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    Anaboic Research Update: Injury Report

    Designer Steroid Injury Report A paper appearing in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology (“Prolonged Intrahepatic Cholestasis and Renal Failure Secondary to Anabolic Androgenic Steroid-Enriched Dietary Supplements”) is sure to bring some unwanted government attention to the U.S. designer...
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    Anabolic Research Update: Contaminates

    Bacteria Contamination Report As many of you know, I have been collaborating on a new book (UNDERGROUND ANABOLICS). It examines the black-market supply of steroids under Prohibition. One key focus of the book is the increasing prominence of steroids manufactured by underground (UG) labs instead...
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    Anabolic Research Update: Dianabol Death

    Dianabol: Not The Cause of Teenager's Death Anabolic steroids were very big news in the U.K. last year, when a healthy young man named Matt Dear died while taking them. The cause of death was encephalitis, or swelling of the brain. The fact that it came on suddenly, and shortly after he began a...
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    Anabolic Research Update: DEA Alert

    DEA Alert: Steroid Candies In a recent bulletin to law enforcement (Microgram Bulletin Vol. 42 #11), the Drug Enforcement Administration advises agents to be on the lookout for steroid-containing candies. The sample candies were submitted to the DEA Northeast Laboratory for analysis, which...
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    Anabolic Research Update: The Science of Batman

    The Science of Batman? As part of a study just recently published, scientists at Yonsei University in Korea are working to see if they can unlock the anti-catabolic secrets of bats.1 Like bears, bats are known to hibernate for long periods, often many months at a time. During this...
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    Anabolic Research Update: Testosterone and Trenbolone

    Why is my nose bleeding? Question: I started getting nosebleeds during my last cycle of testosterone and trenbolone. It happened several times while training during the same week and took awhile to stop each time. I don’t normally get nosebleeds, so I know it is the steroids. My friends tell me...
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    Anabolic Research Update Dec 2003

    Myths, Misconceptions and Misinformation It has become somewhat of a routine in my office. Once every month or so, I sit down with a pile of magazines and the occasional new steroid book, to review what others in the field are writing about. The office is filled with rude utterances this day...
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    Anabolic Research Update Nov 2003

    Underground AAS There is no question about it. Anabolic steroids are big business. The demand for these drugs has grown tremendously in the past decade or so, ballooning a once languishing segment of the international drug market. Mexico, for example, which had an essentially dead steroid...
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    Anabolic Research Update Nov 2003

    Warning: Opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of this magazine’s publisher or its editorial staff. MD does not condone any form of illegal drug use for bodybuilding or for any recreational purpose. MD also does not condone the abuse of legal drugs for any...
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    Anabolic Research Update Oct 2003

    Black Market Update: Mexico When it comes to anabolic steroids, there is no country on earth quite like Mexico. Ten years ago, its tiny drug market was at best an afterthought in the minds of bodybuilders, who tended to look at Mexican drugs as low quality. Today, things are very different. The...
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    Anabolic Research Update Sep 2003

    The New Anti-Estrogens I have been working extremely long hours the past several months, updating Anabolics 2004. In the process, I’ve been investigating a number of drugs that were not discussed in the earlier editions, many of which were only recently made available to doctors. A new...
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    Anabolic Research Update Jun 2003

    Interleukin-15The New Super-Anabolic? It’s available for sale as a research chemical, but be ready to fork over as much as a few thousand dollars per milligram for it (yes, you read that correctly). It is Interleukin-15, a hormone belonging to a class of compounds referred to as...
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    Anabolic Research Update Apr 2003

    Androgen Receptor Concentrations Effects of Exercise and AAS By definition a hormone is a chemical messenger that’s produced in one organ of the body, and is carried by the blood to others so that it may exert its activity. To do this, it needs to attach to a cellular target, or more...
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    Anabolic Research Update Apr 2003

    The Steroid Safety Debate Studies with REAL Dosages If you so much as mention anabolic steroids to the average person, you usually get some pretty cross looks in response. State that you are actually considering a cycle, and you are likely to be lectured to about the tremendous heath risks...
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    Anabolic Research Update Mar 2003

    Prostaglandins and Protein Synthesis When most of us think of the hormones in the body that are responsible for building muscle, usually testosterone, growth hormone (via IGF-1) and insulin come to mind. These are the “big three,” so to speak. By no coincidence, these are the same three...
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    Anabolic Research Update Feb 2003

    Designer AAS In 1987, Ben Johnson set the world record for the 100 meters with a remarkable time of 9.83 seconds, and set it again in the ’88 Olympics with a time of 9.79. You may remember the international uproar shortly after he won the Olympic gold medal, when he tested positive for steroids...
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    Anabolic Research Update Jan 2003

    Estrogen Rebound? You’ve probably heard the term “estrogen rebound” so often that its existence is a given for you. Certainly, this phrase has become ingrained in the lore of the hard-core bodybuilding subculture, and the need for dealing with this phenomenon post-cycle, with anti-estrogens or...
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    Anabolic Research Update Dec 2002

    Insulin is definitely the new kid on the block when it comes to anabolic agents. Although it’s been available for decades as a prescription drug, it really did not start appearing in the bodybuilding subculture until the late 1990s. And despite the serious potential dangers of the non-medical...
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    Anabolic Research Update Nov 2002

    The GH Studies Recombinant Human Growth Hormone (rHGH) is without question the most expensive drug in ready use by athletes today. The financial investment necessary for this drug, which can exceed $1,000 for even a halfway decent cycle, dwarfs the costs associated with anabolic steroids...
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    Anabolic Research Update Oct 2002

    Aromatase inhibitors are a class of medications that block the enzyme responsible for estrogen formation in the body, and are without question powerful tools in the bodybuilder’s drug arsenal. The common use of these agents in our sport is actually a new phenomenon, despite the fact that drugs...