Steroids

Anabolic Steroids
Lets say there is a young man that goes by the name of John.   John goes to the gym and works out daily.   He does this for about six months.   John is eating correctly, taking the right amount of carbohydrates, and even taking protein and other legal supplements like creatine.   John is just not satisfied with his results.   John has some body builders that he knows that work out at the same gym as he does.   He approaches one of them and asks them how can he improve his physical appearance and be more muscular.   The body builder gives John the idea of taking steroids.   Should John even consider taking steroids or should he not?   If you would trace steroids way back in history, you would find that that there was prevalence of its use among professional athletes in ancient Greece.   Even The German government under Hitler developed and used them, allegedly in an attempt to create an army of supermen.   But as history unfolds, a German scientist by the name of Dr. Ziegler discovered the drug accidently in a modern pharmaceutical form.   However there was no interest to research the drug.   Two decades later, the first scientific attention to anabolic steroids came upon in 1950 when Methandrostenolone or Dianabol was approved by the Federal Drug Association for the use in 1958 after trials in other countries like Europe.   Through the periodic trails and use of anabolic steroids throughout the sixties and eighties, there were doubts to if steroids had any positive or negative effects.   In 1972 a study was done where there was no difference between people who received anabolic steroid injections and those who were given placebo.   In 1996, the National Institute of Heal (NIH) decided to examine the effects of injecting testosterone enanthate in high doses at the rate of 600 milligrams per week for ten weeks.   The results gave a clear indication that muscle mass increased and fat decreased among those who took placebo injections.   The U.S. Congress approved...