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Steroid stigma: Why it matters, and what we’re doing about it

News, Health & Lifestyle

Steroid use is legal in the UK, but that doesn’t mean it feels safe to ask for help.

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The Liver King Lie: Why It Matters for Your Health

Health & Lifestyle

If you’ve spent any time scrolling fitness TikTok or Instagram, chances are you’ve come across Liver King. With his wild beard, shirtless workouts, and love of eating raw organs, Brian Johnson built a global following almost overnight.

Women & Steroids: How common is it, really?

Sport & Training, Health & Lifestyle

Steroids aren’t just a “blokes in the weights room” story anymore. As more women lift, compete and chase performance, questions about anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) among women are getting louder.

“More drugs means more stress on my body”: what elite strength athletes say about PIEDs

News

When you talk to high-level lifters in untested federations, you hear two things again and again: performance comes first, and nothing is free.

“Insulin is super dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing”: What lifters told us

Health & Lifestyle, Diet

Insulin saves lives in diabetes care. In some corners of the physique and strength world, though, it’s been repurposed as a performance/image-enhancing drug (PIED) because of its anabolic effects.

The Straight-Talk Guide to Steroids: What’s in the new Hi-Ground booklet & how it helps you stay safer

News, Health & Lifestyle

If you lift, you’ve probably noticed two things: information about steroids is chaotic, and the risks are real, but often avoidable with better knowledge and support.

Monitoring health markers whilst using Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Health & Lifestyle, Sport & Training

Necessary or propaganda created to keep members of society getting too huge?

From underground to lab: How Steroid Checking is Changing the Game for Harm Reduction

Testing Options, Health & Lifestyle

For people who use image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs), the risks do not just come from the compounds themselves, but from not knowing what’s really in the products they are using.

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