This is serious matter … tht makes me post these facts on Anabolic steroids… cuz der r a lotta gym rats who are keen on using these and pumping up themselves without knowing the side effects .
Lets get to the Basic’s and knw wut are steroids??
A steroid is a terpenoid lipid characterized by a carbon skeleton with four fused rings; this is the chemistry part of it.. for those who dont understandill tell y’all tht the steroids are naturally produced by the body. Natural steroids include the MALE and the FEMALE sex hormones( TESTOSTERONE AND PROGESTERONE,Oestrogen) and this.. more or less determines the way u are, mood etc. …………..
Then your next question would b WHAT ARE ANABOLIC STEROIDS???………. Anabolic steroids is a Class of steroids wich hlp in increase muscle and bone synthesis; ther r both natural and synthetic of this stuff. ………. So wen ppl speak about steroids they usually refer to anabolic steroids and not wht i mention above in d earlier definition of steroids.
The word anabolic comes from the greek anabole, “to build up” Anabolic steroids are closely related to the male sex hormone Testosterone whic play a role in the development and maintenance of masculine characteristics such as the growth of vocal cords nd increase muscle size.
Basically all the synthetic Anabolic steroids were produced to treat a lot of stuff like Muscular hypertrophy, induce male puberty nd reduce muscle wasting the happns in Cancer and AIDS.
ADVERSE EFFECTS
Some of the side-effects are reversible; but basically they all depend on DOSAGE.
- Increase in Blood pressure and Harmful changes in Cholesterol levels in the body
- Cardiovascular diseases ;due to the thickening of the coronary arteries
- Change is basic structure of the heart(the left ventricle)
- Baldness
- Oral pills cause liver damage
- Gender specific (MALES) -
- Development of Breasts whic is also called as GYNOCOMASTIA
- Testicular atrophy(SHRINKING OF THE SAC) and low sperm count ,but these can b reversed within weeks time after discontinuing the dose ……GUYS THIS is Heavy!!
- GENDER SPECIFIC (FEMALES)
- Increase in Body hair in places uve neva imagined they wld grow
- enlarged clitoris and irregular menstrual cycles.
NONMEDICAL AND DOPING IN SPORT
According to a recent survey, 78.4% of steroid users were noncompetitive bodybuilders and non-athletes…… using all for cosmetic purpose.. …
A lot of athletes in d past and now hve been to b repoted to use steroids to hve an edge against their competetors……….. Here are some of the famous cases….some of them i found with their personal quotes
LYLE ALZADO
Alzado is probably most remembered today for being one of the first major U.S. sports figures to admit using steroids. In the last years of his life, as he battled against the brain tumour that eventually caused his death at the age of 43, Alzado asserted that his steroid abuse directly led tohis fatal illness, but his physician stated it could not possibly be true. According to some reports, Alzado was using natural growth hormone, harvested from human corpses, as opposed to synthetic growth hormones. However, shortly before his death, Alzado recounted hissteroid abuse in an article in sports illustrated. He said:
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I started taking anabolic steroids in 1969 and never stopped. It was addicting, mentally addicting. Now I’m sick, and I’m scared. Ninety percent of the athletes I know are on the stuff. We’re not born to be 300 lbs or jump 30 ft. But all the time I was taking steroids, I knew they were making me play better. I became very violent on the field and off it. I did things only crazy people do. Once a guy sideswiped my car and I beat the hell out of him. Now look at me. My hair’s gone, I wobble when I walk and have to hold on to someone for support, and I have trouble remembering things. My last wish? That no one else ever dies this way.” |
Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted to using anabolic steroids during his bodybuilding career for many years before they were made illegal.
THE EAST CASE GERMANY
In1977, one of East Germany’s best sprinters, Renate Neufeld, fled to the West with the Bulgarian she later married. A year later she said that she had been told to take drugs supplied by coaches while training to represent East Germany in the 1980 Olympic Games.
“At 17, I joined the East Berlin Sports Institute. My speciality was the 80m hurdles. We swore that we would never speak to anyone about our training methods, including our parents. The training was very hard. We were all watched. We signed a register each time we left for dormitory and we had to say where we were going and what time we would return. One day, my trainer, Günter Clam, advised me to take pills to improve my performance: I was running 200m in 24 seconds. My trainer told me the pills were vitamins, but I soon had cramp in my legs, my voice became gruff and sometimes I couldn’t talk any more. Then I started to grow a moustache and my periods stopped. I then refused to take these pills. One morning in October 1977, the secret police took me at 7am and questioned me about my refusal to take pills prescribed by the trainer. I then decided to flee, with my fiancé”
I’d lik to Finish my post cuz der is unbelevable information and data i hve…
i thnk ive conveyed wut i wnted to convey wid dis post… so it up to y’all to dcide..if u wnna do thngs naturally or do it the easy way!…..
I’d recommend y’all to watch this Mockumentary ‘ BIGGER FASTER STRONGER: The side effect of being american’
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