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Steroids and Performance Enhancing Steroids. Steroids and Performance Enhancing
Steroids Nick Bott University of Houston I have chosen ...
... It can be taken by injection or in pill form, performance enhancing steroids work
primarily by stimulating certain proteins in the building muscle tissue. ...
... Thomson Gale 18 October 2005 Sidney Gendin ?Ban Athletes Who Don't Use
Steroids? Performance Enhancing Drugs Ed. James Haley. ...
... When I was in high school years ago, some of my fellow teammates took anabolic
steroids or had access to other performance enhancing drugs. ...
... Performance-enhancing drugs, which are also known as anabolic steroids, are the
reason athletes are violating ethics and laws to be the best player ever. ...
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Steroids and Performance Enhancing Steroids
Nick Bott
University of Houston
I have chosen to write my paper on the topic of steroids and performance enhancing substances that are used today in sports. In this paper I hope to focus on the steroids and performance enhancing drugs and how they have become a problem in sports.
An anabolic steroid is a substance that is related to male sex hormones, known as testosterone. The word “Anabolic” means muscle building. The word “steroids” is just referred to as a drug name or a class of drug. Some athletes have made the decision that they would like to jump higher, run faster, throw harder and hit 100 home runs. Well, this can be accomplished through hard work, dedication, and practice can’t it? Some athletes feel the need to take a shortcut to being the best, so they indulge in “shooting up.” Steroids can be very dangerous and hazardous to your health if you abuse them. Some of these conditions can include, liver tumors and cancer, jaundice, (which is a yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids), fluid retention, high blood pressure, increase in LDL (bad cholesterol), and at the same time a decrease in you good cholesterol or HDL. One may also get kidney tumors, severe acne, and suffer from trembling. These are some of the side effects that one in general can get from the use of steroids. There are also some other side effects that have to do with gender. In males they can suffer from the shrinking of the testicles and reduced sperm count, which lowers their ability to produce children, baldness, they may start developing breasts, and they are increasing their chances of getting prostate cancer. For women they may start to see some facial hair, some male-pattern of baldness, changes in or loss of menstrual cycle,...
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