Steroid Report» Steroids and Bodybuilding http://steroidreport.com Fri, 06 May 2011 15:14:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Trenbolone Shows SARM-Like Potential in Androgen Replacement Therapy http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/27/trenbolone-shows-sarm-like-potential-in-androgen-replacement-therapy/ http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/27/trenbolone-shows-sarm-like-potential-in-androgen-replacement-therapy/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:59:47 +0000 Millard Baker http://steroidreport.com/?p=783 Selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) may be the current darlings of scientific research into alternative options for androgen replacement therapy, but University of Florida researchers are excited by the “SARM-like potential” of trenbolone. They suggest that the actions of trenbolone are similar to selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs).

Low-dose trenbolone was called “SARM-like” because of the positive anabolic effects in muscle and bone without negative side androgenic side effects of prostate enlargement or polycythemia.

Trenbolone is an anabolic steroid that has been demonized more than others due to its limited use (in pellet implants used by veterinarians to increase muscle growth in livestock). Fortunately, researchers looked past the political stigma associated with trenbolone to revisit a therapeutic use for an old steroid.

Read more at MESO-Rx: Trenbolone for Androgen Replacement Therapy

Balkan Trenbolone Forte 200 (trenbolone enanthate)

Finaplix (trenbolone acetate)

Geneza GP Tren Enanth 200 (trenbolone enanthate)

Hebei Genera Trenbolone Enanthate 100

]]> http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/27/trenbolone-shows-sarm-like-potential-in-androgen-replacement-therapy/feed/ 0 Bodybuilders Using Injectable PMMA to Enhance Muscle Size http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/18/bodybuilders-using-artefill-to-enhance-muscle-size/ http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/18/bodybuilders-using-artefill-to-enhance-muscle-size/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:12:36 +0000 Millard Baker http://steroidreport.com/?p=575 Nelson Vergel, the author of “Testosterone: A Man’s Guide“, posted an article on MESO-Rx about the use of injectable PMMA (non-resorbable polymethylmethacrylate microspheres) among bodybuilders to enhance muscle size and shape. The use of “site enhancement oil” has been a part of recreational and competitive bodybuilding for over a decade. This became increasingly popular after Chris Clark introduced “Synthol” to the bodybuilding community for this purpose in the mid 1990s. Recently, Patrick Arnold wrote about a water-based synthol-type product containing carrageenan that is commercially available under the name “A Slick Sheen”. However, the potential  appeal of PMMA (sold commercially under the trade names Artefill and Metacrill) is that they are sterile, pharmaceutical products already used in medicine.

Read more at MESO-Rx: Latest Bodybuilding Secret- PMMA for Body Reshaping and Enhancement

Artefill (PMMA)

]]> http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/18/bodybuilders-using-artefill-to-enhance-muscle-size/feed/ 0 Hair Loss and Anabolic Steroids http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/15/hair-loss-and-anabolic-steroids/ http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/15/hair-loss-and-anabolic-steroids/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:52:20 +0000 Millard Baker http://steroidreport.com/?p=532 Ask Bill Roberts: Will my hair loss increase when I take greater amounts of steroids? And if I only experience minor hair loss using large doses of anabolic steroids like winstrol, masteron and tren (steroids known for hair loss), would small doses of AAS known to cause minimal hair loss cause much if any at all?

Read the answer at MESO-Rx: Does Hair Loss Increase with Greater Amounts of Steroids?

]]> http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/15/hair-loss-and-anabolic-steroids/feed/ 0 How Underground Steroid Handbook Was Written http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/11/how-underground-steroid-handbook-was-written/ http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/11/how-underground-steroid-handbook-was-written/#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:05:59 +0000 Millard Baker http://steroidreport.com/?p=542 The story of how Dan Duchaine and Michael Zumpano, founder and CEO of Champion Nutrition, co-authored the “Underground Steroid Handbook” is very interesting. An account is included in the book “Steroid Nation“. While “Steroid Nation” has been criticized for its sensationalistic attacks on Duchaine’s personal life, an excerpt that includes the interesting backstory behind the “Underground Steroid Handbook” is worth reading.

Read more at DanDuchaine.com: The Backstory Behind the “Underground Steroid Handbook”

Underground Steroid Handbook

]]> http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/11/how-underground-steroid-handbook-was-written/feed/ 0 Shaun Assael’s Steroid Nation and Dan Duchaine http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/10/shaun-assael-steroid-nation-and-dan-duchaine/ http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/10/shaun-assael-steroid-nation-and-dan-duchaine/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:01:35 +0000 Millard Baker http://steroidreport.com/?p=538 Dan Duchaine is featured in the book Steroid Nation by Shaun Assael. Assael’s narrative is very antagonistic towards bodybuilding / supplements /steroids and makes every effort to demonize Duchaine by relentlessly attacking his personal life. The book’s portrayal of Duchaine has been criticized as being overly sensationalistic with several inaccuracies.

Read more at DanDuchaine.com: Dan Duchaine’s Portrayal in Steroid Nation

Steroid Nation

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Read the answer at MESO-Rx: Can Dianabol Be Used as a Bridge Between Steroid Cycles?

MESO-Rx Ask Bill Roberts

]]> http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/08/dianabol-and-steroid-bridges/feed/ 0 Bodybuilder Toney Freeman Releases Statement on Muscle Profiling in Sweden http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/03/bodybuilder-toney-freeman-releases-statement-on-muscle-profiling-in-sweden/ http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/03/bodybuilder-toney-freeman-releases-statement-on-muscle-profiling-in-sweden/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:22:05 +0000 Millard Baker http://steroidreport.com/?p=512 IFBB professional bodybuilder Toney Freeman released a statement this weekend describing his recent experience as a victim of “muscle profiling” by police in Sweden.

“Muscle profiling” as suggestive of anabolic steroid use is an accepted law enforcement practice in Sweden that has been used to detain numerous bodybuilders in recent years. The muscle profiling policy has been kept under the radar for the most part up until recently.

Sundvall Police Chief Henrik Blusi garnered publicity for his “war on bodybuilders” with a plan to make a very embarrassing and humiliating example of a pro bodybuilder(s) attending the 2010 Fitness Festival in Göteborg.

Read more at MESO-Rx: Pro Bodybuilder Toney Freeman Speaks Out Against Sweden War on Bodybuilders

Toney Freeman

]]> http://steroidreport.com/2011/01/03/bodybuilder-toney-freeman-releases-statement-on-muscle-profiling-in-sweden/feed/ 0 Bodybuilder Jay Cutler Avoids Muscle Profiling Police in Sweden http://steroidreport.com/2010/12/11/bodybuilder-jay-cutler-avoids-muscle-profiling-police-in-sweden/ http://steroidreport.com/2010/12/11/bodybuilder-jay-cutler-avoids-muscle-profiling-police-in-sweden/#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:08:58 +0000 Millard Baker http://steroidreport.com/?p=509 Professional bodybuilder and four-time Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler cancelled his scheduled guest posing appearance at the Fitnessfestivalen in Göteborg this weekend after IFBB pro Toney Freeman was taken into police custody on Thursday. Sweden advocates the controversial practice of “muscle profiling” where muscular individuals can be detained by police and compelled to submit to urinalyis based on the assumption that muscularity is suggestive of anabolic steroid use.

Read more at MESO-Rx: Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler Cancels Guest Posing Appearance Due to Muscle Profiling in Sweden

Bodybuilder Jay Cutler

]]> http://steroidreport.com/2010/12/11/bodybuilder-jay-cutler-avoids-muscle-profiling-police-in-sweden/feed/ 0 Bodybuilder Toney Freeman’s Muscle Profiling Experience in Sweden http://steroidreport.com/2010/12/09/toney-freeman-muscle-profiling-experience/ http://steroidreport.com/2010/12/09/toney-freeman-muscle-profiling-experience/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:58:15 +0000 Millard Baker http://steroidreport.com/?p=503 IFBB pro bodybuilder Toney Freeman was taken into police custody shortly after arriving in Sweden for the 2010 Fitness Festival in Göteborg. Freeman, a victim of “muscle profiling“, was detained during an appearance in Sundsvall solely because he was a professional bodybuilder.

Read more at MESO-Rx: IFBB Pro Bodybuilder Toney Freeman Taken Into Police Custody in Sweden

Toney Freeman

]]> http://steroidreport.com/2010/12/09/toney-freeman-muscle-profiling-experience/feed/ 0 Spanish Doctor Implicated in Doping Scandal – "Germans Want to Shit on the Spaniards" http://steroidreport.com/2008/07/21/marcos-maynar-steroid-expert-doping-scandal/ http://steroidreport.com/2008/07/21/marcos-maynar-steroid-expert-doping-scandal/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:00:35 +0000 Millard Baker http://www.steroidreport.com/?p=156 Spanish doctor Marcos Maynar Mariño sent an email offering comprehensive urinalysis and steroid profiling at 50 euros per athlete to as many as ten professional cycling teams including Gerolsteiner, Milram, CSC and Columbia . Maynar offered to provide a complete analysis consistent with the same control methods used by the International Cycling Union (UCI). The services would be conducted by the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences at the Universidad de Extremadura in Cáceres, Spain (“Dos médicos españoles, acusados de dopar,” July 20).

According to the German television station ARD, Spanish doctor Marcos Maynar offered these services as for internal testing allowing athletes to monitor their doping to ensure that their use of performance enhancing drugs would not be detected by doping controls at the 2008 Tour de France and other pro cycling events. Maynar responded to the allegations that he aided and abetted doping by suggesting that ARD had ulterior motives stemming from bitterness over disgraced cyclist Jan Ullrich (“Marcos Maynar niega que quiera favorecer el dopaje,” July 21).

“Since Jan Ullrich’s tested positive, the Germans have wanted to shit on the Spaniards.”

Maynar admits to sending out the email but only to help pro tour teams with their own internal controls; he denies that his services would allow athletes to escape the detection of performance enhancing drugs. Marcos Maynar and his brother Juan Ignacio Maynar are both experts in anabolic steroids and work at the university laboratory. They claim their blood and urine testing services and legally recognized analysis for biological passports were developed to generate a badly need source of revenue for the University. He strongly denies that he supports doping in cycling (“Spanish lab allegations and confessions in Tour doping,” July 20).

But Marcos Maynar Marino from the university, who sent the email, insisted in a statement that the offer was made to assist the teams to find dopers, not to support substance abuse.

‘We are not supporting doping but try to prevent team-members from doing something which could destroy the team,’ Maynar said.

Maynar’s credibility with regard to doping has been hurt by his alleged involvement in other doping scandals.

In June 2004, Maynar was implicated in a nationwide steroid bust called Operación Gamma II that shutdown a network of steroid distributors providing anabolic steroids to bodybuilders and athletes at gyms in various cities in Spain.

In May 2006, Maynar was found to share clients with Eufemiano Fuentes, the mastermind behind the Operación Puerto doping scandal.

In May 2008, Maynar was the team doctor for the Portueguese LA MSS team who authorities found guilty of systematic doping.

Maynar said he was surprised by the raid, insisting that the team always “presented normal levels.”

“My relationship with the team is merely as a collaborator. I only go to races to control the hematocrit levels of the cyclists and look after the nutritional part of the athletes,” Maynar was quoted as saying.

Hat tip to Cycling Fans Anonymous.

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