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Re: Shree Venkatesh Masterbol 150 Lab Test Results

Millard Baker — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:15:24 -0000

The report itself states the 117 g/L (equivalent 117 mg/mL). The original "AnabolicLab.com cover sheet" contained the typo that you identified and has since been corrected. This does not invalidate the report.

The testing was not "tested or referred against the sampe of Drostanolone propionate 100mg/ml". This can be verified by contacting ChemTox directly.

Re: A study might change the way sports thinks about human growth hormone

Millard Baker — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:12:27 -0000

Many PEDs are largely recovery and healing drugs. It's not an easy thing to reconcile with current anti-doping approaches.

Re: Senators Urge Colleagues to Support Anabolic Steroids Legislation

Millard Baker — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:43:23 -0000

Reverse engineering steroids to produce "designer steroids"? Are you kidding? No, that's not what happens. Most of these companies find steroids to sell as "dietary supplements" by picking and choosing from Julius Vida's 40+ year old reference book "Androgens and Anabolic Agents".

Re: World Cup 2014: Diego Maradona accuses Fifa of drug testing conspiracy against Costa Rica

Millard Baker — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 05:20:57 -0000

It may be easy to dismiss Maradona when he alleges corruption by FIFA anti-doping officials. But he is not the only one questioning FIFA. In an incredibly sarcastic op-ed piece, New York Times journalist Juliet Macur was highly critical of FIFA and suggested they weren't really trying to catch dopers. After all, was Maradona really the only World Cup player to use PEDs in the past 20 years; FIFA wants you to think so.

Re: World Cup 2014 : Maradona slams FIFA over Costa Rica doping scrutiny

Millard Baker — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 05:05:36 -0000

Even by testing 7 Costa Rican players, FIFA still has not caught a single player doping at the World Cup in 20 years. Coincidentally, Maradona was the last player to test positive for a banned performance-enhancing drug (ephedrine) during the 1994 World Cup.

Re: The Powerful Allure Of Steroids

Millard Baker — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 19:39:49 -0000

Congratulations to CJ Murphy of Total Performance Sports for his rational comments on anabolic steroids in the face of such hysteria!

On the other hand, how can such a smart man like a medical doctor at Harvard University say such stupid things?

How can anyone take Harrison Pope seriously when he:

- compares steroid users to HIV patients? Does he really want us to believe steroid use is a public health epidemic like HIV/AIDS?

-- suggests that any Joe Blow, beer guzzling steroid user could become an elite athlete if he only took steroids?

Re: New Study: Clenbuterol and Heart Disease

Millard Baker — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 18:32:33 -0000

Unfortunately, while ephedrine + caffeine may be safer for fat loss than clenbuterol, it is usually easier to find clenbuterol on the black market than it is to find ephedrine hydrochloride over-the-counter in stores.

Re: East Germany’s Steroid Shame

Millard Baker — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 14:32:22 -0000

There is a big difference between the voluntary choice to use anabolic steroids and PEDs faced by most athletes today and the lack of consent from athletes in East Germany who were essentially forced to use AAS.

Re: David Owen: Plea bargaining and doping - you ain’t seen nothing yet - insidethegames.biz - Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games News

Millard Baker — Sat, 17 May 2014 07:56:17 -0000

Which is worse? An athlete who uses steroids and takes responsibility for his actions? Or an athlete who selfishly betrays his friends and teammates by backstabbing them so he can avoid responsibility for his actions?

Which values does WADA consider most important? Sadly, it is the latter: the selfish athlete who wants to avoid personal responsibility.

WADA's promotion of a snitching subculture is likely to do more harm than good.

Re: Yuliya Efimova Tests Positive for Dehydroepiandrosterone

Millard Baker — Tue, 13 May 2014 08:42:20 -0000

Efimova didn't test positive for DHEA. She tested positive for a metabolite of DHEA called 7-keto-DHEA.

While DHEA has some androgenic effects and should generally be avoided by females, 7-keto-DHEA has essentially no androgenic and no anabolic effects. It is a well-researched compound that underwent extensive safety and efficacy clinical trials funded by Humanetics for FDA approval. It is currently sold and marketed to males and females as a dietary supplement to facilitate fat loss.

Re: Weak Sanction for Sprinter Gay Signals Change in Anti-Doping Tactics

Millard Baker — Thu, 08 May 2014 16:59:03 -0000

Travis Tygart and USADA are given too much discretion in determining how favorably they will treat certain athletes. For example, what is to stop the highly religious Tygart and Bock from giving special treatment to devout Christian athletes like Tyson Gay? Or give harsher penalties to athletes if they are atheists? Tygart shared his contempt for atheists with Juliet Macur for her book "Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong":

"If I personally was on the brink of death and went through a terrible situation and came out of that as an atheist," Tygart said, "I'm going to do everything in life that benefits me because I might not be here tomorrow.

"Treating people fairly or being decent or putting myself aside for other people - those basic moral values that most of us practice regardless of what religion we are - wouldn't matter. I'd have no moral constraints. The logical extension of that would be: 'I don't give a f*ck about anything. I'm gonna get it when I can get it.'"

Re: Weak Sanction for Sprinter Gay Signals Change in Anti-Doping Tactics

Millard Baker — Thu, 08 May 2014 16:52:06 -0000

Travis Tygart/USADA and Tyson Gay did some bonding during the six years Gay helped market and promote "clean sport" via a USADA marketing program called "My Victory". USADA still features Gay as a poster boy for clean sport on its website with the pronouncement by Gay that "I compete clean because I really believe in fairness."

Re: Six female varsity lifters caught for doping | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis

Millard Baker — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:54:45 -0000

It is difficult to administer anabolic steroids to females without their knowledge. The side effects of the androgenic hormones are particular apparent in females. While we should always give athletes the benefit of doubt, few people believe athletes anymore.

All competitive athletes, even steroid-using athletes, deny doping simply because it is forbidden and the consequences of admission would mean banishment from the sports for several years. Furthermore, given that weightlifting is one of the most steroid-plagued sports, it is difficult for an accused weightlifter to convince the general public of his or her innocence.

Could a jealous teammate have spiked or otherwise sabotaged food or drink with steroids as has been suggested by the four university weightlifters? It's possible but the long history of doping cases would suggest this to be an uncommon explanation.

Re: Kentucky Sheriff's Deputy Accused of Dealing in Illegal Steroids

Millard Baker — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:47:01 -0000

There is a big difference between cops who use steroids and those individuals outside of law enforcement who choose to use steroids for non-medical purposes. While both are illegal, at least in the United States, only cops have sworn to uphold the law. Buying steroids on the black market opens them up to corruption and participation in crime.

Re: MMA serious about steroid use? Not even close.

Millard Baker — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:19:54 -0000

You're the first MMA writer that I've seen accurately identify the problem. It's not so much that NSAC gives out TUEs for TRT. The IOC and WADA have been doing this for years without incident. It's that the NSAC has been INDISCRIMINATELY granting TUEs to anyone that asks with only minimal medical justification (i.e. they find some doctor, any doctor, to say they need TRT). WADA only very rarely gives out TUEs for steroids.

Re: Bouton Discusses Baseball, Steroid Use With The Sun

Millard Baker — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 08:17:27 -0000

Jim Bouton is another former MLB player who dismisses the widespread use of amphetamines during his "era" as nothing more than pep pills like caffeine while demonizing anabolic steroid use during the "steroid era". It's clearly a double standard to deem amphetamine-using players as worthy of the Hall of Fame while deeming steroid-using players as unworthy.

Re: Pete Rubish on Drug Use Side Effects + Poll

Millard Baker — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:28:33 -0000

I agree that steroids make even the worst training protocols "work". But, all things being equal, the smartest training methodology will always win.

Re: Del. woman charged with poisoning husband by lacing his steroid injections with antifreeze

Millard Baker — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:03:51 -0000

So anabolic steroids do really kill - but only when anti-freeze is added to them.

Re: California Issues Total Ban on TRT Exemptions in MMA as it Moves Towards WADA Standards

Millard Baker — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 07:25:48 -0000

The headline "California Issues Total Ban on TRT Exemptions in MMA as it Moves Towards WADA Standards" makes no sense.

A "total ban" is incompatible with "WADA standards". WADA permits TUEs for TRT.

If the commission eliminates TUEs for TRT, then they are moving away from WADA standards.

Re: California Issues Total Ban on TRT Exemptions in MMA as it Moves Towards WADA Standards

Millard Baker — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 07:22:23 -0000

CSAC Executive Director Andy Foster seems to be contradicting himself.

He fully supports NSAC's decision to eliminate TUEs for TRT.

But at the same time he fully supports WADA's policy of issuing TUEs for TRT.

He can't have it both ways.

Does Foster think NSAC made the right decision? Or does he think they made the wrong decision and should have followed WADA's more stringent criteria for granting TUES??!

Re: Steroid Site Injections for Increasing Muscle Size

Millard Baker — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:58:33 -0000

Steroid injections don't have local action. But if one is going to inject 10 mL per week of an injectable steroid solution, why not use it for site injections if the user insists upon doing site injections anyway?

Would it be better to avoid site injections with the steroid solution and add an additional 10 mL of non-steroid containing sterile vegetable oil, as you seem to suggest, for the site injections?

Which minimizes risk/harm?

Re: WADA to Resume HGH Testing, 'Outraged' by New Drug

Millard Baker — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:46:09 -0000

This "news" is why drug testers will always be behind in the pursuit of athletes who dope.

MGF has been openly discussed and experimented with by thousands of bodybuilders and athletes on internet forums for at least six years. The only "shock" is that journalists and WADA seem surprised at this "discovery".

Who could blame the Russian scientist for trying to sell 100-milligrams of MGF to an ignorant journalist for $100,000? The going market price for that quantity is only a few thousand dollars. And athletes/bodybuilders don't need to buy it in bulk; they can buy 1-milligram at a time at a fraction of the reported cost.

WADA President Craig Reedie and WADA general director David Howman should really be more up-to-date and in touch with what athletes are doing given their positions as anti-doping watchdogs. Their reactions to the MGF story tell a lot about the current state of doping.

Re: The Disturbing Result of Steroid Abuse

Millard Baker — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:57:53 -0000

Ever heard of "reefer madness"?

Anti-drug crusaders have a long history of creating alarmist conditions that are not well-supported by science to promote hysteria and demonize drugs.

Re: Olympians Comment on FINA Petition to Recognize Victims of East German Doping Era

Millard Baker — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:30:27 -0000

A significant percentage of Olympic athletes from the 60s onward used anabolic steroids and/or performance-enhancing drugs. The overwhelming majority of them were never caught. If East German athletes have been proven to have used PEDs, then an argument can be made for vacating their placings. However, it would be unfair to redistribute medals to others given the pervasive culture of doping in elite sports and the ease by which doped athletes avoided detection especially in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

Re: Inhibición y Recuperación de la Producción Natural de Testosterona

Millard Baker — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 06:11:49 -0000

"Idealmente, la HCG no debe usarse en una PCT. En realidad, para ciclos de esteroides, la HCG sólo debería ser utilizada en la PCT cuando se haya cometido un error y este tenga que enmendarse."

http://es.thinksteroids.com...