The Ugly Truth: Steroids RUINED Bodybuilding For ALL Women

Anabolic steroids are drugs that athletes take to boost their strength and add muscle. These drugs also are called anabolic-androgenic steroids. They are made to work like a hormone that the body makes called testosterone.

Testosterone has two main effects on the body:

• Helps build muscle.
• Causes features such as facial hair and a deeper voice.

The anabolic steroids used by athletes are often forms of testosterone made in a lab.

Some people use anabolic steroids for medical reasons. But doping for sports isn’t one of the uses the drugs are approved for.

What makes some athletes want to use anabolic steroids? These drugs might lower the damage that happens to muscles during a hard workout. That could help athletes bounce back faster from a workout. They might be able to exercise harder and more often. Some people also may like how their muscles look when they take these drugs.

More-dangerous types of anabolic steroids are called designer steroids. Some drug tests may not be able to spot them in a person’s body. Anabolic steroids have no medical use that’s approved by the government.

Many athletes take anabolic steroids at doses that are too high. These doses are much higher than those that health care providers use for medical reasons. Anabolic steroids have serious side effects too.

Men may:

• See their breasts grow.
• Notice their testicles shrink.
• Not be able to get their partner pregnant.
• Learn from a health care provider that their prostate gland has gotten bigger.

Women may:

• Get a deeper voice. Treatment may not be able to change it back.
• Notice that a part of their genitals called the clitoris has gotten bigger.
• Grow more body hair.
• Lose the hair on the head. Treatment might not be able to bring the hair back.
• Stop getting periods or get them much less often than they used to.

All people who use anabolic steroids might start to get:

• Severe acne.
• A higher risk of swollen or torn cords in the body called tendons, which attach muscle to bone.
• Liver tumors, or other changes to the liver.
• Higher levels of the “bad” cholesterol, called low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol.
• Lower levels of the “good” cholesterol, called high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.
• High blood pressure.
• Problems with the heart and blood flow.
• Issues with anger or violence.
• Mental health conditions, such as depression.
• A need for anabolic steroids that can’t be controlled.
• Diseases, such as HIV or hepatitis, if using needles to give shots of the drugs.
• Androstenedione, also called andro, is a hormone everyone’s body makes. The body turns andro into the hormone testosterone and a form of the hormone estrogen.
• Andro can be made in a lab. Some drugmakers and workout magazines claim that andro products help athletes train harder and recover faster. But some studies show that andro doesn’t boost testosterone. They also show that muscles don’t get stronger.
• Andro is legal to use only if a health care provider prescribes it. It’s not legal to use as a doping drug in the United States.
• Risks
• Side effects of andro in men include:
• Acne.
• Testicles that shrink or make less sperm.
• Breast growth.
• Side effects in women include:
• Acne.
• Deeper voice.
• Loss of hair on the head.
• Andro can damage the heart and blood vessels in anyone who takes it. This raises the risk of a serious problem that can happen when the heart doesn’t get enough blood, called a heart attack. It also raises the risk of a condition that keeps the brain from getting enough oxygen, called a stroke. Heart attack and stroke can be deadly.
• https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/performance-enhancing-drugs/art-20046134