[thegelding]

and healing is a major factor also...in the case of bonds, as a possible example...

you age, your joints and muscle break down more easily and take longer to heal...you go on steroids and you heal more quickly and can play longer, harder and later in life...you go off steroids and a knee doesn't heal and you miss a year of baseball...without steroid testing bonds would have played much more of last year as he may not have hurt his knee, or not as badly, or it would have healed much more quickly...

steroids are a great thing in medicene...but not something to take everyday except for extreme asthma

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