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if it does, then those burritos must have roids in them.
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I think Calzaghe is juicing.
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Can Steroids Enlarge Your Head?What a change in hat size might mean for Barry Bonds.
By Michelle TsaiPosted Monday, Nov. 19, 2007, at 6:27 PM ET
Barry Bonds. Click image to expand.Barry BondsFollowing the federal indictment of Barry Bonds for perjury and obstruction of justice last week, media reports cited the baseball player's refusal to "admit that steroids contributed to his swollen head and bloated physique," and drew a line from his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs to his "noticeably bigger" skull. Can doping really make your head get bigger?
Yes, but steroids can't. Although much of Bonds' testimony dealt with anabolic steroids, he is also charged with having lied about taking human growth hormones. And HGH can indeed affect the size of your noggin. The hormone, which is produced by the pituitary gland, normally stimulates bone and tissue growth throughout the body. If there's too much of it, the body starts to develop an abnormal amount of flesh and bone. This affects the entire body to some degree, but in some places the chemical receptors tend to be especially sensitive. In an adult, very large doses of HGH can cause the skull to thicken and the forehead and eyebrow ridge to become especially prominent. Hands and feet also grow out of proportion with the rest of the body.
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Almost all adults with this condition, called acromegaly, have a tumor in the pituitary gland, and the changes happen so gradually that they might only notice after looking at themselves in an old photograph. If a patient is young enough that his or her bones are still growing, exposure to all that HGH will result in gigantism, the condition that Andre the Giant is believed to have had. But adults that develop acromegaly get thicker, not taller, with the most striking changes usually in the head, hands, and feet.(One book about Bonds claimed that his hat size grew from 7⅛ to 7½, a difference of about an inch in circumference, and that his shoe size shot from 10½ to 13. Bonds has countered that nothing's changed, saying in one interview, "My head hasn't grown. I've always been a 7¼ to a 7⅜ my whole career.")Comment
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Lemme clear this up for you. I'm in the military and have been deployed many times overseas. A lot...and I mean a lot of service members "juice" while deployed because at a down range location, there is no infrastructure for testing. To order a steroids test stateside is close to $2000 so the need to order and ship overseas, the gov't sees as unwarranted. Now, I've known quite a few who "juice" downrange from roids and guess what...YOUR HEAD DOESN'T FCUKING GROW!!!!! What actually alters your body to include bone and muscle growth is called Human Growth Hormone, or HGH for short. Thats what causes baseball players heads to grow 4 hat sizes and hit 76 homeruns. Get ur facts straight people. stop speculating. Most people on here spew so much crap that you would think they are all doctors or promoters on this site. It's ridiculousLast edited by krazyn8tive; 01-09-2010, 09:00 AM.Comment
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nah he probably just Dont know the facts about B-hop
10 Years Middle Weight Champ
had 21 Title Defence (both taylor Fights were Robberies)
Beat the Following
-Felix Trinidad
-Oscar Dela Hoya
-Kelly Pavlik
-Ronald Wright
-Antonio Tarver
-Glen Johnson
And
NEVER been KOd to this day.... enough said the Mans a ****ing legend...end off haters
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Steroids do no make your head bigger but HGH has been shown to make the head grow as well as the hands.Comment
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