Steroid Effect

Anabolic Steroids are taken by athletes to increase muscle mass while decreasing fat rapidly and efficiently. They can push the physiological limits of the muscle, making it bigger, faster and stronger than it can get naturally. Steroids achieve this affect on the body by enhancing the natural process of muscle building. The use of steroids has had a negative impact on the lives and careers of many athletes, causing suspensions, bans, and even the loss of medals and other awards and records earned in international events. A few of the high profile athletes whose lives and careers by their anabolic steroid use include: Barry Bonds, Lyle Alzada, Jose Canseco, Ben Johnson, Chris Benoit, Roger Clemens, Marion Jones, Alex Rodriguez and Lance Armstrong.

The increased strength occurs because the steroid promotes the synthesis of proteins that are used to build skeletal muscle tissue. (423). Anabolic steroids also can damage the hypothalamus in the brain and also increase the risk of more serious damage to muscle tissue.

Steroids can affect an athlete’s physical health. Developing breasts from steroid use is very common. Breasts develop because when high doses of steroids are used for prolonged periods, they shut down certain hormones such as testosterone. Studies show that estrogen is what causes breast tissue growth; progesterone needs to be available in order to keep breast size down. Shrunken testicles can also occur because when a person uses steroids, they introduce a new hormone from outside their body at higher levels than their body can produce. The body signals itself to slow down making its own hormones because there is already enough to make the body operate correctly. This leads to smaller testicles while on a steroid cycle. Along with testicles getting smaller, your sperm count can be dropped a long way! This is called oligospermia. “Your sperm count is considered lower than normal if you have fewer than 15 million sperm per milliliter of semen.”(Myoclonic)Low sperm count lowers the chance of him being fertile enough to get a girl pregnant. Most men will recover their sperm production 3 to 12 months after they stop taking steroids. If you have taken steroids for more than two weeks, even if you then stop, your body may have a decremented ability to respond to physical stress - because your adrenal glands may not react as they should customarily. This effect can last as long as a year after steroid discontinuation. If you have a surgical procedure, develop an incipient solemn

From this journal article, we can see the side effects of steroids that the person who took steroids for the sake of bodybuilding, now is suffering through major symptoms which he had never suffer before. In general, steroids and HGH drugs show results faster in terms of gaining muscle mass; however, the side effects associated with it makes it not worth it. For example, Ultimate Warrior was a famous WWE wrestler who suffered a heart failure that was linked to steroids. This shows that steroids have caused a lot of deaths throughout the year which makes these drugs pointless. Moving forward, from a scientific perspective it has been proven that steroids do cause hair loss, multiple heart stroke, blood pressure and much more diseases. Steroids and HGH are drugs a lot of intermediate people take to see results fast. Because we live in a society where people are not trying to put a lot of effort into something and they just want to see the results fast. Also, steroids vs natural are not even close as I state above for people who use steroids and work out tend to see results faster as suppose to

The use of steroids allows the body to work harder than others that are not consuming steroids.

As a child, I loved watching Alex Rodriguez play baseball. I always tried to play like him, dress like him, and even act like him. A-Rod served as a role model for me. All of this was true until 2009, the year that A-Rod admitted to taking steroids. As I found out this news, my heart was crushed. I had grown up for nine years having A-Rod being the person I looked up to, but now he was just a cheater, and a jerk. Athletes around the world are breaking the rules and cheating by taking Performance-Enhancing Drugs (PED's). The problem with this is that they have side effects that can be life-threatening. Solutions for stopping this problem consist of more testing for usage of PED's and greater consequences for taking

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

Athletes will have a choice of if they want to do steroids or not. There are many side effects of using steroids. One of the side effects is that the body will stop producing natural testosterone. The next side effect is that steroids cause

Mark Mcgwire was one of the best Major League Baseball players ever however in the middle of his career he took steroids to shatter the home run record in 1998. The punishment for steroid abuse should be worse than what it is. If these athletes keep taking steroids, the drugs could have negative effects on their bodies.

Steroids come with serious physical side effects as well as medical effects. However it is difficult to fully understand the major side effects of high doses in athletes due to fact of testing at high doses would be wrong and unethical to the athlete. Athletes are also at risk because a specific dangerous class of anabolic steroid called designer drugs; they are made only for athletes and are fake steroids that have been created to be undetectable by drug test. These fake steroids have not been tested by the FDA and show a large health risk to athletes. Also, due to the Black Market steroids produce high health risk because of the production in other countries and brought in by smugglers or made in hidden labs in the United States. Scott Lukas wrote in his book, Steroids, and explained, “It is interesting that most of the steroids used by pro athletes are meant to be used in animals, such as horses, cats, and dogs…” (Lukas 20). Scott Lukas helps his readers understand the dangers of taking steroids and what steroids are originally made for. Health risk in steroids may not appear for months, years, and even decades. Physical side effects in men include: Reduced sperm count, impotence, development of breast, shrinking of the testicles. Physical side effects in women include: Facial hair growth, deepened voice,

All the anabolic steroids that were used by Johnson, Armstrong and the athletes in the Russian doping scandal have the same purpose: to mimic the effects of testosterone, a hormone that contains numerous physical improvements to the athlete. Examples of these improvements are the ability to work out harder, strengthen muscles, and reduce body fat (Yesalis, 153), capabilities that are particularly useful for various sports (Mayo Clinic). Although anabolic steroids do indeed provide many advantages to the athletes, they are not without their flaws. Users will develop severe side effects namely infertility, tendon rupture, blood pressure increase, and possibly HIV (Mayo Clinic). In addition, these drugs have the ability to cause acne and liver illnesses as well as death (Brodwin). Yesalis, an expert of drug abuse for over 20 years, has collected evidence of deaths due to the usage of anabolic steroids from many of his colleagues. According to his evidence, more than 10 athletes alone have died after usage (Yesalis 180, 181, 182, 195). Given that an anabolic steroid is able to cause so much harm to an athlete him or herself, its effects are undeniably dangerous to every individual user. Thus, the negative health effects caused by anabolic steroids is a crucial consequence that an athlete must emphasize and not

Per the video if one trains for endurance, size, or muscles, your muscles takes on these characteristics on anabolic steroids (National Geographic, 2011). This is fascinating especially in regards to endurance. Typically when one thinks of steroids use it is synonymous with muscle gain and thus to learn that is can help improve endurance such as in the case for Ben Johnson and Marion Jones, track and field athletes, is baffling. As a result I can see why this substance is abused in almost all major sports. Aside from these benefits, it was evident that the abuse of anabolic steroids have severe negative consequences. Among them for men are severe acne gynecomastia, testicular atrophy, tumors cancers, and increased risk of strokes and heart attack. In women it causes male pattern baldness in women, growth of facial hair in women, permanent deepening of the voice, and the same cardiovascular issues it causes in men ((National Geographic,

Many athletes across the sports platform have been caught using PED’s or in other words steroids, but the consequences they have faced are tremendous. The fines for some of these athletes are mind blowing, but easy for them to pay. For the bans, it’s otherwise, some athletes are banned for life and get a fine on top of that.

Steroids have many different effects, mostly negative. They cause the rapid increase of strength and power (Roberts, 2). Steroids help to heal muscles quicker after they have been used. It acts as the male hormone testosterone and gives the user more energy. This is the effect that most users are trying to obtain. They also have the effect of powering up the bodies metabolism and helps to burn body fat. This output is looked for mostly obsess people. With have the time and effort of regular diet and weight training steroids may look like a great quick body tune-up. However the negative effects may short live the positive by a long shot.

“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)