the difference between a steroid your doctor might prescribe for pain or and the illegal steroids athletes take.
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Depending what the steroid you are obtaining, there may be no difference.
Steroid is a term used for a giant swath of drugs that fall between has medical application and is approved by the FDA (legal but a controlled substance) to has no medical application and has no approval (illegal).
Almost all of them were created to treat some kind of ailment (chronic wasting disease an example where muscle building is the focus). Some fail in trials, some don’t work well, some are fantastic.
A doctor can prescribe you testosterone (the best steroid) / synthetic testosterone or someone with a plug can get you it from either suppliers in China / India (where most drugs are made)or from websites who dgaf about import restrictions, or with fake prescriptions.
There are also what are hormone blockers (SARMs that technically block the receptors of said hormones, it’s the same effect) that are obtained similar to testosterone mentioned above.
There is another special case, where an athlete can work with a pharma company to create a compound that is unknown to testers and regulators, but that is more myth and there aren’t a ton of examples (but they do exist). Most high level athletes can just beat the tests. HGH (a PED used for recovery) can exist your system in 90 minutes. Very hard to catch someone with that unless they just took it, and usually there is a period of time where you have to report for the test. The NBA has a 90 minute window and Lebrons agent frequented a clinic busted for selling HGH in Miami for a patient “LJ” but that just speculation.
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