US soldiers using steroids to increase brawn for battle

Good for them.

Just weeks before his battalion of 700 soldiers departed for Afghanistan last year, Lieutenant-Colonel Burton Shields had a disconcerting visit from an army investigator.

The agent said several soldiers under Colonel Shields' command at Joint Base Lewis-McChord had admitted to illegal use of steroids. One of the suspected users was a battalion captain.

Why?

Anabolic steroids can increase muscle mass and strength but they are typically taken at much higher levels than those prescribed by doctors.

However, even doses that are prescription can add mass and strength - and prevent illness and reverse the damage many illnesses cause.

The best way to prevent the illegal use of these very helpful substances is to legalize them.

In fact, among the meds cited in one version of this article is one that used to be legal for human use until Joe Biden and other similarly impaired individuals got into the situation.

Others are absolutely legal when obtained by prescription.

It is a common fallacy that anabolic steroids are illegal.

Some are. Some are not.

As to the risks, they are significantly overblown.

And as with so many things where government has an agenda, not knowledge, and the bully pulpit, the propaganda you hear and see is untrue.