The pretext for taking anabolic steroids is to have more stamina and strength, as well as enviable aspect. However, complications ranging from acne to tumors in brain or liver. The question arises: is it worth risking your health?
In 1992, Lyle Alzado, one of the football players more aggressive and vigorous Oakland Raiders, died at age 43 due to a brain tumor. Before his death, the athlete himself had attributed his health problems to the use of anabolic steroids.
Practice is not new, because since the nineteenth century is known athletes seeking better performance in their professional activities have been provided altering substances normal condition, paying their boldness with their lives.
Anabolic steroids are substances that promote synthesis of protein and tissue formation, which can accelerate both growth and the rate of bone maturation and the development of muscle mass. These compounds naturally found in the growth hormones, gonadotropins, insulin, testosterone and its derivatives.
However, the male hormone testosterone popular synthetically derived steroids, whose full name is steroids (the class of drugs) anabolic (involved in a constructive process) androgenic (promoting masculine characteristics). Its use has spread thanks to the addition of the distinctive qualities of these substances, facilitate the recovery of the grueling sessions, allowing athletes to train harder.
Such products are administered orally or injected into the muscle (not in the vein), and who know their effects are usually consumed in patterns called cycling, which is to administer multiple doses of steroids over a specific period, stop take them for a while and start again. They also tend to combine different types of steroids to maximize their effectiveness and at the same time minimizing their adverse effects. This process is known as stacking.
credit to: Raul Serrano
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