Underground Steroid Handbook 2

when both test clean at an event. But, if you concentrate on the steroids that are known
to be effective, you'll not notice great differences in performance and appearance among
the various stacks. Sure there are differences, especially appearance ones with the
osmotic steroids, but overall, the differences are not of great magnitudes.
The outcome of an event would probably not change if you changed the steroids used,
unless you happened to use known ineffective steroids in the first place. Your training
and eating schedules are more important than steroids. Yes, we've all seen athletes who
change dramatically when off steroids. But don't think that the changes came just
because of the drug (or lack of it). The athlete's nutrifion and training changed also.
Steroids allow the body a lot more slack in nutrifion and training.
These sloppy habits usually continue even after the steroid use has stopped. In some
cases they get worse. I know that most of you wanted a step by step how-to guide in this
chapter. Well, in a sense you've got it, although I've probably emphasized what not to do
more than what to do. I'm not trying to be cryptic, but you are going to have to do some
work to break the code that’s right for you.
CHAPTER NINE
STEROID SIDE EFFECTS
There are two district sets of side effects associated with anabolic/androgenic steroids.
The majority of severe, life threatening ones happen to hospitalized, non-athletic people
whose doctors have prescribed anabolic/androgenic steroids to combat serious illnesses
which they already have. As a sidebar I'd like to point out that androgenic steroid therapy
has recently replaced some tradition forms of chemotherapy as treatment for some types
of cancer. The reason for this changeover is that the medical community has determined
that the steroid route is a safer form of therapy.
The second set of side effects are the ones that healthy athletes encounter while using
the drugs. Although they are at times uncomfortable, and/or socially unacceptable, these
side effects usually reverse themselves upon cessation of steroid use. What I have just
stated is not simply my singular, jaded view, but also is the conclusion of Dr. H. A. Haupt
and G. D. Rovere in their article 'Anabolic Steroids: A review of the literature' published
in The American Journal of Sports Medicine (Vol. 12, No. 6, 1984). At that time there
was only one reported death of an athlete as a result of using anabolic steroids.
Misinformation arises from the media associating the healthy steroid athlete with the
severe side effects found in hospitalized non-athletes. Sometimes this happens from
simple ignorance; often it is conscious propaganda. It makes good copy and further adds
momentum to the anti-steroid juggernaut. I do not dismiss steroid side effects in athletes
as trivial. Although most are physically reversible when the athlete goes off the drugs,
many of the physical changes instill psychological changes which do not necessarily
ever go away. Also the scientific literature has never accumulated data on the effects of
steroids on women. It's hard for the average person to know who or what to believe.
Does one believe steroid horror stories found in the physical culture magazines? One of
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