In most cases, when anabolic steroids are discussed amongst the general public, they are under the impression that steroids will automatically make one extremely strong and muscular. When the subject is bought up, people will think of ‘roid rage’, heart-attacks and bodybuilders.
Reality is, the masses are misinformed and share the same stigma as the media and governement. Lets talk about what a steroid is and how they function in scientific depth.
Firstly there are two types of steroids, anabolic and corticosteroids. Corticosteroids are prescribed by doctors, with its function being to control and eliminate inflammation within the immune system. They do not assist in building muscle mass in any shape or form.
Conversely, the term anabolic steroids is not very ambiguous. They are man-made derivatives of testosterone, a male sex hormone, which is a compound used to build muscle. Testosterone is legal with a doctors prescription and is used by thousands of men around the world.
Testosterone assists with delayed youth puberty and other health conditions which would contribute to muscle loss such as cancer and AIDS. Who would have thought steroids were good for something?
Knives can be used to severely hurt or kill a human being yet they are able to cut food with relative ease. Does that mean knives are bad and should be made illegal because they can be inappropriately used despite all of the necessary usage of one on a daily basis?
However, due to how effective and powerful this synthetic compound is, within the last 50 years, testosterone and its derivatives it has been misused and abused. Some professional athletes have admitted to using 100 times the legally prescribed dose.
We can all agree that steroids are very powerful and if they were not effective, little to no people would use them. Like any other drug, anabolic steroids do have devastating side effects when used incorrectly. Lets look at a common side effect.
Liver damage is always associated with illicit substances and drugs. The liver is the body’s filter, breaking down toxins with a multitude of enzymes before the toxins can reach your bloodstream. As we would expect, when a steroid is taken, liver enzymes will increase in order to break down the compound.
The liver breaks down anything that passes through it, so does that mean that the liver will get damaged every time it filters something? Of course not!
By no means I am suggesting that taking drugs is good for you. The purpose for a drug is to alter a particular part of the body which is the intention. However, drugs also affect non-targeted areas in our body.
All drugs are made up of chemical components which are damaging to our cells, which supports the fact that tissue damage is resultant when a compound enters our bloodstream.
Are all claims made by the media and government accurate and reliable in regards to steroids? Click here to find out more!
https://www.steroid.com/steroids_side_effects.php
http://kidshealth.org/en/parents/steroids.html
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-all-medicines-have-side-effects.439112/
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