Bigger, Faster, Stronger

In the documentary "Bigger, Faster, Stronger*", Chris Bell discusses the controversies covering performance enhancing drugs and the impact they create on our society. He created a non-biased approach to such a sensitive issue and really opened my eyes to both pros and cons of enhancers. Bell outlined performance enhancers using interviews with anyone and everyone associated with making, taking, or protesting enhancers. He begins discussing the effect that society’s ideologies about muscular, fit bodies have on us and the lengths that people go to achieve it. Bell also goes beyond typical enhancers and America’s view steroids, to observing cheating and enhancing your body in non-drug forms. As kids, we are always taught that steroids are bad, extremely dangerous, and should never ever be used. We are being told this, while many of our parents, teachers, coaches, or peers, smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol excessively, and abuse other drugs, which from a mortality stand point, are far more dangerous the anabolic steroids or other enhancers. On the other hand, he shows us that enhancers do also have their side effects as shown by Greg Valentino, who used anabolic steroids to the point that he is disgusted by his own image. While I myself have moral issues with using anabolic steroids or other enhancers, Bell really makes you step back and think about the pros and cons, and you ask yourself, what is REALLY wrong with performance enhancers?

Geoff Pound

Kin 332i, S3017