Are steroids harmful to the human body?

The word, "steroids" itself describes its definition because "roids means juice or some hormone that exists in the human body. The human body naturally produces steroids for growth development and is sometimes prescriptive by doctors. But now a day's sportspersons without prescriptions used such steroids to boost muscles and athlete performance without knowing their side effects.




How dangerously it affects you!

·         It can decrease your (good) HDL cholesterol and increase your (bad) LDL cholesterol

·         lead to heart attack, kidney failure, and insomnia.

·         If we use steroids more than the prescribed period it may lead to cirrhosis or liver damage which gradually causes liver failure.

·         Steroids if given in high dose, a risk factor for infection name varicella-zoster virus which cause skin infections like measles and shingles

·         Using injectable steroids increases the chances of HIV, hepatitis b and hepatitis c because of sharing needles.

·         Steroids effects sexuality by increasing the size of breasts in males while in women breasts get smaller

·         After long-term use depression mood swings, hallucination, illusions, and irritable behavior usually occur when you get addicted to this drug.

·         In males, steroids effects different ways e.g. erectile dysfunctioning, decrease sexual drive, low sperm count, shrink testicles, thinning of hair, prostate cancer stomach inflammation

·         In women, it can enlarge the clitoris, smaller breasts, increase sexual drive, thicken facial and body hairs, have deepened voice like men, menstrual problems, and hair loss

In a nutshell..!

These are essential in medicine as life-saving agents but should not be allowed by the government to purchase without prescription due to life-threatening effects.

 

 


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