In April 2008 the Wall Street Journal reported that steroid-induced muscle gains may be permanent. MESO-Rx identified the unnamed and unpublished research study belonging to Swedish researcher Anders Ericsson of the Umea University. Ericsson’s October 2006 doctoral thesis was entitled “Strength training and anabolic steroids: a comparative study of the trapezius, a shoulder muscle and the vastus lateralis, a thigh muscle, of strength trained athletes”.
Anders Ericsson will discuss his research and its implications at the American Physiological Society conference in Hilton Head, South Carolina this weekend (September 24-27, 2008).
Dr. Eriksson will discuss the team’s study, “Anabolic Steroids Withdrawal in Strength Trained Athletes: How Does It Affect Skeletal Muscles?,” at a conference sponsored by the American Physiological Society. The conference, The Integrative Biology of Exercise V, will be held September 24-27, 2008 in Hilton Head, SC.
The possibility that anabolics steroids could have permanent effects on muscular development and/or performance enhancement runs contrary to widely held belief that one loses all of the results gained from steroids once the drug is discontinued Read more
The Wall Street Journal reports today that the muscle gains from anabolic steroid use may be permanent according to an unnamed and unpublished research study from Umeå University in Sweden (”Cheaters Do Prosper: Scientists in Sweden Make a Stunning Claim: The Benefits of Steroids May Never Go Away — Even When Athletes Quit Taking Them,” April 4).
When the researchers looked at the subjects’ muscles through a microscope, they made a surprising discovery: Rather than returning to their original proportions, the muscles of the steroid users who’d stopped taking the drug looked remarkably similar to those of the subjects who were still using. They also had larger muscle fibers and more growth-inducing “myonuclei” in their muscle cells than the nonsteroid users.
MESO-Rx has identified the research as belonging to Anders Ericsson in the Department of Integrative Medical Biology at Sweden’s Umea University. Ericsson’s doctoral thesis was entitled “Strength training and anabolic steroids: a comparative study of the trapezius, a shoulder muscle and the vastus lateralis, a thigh muscle, of strength trained athletes” and was submitted on October 6, 2006. The full text PDF is available online. Read more
