The brain cancer did him in. The HGH Azado was using was also from a very questionable source.
Using the juice is short term gain only. I have noticed in my sport (bicycle racing) that juicers are “flash in the pan”, here today gone tomorrow. Athletes who train intelligently and use natural supplementation (amino acid combinations) to boost the body’s own mechanisms can achieve the same results. It does take a bit longer, and more work, but the benefits are much longer term without the ill effects. One example is Kent Bostick, formerly of Team Shaklee, and still a strong road rider in his mid 50’s.
If you really want to see the long term effects of the juice, look at some of the East German athletes. Healthwise they are basket cases.
“
If you really want to see the long term effects of the juice, look at
some of the East German athletes. Healthwise they are basket cases.
“
Despite most of the junk on PBS, they did have a sad and in-depth
documentary on the sad state of those East German female athletes that
grabbed all the Olympic medals.
(I can’t remember for sure, but I think it was a NOVA episode.)
Many are physical and some mental basket-cases.
Additionally sad is that the East Germans appear to have not been
given any sort of direct consultation from their coaches/staffs
that they were biological guinea pigs. All for the greater cause of
their Socialist Republic.
And the bitterness of the competitors that lost to them is another
bitter issue. As they don’t get any direct acknowledgement from the
Olypmic authorities that “they was robbed” by the juicing of the
East Germans.
When I saw the documentary I felt a little guilty for having laughed
at a “National Lampoon” cover that showed an Eastern Block/Soviet
female athelet in track-and-field attire...
with an obvious bulge in her shorts.
These girls were really used by their government, coaches and the
“doctors” that attended to them.
It’s the “blood dopers” you have to worry about in your sport Fred. There’s some great drugs for stamina, certain steroids too, they don’t all make you “big”, you had better be miles better than a guy who’s using to beat him.
Little boxers who throw over 100 punches a round and seemingly never tire use these drugs too.
Those old Olympic Soviet Bloc athletes were using cattle and horse roids and God knows what else that deformed their heads. Excessive HGH will deform your head and your internal organs too. Barry Bonds gained like 3 hat sizes.