Trestolone Acetate (MENT): 7 alpha-Methyl-19-nortestosterone profile »
Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in Trestolone Acetate (a/k/a 7 alpha-Methyl-19-nortestosterone, or MENT), due to it’s sudden availability thanks to the efforts of several black market hormone suppliers. Until recently, we’d mostly heard about this steroid through Bodybuilding.com’s now defunct steroid profiles written by Pete Von Mol. And actually, this is rightly [...]
Operation Roid Runner targets IFBB, NPC bodybuilders »
Six more arrests have been made in Operation Roid Runner, nearly a year after the operation was announced to the media. As I noted last November, the snitch factor in this case is huge, and because these guys are mostly NPC bodybuilders and promoters, they’re going to be very quick to dime each other [...]
Steroid bust targets NPC, IFBB, in Pennsylvania »
Operation Roid Runner, a Pennsylvania-based anti-steroid operation, has recently targeted local bodybuilders, as several prominent members of the local area National Physique Committee (NPC) and International Federation of Bodybuilders have been arrested in connection with steroid and growth hormone distribution.
The arrests include:
Craig Johnson, an NPC promoter and judge, who is charged with one count of criminal [...]
Spiral of Denial author interviewed on doping in football »
Q1. With your knowledge about the game and drugs: How extensive is the use of HGH in the NFL?
Matt Chaney, Author of Spiral of Denial: I believe use of recombinant hGHis a widespread problem in the NFL,
impacting competition. Recently, Tampa Bay Bucs running back Earnest
Graham estimated 30 percent of NFL [...]
Clomiphene citrate is as good as HRT – and a lot cheaper »
Clomiphene citrate is a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) marketed under the brand name Clomid. Originally designed as a female fertility drug, Clomid is regularly used by bodybuilders upon cessation of a steroid cycle as part of their post cycle therapy (PCT). This is done because Clomid inhibits the effect [...]
What’s with all the hCG? »
In the last year we have seen two significant positive tests in professional athletics for hCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin). Although most people assume that the players were coming off a steroid cycle and had used hCG as way to jump start their own testosterone production. Not a bad assumption - but if you were to [...]
TMZ takes a shot at Jay Cutler »
TMZ, echoing common sentiment among the non-steroid using populace, decided to take a shot at Jay Cutler, Mr. Olympia, calling him a “former human” and poking fun at the fact that he “willingly did this” to his body.
But this is nothing new to Mr. Cutler, who prior to winning the Mr. Olympia title, admitted in [...]
Reexamining short cycles »
A 2005 study examined the gains made by Oxandrolone (Anavar) users at 6 weeks versus 12 weeks. The results were shocking, as greater than 90% of the gains were made by week 6 - with the following 6 weeks being responsible for <10% of the total gains. Of course, Oxandrolone is a fairly weak steroid, [...]
Steroid use unpreventable in high school football »
As the high schools of America were drawn into national debate on anabolic steroids, prep coaches and officials maintained that use was minimal. Politicians and media expressed outrage, proclaiming that kids mattered while denouncing pro athletes as poor role models. Studies concluded teens used steroids, and kids said the drugs were accessible and becoming [...]
Vitamin D: Aromatase Inhibitor »
I know what you’re thinking – “Another article on vitamin D?!” Well, yes. Yes it is. And honestly, expect many more as the amount of research coming out on this wonder-compound is pretty vast. In today’s installment I’ll be discussing vitamin D and its effect on estrogen metabolism.
While most of you will already have quite [...]
