Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label steroids

GUEST POST: Are Ya Juicin' It? Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Abuse

Welcome to our second guest poster on All Scrubbed Up... Brian Carty of HotMedicalNews.com . Here's an indepth look at the effect of steroids in body builders. Chilling stuff. By Brian Carty, MD, MSPH March 14, 2008 Irritable, angry, aggressive, but feeling strong and invincible, Mr. A, 32, a bodybuilder and prison guard, stopped at a convenience store to call his boss. Car trouble on the way to work.. He would be late. Bodybuilder and enhanced performance [With permission of Steve Michalik. Mr. Michalik, a former Mr. America and Mr. Universe, once used steroids and suffered as a result. He is now an energetic and outspoken opponent of steroid abuse.] Mr. A was taking his fifth cycle of anabolic-androgenic steroids (abbreviated in this article as "steroids"), and he was "stacking," combining high doses of several different steroids, sometimes referred to by the slang term "juice." The woman working at the convenience store noted his uniform an...