read this!!

[gotgear?]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100315,00.html

anyone heard of the steroid mentioned? tetrahydrogestrinone - THG has a chemical structure similar to the banned anabolic steroids gestrinome and trenbolone

[Jay_Abbays]

There's been a lot of talk about it in the news.

The only thing about it - it's hard to detect - so, the worry is that professional athelets will use it.

However, they also say it's only a matter of time till they find a way to detect this steroid.

[Got Gear?]

Here's another post on this topic with more info:

http://www.fitnessgeared.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25508

[jsjs24]

Yea I read that the other day, too bad they can detect it now...LOL.

[nautica]

It is not "hard" to detect. It is no different than detecting any other compound. They just were not testing for it b/c they did not know it existed.

Nautica

[Tarzan]

Bump for more info

[nautica]

Creating these drugs and not neccessarily that difficult. Just change a funtional group or 2 (so long as it does not effect the actual purpose of the drug) and it will not be pickup up.

The test are done by spectrometry - which basically recognizes funtional groups - they are very sophicated test - but if the testers do not know a drug exist - there is no way they can detect it - unless of course a coach calls and gives the actual drug to them.

Nautica

[jsjs24]

It was on the news a little while ago. Said when they start testing that athletes who test positive will be suspended for 2 years. Ouch!

[IntensityX]

Posted by spidey at SM:

gestrinone is very similar to trenbolone in structure with the same pattern of double bonds and lack of a 19-methyl group. The differences are that the 13-methyl group in trenbolone is replaced with a 13-ethyl group in gestrinone and it is 17-alkylated with an acetylene function. If the acetylene function was fully hydrogenated (adding 4 hydrogens), that could be tetrahydrogestrinone.

That would look like a 17-ethyl trenbolone. There is very little difference biologically between a methyl group at the 17 position vs. an ethyl group. I don't expect there would be much difference between a 13-ethyl vs. a 13 methyl either.

So, to recap, tetrahydrogestrinone is the same as a 17-alkylated trenbolone with the minor modification that the 13-methyl in tren is a 13-ethyl in THG.

17-methyl trenbolone is a known AS (metribolone) and is schedule III. I have read that it is MADLY liver toxic, making anadrol look like candy. I don't think I would try THG without having a doctor to keep me monitered for problems. I only have one liver.

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