If using dietary supplements for performance-enhancing drugs, be sure to study these tips

Provided by the Taylor Hooten Foundation:

Here are 8 tips for safe use of supplements:

1. The best way to use supplements safely is to avoid supplements you don’t need. Use supplements only if you have reliable information that the ingredient(s) will benefit you.  Accurate information can be found at the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.  
2. Select supplements with only the ingredient(s) that you need.  If you need vitamin D then select a supplement that only contains vitamin D.
3. Avoid supplements with more than one herbal ingredient.  It is very difficult to determine the effect that multiple herbs will have on your health.
4. If you take prescription medications or have health conditions, ask your physician if the supplement you are considering is safe for you.
5. Avoid supplements that are sold to treat an illness, for example supplements sold to treat diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol.  These supplements are more likely to be contaminated with prescription medications.
6. Avoid supplements that claim to help you lose weight or improve sexual or athletic performance.  These supplements may not only be contaminated with prescription medicines but also with dangerous analogs.
7. Purchase supplements in retail stores rather than over the Internet.
8. If you experience a side effect from a supplement:

• Stop using the supplement
• Inform your physician
• Inform the FDA

By carefully selecting and using supplements, you can obtain the most benefit from supplements while minimizing the chances of serious side effects.

Dominican Republic Prospects Just Keep on Being Caught of Using Steroids

Even more Dominican Republic Prospects are being caught of using steroids.  The average rate of finding steroid users from the D.R. is 1.0098 per day.  Here are the media releases:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110318&content_id=17012194&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110215&content_id=16644680&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100903&content_id=14237532&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb

More Dominican Republic Baseball Players Suspended

Dominicans are extremely suspectible to using performance enhancing drugs.  The Minor League Baseball Website is clogged with news of Dominicans being caught using steroids.  Here is the link of one of the many articles about this topic:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110707&content_id=21544332&fext=.jsp&vkey=pr_milb

Announcers talk about Steroids during All-Star Game

Announcers talked about steroids during the All-Star Game.  When home run leader Jose Bautista stepped up to the plate, the announcers discussed if Bautista might be using steroids.  But they then confirmed that Jose Bautista was clean, and the steroid era had come to an end.  But since the T.V. announcers even thought about talking about steroids, many think that the steroid era is just beginning.

The Latest on the Roger Clemens Case

The latest update on Mr. Clemens:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2011/07/roger-clemens-trial-jury-seated-opening-statements/1

Preventing Steroid Use by Humans

Stopping the use of steroids in baseball is simple.  All we have to do, is school kids at an early age about not utilizing steroids in their lives.  Parents should do this privately from age 6, when kids first begin to understand the concepts and fundamentals of life.  These lessons should not be long, probably no more than 10 minutes long.  Bring up these steroid talks over dinner, or whenever you have time.  You only need to talk about steroids to your kids probably only thrice a year.  Complicated talks with your kids are not necessary; they just need to be reminded that no matter what, steroids are not an option.  Even if your favorite athlete uses them, that does not mean that you should.  Remember, to stop steroid and performance enhancement drugs, we have to increase awareness.  That is our first major step towards eliminating steroids in youth baseball.

Scouts and Trainers in the DR don't mix

Dominican Republic prospects are being injected with steroids at awesomely high rates.  Trainers are conspiring to steal from player salaries, because they "helped" them get to the Major Leagues.  To get players to the Majors, trainers are rapidly injecting their prospects with performance enhancing drugs.  Trainers secretly put them on sale in secret "bid markets", where scouts try to buy them.  Scouts get payed for how many top-performing prospects they sign, and by cooperating with the steroid-injecting trainers, they get huge bonuses.  (Naturally, steroid injected prospects perform better)  The conclusion that us reporters and people have came to, is that DR kids are being injected with steroids at a quick rate...partly because of corrupt trainers and scouts.

Alex Rodriguez and his chances of breaking records

As most of you know, Derek Jeter just broke the 3000 hit barrier, a seemingly impossible milestone that only the best in baseball have ever achieved.  MLB.com cited a list of hitters that might be next to make 3000 hits; A-Rod was one of them.  Rodriguez has only 238 hits to go, to reach 3000 hits.  At the pace Alex is hitting, he will almost certainly make the milestone within the next two years.  The problem is, if the 35 year old deserves to belong to the 3000 hit club, because of his steroid use.
There has already been spectulation if Barry Bonds should hold the all-time home run record.  And chances are that A-Rod might break Bonds' home run-record himself.  Rodriguez has 628 home runs...while Bonds only has 756.  If A-Rod sets new records in hits and homers, does he deserve to keep it?  Even if he used steroids?

Alex Rodriguez and his steroid dealer

Reportedly, Alex Rodriguez's steroid dealer was his cousin; a man named Yuri Sucart.  During his trial he said that he procured steroids from Yuri.  A-Rod says that his cousin went all the way to the Dominican Republic to purchase steroids.  Mr. Sucart has been banned from following the Yankees in any way.

Poor Dominican Republic Kids

Dominican Republic kids are being trained at baseball academies, starting from when they are less than 10 years old.  The academies have appearances similar to that of prisons.  Also, the innocent kids being trained there, are recieving mysterious injections of trainers.  These injection are usually steroids:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/sports/baseball/25dominican.html

The Latest on Barry Bonds

Prosecutors are weighing the pros and cons of going into extra innings in the Barry Bonds Case:
http://sfist.com/2011/06/23/prosecutors_weigh_extra_innings_in.php

Witnesses to be used in the Roger Clemens Trial

These are the potential witnesses to be utilized in the Roger Clemens trial:  Former Red Sox Star Wade Boggs; Former Teammate Jason Giambi; Former Teammate David Cone; Yankees catcher and DH Jorge Posada; and Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman.

Roger Clemens Trial to Begin Wednesday

ABC announces that the Roger Clemens trial is to begin wednesday.  ABC also provides further details of the case surrounding Mr. Clemens:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roger-clemens-trial-set-begin-week/story?id=14040115

My analysis on the Roger Clemens trial

This blog's analysis on the Roger Clemens trial has come to a simple conclusion:  The trial does not make ANY SENSE AT ALL.  Sure, we would all like to see Clemens recieve a punishment for lying to Congress....but is it worth it?  As far as the Washington Post and New York Times know...this trial is costing millions of dollars.  Can our already battered economy take the wasting of even more money?  On such a child-like case?  A baseball player lying to Congress?  Gee, baseball is JUST A GAME. 

Most baseball fans would rather return to baseball..and wish that this whole thing never happened.  What really sickens my stomach, is that some politicians are benefiting from this, and making money off this whole matter!  Persecuting and being involved in a case that is centered around a celebrity gives you a whole lot of fame.  They don't care if it wastes money, they just want to benefit from it.
We just wish that this whole matter never happened.  The multiple steroid trials have wasted millions of precious dollars, and benefited the wrong people.  It is wrong to lie, but this trial is getting out of hand. A more small trial, in a small courthouse would be just fine, but this going to Congress?  Unspeakable.

Does the Roger Clemens trial make sense?

The Washington Post gives us their take if the Roger Clemens trial make sense at all:
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/21st-century-pacifist/2011/jul/8/does-clemens-trial-make-sense/

The opinion of the most famous Yahoo Sports Analyst

The most famous Yahoo Sports Analyst gives us his detailed opinion of steroid trials and how they should be done:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ycn-8755795

The Barry Bonds Trial

Barry has just asked the trial judge to overturn his conviction:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/06/barry-bonds-asks-trial-judge-overturn-his-conviction

Alex Rodriguez and his Involvement in Steroids

Here is the latest on A-Rod and steroids:
http://www.isteroids.com/blog/a-rod-gave-anti-steroid-speech-at-baltimore/

New Ways of gaining Muscle Without Steroids

Many people undervalue the importance of vitamins in your life.  It has been proven by Medical Doctors that vitamins are a more natural way of becoming stronger and faster.  In some cases, vitamins speed up your muscle strength faster than steroids!  Vitamins also defend against cancer, an added plus to gaining more muscle.  Here are the most effective vitamins in becoming stronger and healthier; these are healthy and legal alternatives to steroids:

-Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)
-Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)
-Thiamine (Vitamin B1)
-Vitamin D
-Vitamin B12

Those listed vitamins are also cheap.  Diet is another way of becoming a superb five-tool baseball player.  The diet is pretty simple, and includes food that is affordable in even the poor countries:

-Egg Whites....protein to fat ration of 60.1....purest protein
-Chicken and Turkey Breast...very low fat excellent sources of protein
-fish
-Many people don't think of this one:  beans...everybody can afford beans
-a lot of water
-Red Meat not recommended.

This method of eating has been proven by weightgainnetwork.com.  New conductive studies have produced that specific eating habit.  White meat is better than red meat, because it is healthier.  White meat also improves your speed and flexibility much more than red meat.
These new conductive studies have produced those two ways to becoming a better baseball player...without steroids.

The Darkside of Steroids

• premature balding or hair loss
• dizziness
• mood swings, including anger, aggression, and depression
• believing things that aren't true (delusion)
• extreme feelings of mistrust or fear (paranoia)
• problems sleeping
• nausea and vomiting
• trembling
• high blood pressure that can damage the heart or blood vessels over time
• aching joints
• greater chance of injuring muscles and tendons
• jaundice or yellowing of the skin; liver damage
• urinary problems
• shortening of final adult height
• increased risk of developing heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancer

Risks for Girls

• increased facial hair growth
• development of masculine traits, such as deepening of the voice, and loss of feminine body characteristics, such as shrinking of the breasts
• enlargement of the clitoris
• menstrual cycle changes

Risks for Boys

• testicular shrinkage
• pain when urinating
• breast development
• impotence (inability to get an erection)
• sterility (inability to have children)

Other Risks
Unfortunately, steroids can be addictive, making it hard to stop taking them.
Steroid users can spend lots of time and money trying to get the drugs. And once users stop taking steroids, they're at risk of developing irritability, paranoia, and severe depression, which may lead to suicidal thoughts or attempted suicide. Some of the long-term effects of steroids may not show up for many years. People who use steroids also appear to be at higher risk for using other drugs, such as alcohol or cocaine.
Because growth hormone can only be injected, like some steroids, there's a risk of contracting HIV or other diseases (like hepatitis) if people share needles.
Steven Dowshen, MD

The Mission of this Blog

This blog has been created to represent the ongoing worldwide effort to stop the spread of steroids in baseball.  We plan to save the kids of the Dominican Republic from succumbing to steroids injected by their trainers.  When we say stop steroids, we mean stop steroids.  Kids in poor countries are being given steroids by their trainers, from as early as age 13.  The permanent and horrible effects of steroids on kids' minds and bodies are unacceptable.  Follow this blog if you want to be updated on steroid activity, and how we are attempting to eliminate steroid use in youth baseball.