What's Your Biggest Concern About PEDs ?

[Vexor]

What concerns you most about PEDs: long-term health effects, hormonal changes, cardiovascular risks, or lack of reliable information?

 

[Ckmeter]

The younger generation abusing the shit out of them unnecessarily. The cycles I’ve heard from kids barely 200lbs…

The bodybuilders and coaches who don’t care about bad blood markers, controlling glucose, or blood pressure. These things are going to really fuck people up down the road.

 

[Vexor]

The younger generation abusing the shit out of them unnecessarily. The cycles I’ve heard from kids barely 200lbs…

The bodybuilders and coaches who don’t care about bad blood markers, controlling glucose, or blood pressure. These things are going to really fuck people up down the road.

Agree on both. Young guys running big cycles before they've maxed out natural training is asking for trouble. And ignoring BP, glucose and bloods is how the damage sneaks up years later.

 

[Ckmeter]

Agree on both. Young guys running big cycles before they've maxed out natural training is asking for trouble. And ignoring BP, glucose and bloods is how the damage sneaks up years later.

Natural potential aside, I know kids running more gear than open Olympians . Upwards of 10g a week with 30iu of gh. It’s gotten retarded.

 

[Phill]

to run out

 

[Vexor]

Natural potential aside, I know kids running more gear than open Olympians . Upwards of 10g a week with 30iu of gh. It’s gotten retarded.

Yeah, that's insane, and it's starting to look normal. Doses like that with no bloodwork are how heart and kidney problems show up early.

 

[Halfi]

I’d have to say for me it would be getting fake gear and running it in knowingly. Everything else is manageable in my eyes. Do your blood work often and Listen to your body , if something’s off stop and reassess

 

[Vexor]

I’d have to say for me it would be getting fake gear and running it in knowingly. Everything else is manageable in my eyes. Do your blood work often and Listen to your body , if something’s off stop and reassess

Fake gear is a real worry, and bloodwork often is the right call. I'd just add that "listen to your body" only goes so far, since BP, lipids and heart strain are silent, so the labs matter more than how you feel.

 

[Meetketchup]

With smart compound choices, dosages, nutrition and sensible cycling you can control many factors such as kidneys, liver, blood pressure, etc. The wild card is the heart. Yes, we can get calcium scores and all the available tests which I do to ensure I am as healthy as possible, but the heart is and will be my biggest concern at this age.

 

[Vexor]

With smart compound choices, dosages, nutrition and sensible cycling you can control many factors such as kidneys, liver, blood pressure, etc. The wild card is the heart. Yes, we can get calcium scores and all the available tests which I do to ensure I am as healthy as possible, but the heart is and will be my biggest concern at this age.

Fair point on the heart, and getting calcium scores is smart. I'd just say you can't fully control kidneys, liver or BP either, you can only monitor them. A calcium score also doesn't catch everything, so keep tracking BP, lipids and ApoB along with it.

 

[Meetketchup]

Fair point on the heart, and getting calcium scores is smart. I'd just say you can't fully control kidneys, liver or BP either, you can only monitor them. A calcium score also doesn't catch everything, so keep tracking BP, lipids and ApoB along with it.

I said, "control many factors." Not "fully."

And I know what to monitor and track. Must be new around these parts.