I know this is a steroids forum but there seems to be not a lot of talk about lifting and not a lot of talk about nutrition.

I know from experience how important diet is. Not just for bbers who want to bulk up and cut successfully and to a timetable for comps. It's essential for strength / mass gains and every bodily function basically. The liver for example is essentially a highly efficient laboratory that performs literally hundreds of functions. Your liver is also a limiting factor in numerous ways. Two of its functions for example, are reducing E2 and SHBG levels. Damage your liver with orals to a level where it's only 80% as efficient as before and you've just upped your E2 and SHBG levels Longterm amongst other things. I'm not an expert by any means and want to learn from old hands. I like to help beginners by giving them the sort of advise that might stop them making the same mistakes I made. Of course, back in the day I was getting some good advise from guys who knew their shit but stubborn as a mule I had to learn most things the hard way.

So much is unknown still in the medical field and some of the best minds in the iron game are at the cutting edge of knowledge about how the body uses micronutrients for example.

I broke my leg a few years ago and I was shocked at the rehabilitation advice from both the physiotherapist and the dietician. As you probably know until recently the medical establishment were promoting that food pyramid of max carbs. It was what I learned from lifters that allowed me to design my own physio recovery plan. But the real shame was watching my gains just disappear in a matter of weeks - gains that took years of hard work just gone in a month and a half on crutches. The physio recommended standing up from a chair on one leg. That's the concentric phase of squat of course. But I learned that from weightlifters not from "professionals" in their field. I don't mean to disparage all health professionals. I'm really just saying I've learned more from bodybuilders about this stuff.

Anyway, ramble over. Just thought I'd try and spark some diet / training talk.