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Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Some exercisers say cannabis eases their pain and anxiety — and makes fitness more fun.
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Running after smoking or vaping marijuana can make exercise more enjoyable, a new study found.
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Drug Free Sport New Zealand's advice for athletes about the threat posed by supplements.
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The celebrity weight loss drug is out of stock around the world, but experts say people using it need to make sure they don’t lose all their muscles as well.
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For pro bodybuilders, biggest is best onstage. Steroid use is rampant. But creating that bulk can disrupt nearly every system in the body.
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Australian bodybuilder and actor Calum von Moger, a three-time Mr Universe winner, has checked himself into a rehab facility to fight his drug addiction.
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Now restrictions are easing, some people who have not used alcohol or other drugs recently may start to use them again, and need to be aware of their reduced tolerance.
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An unusual illness is on the rise in the United States, especially in states that have legalized marijuana. People who frequently use cannabis, including teenagers, are showing up in emergency rooms with uncontrollable vomiting.
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Brisbane lawyer Tom doesn't look like your typical gym junkie, but he's been trapped in a cycle of using performance and image-enhancing drugs for eight years.
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Steroids. They’ve caused global scandals. They’re banned in most athletic competitions. Yet the same properties that help elite athletes and bodybuilders improve performance also make steroids valuable for treating many illnesses and injuries, such as AIDS and cancer. So if steroids are used as medicine, they must be safe to use recreationally, right? Anees Bahji explores the effects of steroids.
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Agency says no evidence the intravenous antiviral works for severe infections
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Harm from alcohol in Australia surpasses that caused by crystal meth and heroin, a new national study suggests.
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Athletes are blinded by perceived short-term gains and neglect the long-term health impacts, according to Dr David Hughes.
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With so many different types out there, it's hard to know what sleep medications are safe to use. Here's a guide.
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The old archetype of the IPED (image and performance-enhancing drugs) user, of a beefed-up thug shooting up before throwing weights around a backstreet gym, garage or garden shed, is changing.
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Opioids should only be considered in limited circumstances for low back pain.
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In the search for a quick route to a muscular physique, many young men turn to controversial anabolic steroids to achieve their goals. But in the wake of deaths in the bodybuilding community, do the statistics showing a four-fold increase in their use, really add up?
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He maintained steroids could cause heart trouble and liver damage, as well as reproductive problems, breast growth in men and severe depression.
He cited examples of young athletes dying from enlarged hearts or of suicide after using steroids.
In addition to the harmful effects of performance-enhancing substances, Dr. Wadler also warned of something almost as pernicious: an undermining of the morality of sports.
“Cheating strikes at the heart of the value system in the sports structure,” he told USA Today in 2003. “Sports is supposed to be a contest of character. When it becomes a contest of chemistry and pharmacology, that’s a tragedy.”
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One man became possessed, another thought he was playing Mario Kart from the seat of his stationary car, and several people have died.
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We don't know enough about the people who use painkillers non-medically to make the judgement that there is a natural transition from legal to illicit drug use.
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An exercise supplement containing a substance not considered safe for human use will be pulled from New Zealand shelves following a Herald investigation. - New Zealand Herald
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He used it to get pumped and it worked brilliantly. But it wasn't long before Ryan Young realised something was up with the powder he had been mixing with water and knocking back before - New Zealand Herald
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Wellington's one-time "Mr Big" of the body building scene is now an unlikely poster boy against "juicing".
The microwave generation has lead to the use of steroids!!