THE UNSPOKEN AND UNKNOWN TRUTH ABOUT ANABOLIC STEROIDS…

THE UNSPOKEN AND UNKNOWN TRUTH ABOUT ANABOLIC STEROIDS

Like everything else in our world human beings will always find a way to abuse things that have been designed to be helpful when properly administered.  Anabolic steroids which are simply synthetically manufactured testosterone were designed for the purpose of enhancing and intensifying the rate and quality of muscle growth.  In the real world they have enjoyed decades of successful application.  In spite of the miraculous medicinal success of steroids they have been demonized for reasons which are more political than practical.  For anyone interested in knowing more about anabolic steroids the question is not whether steroids are safe to use, rather it is when America is going to catch up with technology, take an intelligent look at how this drug is already doing miracles for the human body and support an intensified effort to develop and make available and legal more steroid-based pharmaceutical and grade products for recreational and clinical use. 

For athletes, anabolic steroids offer one very clear and irresistible promise, to allow them to jump higher, swim and run faster, lift heavier, and to achieve a greater level of endurance in competition.  Aside from the obvious medicinal applications as a medicine to rehabilitate people who have had severe atrophy due to accidents or disease the obvious application of steroids is to allow humans to achieve physical performance levels far superior to those capable given the normal levels of testosterone produced by the body.  It is not hard to understand why testosterone has gone the way it has gone because human nature is always focused on perfecting itself and this drug appears to be capable of providing athletes with superhuman physical capabilities.   Testosterone has also been linked to the aging process and its use in older men has successfully compensated for the bodies automatic drop in production as we grow older accounting for a renewed vivacity.   

Jesse Owens an American victor in he 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany

Politically, anabolic steroids are one of the greatest threats to the delicate sense of self-esteem embodied in the concept of nationalism.  During World War II the Nazis sense of ethnic superiority were stung by Black American athletes who defeated them in The Olympic Games.  Instantly after the fall of the Third Reich, during the cold war, The Olympic Games became a global hotbed for racial tensions awakened by Nazi Germany and transmogrified into athletic battlefields peopled by the communist and capitalist regimes who fighting as bitterly as if gold and silver medals were nuclear missile strikes!  

The 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany were intensely racially charged 

We know today those athletes from Communist China, and from the U.S.S.R.  experimented with steroids to achieve athletic superiority on the road to The Olympics and so did American athletes.  In order to achieve some modicum of order, to create a level playing field, steroids, which threatened to give one nation an unfair advantage over the rest, had to be demonized and made illegal on a global level.  Genetic engineering is one of the less discussed hallmarks of the cold war between the 1930’s and today but it played a huge role in world struggle for chemical and biological dominance.  Experimentation with steroids was just an offshoot of the larger cold war mission to manufacture a superior human being who could defeat his political adversaries intellectually as well as physically.  Athletes were truly the guinea pigs of unscrupulous cold war nations to determine if the trillions of dollars they had invested in secret genetic research had paid off.  In spite of its cryptic and undistinguished progeny anabolic steroids now comprise a vast range of uses in everyday products and medicines helping the world’s population manage sickness and injury. 

In spite of the politically driven, negative image given to anabolic steroids it continues to be used daily by millions of people around the world.  In America, we see the struggle athletes must fight to be able to legally use these sports enhancing drugs to do what they are paid to do in the first place… To Win!  It is my opinion that genetic engineering which includes the responsible use of steroids is rather the wave of the future.  The use of steroids and steroid-derived products will increase rather than decrease as we move further into The Twenty-First Century.  Steroid use will become commonplace and humans will not even remember when or why it was once banned.  After all steroids were invented as a tool to enhance athletic performance so it is only logical that we use them as originally intended.  Who creates something so potentially miraculous and then says, “You cannot use this”?  The whole case for making steroids illegal is political,   that is why so many people ignore the spurious warnings created to tap into the fear and guilt mindfuck manufactured by the same governments that created steroids in the first place.  We know that these governments secretly experimented with and continue to covertly refine them in hopes of developing some super-drug able to make some super human in the future, the cold war has never really died.    This contradiction bankrupts the government in its attempt to convince Americans that steroids are inherently physically harmful and morally evil therefore justifiably illegal.  Where did morals come into this equation in the first place?  We are talking about a goddamed athletic performance drug not something that will turn its user into a demon?  I’m so very lost by this argument that I finally decided to go the way billions of other people around the world have and ignore it altogether. 

Politically driven propaganda has caused the use of anabolic steroids to be demonized not because they do not work safely and effectively when properly administered but because they do not support the idealised image perpetrated by a government that manufactured them in secret and became embarrassed, having to save face when it became an issue of global concern.  Instead of admitting its development and experimentation with steroids as part of a larger genetic engineering program and initiating negotiations for some kind realistic understanding of anabolic use among athletes America chose to get on the global bandwagon while continuing to do extensive research with steroids.  Today the real reason why steroids are banned is shrouded by lies and fear intended to cover up the role America played in the development of that substance.  Many Americans are honestly not operating on an informed level when it comes to steroid use, relying on absurd myths such as the shrinking of the male scrotum or the intensification of aggressive behavior.  Like the pornography industry in America, homosexuality, and a host of other precious and taboo issues about which Americans are in denial, the actual number of steroids users would startle you, its big business and the government knows it!  So while the average American may deny use of anabolic steroids the reality is that there is a high likelihood they will use it, are using it or have experimented with it in the past.  Of course this does not make it legal or healthy.  

Example of false anabolic gimmickery

The point of this article is to expose the reason why anabolic steroids are illegal in America which has nothing to do with whether it is truly safe, we know it is safe, (or we hope it is), because everything from our asthma inhaler to the thousands of over the counter pharmaceuticals we use on a daily basis are derivatives of some kind of steroid.  The question is not whether steroids are safe to use, rather it is when America is going to catch up with technology and take an intelligent look at how this drug is already doing miracles for the human body. 

Let us dispel the myth of the shining American athlete who is above using sports enhancing drugs in order to achieve an edge over the next guy… isn’t that what sports is all about anyway?  Being the fastest, strongest, biggest you can be?  Who wants to pay to see a scrawny pip-squeak who has the same abilities you do?  Americans want to see a picture that is larger than life, a freak show… and that is what entertainment is typically all about anyway!  Nobody is more in denial about this than our own government.  America may not have invented steroids but during the cold war they quickly got on the genetic engineering bandwagon and have never jumped off.  Why not end the hypocrisy created by investing billions of dollars in genetic engineering programs hidden from the taxpayer and then pretending that it is a practise of such paramount immorality and perilous danger!  If Americans want to pay to see athletes who do not use sports enhancing drugs let them demonstrate this at the box office, otherwise my money is with the big boys!  The government should not be passing moral judgment about private and recreational sports events anyway.  If The Olympics were privatized then governments would not have a say in them to the extent they presently do.  I conclude that the Olympics maintains a standard of human mediocrity rather than excellence and that it is time for one that pushes the physical limits like never before allowing the safe and responsible use of anabolic steroids as a means of catapulting sports performance into the next century! 

David Vollin