Today we will talk only about steroids whether they help in our life in our weight loss and muscle building or not.
Anabolic Steroids
Anabolic steroids are basically manmade hormones that work to boost or enhance body’s ability to make muscle. In addition to enhancing body’s muscle making ability anabolic steroids also help in preventing the breakdown of muscles that have already been formed.
Keeping in mind the function of such steroids they seem to be pretty useful for bodybuilders and other athletes but that is just one side of the story.
In other words anabolic steroids are manmade version of testosterone. Testosterone can be easily explained as the hormone that is required to maintain the male sex characteristics which may include a deeper voice as compared to women or strong muscle building abilities in men.
Need For Anabolic Steroids
Anabolic steroids are used by healthcare professionals to treat various hormonal issues in men and this has been proved to be the most beneficial use of anabolic steroids till date.
A basic example of beneficial use of anabolic steroids is when they are used to treat issues such as delayed puberty in men.
Use Of Steroids And Weight Loss
People dealing with obesity often consider taking steroids to reduce the excessive fat.
Weight loss steroids also commonly known as Cutting steroids belong to the class of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS).
These steroids help losing weight by boosting metabolism and suppressing appetite.
By boosting the metabolism of an individual such steroids help in digesting the intake of food more easily and preventing the urge to eat again and again in the individual.
But as they say pros and cons of anything come hand in hand.
There is no doubt that most such steroids initially do help in losing weight due to their working for increased metabolism and suppressed appetite but in most cases such effects are only temporary and they vanish after a certain period of time.
Prolonged use of such steroids can also lead to fluid retention in the body tissues.
Use Of Steroids And Muscle Growth
Steroids help In the world of bodybuilding.Use of steroids for enhancing muscle growth is a common activity.
Not only bodybuilders but different types of athletes also use anabolic steroids to enhance the growth of their muscles hence improving their muscle strength that in turn helps them to put more effort and speed in their athletic activities that may be running or swimming.
Bodybuilders and athletes prefer different ways to get such steroids into their bodies.
1. Such steroids may be taken orally like other medicines.
2. They can also be injected into the muscles directly through use of syringe.
3. Some people prefer using them as a form of cream or gel that is applied on the skin.
But the major thing to keep in mind is that use of such steroids is considered illegal in most countries throughout the world and they can only be taken according to the amount prescribed by your healthcare provider if at all their use is required.
Such restrictions regarding steroids are very much justifiable because of the harms or destruction that they are capable of producing in the human body.
Sometimes such steroids can prove harmful to such extent that they might become life threatening for the individual.
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Side Effects Of Anabolic Steroid Misuse
Anabolic steroids might seem helpful in losing weight or muscle building in the beginning of their use but with the passage of time they could be responsible for producing innumerable side effects on your body.
Some of these side effects being less severe while others might prove life threatening.
1.Cardiac Issues
Misuse of anabolic steroids can effect your heart’s function as well as its structure.
When such steroids are misused or taken in large amounts they effect the way your heart contracts and relaxes affecting the heart’s blood flow and blood clotting ability.
They can also lead to change in the size of heart chambers.
They might also cause an increase in your bad cholesterol also known as LDL and a decrease in your good cholesterol which is known as HDL.
All these factors contribute majorly to the heart working ability which leads to a heart attack.
2.Liver Lisease
Anabolic steroids may also directly effect your liver preventing it from its normal functioning.
In most of cases anabolic steroids effect the liver to such extent that they might produce cancer of the liver which is in most cases life threatening.
3.Aggressive Bhaviour
If such steroids are taken in early age like in late teens or early twenties they mostly produce behavioural changes.
They are responsible for evoking extreme aggressive behaviour in individuals where the condition might be so severe that the individual might lose consciousness for different intervals of time.
4.Baldness
Use of anabolic steroids can lead to baldness in both men and women. It can lead to excessive hair loss and cause male pattern baldness even in women.
5.Body Changes
Anabolic steroids can cause breast growth in men.
In women it might effect the normal pattern of menstrual cycle and it can also cause growth of body and facial hair in women.
6.Sexual Change
In addition to physical changes in body anabolic steroids can also lead to sexual changes in both women and men.
In women it disrupts the menstrual cycle while in men it suppresses the sperm count directly effecting the fertility in such men.
7.Insomnia
Studies have shown that use of anabolic steroids are responsible for causing noticeable differences in sleep pattern of the individuals eventually leading to the development of insomnia in the individual which is basically losing the ability to sleep even when the individual faces great urge to sleep.
8.Depression And Restlessness
Such individuals often face psychological issues like depression and anxiety. In women depression related with the use of steroids is more often associated with physical aspects like trembling in body and increased heart rate.
While in men such depression is not easily understood from the physical perspective but is more related to the thinking and emotional abilities.
9.Decreased Sex Drive
Another side effect of misuse of anabolic steroids is that it leads to decrease of sexual attraction or urge for sex in both men and women.
In addition it could also be addictive. Individuals who use anabolic steroids regularly might get addictive to them after certain period of time.
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