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    Creatine Supplements The use of supplements is a common thing in today’s modern world, specifically in the athletic one. Every athlete is looking for a new way to enhance performance whether it be through vitamins, enhancers, supplements, and so on. The purpose of this paper is to take a look at the supplement that most athletes use, which is known as creatine, and to see if it has any benefits or none at all. Creatine is a natural generated remote guanidine compound which is synthesized in the

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    In todays sports world, kids and athletes alike will do anything to get ahead in the particular sport the are in. There are many different ways that athletes will try, to better them selves in these games. One of the ways is by doing illegal steroids, to help grow muscles. Most people begin to judge the coach on their player’s actions, but can the coach really do anything about what happens away from the locker room? Coaches do not truly have control over their player, when it comes to illegal drugs

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    A popular short term fix leads to negative long term effects. “Anabolic steroids work differently from other drugs of abuse; they do not have the same short-term effects on the brain” (Anabolic Steroids). Steroids are boosts of testosterone that can be prescribed by doctors for patients with disorders with their muscles. Some athletes abuse them for higher performance results. Although using steroids is a fast way to gain muscle, they should be taken only for medical use, due to their harmful effects

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    The use of performance enhancing drugs to help athletes perform better is illegal and considered cheating as this drug gives the athlete who may have been an average performer an edge over the competition after the use of these drugs. This is unfair to the other players who are playing a fair game. No matter at what level whether its high school, college or a professional, athletes should not be using drugs to help or boost their performance in any way as it wrong and the athlete is basically cheating

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    Pledger 1 Mason Pledger Mrs. Daugherty English 9 Honors 20 March 2017 Performance Enhancers and Athletes Why would athletes even need to use performance enhancers? Some athletes use steroids to boost their strength. There are many health risks that steroids can cause. Things like irregular heartbeat and heart failure can occur. I think that athletes who steroids or other drugs to enhance their strength should have a harsher punishment. Athletes need to know not to use steroids because they can get

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    1 / 3 Nevell Floyd Professor Hix ENG 0300-03 9 November 2017 No to Drugs Who ever thought that something that can be so good for you can also be the reason why you probably can never play the sport you love. Have you ever heard of steroids? well a just one specific type called anabolic steroids. In this essay I will be explaining why taking steroids are cheating and why they should stay illegal. Anabolic steroids are mostly used by athletes such as football players, baseball players, bodybuilders

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    Sports are extremely competitive, usually athletes will do whatever it takes to be the best that they can be in order to win. Some of them are even willing to get help from the use of performance enhancing drugs to achieve that goal. True there are benefits to using performance enhancing drugs but, the risks far outweigh the benefits. Performance enhancing drugs have been used in sports for well over 50 years. According to cnn.com “The use of performance-enhancing drugs by professional athletes

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    SNAKE OIL, SNAKE OIL, GET YOUR SNAKE OIL HERE. TAKE DR. CROOKS MAGICAL ELIXIR for increased whatever the heck you want. Magical elixirs are old western examples of con-men using a false advertising campaign to try and make a quick buck before their run out of town. Today modern snake oil comes in the form of supplements advertising everything from muscle gain to increased sexual performance and many of these products are advertised late at night on television stations just as obscure as the proof

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    "Anabolic Steroids Overview." WebMD. WebMD, n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2017. This source is a scholastic diary so this is a dependable source. I think this diary and the book section is the most dependable source out of the five aggregate. This diary is very like the book section since they both give point by point data on the anabolic steroids. I don't think this diary has a lot of an inclination since dominant part of the data are truths and is exceptionally instructive. This source was useful with getting

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    Drugs In Sports Analysis

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    The article “drugs in sports: why the fuss?” was published in 2000 to inform public about why drug related controversies exaggerated in sports. Author Lan Ritchie explains that in every Olympic year sport is overwhelm with stories of banned substance use to enhance performance as drugs threaten both the health of athletes and the integrity of sport. In my point of view, athletes who use banned substance to enhance performance are cheaters because they ruin the values of sports. As Lan Ritchie explain

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