Steroids is not a magic pill or injection. By taking steroids, you will not automatically inflate to massive sizes, and you will not transform yourself in Hulk in a similar way as the “Hulk”.
Steroids is the name of many different chemicals that have one thing in common: To change your body unnaturally.
Steroids are not worth it!
You can achieve better, longer-lasting results naturally. If you are just looking at becoming lean, ripped and muscular, and are not looking at competing, don’t use steroids.
Steroid gains do not last, the gains and strength somehow seem to reverse once a user stops using steroids, even if they continue to train.
Natural bodybuilders keep their gains and shape for many years, as long as they keep training.
Even if a natural bodybuilder stops training, the results quickly returns after a few weeks of training due to the magic of “muscle memory”.
Steroids
Steroids are drugs that change the chemistry of your body to produce a specific effect:
- energy
- strength
- Build muscle
- reduce fat
Steroids are illegal, and is usually purchased through underground (illegal, unlicensed) channels where quality is not guaranteed, and where no professional is available to check and correct for side effects. Irrespective of what is being told to you, if you are caught with Steroids, you will face legal consequence, you may land up in a court and may even get a criminal record.
It may sound unfair that a health freak can possibly get a criminal record, but governments around the world are trying to discourage their use because of the devastating damage that steroids cause to people.
Early symptoms of steroid abuse are:
- significant, sudden increases in body weight – this is the desired effect of body builders
- serious cystic acne
- headaches
- dizziness
- severe leg and abdominal cramping
- premature hair loss
Side effects of Steroids:
- cholesterol modifications
- heart disease
- anaphylactic shock
- high blood pressure
- septic shock
- death
Reproductive system problems:
- genital atrophy
- genital swelling
- sexual dysfunction
- sterility, impotence
- prostate enlargement
- fetal damage, and menstrual irregularities.
The liver and kidneys are under constant attack by steroids. Individuals do use liver tonics and tablets available at pharmacies, but these do not reverse the damage. These liver tablets are manufactured for infrequent alcoholic drinker, but the keyword is infrequent.
Effects to the liver includes:
- cancer, jaundice, tumors, and Pelosis hepatitis.
Damage to the kidneys includes:
- kidney stones, kidney disease, and kidney malfunctions.
Taking steroids can also affect your skin and hair
- Acne, oily skin, rashes, purple or red spots on the body, hives, increased body hair, baldness, and increased facial hair in women.
Other side effects include edema bone pain, nausea, chills, diarrhea, insomnia, deepening of the voice, and changes in bowel and urinary habits.
Steroids can also affect the user psychologically. They can become depressed, aggressive, and very hostile. Some athletes are so aggressive that they have to use tranquilizes when not competing to cope with their hostility.
Are Steroids addictive?
Steroids are not addictive in that it does not change the chemistry in the brain in the same way alcohol or recreational drug would.
A person can stop using steroids at any time with no withdrawal or life-threatening symptoms, there are no cravings.
It is the desire to grow larger and to get leaner that pushes a user to use steroids over and over again.
Some steroid users stop growing, or they are not happy with the results, and as a result, they continue to abuse new steroids to squeeze everything that they can out of their bodies.
Someone who starts receiving compliments feels good about themselves, and this pushes them to continue abusing the steroids.
And the feeling of achievement is also a strong contributing factor to the abuse.
The “addiction” is not the drug itself, but the mental and the self-esteem effect it has on a person.
