Bible_Belt said:
So the two of you think you're going to shoot your body up with designer chemicals without there ever being adverse consequences? And you don't think that's just a little naive? When drugs are new, no one really knows the long-term effects, because no one has been able to do them for a long term. That stuff isn't even legal to use on cattle, but you want to use it on yourself.
If your life or livelihood depended on having muscles, then maybe that would be a halfway decent excuse. But if all of this is so you can look good for the other guys at the gym, then you're taking a stupid risk for a stupid reason. Just because you don't see the risks, doesn't mean they aren't there.
No drugs are without risks BB... However, SARMs, and peptide hormones, such as HGH definitely have less harsh side effects relative to anabolic steroids. If you look at the primary literature on HGH adverse effects, there really isn't anything super conclusive... some studies have found a slight decrease in insulin sensitivity, and another has found increased mortality in ICU patients...however, there really isn`t that much definitely primary literature on effects on healthy people. I personally love how I feel on HGH and my wife is even commenting on how ì look younger...
As far as SARMs... they are in phase I and phase II clinical trials. Here`s a recent article if you wanna check it out... its actually really cool!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2907129/
There should be some clinical date sets present in there...of course you won`t have access to the full phase I clinical trial data as some of it will be propriatory. SARMs are much more specific than AAS, and therefore, give you a much cleaner therapeutic index and/profile.
I realise that these drugs are not without risk, and that there is limited data on their effects in the long term. However, with my career aspirations, it is difficult to get to my fitness goals (I wanna be 210 lbs at 5`8" with a 600 lb deadlift), without a little bit of help. I`m not a lay person... I have 8 years of university education in relevant fields, have been training for close to 15 years, have been a high performance athlete, and have made tens of thousands of dollars off my body. I`m also employed as a healthcare professional and will be going back to school soon to pursue my MD. In my professional opinion the risks posed by these drugs outweigh the benefits that I am getting from them...
In the end it is a personal choice whether or not to use a drug. Just make sure your choice is educated and prudent.