Anabolic steroids raise levels of harmful protein - true???

[Mr.X]

You see this whole study is flawed and full of lies...I could make this study about crack heads and it would be true.

Plasma homocysteine levels are strongly influenced by diet, as well as by genetic factors - NOT 'just' steroids.

"The dietary components with the greatest effects are folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12. Folic acid and other B vitamins help break down homocysteine in the body. Several studies have found that higher blood levels of B vitamins are related, at least partly, to lower concentrations of homocysteine. Other recent evidence shows that low blood levels of folic acid are linked with a higher risk of fatal coronary heart disease and stroke."

A simple lack of vitamin B and folic acid can cause the SAME! problem, so is it steroids? or are they full of shit, like all the other misinformed/ignorant idiots out there.

If there is one thing I hate is people using mass panic to make up BULLSHIT studies! :doh



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SOURCE: British Journal of Sports Medicine, July 2006.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study provides more evidence that long-term use of anabolic steroids can cause heart and blood vessel disease, and may even boost the risk of sudden death.

UK researchers found that bodybuilders who used the muscle-building steroids had increased levels of homocysteine, a protein tied to increased mortality, heart disease risk and blood vessel damage, compared with bodybuilders who didn't use the performance-enhancing drugs.

Three steroid users died suddenly during the course of the study, and all had homocysteine levels that were higher than the average for steroid-using study participants.

"The findings of this study suggest that anabolic-androgenic steroids are detrimental to cardiovascular health and appear to be implicated in cardiovascular mortality in long-term anabolic-androgenic steroid abuse," Dr. Michael R. Graham of the University Glamorgan in Pontypridd, Wales and colleagues conclude.

There have been reports suggesting that steroid users face an increased risk of sudden death as well as acute clotting-related health problems such as stroke and heart attack, Graham and his team note.

To determine whether steroid users might have increased homocysteine levels, which could contribute to the risk of heart and blood vessel problems, the researchers measured levels of homocysteine and several other substances in the blood in bodybuilders who had been using steroids for more than 20 years.

They were compared to steroid-using bodybuilders who had abstained from the drugs for three months, bodybuilders who had never used steroids, and sedentary, non-steroid-using men.

Current and past steroid users had higher homocysteine levels than other study participants, as well as "dramatically elevated" levels of hematocrit.

As mentioned, three of the steroid-using bodybuilders died during the study period and all of them had significantly higher levels of homocysteine than the average for the steroid-using group.

Sudden death and acute clotting events "may represent under-appreciated risks" of anabolic steroid use, the team warns.

[Mr.X]

no comments on this?????

[Rat]

3 died out of how many studied? No real facts here.

Most people may eat clean, but fail to supplement their diet with the proper vitamins and minerals, since most of the food these days are lacking.
This causes all sorts of maladies, which are hard to attribute to any one thing. Therefore, you can use it for whatever "facts" you may care to use them for.

[Scott]

correlation does not equal causation. that goes for the vitamin b quote too.