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Abscess in penis after a decade of steroids use The list of potential and rare side effects of long-term steroids use has become a little longer. The most recent contribution comes from Turkey where urologists at Baskent University discovered a large abscess in the penis of a bodybuilder. The...

Ursodeoxycholic acid restores anabolic liver Mexican doctors managed to repair a bodybuilder's damaged using the bile acid ursodeoxycholic acid, UDCA for short. UDCA is a cholesterol regulator that humans manufacture in small quantities in the body. Doctors and supplementsmanufacturers use a...

New doping substance? PAPP-A helps muscles grow Researchers have been studying the muscle strengthening protein Pregnancy-associated Plasma Protein-A for a while now. [It got its name after the protein was discovered in the blood of pregnant women – Ed.] Scientists at Loma Linda University in...

Double muscles for life with just one injection of follistatin gene You can nag your dealer until he pins you on to the fender of his SUV, but you still won't get any. We're talking about the anabolic wonder stuff that researchers at Ohio State University are doing experiments with. A single...

The effect of a litre of skimmed milk after a workout Strength athletes who lack time, money or motivation to optimise their diet can achieve good results just by drinking a litre of skimmed milk after each training session, write Canadian sports scientists from McMaster University in Medicine...

Strength athletes train better with citrulline malate Take 8 g citrulline malate before pumping iron and you'll manage more reps per set. The more sets you manage, the bigger the effect of supplementation, sports scientists at the University of Cordoba, Spain, discovered when they did...

So is that your post workout shake or do you have anothe?. Are they equal amounts of protein if you have 2?

Steroids users need more XTC pills Recreational drugs like XTC or amphetamines have less effect on steroids users than on non-users. Researchers at the Finnish National Public Health Institute concluded this from experiments they did on rats. The researchers wanted to know more about the...

Pre-digested protein during workout stimulates muscle growth Consuming small quantities of protein during a weight workout increases the protein production in your muscles, write researchers from the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, in the American Journal of Physiology. * The...

Halotestin is a cortisol booster Halotestin – whose active ingredient is fluoxymesterone – is one of the riskiest anabolic steroids around. Now toxicologists at the University of Basel have discovered why. According to the in-vitro study they did Halotestin can cause a dramatic rise in the...

Study looks at effects of 16 weeks of growth hormone and testosterone A 3 kg lean mass gain and 2 kg fat loss: that’s the modest result of 16 weeks of growth hormone and testosterone [see their spatial and structural formulae here below] in men aged about 70. American doctors published their...

Why bother to add dutasteride to your testosterone cycle? Chemical athletes who are worried about their prostate sometimes combine testosterone with substances likefinasteride*or dutasteride. According to the results of the trial that Shalender Bhasin published recently in JAMA, this strategy...

Gain 1.5 kg lean body mass with three-week course of LGD-4033 Despite the negative reports on*S4, SARMs like*ostarinehave become pretty common among chemical athletes, so another SARM, LGD-4033, is likely to find its way quickly into steroids circles. Especially if you read about the successes...

Dead bodybuilder's heart weighed a kilo When performing an autopsy on a deceased bodybuilder, medical researchers at the University of Padua in Italy discovered that his heart muscle weighed 900 grams and his liver 2700 grams. A normal heart weighs 300 grams, a normal liver 1500 grams. The...

DHEA boosts muscle build-up from strength training The over-65s – both men and women – build up more muscle mass and strength if they take 50 mg*DHEA*in combination with strength training. A ten-month study done by Dennis Villareal and John Holloszy at Washington University confirms this. DHEA...

The testosterone effect of ibuprofen The painkillers*ibuprofen*and diclofenac probably cause a temporary boost in testosterone levels, if the results of a 2009 Finnish-Swedish in vitro study published in Steroids are anything to go by. The study also shows that some synthetic testosterone users...

Can a few hundred mils of caffeine boost the anabolic effect of oxandrolone? * Imagine: you're a careful user of anabolic steroids. You occasionally take a course ofoxandrolone*only, and that's all you want. If this is your way of doing things, then Portuguese doping researchers may have...

Stretch 'n' steroid combination produces muscle growth Imagine: an injury means you can't train for a while, but you*canuse anabolic steroids. In this hypothetical situation you can maintain more muscle mass by doing*stretch exercises. You may even be able to build up a little bit of muscle...

Trenbolone may increase Alzheimer's risk Bodybuilders who use the anabolic steroid trenbolone may be increasing their chances of developingAlzheimer's disease, fear molecular scientists Fucui Ma and Daicheng Liu of Shandong Normal University in China. Ma and Liu gave mice injections of...

Animal study: running reduces effect of steroids on testes The anabolic steroid nandrolone decanoate, active ingredient in Organon's Deca Durabolin, inhibits the production of sperm cells in the testes. All anabolic steroids have this effect. But according to biologists at the Universidade...