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the desired effects are so overwhelming that people tend to overlook the
consequences. Steroid users believe taking anabolic steroids will enhance their
performance, strength, size,etc. They regard the use of them as legitimate as any
To begin with, the term "anabolic " means "to build tissue," therefore
anabolic steroids tend to increase constructive metabolic pathways within the
body. Also, anabolic steroids are synthetic derivatives of the natural male
Testosterone was the first steroid developed, a natural occuring hormone in
many plants and animals. The first clinical use of testosterone occured in 1958
when physicians injected it into underweight and ill patients to simualte weight
gain. The first reported use of steroids in a non-medical setting occured during
World War II. Steroids were adminstered by Nazi doctors into German soldiers to
enhance their aggressiveness. The Soviet Union noted the Nazis' use of the drug
and recognized that enhanced aggressiveness, increasing in strength, and size
. . .
The first is the androgenic effects or masculinizing.
The introduction of synthetic hormones results in decreased levels of other natural
hormones. Others think the increased
aggressiveness causes lifters to ignore warning signals from an overworked body
and they train harder than they should. There are three major benefits that are
wanted from steroid use and they are: Frist athletes will attain a greater increase
in lean muscle mass and strength when it is used with a combination of rigorous
training and the drug. John Ziegler, the team physician for the United States weightlifting team
at the last Vienna World Power lifting championships. The
effects are maintained as long as the athlete continues the steroid use. Ziegler was impressed with the results and began
conducting some studies on American lifters. A Soviet physician told
Ziegler that some of the members fo the Soviet team were using testosterone as an
aid to enhance their strength. Psychologically,
steroid use can be compulsive and unstoppable in what has been termed by the
medical community as "reversed anorexia". This increased aggresssiveness may drive athletes to train
harder and longer without the usual fatigue. The major reason for
this large amount of useage is that sports have envolved from recreational pastime
to a lucrative money-making venture at the professional level.
Anabolic steroids are all derivatives of the male sex hormone testosterone. The second major benefit of the steroid use is that the
athlete's body suffers less breakdown.
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