M.E DRUGS
By Anthony Roberts
THERE ARE FEW DRUGS IN THE WORLD
THAT ARE SUBJECTED TO AS MUCH
MISINFORMATION AS ANABOLIC STEROIDS.
Here at Muscle Evolution we are about to embark on
a series of articles where we will get down to the nuts
and bolts of the topic. Knowledge is power. Whether
it is actual drug profiles or insight on the dangers
or latest developments, our aim is to empower the
reader with as much knowledge as possible.
When athletes were first using anabolic
steroids in the 1940s and ‘50s to break world
records, the scientific and medical community
simultaneously published studies that told
us that they didn’t work. During that time
the only legitimate information about these
drugs was coming from the front lines; the
weightlifters (and later bodybuilders)
who had tried them and knew what
they did. For decades there were
scientists claiming anabolic steroids
did not do anything to build muscle
or strength and, to this day,
the Physician’s Desk Reference says
that they do not work to improve
athletic performance.
Ultimately, medical science started
playing catch up, but the damage
was done and steroid users mostly
turned a blind-eye to anything the
academics were writing. And then
came the Internet – where a hodge-
podge of science and experience has
been brought together to create some
of the biggest falehoods about steroids
we’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, since they come
from other steroid users and not doctors, we’ve
come to accept many of them as fact. And because
the Internet is the primary source of information
on anabolic steroids at this point, the person who
screams the loudest is the one who is most often
repeated – right or wrong.
SETTING
THE RECORD
STRAIGHT
IT IS TIME TO SET THE RECORD
STRAIGHT ONCE AND FOR ALL.
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