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- From: thornto@next2god.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Mike Thornton)
- Subject: Re: Cycling and Doping
- Organization: University of Western Ontario
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:57:05 GMT
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- >In aswer to your question, yes I favor thresholds on all drugs --
- >aren't most anabolic steroids naturally occurring?
- >John_Ampe@att.com
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- No, only testosterone is and it has the worst anabolic to androgenic
- ratio, (1:1). The others are "synthetic", they have the same basic 5 alpha
- ring (OK, my organic chemistry has weekened) but have extra side chains
- added on, i.e methyls......etc. The idea is to increase the anobolic
- effect while not not changing the androgenic potency of the drug. Dianabol
- and deca-durabolin are two synthetic "testosterone-like" drugs which have
- ratios of something like 5:1 and 8:1. The anabolic effects are increased
- greatly while minimizing things like virulism and other androgenic
- effects.
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- So these are not made by the body, only testosterone is. The others are
- easily picked out as spikes on mass specs. or gas chromatagraphs.......
- witness Ben Johnson.
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- Mike Thornton
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