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Effects of Anabolic Steroids on Our Bodies and Health
Steroids are artificial substances to increase strength of your muscular and skeletal systems,
thereby increasing your endurance capacities.
Steroids contain testosterone, the male hormone.
muscles, better bones and overall good physique. It boosts your endurance capacity. Such
muscles, better bones and overall good physique. It boosts your endurance capacity. Such
anabolic properties in artificial substances are steroids.
anabolic properties in artificial substances are steroids.
Steroids are available as pills and as injections. They have certain medicinal properties like
supporting weak hearts, providing relief to asthma and arthritis, control inflammation and
reducing chances of conception. Sportspersons and athletes also take steroids to increase
their muscular and bone strength. They get more energy and are able to train more. They are
able to overcome set-backs in sports and earn much recognition and fame. Some people take
in steroids to build a muscular body.
Some women try to use it as a protective tool against molesters by building up a stronger body
and look.
Therapeutic Effects of Steroids
A few positive effects of steroids are the healing effects in surgery patients. It increases their
appetite with an increase in production of protein. Patients with radiation therapy take steroids
to help their blood to produce bone marrow. Skeletal disorders like broken bones (due to
osteoporosis) find remedial measures in steroids. However, these positive effects are very few
in comparison to the possible adverse effects.
Devastating side-effects outnumber the good effects of steroids. They can cause many long-
term and irreversible effects on your body and its systems which could be physical, mental, or
functional. Each of them differs between males and females.
Effects in Females
Physical Effects
- Normally a woman has a natural figure with a thin waist, hips, and shapely breasts. A
woman on steroids can display different physical features. The body curves become
straighter, breasts shrink in size and their total physique can become very dominating,
closely resembling a male.
- The soft voice of a woman is now a more hoarse and deep voice like a man.
- Growth of body hair increases with much on the face and chest. Her hairline starts
decreasing like masculine baldness.
- Body skin is now coarser and harder like men. The natural softness of a woman’s skin is
missing.
- Her body seems to retain more water and sodium, which leads to puffed eyes and face.
Acne can appear on her face and body.
- Enlargement of the clitoris or hypertrophy also takes place.
- All these physical effects are due to steroids intake and occur gradually. These changes
do not revert and it is not possible to remove these effects of steroids even if you
discontinue your intake of steroids.
Mental or Behavioral Effects
Steroids make women very irritable and they get angry over even minor matters. They become
highly aggressive and any irritation may lead to violent outbursts. Medical professionals term
this ‘roid rage’.
Sometimes steroids cause severe mood swings. You are overly aware of your surroundings
and people. You feel as if everyone is staring at and analyzing you. This, at times, leads to
maniac behavior and you either go into depression or become overconfident.
- Such depression is very exhausting. You feel people find you very much out of place as
you have excessive fat and bulky muscles. Therefore, you seem to be in the grip of
withdrawal symptoms with intermittent periods of restlessness, lack of appetite, anxiety,
psychosis, boredom and you may, at times, become very violent.
- You tend to be very confused and forgetful about simple things. Sometimes, you become
so unstable that you fail to understand or comprehend why you are doing some things or
what is happening to you. In other words, you are mentally unstable.
- Such mental instability has a negative impact on everything, including your family, friends,
social circle, job, career and all relationships. The chemical contents of steroids are
- responsible for such erratic behavior.
Functional Effects
- Your body now has high levels of the male hormone testosterone. Hence, you have less
ofsex-hormone-binding globulin, which is a liver protein. Cholesterol levels fall and you
suffer from having less thyroid-binding proteins.
- Normally, your body houses female sexuality and organs. The hormonal changes put your
- total immune system at high risk, you are susceptible to many ailments and even minor
colds may hospitalize you. This is because anabolic steroids totally shut off your anti-viral
and immunomodulatory capacities. They block corticotrophin production in your white
blood cells soon after any viral infection.
- This means that your body is unable to produce fighter cells to attack infections. You fall
sick and this leads to more reactions and counter-reactions.
- Your blood pressure increases and you are more prone to hypertension. You become
insulinresistant.
- Lipoproteins or the cholesterol content in your blood increases which can lead tomany
cardiovascular diseases. More fat in your artery walls cause more blockages. This can
result in heart ailments and heart attacks.
- Clots in blood vessels prevent your blood flowing normally. This causes myocardial
infarction, hypertrophy, cerebro-vascular attacks and ailments.
- Steroids have an adverse effect on your liver causing jaundice, blood filled cysts in the
liver and excessive increase of cells within the liver. This leads to liver cancer.
- Women are usually, on average, shorter and less sturdy than men are. However, intake of
- steroids increases your muscular strength and structure of their bones. They gain weight,
but their knees and joints may be unable to bear this increase. Their tendons and
ligaments suffer from frequent ruptures and tears.
- Low levels of estrogen affect their reproductive system. Their menstrual cycle suffers
extensive disruptions and they miss their monthly periods for more than six months. This
is due to larger amounts of testosterone in your body. It also causes lack of follicle
formation and ovulation. You lose your fertility and irregular, or absence of, menstrual
cycles cause irreparable damage. They are more prone to cervical cancer and uterine
atrophy.
- If you take steroids during pregnancy, you risk causing severe anatomical defects to your
unborn baby. The fetus does not grow fully and could develop both masculine and
feminine characteristics.
Other adverse effects of steroids are muscular cramps leading to osteoporosis and arthritis,
bad and smelly breath, bleeding from the nose, pain in joints and lack of sound sleep. Your
weak immune system cannot resist any infection and you are very prone to HIV infections and
Hepatitis B and/ or C.
Effects in Males
Physical Effects
- Anabolic steroids are artificial forms of male testosterone. However, men taking steroids
get feminine effects. This is in the form of growth and development of breasts, which is
gynecomastia in medical terms. This increases with greater intake of steroids.
- Higher and prolonged dosages of steroids often lead to a reduction in your sperm count.
Your testes normally produce sperm. Testosterone intakes disturb this cycle and the
sperm count falls due to the increase in estrogen levels. Fall in sperm count leads to
impotence and other infertility problems. There is a huge shrinkage in size of your
testicles. This also causes pain and much difficulty while urinating.
- You put on weight and show bulkier and harder muscles.
- Your hairline recedes and you become more bald sooner.
- Your body retains a lot of water. This deposits underneath your eyes and on facial skin.
You have a puffed face and look bloated. A small increase in water content of your body
is good as it lubricates your joints, muscles, and connective tissue. However, with the
effect of steroids this water and sodium levels rise excessively high within a short period.
This is harmful as the ratio of water and sodium levels in your body need to be optimum.
Such high levels of sodium and water lead to their settling in your skin and blood,
especially underneath your skin. This gives your cheeks and eyes a puffy look. However,
such deposits cause extensive harm as your blood vessels now need to transport more
fluid. This increases your blood pressure.
Mental or Behavioral Effects
- Steroids usage leads to many changes in your behavioral patterns. You feel restless and
irritation sets in. You become angry sooner and often have mental rages. Such rages
may, at times, turn violent and you are unable to control your actions while in such a rage.
- You experience many changes in your moods. Sometimes you feel very happy and
elated while other times you feel very down. Such drastic changes in your moods affect
your actions.
- Your memory power falls considerably and you find it very difficult to do simple, normal
things.
- Your adverse behavior and attitude pushes you away from your family, friends, and
relations. You seem to be in a vicious circle, which keeps pulling you deeper and deeper
into world of steroids users.
Functional Effects
- Anabolic steroids lead to poisoning of your liver. This is liver hepatoxicity. Your liver is
unable to process blood, which leads to a total shutdown of your entire system. Long
usage of steroids lead to jaundice and your eyes and body turns yellow. Severe jaundice
causes death. Other fatal occurrences are liver tumors and blood cysts within your liver,
causing its total failure.
- There is an inappropriate increase in lipoprotein levels and cholesterol. Your heart is at
immense risk of various heart diseases and myocardial functions. This leads to high
blood pressure.
- When blood flows at such high-pressures through your arteries, they often burst and
hemorrhages occur. You suffer from heart failures and strokes. Most of these are
irreversible damage and you progress more quickly towards death. Nothing can save
you at this point.
Effect of Steroids on Teens
Steroids are adverse to the health of growing children or adolescents. Teen steroid users
experience a fast growth in their skeletal structures and their bones, muscles grow longer and
stronger faster. They become men more quickly without going through the gradual natural
process of adolescence. The growth plates enlarge and close sooner without total and proper
growth according to their age. There an overall abnormal and disproportionate physical growth
in these teens. This also causes harm to their vital organs. They become more plump. This
puts a greater burden on their bones and joints.
They are unable to bear such a heavy load and, at times, cause strong pain in their legs and
joints.
Steroid intake in Athletes and its Effects
Steroids were a non-entity until the early twentieth century. Soviet weight lifters were the first
ones to steroids for better strength and muscular prowess. Slowly, it entered international
circuits, then more and more athletes started using the anabolic steroids. They helped develop
endurance capabilities to counter longer and harder terrain, longer tracks and heavier loads.
They could perform better and earn accolades for themselves and their country in international
games and competitions.
However, anabolic steroids are now banned substances at all international contests and
games.
Athletes that test positive with steroids lose their medals and recognition. Steroids create a
negative impact on the contestants, as they are strongly addicted to steroids. They feel they
are lost without steroids - are incapable of performing in the absence of the steroids. They are
mentally charged but, times, become listless and harbor no feelings or emotions due to such
serious impact of steroids on their bodies and minds. The effect of steroids may shorten their
life-span by around twenty years.
Because a person who uses steroids gains some rapid results for their physical body
performance, they end up with a feeling of low self-esteem when they try to get off them. There
is more power in working toward a well shaped physical appearance and reaping the rewards
for the results of building your muscle the "normal" way.
Steroid use is harmful and, over a long period, becomes addictive. It then becomes difficult for
you to curb the craving for steroids. You may go to any extent to get money and time to get the
steroids, much like a heroin addict will go for his next fix.
Infections and Gastrointestinal Problems
You are prone to various infections due to needle sharing between different users. Some
steroids preparations are produced in non-sterile conditions leading to various infections like
HIV, AIDS, and hepatitis. Injectable steroids sometimes develop bacterial infections and
further illness. This leads to many inflammations in the inner lining of your heart. These form
abscesses and cause immense pain.
Anabolic steroids lead to gastrointestinal symptoms and related problems. Many people suffer
from extreme fullness of stomach, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. These consequences are
due to high and regular dosages of steroids. Often, you need to take tablets with every meal to
combat these symptoms and have a hearty meal.
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