Forrest Griffin har en rätt avvikande syn på användning av TRT inom MMA än de flesta har. Han tycker inte enbart att det är ett acceptabelt hjälpmedel, utan också att fördelarna väger mycket tyngre än de stora hälsoriskerna som behandlingarna kan innebära.
Griffin fick tillåtelse för att använda sig av TRT inför matchen mot Tito Ortiz under UFC 148 och han är nu missnöjd med beslutet som ”Nevada State Atlethic Comission” tog för att förbjuda behandlingarna inom MMA.
Det här berättar han, vid ”bostonherald.com”
I did it, I think it’s great. When it started, I had two problems with steroids. One, they’re illegal and I’m doing illegal drugs. And, two, you’re telling kids, fans, young people that watch the sport you have to do drugs to do this. Well, that’s not true.
I mean, I knew what I was doing. I knew that what I was doing is bad for my body in the long run, potentially, and I was doing what the doctor gave me, so it wasn’t crazy. But I mean, you now, there’s a chance (you can) enlarge your heart, enlarge your prostate, lose your prostate, not be able to (perform sexually) after 50. So I took that into advisement in doing that. But to me, being a better fighter was worth it. It was worth even shortening your lifespan to be good at something.
Griffin sympatiserar också med Chael Sonnen som gick i pension efter att han åkt fast på ett test och därefter inte hade någon möjlighet att fortsätta med behandlingarna på ett lagligt sätt.
Det här berättar Griffin om sina egna upplevelser efter att han slutade med TRT:
I’m not one to take Chael’s side often, but me and my wife were trying to have a kid, and I was on TRT for 20 months straight, and when I got off, I just got off. I was depressed, down. I just wasn’t doing anything, and I didn’t notice because I was in so much pain. And also, I was just like eating doughnuts every day, all day. Like ice cream for breakfast. That’s what I do when I get depressed. I would wait for my daughter to take a nap so I could drink some beer and eat doughnuts in the middle of the afternoon . . . But like eight months later, I actually went (to the doctor) and I had like no sperm. My body never turned itself on, for like eight or nine months. And then I took HCG for three months, and then I was good to go.
Griffin, som är 35 år gammal, gick i pension sommaren 2012 efter matchen mot Tito Ortiz.
