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The medical community is mostly a joke, all they are there to do is push you pharma. I'm not terribly surprised to see that the participants gained mass while not working out. But you see they didn't gain much strength just muscle, so you would figure that training along with AAS would have a compounding effect. Such as AAS increase musculature, training increases strength which further increases musculature, but I'm probably preaching to the choir here.
I do wonder why the medical community is so completely devoid of understanding of the endocrine system, I mean they can spout off about the cardio-pulminary system, but don't know jack about basic hormones.
The endocrine system is still relatively new science, but there is HUGE divide that is emerging regarding the role of cholesterol. For years, it has been the metabolic and health boogeyman, but it is finally starting to become accepting that atherosclerosis is the result of a poor lifestyle and not the cause of CV incidents. Cholesterol is found in every living cell and when there is excessive damage and stress in the heart (e.g. chronic inflammation), then you are going to have extra buildup of cholesterol due to the need for new cells to replace the damaged/dying ones. This is partially why many statins have NOT been shown to lower CV incident even though they do lower cholesterol
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I understand the endocrine system is relatively new. I am very well aware of the cholesterol science "changes" that are happening or more that fact that the medical community can't keep blaming something that doesn't do what they say it does.
Heart problems have always been caused by poor lifestyle, and poor eating habits. But due to some things we did in the 1950's we went down the wrong road and blamed Cholesterol, instead of the fact that people were eating trash, and cholesterol is more of a clean up crew than the problem.
Trigs have been found for the most part to be more indicative of heart problems, than cholesterol. I mean LDL isn't even measured in a standard lipid profile, it's just guessed at, when the particle count, and size are about all that matters in determining if there's going to be excessive buildup of VLDL in arterial walls.
I agree on the statins not lowering cholesterol levels, yet they are the largest portion of profits for pharma. I have heard that some places actually wanted to start putting statins IN the drinking water even though the study that proved they were effective (the Harvard Framingham Heart Study) only proved they provided like a 1.2% benefit.
Edit: I can go ON and ON about cholesterol, and cardio-pulminary health.
Last edited by Eden; 11-10-2012 at 04:18 PM.