Anabolic Steroids – Drugs with Decision-making Abilities?

Jose Canseco is the most recent to bring up the use of anabolic steroids to be bigger, faster, stronger. Yet, look at the reaction of the press and his former teammates? Of course, if something is illegal, would you admit using it?

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) February 16, 2005 -- Anabolic steroids, how do they know? Picture this:

Impotent men gain health and vitality - football players get cancer.

Post surgical patients regain strength - shot putters get heart disease.

Aids patients save their lives - sprinters lose theirs.

Since these drugs have the power” of cognition, I wonder what Solomon-like wisdom they use when facing an impotent baseball player.

What is the truth about steroids? First, the word steroids” and anabolic steroids” are not synonymous. The overwhelming numbers of people who use steroids” never use anabolic steroids. They are on cortical steroids (analgesic/anti-inflammatory drugs) or contraceptive steroids (estrogens). Very few are on anabolic steroids (testosterone derivatives).

Jose Canseco is the most recent to bring up the use of anabolic steroids to be bigger, faster, stronger. Yet, look at the reaction of the press and his former teammates? Of course, if something is illegal, would you admit using it?

Why are anabolic steroids illegal for athletes but not others? What does the science community say? Honest studies since the 1940s show that anabolic steroids were extremely effective in treating wasting conditions from severe debilitating illness - very much like the prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, other frequent and effective uses are for impotence, hypogonadism, to start puberty in latent boys, burn and radiation therapy. Here are some excerpts to stimulate your own thinking:

--Dr. Robert McKenna, Sr., a Los Angeles based surgical oncologist and past president of the American Cancer Society states, I dont believe there is any relationship between anabolic steroid use and cancer. It just hasnt happened. If you said little green apples caused pregnancy should you be believed?”

--Dr. Robert Huiznga of Beverly Hills, who had been testing Alzado was finally forced to admit, There is no direct evidence linking anabolic steroid use and cancer.”

--A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Shalendere Bhasin of Charles R. Drew University of Los Angeles found the following: There is no evidence of anabolic steroid rage or that anabolic steroids make users prone to outbursts of anger. . . Psychological tests and questions of mens spouses found no evidence that anabolic steroids made the men angrier or more aggressive. . . It is a simply a fact; testosterone doesnt turn men into beasts.”

--A study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 2002 that worked with men who had severe depression and who had not responded to antidepressants and other traditional treatments, showed incredible improvements in mood, less anxiety, better sleep and heartier appetites when given an 8-week course of testosterone.

The following is from Dave Barrys column, Life and Related Topics.”

"On February 27, 1991, testosterone was declared a controlled substance like heroin. Therefore, if you are a guy of the male gender, I advise you to report to prison immediately because you are in violation of federal law. This is now a big problem because many guys including several Supreme Court members are walking around with testosterone in their, um huh possession. The government claims that criminalization of testosterone is a good thing. Im not sure how authorities will enforce this law, but eventually all of us guys will be arrested and placed in a rehabilitation program."

Whose body is it anyway?” With no scientific data to support testosterone being a controlled substance, the accurate word for it is slavery and for those who exercise it slave masters! The words of Aristotle ring true today: He who is by nature not his own but anothers man, is by nature a slave.” Fredrick Douglas put it this way: I didnt know I was a slave until I found I could not do the things I wanted.”

The illegal status of testosterone is just another political perversion of law. As Fredric Bastiat states in his book, The Law, It is not true that the function of law is to regulate our conscience, our ideas, our wills, our education, our opinions, our work, our talents, or our pleasures. The function of law is to protect the exercise of these rights.”

Learn more about the evils perpetrated by church and state in Every Man and Woman An Island: The Individual Human Being as prime in the Universe, by Robert Clapp. Available now at bookstores or on line at http://www.trafford.com/robots/04-2116.html.

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