Hormones

If you check the medical literature for side effects of growth hormone use, you’ll note that diabetes often makes the list....

Anabolic steroid use is demonized in the media, primarily because it’s considered morally unethical in sports. That judgment implies that anabolic...

Q: I’m over 50 and have no energy. My doctor says I have low testosterone. I’ve seen commercials for testosterone-replacement therapy....

Information and education can be a double-edged sword. When I started training in the early 1980s, I had never heard of...

Although various anabolic hormone drugs, including anabolic steroids, growth hormone and insulin, are the most commonly used drugs by bodybuilders and...

Q: Are there any natural ways to increase testosterone? I’m 44 and “slowing down” in a few key areas and want...

Bodybuilders seem obsessed with cortisol, which is an adrenal steroid hormone. That means that like testosterone and estrogen, as well as...

It’s never been easy to get anabolic steroids legally. Soon after juicing became routine for athletes in the mid-1960s, steroid popularity...

If any nutrient can be referred to as a “rising star,” it’s vitamin D. In the past vitamin D was most...

Q: I’m from London, and I’ve done commercial modeling for three years. I haven’t gotten good results from my workouts and...

In recent years a widespread trend among sports supplement companies has been to list the ingredients contained in any particular product...

The use of anabolic steroid drugs-—synthetic versions of testosterone available in both oral and injectable forms—is in some ways more controversial...

Contrary to what is often suggested in the popular media, serious side effects related to anabolic steroids are relatively rare. Side...

The search continues for natural testosterone-boosting substances, which are of interest for a number of reasons. The government-mandated removal of all...

Some users have stated in various surveys that they want to be “cut but not big.”