This work is a technical and comprehensive study of anabolic therapy, covering a wide range of diseases and conditions. Beginning with a description of anabolic agents and their historical medicinal use, the author provides a rationale for anabolics in treating sarcopenia, CST-induced and postrnenopausal osteoporosis, hormone replacement therapy in women, osteoporosis and andropause in men, the autoimmune diseases ALS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's Syndrome, systematic lupus erythematosus, and systematic sclerosis; stroke treatment and rehabilitation. Type II diabetes in men, and AIDS.