Steroids are used almost everywhere in today’s world. Professional games such as athletics, rugby, and baseball are already in the easy grasp of steroids. The world of football has not been left untouched by the use of performance enhancing steroids.
The fact that no one is eager to watch dead rubber matches or slow moving athletes [...]
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Steroids are synthetic versions of the male hormone testosterone. Testosterone promotes and boosts muscle development and growth. When it is supplemented with steroids, there can be an increase of muscle mass, reduction of body fat, and enhanced endurance. It is used by athletes to try to have the edge in terms of increased energy level [...]
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Since the 1960s, many athletes have been taking steroids to enhance performance and build muscle. Increasingly, other segments of the population such as bodybuilders, other sportsmen, and even students have also been taking these compounds of late.
In this article, we would be reading about steroids and possible side-effects as well as about remedies to avoid [...]
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In today’s sporting world, no one wants to see a deadly match. Today, every one wants to see big hits going out of the ground, records being broken in a rampant manner, sportsmen getting aggressive and abusive, players giving a big glare after responding to an abuse.
Expectations are high and there is no respite for [...]
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The term ‘steroid‘ refers to a group of naturally occurring or synthetic fat-soluble organic compounds commonly known as lipids. Their chemical structure consists of a steroid nucleus which forms a hydrogenated cyclopentanoperhydrophenanthrene ring system having seventeen carbon atoms arranged in four rings. Many hormones, body constituents and drugs are also commonly termed as steroids. These [...]
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In the last few years, steroids have not been a lone terrority for the athletes and bodybuilders. People of all ages, including school & college-going students and even working professionals have admitted that they have used or have been using steroids to gain muscle mass and enhance body performance.
The findings of Monitoring the Future (MTF) [...]
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Despite the fact that steroids tend to harm the body and health of their users, the popularity of steroids has been on an all-time high. One can hear news about steroids on almost a daily basis these days and the usage of steroids has been on a rampant basis despite odds against their usage.
Steroids, which [...]
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Medicines when consumed as per the medical prescription do no harm but when taken excessively, it might bring in many problems to the individual. Abuse can be defined as the inability to resist from using that is dangerous to one’s health or well being. Similarly steroid abuse is often accompanied by psychological dependence, and a [...]
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Drugs commonly referred to as “steroids” are classified as anabolic and corticosteroids. Corticosteroids, such as cortisone, are drugs that are used by patients suffering from asthma and lupus. They’re not the same as the anabolic steroids that receive so much media attention for their use by some athletes and bodybuilders. Anabolic steroids are synthetic hormones that [...]
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When one thinks of steroids, the first thought that comes to the mind of many of us is about an athlete or bodybuilder taking them to gain an unfair advantage. But, steroids do not pose any harm to their users unless they are abused and do not give unfair advantage to anyone but help the [...]
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