Over the next weeks and months I want to begin to assemble information on steroids and hormone replacement therapy. We'll have lots of issues to explore re: steroids and the athlete at age, among them:
- physiological changes as we age, which reduce testosterone;
- cholesterol as a testosterone precursor;
- relationship of cholesterol levels to testosterone levels;
- good cholesterol, bad cholesterol, and testosterone;
- free testosterone;
- steroid effectiveness;
- contraindications;
- life-extension;
- maintaining peak performance;
- moral implications for competition;
- moral implications for fitness; and
- if you choose to use steroids, what do you need to know from your doctor about dosage, frequency, and cycling
The list of questions and issues will likely lengthen. Many will have access to the new film Bigger, Stronger, Faster - The Side Effects of Being American, but I suggest revisiting THE ROID RAGE, a segment HBO sports ran in 2005 as a starting place to begin a discussion about safety.
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