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    Last year during a conversation with my dad, I became aware of how professional wrestlers use and abuse anabolic steroids to increase their strength and give them advantages over their competitors. It is considered cheating for professional athletes to use steroids, and it us important to know the effects they have on the body. When athletes take a dose of these drugs, they have both short term and long term effects. Long term effects include kidney problems, liver damage, paranoia, and delusions

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    First of all steroids can be incredibly harmful to those who take them. Conversely some types of steroids are used to help people with inflammatory conditions like chronic bronchitis. But those steroids are categorized as corticosteroids. These corticosteroids are not the same ones as the more harmful version: Anabolic steroids. Secondly Anabolic steroids are sometimes referred to as “Juice or “roids” are actually synthetic forms of the male hormone testosterone. This type of steroid can be used to

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    bodybuilding one day. I’m not going to lie and say that taking steroids hasn’t crossed my mind so I’m really intreated in this topic. What I know about this topic is they’re many types of steroids and some are more harmful than others but what they all share is they make you bigger, faster, and stronger really quick. Somethings I expect to see in this documentary is what is the consequences of taking performance enhancing drugs like steroids and what can they do to your body and how it effects your lifestyle

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    The reality that steroids are used in professional sports around the league is one that brings extreme controversy. Why? because When these athletes are caught, league CEOs must make difficult decisions on what to do with the player. These athletes broke rules, and cheated to attain records, achievements, and trophies. Should these players have their awards and achievements stripped from them? Are these athletes above the rules and expectations of others? Tyson Gay was an example of a person who

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    are great bodybuilders who have the strength of a person who takes steroids. However, bodybuilders shouldn’t be using steroids because it’s not fair and it has many effects To begin with, using steroids for bodybuilding isn’t fair. In other words, many pressures might drive young athletes to try steroids. For example, if you were a competitive bodybuilder and wanted to add 20 pounds of muscle in your off season, your steroid cycle is going to be very different than when you’re cutting for

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    what has caused the uprise in PED use. Steroids have been linked to most of the PED use in sports. Steroids are commonly known to cut body fat and increase a person's body tissue; however, they are terrible for your body. Steroids affect many parts of the human body. Most users only look at the near present when using steroids, but over time they can have a serious affect on the way a person lives. Jerry Adler, author of “Toxic Strength”, believes that “Steroids can have long-lasting and sometimes irreversible

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    Film by Filmmaker Chris Bell “Bigger, Stronger, Faster” has two parts. The first part of the documentary film is about the use of steroids in sports and bodybuilding. People who use steroid want to be bigger. Steroids may be harmful, but they work. This documentary presents the pervasive use of steroids in sports as an indication of the American obsession with winning at all costs. Bell’s brothers have been sucked into the world of performance-enhancing drugs, thinking this is their ticket to realizing

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    Athletes on steroids Steroids are all around the United States. There are many uses for steroids among gyms and locker rooms in America. Athletes all over are pressured to elevate themselves to a higher level of play, and some of them succumb to the pressure and use steroids to become a top notch athlete, which leads to infertility in men, facial hair growth in women, and also a shrinkage of testicles in men. If athletes

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    Steroids have more than one meaning. Generally your body produces some steroids to fight stress and let your body grow during puberty. But then there is the kind of steroids that you take to improve your physical appearance or better you in the sport that you play. Normally when you hear people say steroids they are often talking about the illegal anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids are a synthetic steroid hormone that resembles testosterone in promoting the growth of muscle. Steroids affect athletes

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    the person using steroids? Background: Although people have been using steroids over , it wasn't until headline we started learning Audience Relevance: Although I’m guessing most of you have an idea of what steroids are, I don’t think there are many classes or workshops offered that talk about steroids. Speaker Credibility: Steroids are not only used by bodybuilders, other athletes and sometimes regular people have access to it and use it. There some misconceptions of steroids and a lot that people

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