes accidentally) accomplished over the years. Sorry if I sound
arrogant, but I have encountered no one having my abilities in counseling athletes (both
male and female) on improving their size, strength, appearance and performance
without compromising their health. Let me be the first to prick my ballooning ego by
saying that I have gotten to this position passively and by default.
I do believe that the USH, yes, even the old one, is still the best practical text on steroid
use only because all the others are so bad.
Oh, they've been written by MDs and PhDs, and were printed more attractively, but as
far as a manual that an average athlete can read, understand, and use for immediate,
discernible benefit, the ratty, outdated, little USH still has no peer. Let me confess that I
don't feel all that swell about being the de facto steroid guru. There certainly are more
knowledgable people able to do the work. I guess that my combination of being smart
and knowledgable and creative along with the correct temperament (also known as a
morbid fascination) for the work has kept me unique in this field so far. The other major
reason I have become the harbinger of hormonious truth is simply because I have the
least to lose in confronting the self-appointed medical authorities with three unthinkable
words: You are wrong.
But, as I've implied, I'm not perfect, which is a graceful way of admitting I've not always
been right. As I learned more about the idiosyncrasies of steroid use in athletics, I
realized that I had made some bloopers in the original USH.
Granted, sometimes I knowingly bent the truth a bit to make it easier to understand, but
occasionally I was flat out wrong. Not so seriously that the information would endanger
someone's health, but details here and there needed to be corrected. Also, new products
had hit the black market, the designer steroids, and were being used with no guidance or
rationality. So, motivated by a sort of skewed sense of moral obligation, I began to
publish sporadic Updates which corrected any boners I had made in the first USH, along
with reviewing the new and fashionable steroids that athletes were using. However, I ran
into trouble here too; sometimes the Updates contained errors, mostly apparent only to
myself and a handful of anabolic adepts as more information accrued.
The years rolled by and I realized that I really should update the Updates. However, at
this time the media covering athletics in America became rampantly anti-steroid. The
megalomaniac of muscle, Ben Weider (who, inarguably, owns the sport of bodybuilding),
and his idiot-savant Bob Goldman, pumped up all the Weider specialty magazines
(Muscle & Fitness, Flex, Shape, Men's Fitness) with relentless anti-steroid propaganda,
spreading it from these specialty periodicals, to newspapers, and on to television. Then
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