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Not just A-Rod: Roger Clemens also suffered from 'man boobs', upcoming book 'American Icon' reveals
NY Daily News ^
| Teri Thompson
Posted on 05/01/2009 11:41:21 AM PDT by pissant
Alex Rodriguez wasn't the only player in the Yankee clubhouse who suffered from "man boobs," an embarrassing side effect of steroid use.
According to "American Icon," a book by the Daily News sports investigative team that will be released on May 12, Roger Clemens also sprouted breasts as a result of anabolic steroid use. The condition is called gynecomastia, and it occurs in men who use steroids because their bodies compensate for a surge of testosterone by increasing production of female hormones.
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: arod; manboobs; rogerclemens
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:41:22 AM PDT
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pissant
To: pissant
What’s with these “Top Model” ads on FreeRepublic? Anyone know?
And Arnold has Rhino-boobs!
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:46:37 AM PDT
by
avacado
To: pissant
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:47:08 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: pissant
I wonder what the Rocket’s locker room nick name was then? (A-Roid’s is not fit for a family forum such as FR).
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:47:35 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(A feral conservative in my own land.)
To: pissant
Here is an example of gyno.
BTW, a lot of bodybuilders will also take an anti- estrogen supplements to prevent gyno.
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:47:49 AM PDT
by
earlJam
To: pissant
there are whole “stacks” that they need to take. a proper “stack” should keep the estrogen at bay, I would imagine
arnold’s don’t look too out of proportion. certainly not compared to his belly
they’re a science, not a pop-and-forget pill
To: pissant
Apparently cocaine causes them too.
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:48:22 AM PDT
by
Yankee
To: pissant
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:48:27 AM PDT
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
To: pissant
I prescribe either a “Bro” or a “Manzier”
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:48:32 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: pissant
“suffered”???
He just didn’t know how to use them.
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:48:41 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: pissant
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:48:53 AM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(If you want a friend, get a dog.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
To: pissant
Looks like Arnold developed a post open heart drain hernia.
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:49:48 AM PDT
by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
To: Yankee
i look better than that. it’s just iconic. the media imbues an image with shinyness & people think it looks good.
To: pissant
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:51:59 AM PDT
by
libertarian27
(Never has so many been owed so much by so few)
To: llevrok
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:54:51 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
To: pissant
Gynocomastia can have a significant genetic component, just because they have man-boobs doesn’t mean they are on steroids.
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:55:01 AM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: lewisglad
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:55:29 AM PDT
by
Batman11
(Chicago, Land of Lincoln who freed the slaves and Land of Obama who enslaved the free.)
To: andy58-in-nh
To: pissant
Well I guess I won’t be skipping my work out today...
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posted on
05/01/2009 11:59:11 AM PDT
by
exist
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