Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid is the only preparation that can lead to rhabdomyolsis

Over 10 players of the Iowa Hawkeyes football team were taken in hospital because of  rhabdomyolsis. This is a disease linked with quick destruction of skeletal muscle that results in leakage into urine the muscle protein myoglobin. People with this condition suffer from severe muscle aches, weakness and soreness. Since byproducts of the muscle damage become toxic to the kidneys, there is an enhanced risk of kidney failure in this situation.
Experts started immediately to demonize nephrotoxic supplements or anabolic steroids in occurring of rhabdomyolsis in players of the Hawkeyes but there was no any  relation between these drugs and this illness in them. James Williams, a doctor, told to CBS during an interview that nephrotoxic supplements were responsible for the condition in these football players. He confirmed that persons had dehydration, when their muscles became broken due to hard trainings. When supplements are applied in such cases, they are turned to be toxic to kidneys directly, according to James William. He added that this condition caused rhabdomyolsis.
Unfortunately, the media didn’t interview real high-qualified experts. Only so-called specialists were asked by media. That’s why the conclusions were misleading.
It is suggested that Mike Gimbel of a Maryland anti-steroid and anti-supplement organization doesn’t have sufficient knowledge. This person just claims that however they do not know how the supplements act in body and whether they cause any benefits, these preparations are too dangerous for health.
Nonetheless, several facts displayed that anabolic steroids were not responsible for rhabdomyolsis of the football players. These patients submitted to tests for forbidden medications and they tested negative. Furthermore, a specialist has studied and shown that there was no any connection between muscle disorders and anabolic steroids or HGH. Richard J. Auchus, a specialist on steroid metabolism at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, is sure that gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid is the only preparation that could cause this condition. Sometimes this preparation is administrated for anabolic effects too. It is an illegal product. Some experts like Auchus, a consultant of the U. S. Anti-Doping Agency, confirm that no any medication is to be demonized for rhabdomyolsis of the players. He points out that the muscle disorder is caused by extremely hard training to which the coaches pushed the football players.
The coach Chris Doyle will be probably blamed for rhabodomyolsis of the football players, if steroids or other supplements will be not turned to be the reasons of the condition. Who knows? Even sport in itself may be accompanied by several risks.

The Pittsburgh Steelers and steroids

When it is announced that the Pittsburgh Steelers intend to play, reporters seem to have responsibility to write about their relations with steroids. They put efforts to create a steroid scandal and to find any probable links of this team with it.
Mike Fish of ESPN displayed the same attitude, when the Pittsburgh Steelers played in the 2009 Super Bowl.  This reporter turned to have luck in writing news related to the Steelers and steroids.
However sportswriters are not always lucky, when it comes to connections of a team or a sportsperson with performance-enhancing drugs before a competition, the situation is changed, if it is spoken about the Pittsburgh Steelers. Sportswriters like writing about their history, about the lesson related to anabolic steroids that took place in 1970s.
David Fleming wrote about historical lessons of the Steelers before a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers. This sportswriter mentioned about time, when the NFL hadn’t yet prohibited application of steroids. Thus, according to certain sources, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ players administrated steroids in the late 1970s. It is noticed in the 1991 book “False Glory: The Steve Courson Story” that more than 70 % of the offensive linemen of the Steelers  administrated steroids.
It must have been true but it is necessary to understand that administration of steroids was not prohibited. Why are the Steelers blamed, if application of steroids was permitted?
Jim Haslett told the New Orleans Saints that the Pittsburgh Steelers had won numerous times in 1970s and in 1980s because of steroids. According to this coach, the football players of the team became much stronger due to intake of steroids.
But it is important to be cautious here. The Steelers were not the first football team that administrated steroids and other preparations which have performance-enhancing effects. There were other professional football teams that utilized steroids even in well-organized way.
Matt Chaneygives the better explanation connected with application of steroids in football. He noted in his book “The Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American football” that the Steelers hadn’t to be blamed for the steroid revolution in football. There was another team which had to be condemned for this factor. The San Diego Charges administrated steroids before the Steelers in 1960s.  
Although the Pittsburgh Steelers administrated steroids in 1970s, it is impossible to claim that they won due to steroids. There were also players of other teams that took these preparations as well. Nonetheless, the Steelers were successful!

Extremely elevated dosages of testosterone were required to cause the same anabolic effects in muscles of rats that were produced by low doses of Trenbolone

Trenbolone is a steroid which is used by bodybuilders for numerous years. Unfortunately, this drug has never been considered to be  a good remedy for clinical purposes. It isn’t approved for human usage by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This product has been demonized many times by media. A lot of articles have stated that trenbolone is very  dangerous. But recent studies have shown opposite things. It is believed that general attitude to this steroid can be soon  changed. Joshua Yarrow and his colleagues from the University of  Florida consider that this medication may be used as testosterone for hormone replacement therapy.  The experts point out that it is an effective alternative medication to testosterone for the need mentioned above. Results of studies led by these specialists have been published in the American Journal of Physiology – Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Furthermore, the specialists proclaim that trenbolone enanthate has even certain priorities over testosterone for some patients. Bodybuilders  know and support the affirmations related to this steroid. It is known that testosterone aromatases. As for trenbolone, it is converted neither to estradiol, nor to dihydrotestosterone (DHT). That’s why trenbolone doesn’t cause undesirable effects related to estrogen and DHT.
Yarrow  reports about the researches led by him and his colleagues. Castrated rats have been given trenbolone enanthate.  Even low dosages of this medicine have increased their muscle mass and kept bone mineral density. There have not been reported such adverse consequences, as enlargement of prostate or polycythemia in these lab rats.
But very enhanced measures of testosterone enanthate were required to produce the same anabolic results in muscles as were produced by reduced measures of trenbolone enanthate. But such undesirable results, as enlargement of prostate and enhanced hemoglobin accompanied the increased measures of testosterone enanthate. It is supposed by the researchers that trenbolone acts like selective androgen receptor modulators, producing anabolic effects in muscles and bones without androgenic side symptoms.
Professional competitive bodybuilders like using trenbolone several weeks before competitions because it lead to fat loss. Furthermore, the studies have shown that the same doses of trenbolone have stronger lipolytic effects than those of testosterone. It has been determined that more trenbolone an individual administrates, the greater the fat loss is caused.
Since trenbolone lacks aromatization, it is usually stacked with such steroids, as testosterone, Dianabol or with another aromatizable steroid. The lack of aromatization makes trenbolone unable to be used alone for testosterone replacement therapy. The non-aromatizable property of this steroid is responsible for just partial protection of bones.
Nevertheless, it is possible to make conclusion that additional researches are needed in order to apply trenbolone for hormone replacement therapy.

Contaminated meat seems to be responsible for positive of Alberto Contador for Clenbuterol

The professional cyclist Alberto Contador who won the 2010 Tour de France tested positive for Clenbuterol. Amounts of this substance in his body were very small. They were 40 times less than its minimum standard of the detection capacity. But the WADA is not tolerable at all when it comes to this substance. Any amount of this medicine uncovered in an athlete’s body causes ban.
The cyclist Alberto Contador claims that contaminated meat is responsible for his positive for Clenbuterol. Some specialists are inclined to believe him, since the quantity uncovered in his urine are too small.   Neveretheless, the cyсlist Alberto Contadorreceived a ban.
Douwe de Boer, anti-doping expert of Contador’s defense team, notes that he becomes disappointed in the WADA’s decision day by day. This specialist notes that he seems as if the WADA were happy to ban innocent sportspersons but not to define cheaters.
The expert Zhao Jian of China’s Anti-Doping Agency says that a person may test positive from contaminated meat. It isn’t just anyone’s point of view. This statement has scientific basis. The expert Detlef Thieme from Germany supports this statement too.  He says that nobody may doubt about it.
The expert Wilhelm Schaenzer of the Laboratory for Doping Analysis from Germany notices that it is an evident problem that they do not have capacity to investigate and detect doping clearly.
According to anti-doping studies conducted in Cologne, it is more likely to detect Clenbuterol from contaminated meat than from intentional use of this preparation for athletic needs.
China’s National Anti-Doping Laboratory informs that experiments conducted by them have displayed that consumption of pork meat containing Clenbuterol may lead to positives for this substance.
In spite of these affirmations, there are skeptic people who suppose that Alberto Contador has administrated performance-enhancing drugs.
Skeptic attitude to Alberto Contadot can be explained by the aspect that usage of EPO, anabolic steroids, HGH and other preparations that possess performance-enhancing effects is widespread in cycling. Floyd Landis and Bernhard  Kohl, former cyclists that have been caught by the WADA, assure that all cyclists use performance-enhancing drugs. The chemist Patrick Arnold has the same point of view.

Unfair decisions of anti-doping agencies destroy dreams of athletes

Anti-doping agencies do no not make fair decisions in certain cases. Since some persons violate anti-doping laws, the whole teams are suspended. So, athletes who don’t lie are suspended together with cheaters. Don’t you find it  unfair? Why should good sportspersons be kept from making their hopes and dreams real, while other persons cheat?
The Waterloo football program was shut down for a year. It was a result of an investigation.  Everything began because of a bust of a player who was caught having thousands of  vials of anabolic steroids and HGH. This detection caused many investigations led in Canadian colleges. The investigations were conducted by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.
An investigation resulted in eight positives of the Waterloo football players. It led to decision to suspend the whole team for a year.
Unluckily, innocent players of the Waterloo College were suspended together with liars who used forbidden performance-enhancing medications. The players Matt Vonk and Steve Ples  played at Laurier before the steroid scandal and the suspension. These two players didn’t use steroids. That’s why Matt Vonk and Stele Ples hadn’t receive the suspension.
These two players decided to transfer to another college to realize their dreams linked with football. But these two football players received refusal. So, these innocent football players will be kept from playing football the whole year.

However some journalists lack knowledge related to steroids, they write about them

Since themes connected with steroids are widely read around the world, many reporters write about them even without appropriate knowledge connected with these medicines. Certain reporters can’t even spell names of the medicines about which they write pieces of news. When an article’s subject is connected with a well-known steroid applied by various athletes, readers expect to find out about essential properties and studies related to this steroid. A journalist that writes about a steroid should possess at least general information about it.
Unluckily, you may come across significant ignorance, when you read pieces of news about steroids. For example, Matthew Kelly has written an article about Nandrolone Decanoate that was published in the Newcastle Herald newspaper. It is known that the trade name of this product is quite popular. Athletes often call it shortly: they call it just Deca instead of Deca Durabolin.  The name  “Deca Durabolin” has been applied for about 50 years. But the journalist Matthew Herald has done mistakes even in the name of this popular steroid. This journalist has written it following: Decca Duarbulon. Could you trust the statements of this journalist? Can you be sure that the other things that are written by this author  are correct, if he can’t even write the name of the medicine correctly? Furthermore, it is not the only case displayed the lack of knowledge  about the aspects he writes. The Newcastle Herald seems to lack researches related to steroids. Kelly asks the local trainer to support his confirmation about steroids that is following: black market of anabolic steroids is full of young sportspersons who seek performance-enhancing drugs to build nice bodies. Since it must be true, the trainer can’t support the affirmation because he knows just the aspects he has been said. He can’t report anything actually because he is not involved in this problem directly.
Another lack of researches is displayed in the Newcastle Herald’s description of the way to detect consumers of steroids. It is written that if a person has massive arms but not chest or  an increased chest and not arms, he\she is a consumer of steroids. This is the “depth” of studies provided by the Newcastle Herald.