We can add Big Kiwi to his above list.
Kiwi's death was from rec drugs...Well, his heart disease was caused by rec drugs which lead to his death...AAS mixed with rec drugs is a BAD idea!
I am sure his heart disease was also caused by massive amounts of steroids. As a matter of fact, I am willing to bet that the recreational drugs had less of an impact.
I am sure his heart disease was also caused by massive amounts of steroids. As a matter of fact, I am willing to bet that the recreational drugs had less of an impact.
I'll put up $100k that you are wrong. C'mon, bet up!
Why do people like you want to talk out of their ass without knowing facts?
His first heart scare was in his early 20s when he was given 6 months to live due to his speed addiction, before he even touched gear.
When it comes to the internet, everyone knows everything BA...You should know that by now
I knew the man for 10 minutes before I saw him popping HANDFULLS of speed like they were tick tacks...Not counting them but just throwing HANDFULLS down, at least 10-15 a pop...And he was doing that all day and all night! I remember at least twice where rAJ or myself had to stop and pick baggies of drugs off the ground that were just falling out of his pockets as we walked down the street! When I said my first impression of the man was he's a mess it wasn't because he was super-sized and abusing roids, it was for the latter!
While I'll say he was a good, kind and caring man and it's a damn shame for anyone to die that young...I won't lie and say he wasn't a junkie...And that was just from spending a week with the man...Obviously guys like Big A and Kiwi's crew in NZ knew and seen more shit then that over the years!
I believe you mean "former" as latter would infer that it was the towards the end of the sequence and former would mean first mentioned or in the beginning.
That is you English lesson for the day
Thank you
You knew what the fuck I meant though
I started taking steroids in the early 1990s. Sustanon was like $20 an ampule. You could get a broken pack one day dripping with oil, a customs letter, and the next day get another great delivery. My source, selling at the time, would just surprise me with a nice box for xmas.
It was pretty unheard of for guys to take 1000mg/week of anything. I remember Flex from anabolex talking about jumping on a gram of testosterone. Some of the old timers back then on the yellow board.
Anyways fast fwd today and a bro of mine, very competitive, stays on 2g test offseason and bump it up to 3g for a competition. I just don't even know if I could tolerate all that gear and painkillers. He does as much growth as he can afford.
Myself as I get older I just stay on 400mg of testosterone a week. My blood work is fine. I'm not a genetic freak so 400mg/wk or 1600mg/wk really didn't make a hell of a lot of difference for me. At 1600mg/wk I was 5'6" 220lbs and now I'm 200lbs pretty comfortable.
What made the most difference for me was consistently eating. A little test on a great diet outperformed a lot of test and half assed diet.
Steroids are bad for your brain as well.
Cognitive deficits in long-term anabolic-androgenic steroid users. - PubMed - NCBI
Alcohol Depend. 2013 Jun 1;130(1-3):208-14. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2012.11.008. Epub 2012 Dec 14.
Cognitive deficits in long-term anabolic-androgenic steroid users.
Kanayama G1, Kean J, Hudson JI, Pope HG Jr.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Millions of individuals worldwide have used anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) to gain muscle or improve athletic performance. Recently, in vitro investigations have suggested that supraphysiologic AAS doses cause apoptosis of neuronal cells. These findings raise the possibility, apparently still untested, that humans using high-dose AAS might eventually develop cognitive deficits.
METHODS:
We administered five cognitive tests from the computerized CANTAB battery (Pattern Recognition Memory, Verbal Recognition Memory, Paired Associates Learning, Choice Reaction Time, and Rapid Visual Information Processing) to 31 male AAS users and 13 non-AAS-using weightlifters age 29-55, recruited and studied in May 2012 in Middlesbrough, UK. Testers were blinded to participants' AAS status and other historical data.
RESULTS:
Long-term AAS users showed no significant differences from nonusers on measures of response speed, sustained attention, and verbal memory. On visuospatial memory, however, AAS users performed significantly more poorly than nonusers, and within the user group, visuospatial performance showed a significant negative correlation with total lifetime AAS dose. These were large effects: on Pattern Recognition Memory, long-term AAS users underperformed nonusers by almost one standard deviation, based on normative population scores (adjusted mean difference in z-scores=0.89; p=0.036), and performance on this test declined markedly with increasing lifetime AAS dose (adjusted change in z-score=-0.13 per 100g of lifetime AAS dose; p=0.002). These results remained stable in sensitivity analyses addressing potential confounding factors.
CONCLUSIONS:
These preliminary findings raise the ominous possibility that long-term high-dose AAS exposure may cause cognitive deficits, notably in visuospatial memory.