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What do you advise if doctor put me on corticosteroids for allergies..are these the same steroids the body builders use?
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No: Corticosteroids used as anti-inflammatories to treat asthma or allergies are not anabolic steroids that will make you gain muscle.
Answered 6/4/2017
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