Informative Speech-Steroids I. Introduction Attention Getter: (PowerPoint image) When we see someone extremely muscular, we wonder is the person using steroids? Background: Although people have been using steroids over 50 years, it wasn't until we started seeing headlines about athletes using steroids that it started receiving attention. Audience Relevance: Although I’m guessing most
Users have different reasons for doping and, subsequently, steroids have different health consequences. Some common side effects from steroid use are the following: acne, genital changes, water retention, yellowing of the eyes and skin; women may experience: male-pattern baldness, decreased breast size, deeper voices, hairy bodies, and menstrual irregularities; men may experience: reduced sperm production, shrinking of the testicles, impotence, difficulty or pain in urinating, baldness, and irreversible breast enlargement. But these are just minor setbacks right? One could say that, like those aren’t bad, but researchers have also linked steroid abuse to much more serious risks such as: fatal liver cysts, liver cancer, blood clotting, cholesterol changes, hypertension, stroke, and even heart attack. Despite all these potential problems, many still choose to take steroids.
There are many health risk for taking steroids such as increases chances for disease, physical and emotional dangers . Abusing steroids lead to bad cholesterol (livestrong).. Other time it turns into liver disease and can sometimes turn into possible liver cancer (livestrong). Steroids also cause physical dangers. Steroids cause the left heart ventricle it enlarge high blood pressure, heart attacks, and strokes.steroids contribute the development of CVD which changes how much cholesterol gets to the blood (livestrong). One of the common damages from steroids is tendon ruptures which is some sport cases and cause an end to a career (livestrong). The reason steroids cause the tendon to rupture is because it causes testosterone to rise causing a growth spurt during puberty and adolescence providing the signals to stop growth as well. and adolescence and provide the signals to stop growth as well (livestrong). Causing high sex hormones that can prematurely signal the bone to stop growing causing the tendon to rupture
Steroids and PED’s are used today in sports to help athletes gain muscle mass and strength. Other athletes use them to boost their athletic performance. Today, about 30 percent of college and professional athletes still use anabolic steroids, 10 to 20 percent of high school athletes use them (Lewis). There
To obtain a naturally muscular body it is essential to have a solid diet and workout plan; rather, than taking steroids and HGH drugs. There is a big concern for this issue as the majority of people have a misconception about these drugs. They use steroids and HGH thinking it
Unfortunately, the use of steroids can easily lead to many major health problems. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse “Steroids abuse may lead to serious, even irreversible, health problems. Some of the most dangerous consequences…kidney impairment or failure; damage to the liver; and cardiovascular problems…leading to an increased risk of stroke and heart attack (even in young people)” (NIH). Steroids can affect an athlete by increasing the heart rate and decreasing the stamina, a fact that can lead to heart failure. Steroids can also affect the body with acne, abdominal pains, insomnia, and anaphylactic shock. When men use steroids the consequences are more crucial than women. For example, men may experience falling sperm count, shrinking testicles, and increased risk of fertility. On the other hand, women may show signs of masculinity (male type musculature) but also an increased risk of certain illnesses such as breast cancer. In general, steroids affect both of women and men by leading to terrible health problems. Dr. Larry Creswell, a well-known heart surgeon who studied the abuse of steroids, estimates that approximately 3 million Americans use steroids and he supports that the 70% of the athletes in the bodybuilding area, are steroid users. In addition, it is well known that steroids can also cause sudden deaths, sometimes in young athletes but most often occur within the ages of 35-50. In addition, Dr. Dickerman, a professor in the department of
The problem with steroids that college athletes don’t comprehend is that steroids don’t build tendon issue which is the part of the body where the muscle attaches to the bone. “Increasing the pull of a more powerful, larger muscle mass, but not streghthiening bone and tendon, can lead to tendon failure and or bone failure (Hensley 2014).” Athletes need to be more aware that recovering from injuries take time and can not be solved by
A person once said, “There are two types of pain in this world. Pain that hurts you and pain that changes you.” There are great bodybuilders who have the strength of a person who takes steroids. However, bodybuilders shouldn’t be using
Steroids can cause serious harm to the human body. They're really bad for the mental health of a person. Steroids are addictive if abused in the body. Gaining muscle can occur through using steroids but medical use should be the only reason for their intake because of the harmful effects on the human body, the mental health of the user and the fact that they are addictive. Steroids should be used with precaution since they so easily cause so much damage to
People use steroids for many reasons whether it is to bulk up, perform faster and stronger or to improve their physique. Steroids are known to produce both anabolic and androgenic effects. Which are muscle building and masculine characteristic effects. The anabolic effects raise testosterone
The very first steroids were developed in the late 1930s, to treat hypogonadism. Hypogonadism is a condition in which the testes do not produce enough testosterone for normal growth and development. Later on, around the 1940s, people starting to learn that steroids can help them build up their body and
Steroids can make a person stronger, but the long and short term effects are not worth the risk. Steroids are becoming more of a problem in the United States. There are over 100 varieties of steroids in the U. S. and black market. The oral steroids are Anadrol, Oxandrin, Dianabol, and Winstrol. Injectable steroids are Deca- Durabolin, Durabolin, Depo- Testosterone, and Equipoise (Steroid Abuse in Today’s Society). Steroids can be helpful if people use them the right way, such as in the medical field. The people that abuse them have given steroids the bad background. People look at steroids as if it has caused so many deaths, but it’s actually the people who take big doses of the drug. If people would not abuse steroids, they would be a big help in a medical field. Steroids can change a nice caring person into a roid raging monster that can cause harm to you and your family. For the people abusing steroids, is that what you want to possibly harm yourself or your family? People need to realize that steroids are becoming an uprising drug to not just bodybuilders and pro athletes; it’s become more and more used by teens in high
Steroids are a major problem that lots of people don’t know how to The side effects of steroids could go from increasing your blood pressure all the way to giving you a heart attack. According the article called (steroids), steroids are causing people under 30 years old to have strokes and heart attacks. Steroids are very unhealthy and should not be taken if a doctor doesn’t prescribe you steroids. Taking steroids can also leaf to kidney failure according to the article called (steroids). Steroids are not worth risking your life to making yourself look bigger. Today the only steroids that are legal are steroids that help with medical conditions. The steroids that are legal help with breast cancer and certain forms of anemia. These types of steroids should be the only types of steroids that should be legal because it is helping people in medical ways. But if someone is taking steroids to make them looks stronger those are a different type of steroids. The steroids that they are taking to make them look stronger are medically ruining their
Steroids In the past three decades, steroids has been becoming a serious problem more than ever in the athletic field. Steroids are anabolic drug "to build" growth hormones that include the androgens (male sex hormones) principally testosterone and estrogen and progestogens (female sex hormones). Steroids were first developed for medical purposes. They're used in controlling inflammation, strengthening weakened hearts, preventing conception, and alleviating symptoms of arthritis and asthma. Unfortunately research has shown that steroids have been abused in almost every kind of sport. Although steroids contribute to a muscular body, usage should remain illegal because they physically deteriorate and mentally destroy the body.
“Some athletes take a form of steroids — known as anabolic-androgen steroids or just anabolic steroids — to increase their muscle mass and strength. The main anabolic steroid hormone produced by your body is testosterone. Testosterone has many risks some of them are Anabolic effects promote muscle building. Androgenic effects male traits, such as facial hair and a deeper voice. Men get some major risks from taking this type of drug like some are prominent breasts Baldness, Shrunken testicles, Infertility, and Impotence.”(Mayo Clinic)