The chemistry of muscle

Ever wondered where today's dens of hardcore drug taking and polymorphous transgender practices are?

"A survey of male and female gym attendees found not only growing rates of steroid abuse but also greater misuse of prescription drugs [including] the breast cancer treatment tamoxifen and the diabetes medication insulin... Professor Bruce Davis, discovered that male bodybuilders were using the breast cancer drug to counteract the adverse side effects of steroids. "When men take testosterone in large doses, it changes into oestrogen and they can develop a condition known as gynaecomastia, which causes them to grow breasts. Some even produce milk," he said. "Taking tamoxifen prevent this by repressing the body's production of oestrogen."

Fascinating how too much testosterone becomes oestrogen. Very Tao somehow.

June 15, 2006 | 11:48 PM