The cyclist and writer Andrew Tilin used testosterone for hormone replacement therapy

Andrew Tilin, an amateur cyclist and a writer, received a 2-year ban. United States Anti-Doping Agency banned this person after he had admitted taking steroids for legal hormone replacement therapy. The admitting was made by the cyclist in own book which will be soon probably published. The book is entitled following: “The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Drugs” .
this book describes individual experiences of several people that administrated preparations which possess performance-enhancing effects.
Thus, Andrew Tilin applied the steroid testosterone for hormone replacement therapy. It is quite clear. Actually, it is not yet clear whether this person has noted about personal experience related also to other preparations which increase performance.
Andrew Tilin wants to understand and describe in his book why persons dope. He notes the motivations of various persons. Do these preparations help really? These products are quite controversial; the explanations related to these drugs are also controversial. Since numerous users don’t like talking about their intake, many answers on questions about doping remain undisclosed.
Andrew Tilin has been essentially changed due to intake of the steroid testosterone. He has become much stronger but more aggressive. He had to worry about his health and about the ways to lie, being an amateur rider. Thus, he became to be implicated in the doping subculture.
Writing his book, this journalist desired to explain that steroids are unsafe and cause many undesirable symptoms. Many sportspersons who have taken controlled drugs criticize Andrew Tilin. One of critics is Joe Papp, a former American cyclist. This athlete was caught distributing and applying some performance-enhancing drugs. He didn’t admit taking prohibited products willingly; he was caught due to an investigation. His professional and personal life was destructed because of these controlled medicines. Joe Papp wrote about Tilin that he had been doped for a year intentionally. Papp noted that Tilin had known that the steroid testosterone was forbidden but he had taken it. Then he wrote that these medications caused unwanted reactions in consumers. According to Joe Papp, Andrew Tilin had to receive a ban for 4 years.
Andrew Tilin’s ban started in March 2011.