Steroid Nation

Kirk Radomski, steroid dealer, pushes supplements

Kirk Radomski, who supplied all kinds of unhealthy PEDs to professional athletes is now concerned about health.  As noted in the Daily News, Radomski pushes supplements, like Mass Arrival X0Treme.

A man wearing a blue lab coat and a shower cap pushes a hand truck loaded with 249 boxes of dietary supplements out of the factory loading dock and toward the GMC Acadia. The next chapter in the life of Kirk Radomski — the man who supplied steroids and human growth hormone to dozens of major leaguers for 10 years — has begun.

“I want to see people lose weight,” Radomski says as he and his partner, Steve Cohen, loaded boxes of “Mass Arrival X-treme,” a supplement that boosts testosterone levels, into Cohen’s vehicle. “I want to see people get bigger muscles. I want to see them live healthier live...

“I’m a convicted felon, but that didn’t stop people from coming up to me and asking my advice about supplements,” he says. “I really couldn’t recommend a lot of products. There are a lot of companies out there that shouldn’t be in business. They put illegal ingredients in their products.

Radomski is free to engage in business activites, of course.  What is bizarre is that people ask him about supplements and nurition.

Like asking a street narcotics dealer what to use for pain relief.

Brian Cushing: Overtrained and Disingenous. Stakes claim on over-training producing his hcg level; Also notes pigs fly

Houston Texan ROY linebacker Brian Cushing, long thought the be a juicer at USC and in the NFL, and nailed with a positive PED test last spring is claiming 'overtrained athlete syndrome' affected his hormone status.  Cushing also claimed that pigs fly and that the moon is made of green cheese.

Cushing tested positive of HCG, a hormone of pregnancy that supports testosterone when anabolic steroids are discontinued for say, PED testing.  The NFL's Rook of the Year (yes we meant that) will sit out 4 games in 2010 in the steroid time out box.

There is a literature on Over-Training, which happens when a athlete stresses his body to a degree he cannot recover.  The athlete's stress level is high; his HPA axis (hypothalmaic-pituitary-adrenal) can be messed up too.  However, Brian Cushing needs to understand HCG isn't included in this deal...hormones like cortisone and testosterone may test somewhat abnormal.

Texan's owner Bob McNair will foolishly appeal to the NFL front office to rescind Cushing's suspension.  While that indicates the owner supports his players, it also indicates Cushing is willing to maintain a fabrication while his owner humiliates himself.

Count us as very annoyed that a steroid-cheat like Cushing not only attains his career advancement by cheating, but continues to deceive caring people about his PED cheating.  Cushing should fess up to the ch...there is only so much BS that is acceptable.  Save others from the humiliation of defending your nefarious actions.  That, or you were pregnant.  (of course he can divulge all in his port-career book: Brain Cushing, Confessions of an Over-Trained and Dis-Ingenous Athlete)

Here is a legitimate abstract on the condition after the jump: