drugs for competition, defines the different types of steroids and explains what they look like, what they should cost, where to get them and how to use them. After placing ads in fitness and martial-arts magazines, as well as Soldier of Fortune, he printed and sold between 40,000 and 50,000 copies of the Underground Steroid Handbook at $6 a copy, over a four-year period. In 1988 Robert Voy, the chief medical officer of the United States Olympic Committee called it "a fabulous pharmacological text." The New York Times reported that both Voy and Don Catlin of UCLA, who did most of the drug tests for the United States Olympic Committee and the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the 1980s had the book in their files. In 1992 after being released from prison for a second time Duchaine began working for Bill Phillips' Muscle Media 2000 magazine writing a monthly Q&A column called "Ask the Guru". By this time Duchaine had published several books in his Underground Steroid Handbook series (co-authored with Michael Zumpano), and referred to himself as a Human Performance Theorist. Duchaine was a low-carbohydrate diet advocate. In his 1996 book Underground Bodyopus: Militant Weight Loss & Recomposition, Duchaine advocated a ketogenic diet known as the "Bodyopus diet". Death Duchaine was found dead on January 12, 2000, by his close friend Shelley Hominuk in his apartment in Carlsbad, California. Cause of death was complications resulting from polycystic kidney disease. Quotes "If you can't grow on Deca and Dbol, you can't grow on anything!" – taken from Duchaine's Dirty Dieting Newsletter in 1997 Duchaine's books Duchaine, Dan. The Original Underground Steroid Handbook, 1981 Duchaine, Dan. Underground Steroid Handbook, 1983 Duchaine, Dan. Underground Steroid Handbook II HLR Technical Books, 1988. Duchaine, Dan. Underground Body Opus: Militant Weight Loss & Recomposition XIPE Press, March 1996. () See also Experimental and Applied Sciences References External links Dan Duchaine at qfac.com 1952 births 2000 deaths 20th-century American criminals 20th-century American non-fiction writers American bodybuilders Low-carbohydrate diet advocates People from Carlsbad, California Sportspeople from California Writers from California