hmmmm

“According to league sources, Lewis was taking nutritional supplements at the end of last season that unknowing to him contained a substance commonly known as DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone) — a chemical compound made naturally in the body but also found in numerous over-the-counter supplements at nutritional stores.”

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-rashard-lewis-positive-for-steroid-080609,0,675108.story

I don’t much about supplements, but I don’t think you can buy steroids over the counter.

It’s the next scandal waiting to happen. Now it begins. I already stated my opinion to this back in May when Dave discussed it. And I have to say I had Lewis on my list of the most suspect players partly due to some images from media day 2008 where he has very strange skin reactions. Maybe I’m wrong. But I have seen too many excuses.

http://www.blazersedge.com/2009/5/22/883324/performance-enhancing-drugs-and#16032886

This is just a preview. It was much more pronounced in the full resolution.
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Because I think the benefits of it (except for maybe Centers) are less than in other sports and thus they won’t risk it.

$120 million isn’t what it used to be.

Is another aspect of it. Not sure what the “lag time” is to test clean but it is likely specific to each different drug[or hormone] in the spectrum and a guy could juice all summer with little risk of detection if he knew when to lay off it

scandol!

He quotes some guy named Dave from BlazersEdge.

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-43-19/Three-Thoughts-About-Rashard-Lewis-and-Performance-Enhancing-Drugs.html

I think Orlando was slipping Rashard the steroids so they don’t have to pay him for 10 games, money problem solved.

right?

Usually NBA take performance decreasing drugs(e.g. weed)

There was a video that went around some locker rooms by Lyle Alzedo who was pretty much on his death bed saying “dont do it,it aint worth it”

DHEA occurs naturally in the body, so I don’t understand what a positive test implies. Very high levels of DHEA maybe? Or from one report it sounded like he had high testosterone levels. While it’s true that DHEA can somewhat increase testosterone, it’s normally very minor. If he did indeed have high testosterone, I suspect it was from something other than DHEA.

DHEA is a precursor to a lot of other human hormones. DHEA levels fall as we age, perhaps leading to various ailments. Many alternative doctors (and some orthodox ones) recommend DHEA to keep levels closer to what is normal for a young person. I’ve supplemented 50mg DHEA daily for some years and I doubt it has had little affect on my testosterone which remains at a level normal for my age. And I don’t think I’d get any argument when I say it certainly hasn’t bulked me up. I’m 6’0" tall and weigh 153 …. the same as I’ve been for years (even those years before I ever started taking DHEA).

I don’t think we got the full truth from Rashard.

This is nothing like what’s happened in baseball. He didn’t test positive for HGH or some illegal steroid. That’s why he doesn’t look like it.

He tested positive for an ingredient called DHEA that was in an over the counter supplement he bought. Any of us can get this and it’s nothing like steroids, which is why it’s not illegal. I don’t know if he’s telling the truth or not, but it’s a lot more believable, in this case, that he might not have known the supplement included a banned substance. It was just a store bought supplement that has a laundry list of ingredients that most people would never try to read through. He made a mistake that I doubt he’ll make again, but this should never get confused with what players have been doing in baseball.