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1. Anabolics (Anabolic steroids)

Anabolic steroids are synthetic derivatives of the male hormone testosterone. The full name is androgenic (promoting masculine characteristics) anabolic (building) steroids (the class of drugs). These derivatives of testosterone promote the growth of skeletal muscle and increase lean body mass. Anabolic steroids were first abused by athletes seeking to improve performance. Today, athletes and others abuse anabolic steroids to enhance performance and also to improve physical appearance

2. How Do Anabolic Steroids Work

Anabolic steroids change muscle mass and strength by two processes. First, the steroids lead to an increased production of proteins, which are the building blocks of muscle. The steroids also block the effect of the hormone cortisol on muscle tissue, so that existing muscle is broken down at a slower rate. Additionally, anabolic steroids lead to cells differentiating into muscle more readily than fat.

3. The effect of anabolic steroids

The effect of anabolic steroids is based on their influence on the development of metabolism (anabolism) of the human body, and is promoted particularly in terms of protein structure. In the synthesis of protein in the organism is reduced and simultaneously increased the degradation of endogenous protein stores. At the same time can be increased through intensive training by the anabolic Proteinresynthese muscle hypertrophy accelerates warden

4. Anabolic steroids and testosterone

Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone that is produced in the Leydig cells in the testes in different amounts. The most obvious is the presence of this hormone when, for guys who like to have previously played with cars and action figures, rather suddenly at the primary and secondary.

5. Anabolic steroids and Sexhormone

But testosterone can do even more than boys from sexual addiction AlphaMales make. It acts as recordable antiglucocorticoid. Simply put, this means that anti-catabolic effect of testosterone, prevent muscle wasting words one does. Rather an indirect effect as testosterone (interacts anabolic / androgenic steroids in general) with glucocorticoids, whose task, among others is, to remove protein from the muscles and provide energy to the organism uses to provide. By testosterone or anabolic / androgenic steroids to block this mechanism much more or less, the muscle cells are much less protein from normal.

6. Anabolic Steroids and Performance

The effects of anabolic steroids on physical performance are unclear. Well controlled, double blind studies have rendered conflicting results. In studies showing beneficial effects, body weight increased by an average of about four pounds, lean body weight by about six pounds (fat loss accounts for the discrepancy between gains in lean mass and body weight), bench press increased by about 15 pounds, and squats by about 30 pounds (these values represent the average gains for all studies showing a beneficial effect). Almost all studies have failed to demonstrate a beneficial effect on maximal oxygen consumption or endurance capacity. Anabolic steroid studies have typically lasted six to eight weeks and have usually used relatively untrained subjects.

7. Medical Usage of Anabolic Steroids

Steroids are used for treating delayed puberty; some types of impotence; wasting of the body due to such conditions as HIV; some types of anemia; osteoporosis (brittle bones in menopausal women) and for itching caused by a liver condition called primary bilary obstruction.

8. Why Athletes Take Steroids

The widespread use of anabolic steroids among athletes is in the hopes of improving performance. Although drug testing is widespread, new designer drugs are made specifically to avoid detection. However, technology continually evolves, blood and urine samples from years earlier are now being retested with new science and exposing athletes who used illegal substances in the past.

9. Anabolic steroids References

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