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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Dont Use Anabolic Steroids To Cheat in Sports

By John Burks

The sporting industry is a million dollar industry, and many athletes go to great lengths to enhance their performance in order to give their best in the field. This is one reason why the intake of steroid has risen in recent times, and why the testing prior to an event includes testing for drug and steroid abuse. This protects athletes from using unfair means to increase their performance.

"Anabolic Steroids," is one popular performance boosting steroid, and apart from this several other common brand names for this are Dianabol, Deca Durabolin, and Sustanon.

Anabolic steroids in fact work by resembling androgenic hormones similar to testosterone. Since our hormones provide us energy and power, these thus help weight gain, muscle building, speed, and stamina in the field. These kinds of drugs are quite usually consumed in sports including weight lifting and field events. Apart from being just popular, these are quite controversial drugs and scientists are not certain of whether or not they actually help improve performance.

Conversely, athletes that consume these swear by them and insist that their increased performance is payable to the steroid use.

One of the reasons behind the dissimilarity in these opinions is the "placebo effect". As athletes think that the drug will assist them in recuperating their performance, they put in more effort into their game and consequently do better. One more reason is that the testing is carried out by using much lower amounts of drugs as compared to what is normally consumed by athletes.

These steroids work by means of testosterone which is the hormone that assists male human beings grow through their teenage years and adolescence stages. Testosterone brings about changes in sexual characteristics caused by the androgenic properties, which includes but is not limited to hair growth, penile growth, increased violence, and secondary characteristics like growth in muscle density, growth of bones, etc which is caused by the anabolic properties of testosterone.

Anabolic steroids imitate these changes while trying to bring down the androgenic effects and having just the anabolic properties play a role (thus the name), but this is not entirely possible and this causes harmful side-effects in the athletes who use these steroids.

Due to the increase in the quantity of testosterone, the most common adverse effect in males is infertility where the body stops producing testosterone on its own to compensate for the amount being consumed through the drugs. These drugs will as well cause liver damage, in increase in cholesterol level, and enlargement of breast tissue in males.

One more side effect of this is rise in aggressiveness. In women, the testosterone results in increase in facial hair, changes in the menstrual cycle, and deepening of the voice.

These drugs may be taken orally, via injections, or via creams and gels. Dosages taken by athletes are extremely high, and generally well over one hundred times greater than the suggested dosages.

Generally athletes take two different types of the drug at the same time to generate enhanced results, starting from lesser dosages and increasing these for twelve weeks after which they taper them back to a lower level. This is believed to assist the body adjust to the drugs.

Disclaimer: The constructive-metabolic steroids information provided above is just for educational and entertainment purposes. This article does not, in any way, condone the unlawful situation and/or use of anabolic steroids intended for purposes other than those approved by the FDA or other legally renowned dogmatic bodies. - 17269

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