A Healthy Lifestyle December 2013 | Page 22

The most powerful of anabolic steroid is testosterone. Anabolic steroids can be acquired in the form of pills, powders, or injections. Oral steroids have the greatest number of side effects. When ingested, they pass through the digestive system and the liver to the bloodstream. This form causes aggressive action by the liver and can result in significant liver damage.

Anabolic steroids are prescription drugs generally manufactured in large pharmaceutical laboratories. Like any illegal drug, anabolic steroids can develop addiction. When consuming the drug, the body becomes tolerant and then craving it making you dependent. At first, when the person starts consuming them, the body builds a certain kind of tolerance. When consuming steroids aggression is the first psychological sign of dependency followed by withdrawal such as depression, nausea, mood swings, fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, anorexia, headaches, muscle pain, loss of appetite, reduced sex drive. There are a lot of dangerous side effects such as prostate tumors; clotting disorders, and liver problems.

There are also some cosmetic changes in the body due to steroids such as baldness, increased body hair, acne, and breast growth in men. Also, the normal production of hormones in someone’s body may be disrupted due to the abuse of steroids. Therefore the question is, do you really need these killer bodybuilders?