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Re: A Tale of Two Trainers (455 Views)
Posted by: Electrocutionist (IP Logged)
Date: May 16, 2021 10:34AM

Glad to see you guys bury the hatchet. Ok, I could have said "kiss and make up" but chose not to. I don't post much unless I think it's important. I've read both your comments over the years and always appreciated your points of view.

My only beef with the SNL bit is that it repeats the commonly held belief that all steroids are bad and all are performance enhancers. Betamethasone is an anti-inflammatory, and in fact if these types of glucocorticoid steroids are used long-term, they cause muscle weakening. As opposed to anabolic steroids (testosterone and similar steroids) that are used to build muscle. I know that you guys know this, but the general public hears "steroids" and the knee-jerk reaction is that the trainer is juicing the horse. This is a bit different (assuming my speculation about joint injections is correct), but maybe it's just semantics. Probably best to uphold the most stringent threshold values for these drugs.



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