Steroids are taken by people without a prescription from a doctor, up to a hundred times the prescribed levels, who want to perform and look better.
Steroids are hormones that induce organs in the body, while anabolic steroids are any synthetic substances similar to the male’s sex hormone testosterone. They are actually called anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS); anabolic deals with muscle building while androgenic is increased male sexual characteristics. The act of athletes taking these substances is called Doping.
Some steroids include fluoxymesterone (such as Halotestin) and nandrolone (such as Durabolin), which are given to people on prescription from a doctor. They are used as medicines in situations of steroid hormone deficiency such as delayed puberty and to also build and make more muscles in muscle destructive diseases such as cancer and AIDS.
Although these drugs can boost body performance in sports and life, they take a heavy toll on our health. Some of these are;
1. Weight gain
When a person is doping, his muscles increase (thereby adding weight) but when he stops doping, his large muscles begin to shrink and this converts them to fats by the body. These fats accumulate in the body because of the large muscles the person once had, which is the reason why most former abusers are almost always overweight.
2. Cardiovascular complications
A person doping has high cholesterol in his blood which can block arteries, leading to strokes, or force the heart to beat more to pump more blood through the blocked or ever smaller artery. This puts the heart under great pressure and if sustained over a long period of time, may lead to heart muscle damage.
3. Decreased sperm count
When a man dopes, the steroids he takes in causes the prostate gland to swell and since the prostate gland is located around the urethra of men, this compresses the urethra (through which sperm and urine pass to exit the body) so he is not able to ejaculate enough sperm in semen to fertilize a female for birth.
Additionally, because external supplies of testosterone-like substances are entering the body, the brain sends signals to the testicles to stop producing testosterone; so your testicles shrink in size and do function as well as it should (like producing sperm cells). Hence the sperm count is low.
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