Anabolic steroid is not a term that gets used much in medicine; the distinction between it and corticosteroids is an arbitrary one. Essentially, when one uses the term anabolic steroid, the reference is to a drug with a greater testosterone effect (testosterone is a steroid). All steroids are potent anti-inflammatory drugs. When one uses the term corticosteroid, the reference is to a drug being used for the anti-inflammatory properties.

Trying again. I’ll be really embarrassed if I manage to screw it up. Though it wouldn’t be such a big deal if we had an EDIT FUNCTION! I do know how to do bold and italics.

HGH < > Steroids

Never mind. Thanks for trying.

Somehow corticosteroids = a okay

HGH = the devil (pointy-tailed, pitch fork carrying version)

Yet, odds are that corticosteroids are FAR more useful to enhance/enable performance than HGH….as corticosteroids are known to be awesome in this respect, and evidence that HGH is has been hard to come by/elusive.

HGH &lt &gt steroids

Also, HGH has medical uses. BUT after a lot of testing, we’ve determined with a reasonable amount of certainty, that growing bigger and stronger when you are already big and strong and possessed of normal HGH production IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN FROM TAKING SUPPLEMENTAL HGH. As Paperlions notes, HGH might even be counter productive if you are taking it for strength and endurance (Berggren & Ehrnborg et al, 2005).

The hormone MAY have some uses in injury recovery (Creaney & Hamilton, 2007) and may have some uses for the elderly (Chu & Lam, et al, 2001) but study results are tentative and require more and better focussed study with respect to doses, long term effects, side effects, and injuries for which the hormone is suited. Its highly irresponsible to treat sports injuries with HGH with so many questions still to answer.

In a fair world HGH wouldn’t be illegal: it does not enhance performance. In a fair world federal regulations would see to it therapies like HGH weren’t demonized and proper studies could be carried out before people started pumping Dog Knows What into themselves.

Jeez

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Anyway, HGH is not the same thing as steroids.

Also, medicine often prescribes corticosteroids, which I think are wonderful, but they are not the same as anabolic steroids. I have no idea what kind of steroids were prescribed to your sister.

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Go to webMD and search for HGH and read the basic page, there is plenty more if you want to pour through it….it’ll give you the basics, but it is a medical website, it covers facts, it doesn’t spend a lot of time debunking every internet myth out there.

Because the body’s HGH levels naturally decrease with age, some so-called antiaging experts have speculated and claimed that HGH products could reverse age-related bodily deterioration. But these claims, too, are unproven. The use of HGH for antiaging is not FDA-approved.

http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/human-growth-hormone-hgh