Some so-called specialists confirm that steroids are responsible for rhabdomyolsis

More than 10 players of the Iowa Hawkeyes football team were taken in hospital due to rhabdomyolsis. This is an illness linked with quick damage of skeletal muscle that results in leakage into urine myoglobin, a muscle protein. Persons who have this disease suffer from serious muscle pains, weakness and soreness. Since byproducts of the muscle destruction become toxic to the kidneys, there is a high risk of kidney failure in this situation.
Specialists began promptly to demonize nephrotoxic supplements or anabolic steroids in occurring of rhabdomyolsis in players of the Hawkeyes but there was no any relation between these preparations and this condition in them. The doctor James Williams told to CBS during an interview that nephrotoxic supplements were responsible for rhabdomyolsis in these football players. He claimed that persons had dehydration, when their muscles became broken due to hard trainings. When supplements are used in such situations, they are turned to be toxic to kidneys directly, according to James William. He added that this condition caused rhabdomyolsis.
Unluckily, the media didn’t interview real high-qualified specialists. Only so-called experts were asked by media. That’s why the explanations were misleading.
It is suggested that Mike Gimbel of a Maryland anti-steroid and anti-supplement organization doesn’t have sufficient knowledge. Mike Gimbel just claims that although they do not know how the supplements act in body and whether they lead to any positive effects, these medicines are very dangerous for health.
Nevertheless, certain facts showed that anabolic steroids were not responsible for rhabdomyolsis of the football players. These persons submitted to tests for forbidden products and they tested negative. Furthermore, a specialist has studied and displayed that there was no any link between muscle damages and anabolic steroids or HGH. Richard J. Auchus, a specialist on steroid metabolism at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, claims that gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid is the only drug that could cause this illness. Sometimes this drug is administrated for anabolic effects too. This is an illegal preparation. Certain specialists like Auchus, a consultant of the U. S. Anti-Doping Agency, assure that no any product is to be demonized for this disease of these football players. He assures that the muscle destruction is caused by extremely hard training to which the coaches pushed the athletes.
The coach Chris Doyle will be probably blamed for rhabodomyolsis of the football players, if steroids or other supplements will be not turned to be the reasons of the disease. Who knows? Even sport in itself is associated with several risks.