Author’s note:
The Bible of bodybuilding is the ultimate book of knowledge, in regards to the iron sport.
Not only from a physicians perspective, but also, from a former national competitive bodybuilder and champion.
This wealth of information provides all data based in scientific evidence, regarding drug use in bodybuilding and the potential risks to face.
Moreover, it provides harm reduction strategies, in order to minimize the side effects and ensure longevity.
However, PEDs use is a matter of perso, nal choice.
On the other hand, nutrition and training are standard parameters that so, meone has to apply on a daily basis, all year around.
In this book you’ll find the secrets of nutrition and which supplements work, plus to understand the basics of exercise in weightlifting and cardio training.
This masterpiece is dedicated to my dear mother, Anastasia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE 1 EVOLUTION OF PEDs 3 DOPING-ANTIDOPING STRATEGIES 7 HOW ATHLETES GET DOPED 13 PEDs IN MODERN SO, CIETY 18 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEDICAL PREVENTION IN BODYBUILDING 23 CNS STIMULANTS 27 CLENBUTEROL HYDROCHLORIDE (Clenbuterol HCL) 27 EPHEDRINE HYDROCHLORIDE (Ephedrine HCL)29 YOHIMBINE HYDROCHLORIDE 31 CAFFEINE 32 THYROXINE T4 (Thyroxine) 34 AMPHETAMINES 36 ANABOLIC HORMONES 38 SO, MATROPIN – GROWTH HORMONE (HGH) 38 HGH GUT 45 PEPTIDES (Secretagogues) 49 INSULIN AND SO, MATOMEDIN C (Insulin & IGF-1) 51 TESTOSTERONE 56 TESTOSTERONE'S SYNTHETIC DERIVATIVES 68 17 ALKYLATED AAS 68 OTHER AAS 77
PHARMAKOKINETICS of AAS86 AUTHENTICITY OF AAS 89 INTRAMUSCULAR ABSCESS 91 ERYTHROPOIESIS AND ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE 97 CORTICOSTEROIDS 99 STEROID LETHARGY EFFECT 101 DIURETICS 103 AROMATASE INHIBITORS 107 ARTHRALGIA OF AROMATASE INHIBITORS 109 AROMATASE INHIBITORS AND VISUAL DISO, RDERS 113 ESTROGEN FACTS 115 GYNECOMASTIA 117 SELECTIVE ANDROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS119 MEDICAL INDICATIONSFOR THERAPEUTIC ADMINISTRATIONOFPEDs121 POST CYCLE THERAPY (PCT) 124 HORMONAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY (HRT) AS A RESULT OF ANDROGEN INDUCED HYPOGONADISM (AIH-AAS ABUSE) 127 SUPPRESSION OF THE PITUITARY-HYPOTHALAMIC-TESTICULAR AXIS, AS A RESULT OF AAS ABUSE 137 PCT vs TRT 142 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 145 INDICATIVE AAS CYCLES 147
INDICATIVE CYCLE FOR BULKING 147 INDICATIVE CYCLE FOR CUTTING 150 LABORATORY TESTS – MONITORING THE PROFIL OF THE ATHLETE 155 LABORATORY ASSESSMENT DURING PHYSICAL STRESS 159 MAIN ADVERSEEFFECTS OF AAS 162 1. CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM: 162 2. LIVER-BILIARY TRACT: 163 3. URINARY SYSTEM (KIDNEYS): 167 4. REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM (SEX GLANDS) 168 5. HEMATOPOIETIC AND HAEMOSTATIC SYSTEM: 169 6. NEUROLOGICAL - PSYCHIATRIC: 169 7. IMMUNE SYSTEM: 169 8. CARCINOGENESIS: 170 MAIN ADVERSE EFFECTSO, F NON-AAS PEDs 171 1) HGH (GROWTH HORMONE-SO, MATROPIN): 171 2) INSULIN: 171 3) DIURETICS: 172 4) STIMULANTS: 172 5) RECOMBINANT HUMAN ERYTHROPOIETIN (REPO) 175 MECHANISMS OF DAMAGE BY PEDs USE 176 CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM 176 AAS - INDUCED HYPERTENSION 179 AAS AND HOMOCYSTEINE 182
GENITOURINARY SYSTEM 186 HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM 190 MUSCLE GROWTH AND CANCER 193 PREVENTION OF SIDE-EFFECTSO, F PEDs USE 195 LIFESTYLE PREVENTIVE TIPS ALONG WITH PEDSUSE 195 HOW PRO’S CYCLE AAS197 EXERCISE INDUCED CARDIAC REMODELING 199 THE IMPORTANCE OF EXERCISE IN COMPARISO, N TO STATINES, REGARDINGPREVENTIONAND TREATMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR EPISO, DES 202 ANDROGEN EMOTIONAL TOXICITY SYNDROME 204 PREPARING FOR A SHOW 209 POSING 215 EPILOGUE 234 WHAT BODYBUILDING IS ALL ABOUT? 234 BODYBUILDING AND MORTALITY 239 TOP 100 BODYBUILDERS OF ALL TIME 242 SELF CRITISISM 247 DR. DOPE OR SO, CIAL WORKER? 251 PED’S QUIZ 256 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 273 INTRODUCTION IN NUTRITION 330 BASIC NUTRITION PRINCIPLES 333 DIGESTION336
EVALUATING PROTEINS 339 SATIETY AND HUNGER342 CARBOHYDRATES 346 GLYCEMIC LOAD/GLYCEMIC INDEX 348 NUTRITION FOR MUSCLE GROWTH 351 CORTISO, L353 METABOLIC SYNDROME/DIABETES MELLITUS II 355 VEGANISM358 CHOLESTEROL 360 KETOSIS 362 FREQUENT INFECTIONS DURING DIETS 367 BAD HABBITS 368 CUTTING PHASE DIET 370 HYDRATION 372 AGE MANAGEMENT SUPPLEMENTS 375 Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) 375 Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) 376 Glutathione 376 Melatonin 377 SUPPLEMENTATION 378 Creatine 380 Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) 381 Glutamine 382 Νiacin 382 Caffeine 383
Yohimbe bark 384 Preworkout formulas 385 collagen 386 Colostrum 386 Medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) 386 Carnitine 386 Arginine- Citruline387 VITAMINS 389 RECOMMENDED OFF SEASO, N BULKING DIET (2GR PROTEIN/4GR CARBS PER KG) 396 RECOMMENDED CUTTING DIET (3GR PROTEIN/2GR CARBS PER KG) 399 NUTRITION QUIZ 401 TRAINING 409 THE SPORT OF BODYBUILDING 411 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (AEROBIC-ANAEROBIC EXERCISE) 418 WEIGHT TRAINING 421 MUSCLE TISSUE AS A METABOLIC REGULATOR 425 BODY TYPES 428 WOMEN AND RESISTANCE TRAINING 430 BICEPS BRACHI PEAK 430 WORKOUT PRINCIPLES433 HEAVY DUTY 436 MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT 437 DROP SETS 441
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444 GERMAN TRAINING 10Χ10 (GVT) 447 BODY FAT MEASUREMENT 449 BACK
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LEGSTRAINING 451 NUTRITION BEFORE THE SHOW 459 COMMON INJURIEs 464 INTERVIEW 467
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PREFACE
Health is the most important gift of all, because only if we are healthy, we are able to achieve our accomplishments.
As a doctor, I do know that medical prevention, through proper life style, or medical examinations, provide longevity. However, during my medical carrier I realised that, there are unknown pathogenesis of certain diseases. Quality of living in third age ensures a decent living when the individual can take care of himself, especially if he is independent on that. If we were able to realise our bad living habits would cost us in the far future, I am positive we would have stopped them. Everybody seems to regret that during suffering, when is seriously ill.
Health is an expensive gift nowadays in the modern world. In case you can’t afford getting hospitalized, your chances are poor to survive. It is better so, me patients to pass out shortly, rather than being a torture for themselves and their relatives as well. During my athletic carrier, I realized that being out of injuries, or any other kind of medical condition, I was able to achieve my expectations.
I wish all doctors of the world were useless. However, the modern human spends tremendous time of energy and time in order to make money and afterwards spends his fortune in order to improve his bad shape. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine said, whatever is not cured by medication, is treated by scalpel; while Apostle Paul mentioned the importance of consulting a physician. I am deeply so, rry to hear that my colleagues are getting profit in financial terms from the pain of their patients.
As a doctor I am against euthanasia. I do strongly believe that life is the most valuable gift on this earth and we have to live it till the end. Besides as a Christian I am against of it, even when the patient asks of it with despair. It is well known the case of ''doctor death'', Dr. Kevorkian in the United States. He terminated the life of more than hundred patients who asked for and fulfilled the terms for it. Eventually, he was convicted and spent over five years in jail for his ''legal'' crimes. Health in ancient Sparta and in the third Reich of Germany, were valuable gifts. As known, weak boys were thrown away as so, on as they were born, while sick children were assassinated in gas chambers.
I wish they were no diseases in this world; but through fighting those diseases, modern medicine becomes stronger and more effective in order to provide longevity and class to our living. MORE FOR THE BOOK…
