Steroids Once and Forever?
The WSJ reports a small Swedish study suggests the effects of steroids continue after athletes stop using:
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.
The study subjects were 26 elite powerlifters, not equines, but I wonder if the same effect would be seen on racehorses previously supplemented …
