The Dangers of Bodybuilding Supplements

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The Dangers of Bodybuilding Supplements

Nutritional supplements can be great in helping you stay healthy and ensuring you get all the necessary vitamins and minerals your body requires. However many bodybuilders take and misuse 'bodybuilding supplements', with goal of bulking up faster. The bodybuilding supplement which is most often misused by bodybuilders is anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids will help you get bigger much faster than a natural bodybuilder, but the negative effects of such bodybuilding supplements seriously outweigh the benefits.

Bodybuilders Beware?

As a bodybuilder you must know that steroids are illegal, and most competitive bodybuilders have to take drug test before competing. The damage you will do to yourself by being caught out doing steroids will destroy your reputation within bodybuilding circles and outside them. Plus the damage you might do to your body is potentially very bad.

You'll Stop Being A "Real" Man

Here's What Steroids Might Do To You (as a man):

-They will cause men's testicles to shrink
-Steroids have been shown to lower men's sperm count
-Cause breasts to develop
-Induce you voice to deepen
-Trigger your hair to fall out

Who's the man now then?

Women also are effected; by a deepening of the voice, hair loss and also the development of facial hair. Teenagers who take steroids might have their growth stunted. And if all this isn't enough, it can get much worse.

Anabolic steroids can cause damage to your liver, with the side effect of jaundice. They are also believed to cause tumours in the liver and cancer. However the worst effect is found on the heart, as steroids can cause the heart to enlarge and the arteries to harden, with the result being heart disease and eventually heart failure.

Even More Side Effects

Other bodybuilding supplements have been found to cause spots, acne, shaking, and uncontrollable anger, also known as roid rage that causes the user to be extremely aggressive and violent.

I'm not going to touch in detail on the reasons why steroids help you bulk up, because I don't believe you should be taking them. All you need it hard work, dedication, good nutrition and a proven training program, and if you stick to it all you'll have the body of your dreams in no time.

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By: Bob Giddy
 
-They will cause men's testicles to shrink: Yes depending on the amount of testosterone one is taking, testicles can shrink because your body thinks it has enough testosterone in the body, but once you stop taking them and use post cycle therapy, the testicular apathy stops and your testicles come back to normal size

-Steroids have been shown to lower men's sperm count.. Some cases yes, but most of the time this happens with severe abuse over very long periods of time

-Cause breasts to develop: Also comes with abuse and genetics. Depending on the person, gyno can occur.

-Induce you voice to deepen: With extreme abuse possibly, but most of the time the voice is one of the last things to be affected by men taking steroids since the voice has already deepened throughout puberty.

-Trigger your hair to fall out: Steroids do not make you bald. If you are subject to balding genetically they can worsen it but they will not make somebody who's not going to be bald start balding

I am against steroid use in young adults, but I am also against misinforming people about them to steer them away from it. If you're going to use them, use them correctly and they are very safe.. most problems only stem from abuse/ignorance.
 
-They will cause men's testicles to shrink: Yes depending on the amount of testosterone one is taking, testicles can shrink because your body thinks it has enough testosterone in the body, but once you stop taking them and use post cycle therapy, the testicular apathy stops and your testicles come back to normal size

-Steroids have been shown to lower men's sperm count.. Some cases yes, but most of the time this happens with severe abuse over very long periods of time

-Cause breasts to develop: Also comes with abuse and genetics. Depending on the person, gyno can occur.

-Induce you voice to deepen: With extreme abuse possibly, but most of the time the voice is one of the last things to be affected by men taking steroids since the voice has already deepened throughout puberty.

-Trigger your hair to fall out: Steroids do not make you bald. If you are subject to balding genetically they can worsen it but they will not make somebody who's not going to be bald start balding

I am against steroid use in young adults, but I am also against misinforming people about them to steer them away from it. If you're going to use them, use them correctly and they are very safe.. most problems only stem from abuse/ignorance.

Great post. You beat me to it!
 
-They will cause men's testicles to shrink: Yes depending on the amount of testosterone one is taking, testicles can shrink because your body thinks it has enough testosterone in the body, but once you stop taking them and use post cycle therapy, the testicular apathy stops and your testicles come back to normal size

Unless you mean your testicles begin saying "Meh, not so great; I'll just hang out" when LH is released, then I believe you mean "atrophy". Also, testicle size is more closely associated with an increase/decrease in spermatogenesis than T., production.

-Steroids have been shown to lower men's sperm count.. Some cases yes, but most of the time this happens with severe abuse over very long periods of time

This is slightly misleading as well. Both animal models and clinical trials have displayed acute, androgen-induced oligospermia with doses as low as 1.3mg/kg on an every third day schedule - a schedule and dosing considerably lower than most cycles. Some trials have noted a reduction in the total amount of spermatozoa and testicular germ cell function within 7-10 days.

-Cause breasts to develop: Also comes with abuse and genetics. Depending on the person, gyno can occur.

Mostly genetics determines one's potential ability to proflierate the breast tissue.

-Trigger your hair to fall out: Steroids do not make you bald. If you are subject to balding genetically they can worsen it but they will not make somebody who's not going to be bald start balding

This is misleading as well.
 
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