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This supplement's purpose is to reveal to you some of the GROSS STEROID MIS-INFORMATION that is being promoted from various sources -- especially on the Internet.

(This supplement will have additional text formatting and images added in the near future -- not to mention spell-checking and correction of grammatical errors. It will eventually be incorporated fully into this work, and not listed as a separate "supplement".)

It is my firm belief that revealing the specifics and nature of this deceptive information is of the HIGHEST PRIORITY, which is why it is being presented to you in such a rough and unfinished -- but timely fashion.

At times, you may see unfinshed sections, paragraphs -- or even sentences! This information is being made available AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE, so as to hopefully prevent it from becoming part of the common Bodybuilding "folklore".

I have been reviewing the many information resources now available through the Internet, many gathered with the aid of various search services.

As expected, the amount of MIS-INFORMATION is staggering!

The most egregious ("egregious" means "really BAD") site on the web is the so-called "STEROID PAGE", and DBrown's Building Bodies Page including the various links that the authors have featured.

(This later site *appears* to have SOME significant association with MAJOR SUPPLEMENT MANUFACTURERS [in spite of posted denials] -- as company names are included in the "HTML HEAD tag" -- where its purpose is to be found by SEARCH SERVICES such as Yahoo!, Alta Vista, Web Crawler, etc.! I'll let you decide this one yourself, but if this an independent site, why list a specific company? Warning: If true, the site author may change this HTML tag without notice in an attempt to bolster an appearance of impartiality.)

(You should be aware that these supplement companies would stand to lose SUBSTANTIAL income if people actually spent their money on the KNOWN TO BE EFFECTIVE Anabolic Steroids, instead of their yet-to-be-proved-effective product lines....)

The most despicable tactic is the LEGAL SCARE TECHNIQUES used on these pages. It is stated that it is illegal to posess Anabolic Steroids in the United States, and a link is CLAIMED to be provided to the text of the law.

BUT WHEN I VISITED THIS SITE OVER SEVERAL DAYS, WEEKS AND MONTHS, THIS LINK DID NOT WORK! This is exceptionally suspicous as the text of the law REALLY states that it is illegal to possess steroids -- but **ONLY** with the "intent to sell". This is a VERY different meaning -- a meaning that is VERY different from mere possesion for personal use!

STUPID MISTAKES are next on the list as this site has a chart (displayed here) showing the SUPPOSED relative popularity of various steroids in the U.S.

This chart shows an almost complete ignorance about the use of steroids, as it fails to allow for the possibility of Bodybuilders using MULTIPLE steroids! (This is called "stacking", a phrase that the supplement industry is trying to hi-jack from real Bodybuilders....)

[The supplement industry THRIVES on ignorance, as they know that many newcomers to Bodybuilding will either be wise enough to keep their mouth shut (and ears open) when considering various supplements and medicines -- or these nowcomers will simply be too shy to ask. By using/stealing phrases such as "stacking" or naming their products with REAL steroid-like names, they successfully lure people into believing that their products are as effective as REAL steroids -- which they are not!]

This chart exhibits further weakness by including a category for TESTOSTERONES and a separate catagory for SUSTENON. It is well-known by most Bodybuilders that Sustenon is simply a combination of testosterones -- and many Bodybuilders (myself included), would most likely choose to describe Sustenon as testosterone (or "testosterones" as in this chart) when asked what anabolic was being used.

THE **STUPIDEST** mistake seen was where the site supplies you, the reader, with the very information that discredits itself!

In one area it describes the distinction between two type of "steroids": Cortico and Anabolic Steroids.

EVEN MORE DISTURBING IS SUPPOSED RESEARCHERS desperately twisting facts and information -- and ignoring well-known and well-established information. Apparently for the sole purpose of "steroid-bashing" a study was released by Dr. Perry V. Halushka, M.D., PH.D. dated June 1, 1995 entitled, "'Pumping Up' With Steroids May Cause Your Own Pump to Fail". [This on "druginfo.net".]

The article states:

In a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, Perry V. Halushka, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues injected testosterone into 16 healthy men. They noted an increase in the number of platelet thromboxane A2 receptors that decreased to pre-injection levels within four weeks of the second (last) injection. Platelets are disc-shaped blood components that are important in the clotting process. Thromboxane A2 constricts blood vessels and causes platelets to cluster."

The article then goes on to GUESS (not to MEASURE) that this MAY increase the chance of clotting -- which MIGHT cause strokes and heart attacks. BUT...

...it fails to note the lack of reported problems from the clinical world... If this hypothesis were true, we would be seeing Bodybuilders and athletes dropping like flies!

This article by Halushka FAILS in not noting the well-known fact that most anabolic steroids are documented to SUPRESS CLOTTING FACTORS T1 through T4 -- so much so that people are advised to go off anabolic steroids prior to surgery, to prevent the FAILURE of the blood to clot! (The same recommendation that is made to people taking aspirin, when preparing for a surgical procedure.)

It is VERY easy to come up with all sorts of guesses why something "might" be bad. How about a statistical study of mortality/morbidity Dr. Halushka? If an insurance company can do it, why not you?

Note: Occasionally (about once each year) a physician trys to attribute an athelete's death to a cause similar to this -- usually to be contradicted later by the local coroner! [Which DOESN'T make the same kind of headlines that the original article about these rare incidents does... after all, reporting that steroids are safe will NOT sell newspapers or advertising time. Or in the instance of "Bodybuilding Empires" will not sell protein powders or other nostrums....]

Stanford University so-called "researchers" used a DIFFERENT technique of deception, where they released what they labeled a study -- which was really an EDITORIAL! All this "study" consisted of was a couple of people reading existing research to come to the editorial conclusion that "steroids are dangerous and should be banned" -- WITHOUT bothering to either test or investigate the AMOUNT of risk.

This points out yet another failure of the press to ask intellegent questions. Reporters seem to be more concerned about how their hair looks than the story that is being reported... Specifically:

When their is an airplane crash, the reporters are spoon-fed statistics about how much safer air travel is per passenger mile than driving your own car.

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