Teens and Steroids
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This is an excerpt from the book Legal Muscle by Rick Collins on Teenagers and steroids. Some good points that alot of teens don't think about.
"You're technically an adult and can make up your own mind, but are the benefits really worth it? The way I see it, to really get the benefits you're going to need to take more steroids than an older guy. Why? Because your own natural testosterone levels are really high right now, as suggested by your acne. Once you take in testosterone from outside, your own natural production shuts off. It can go to zero pretty fast. You'll need a lot of juice just to get you up to where you were to begin with. An older guy, whose levels have gone down over the years, might double his natural levels by taking half of what you'd need just to break even. Studies have shown that testosterone levels of teenaged boys jump to as high as 2,000 nanograms per deciliter of blood - about two to four times of your typical adult. How can you justify not taking advantage of the highest natural testosterone levels you'll ever have in your life? How can you justify just shutting them down? The kids who start juicing without having built any natural foundation get big fast and then get small again just as fast as soon as the cycle ends, like a yo-yo.
If you are 200 pounds and 30 years old, I'd agree your potential for further gains after years of training might be pretty much expended. If you wanted to keep improving, I might sympathize with your dilemma. But that's not you. You haven't even scratched the surface of your natural potential. Look at you. If you need steroids to break the 160-pound barrier, take up tennis. You could easily gain twenty pounds without touching anything that might get you busted. I'll bet your training sucks, your diet sucks, and you haven't even begun to pay the necessary dues of hard work. You want fast, dramatic results? At your age, this is probably the only time in your life that you'll be able to get them without juice. Milk it for all it's worth. Revamp your training, start eating right, and stop asking people about steroids at nineteen years old."
Thanks to intense6 for the excerpt...
