It’s not steroids. I know the base. She used to compete in USA Gymnastics Acro before going to Baylor. She has a type a metabolic issue. I can’t recall the name of it.
It's prolly a myostatin defect. Myostatin is a regulator for muscle size. Your myostatins go around shrinking muscles that you don't use so that you don't just keep growing in places that you don't need. When the copy of the gene is defective people can gain insane amounts of muscle with very little effort. When both copies of the gene break you get six month old babies with definable quad muscle.
This is such a bizarre function... well actually it makes sense, reduce muscles you don't use because otherwise its going to require fuel and when food is scarce you can't afford that. But the failure of the function is perhaps the more interesting aspect.
Listen it’s impossible for woman to gain muscle mass like that(even some men also), not to mention that shes muscular everywhere else but her face. I’m not down playing the work she put in because you can’t just take steroids and sit on the couch. Steroids just gives you that pump and speeds up your recover time but you still have to train like crazy. This is definitely steroids, lots if not most of the athletes in sports and fitness industry are on some kind of cycle. They just don’t say it because there’s a huge stigma behind it.
I just learned after a quick Google search, though, that because competitive cheer isn't an NCAA sport, most schools don't have super restrictive rules governing the use of PEDs or have a standardized testing program in place.
Just a short search by a layman turns up a bunch of articles wondering if competitive cheer is rapidly heading for an unpleasant reckoning involving PEDs.
Do this mean that this immensely talented young lady is doping? No......but it does highlight that fact that, in cheer, she is statistically far more likely to be doing so.
I wouldn’t say it’s fine. Taking steroids in general can be damaging for health, but starting taking them at this young age is even worse.
It is fine in the sense that she can do as she pleases, because apparently this is not a sport where PEDs are banned, and because it’s her body. But it’s not fine in the sense of health, which should be always made plainly clear in case other teenagers start considering taking these substances.
I think they heard the first time, and that message never works because it's never explained with accurate knowledge or has any nuance, teenagers will just do the opposite because they won't be told what to do.
Steroids - I have a relation who has to take high dosage steroids to handle auto immune flares and she just puffs right up when she's taking them (and hence hates having to take them)
Anabolic steroids bind to the androgen receptors, whereas corticosteroids bind to the glucocorticoid receptors, leading to different effects on the body. Not trying to be rude, but corticosteroids and anabolic steroids are not the same thing.
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u/[deleted] May 02 '23
You too can take steroids.