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Athletes have obviously been tempted to use performance enhancing anabolic steroids. Drug testing may discourage such use. But a new study finds that some of the performance benefits of steroid use may persist years after an athlete stops doping. That’s according to research presented this week at a conference of the American Physiological Society.
Swedish scientists looked at power lifters, a pure strength sport. Steroids can increase muscle fiber size and the number of cell nuclei in the fiber. The researchers found that even years after steroid withdrawal—and with little or no current strength training—muscle fiber density and increased number of cell nuclei were comparable to drug-free athletes currently doing high-intensity strength-training. The additional cell nuclei could give a big advantage to former dopers—more nuclei means more protein synthesis, which means more muscle. So steroid use can still offer a competitive advantage years later. Which means that a clean ballplayer can still hit a dirty home run.
—Steve Mirsky
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Add Commentin this case, once an athlete doped the drug, he/she would not be allowed to enter a competition.So that he/she cannot touch the drug in any situation even several years before the match
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisin this case, once an athlete doped the drug, he/she would not be allowed to enter a competition.So that he/she cannot touch the drug in any situation even several years before the match
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisok,it's not fair to a athlete do not use durgs.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisif that is true, the drug testing department has real had an extremely thorny problem to tackle. How can they judge whether an athlete ever doped in his or her training before?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThere are many legal steroids on the market that people can take as well. You can read about some of them here
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Also this site has information on most steroids:
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all those 'legal steroids' have recently been made illegal as part of the designer steroid control act of 2010. http://SA.301d.com/
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisoops I wrote 2010 I meant 2012. http://SA.301d.com/
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