What Steriods Do to You

 What Steriods Do To You

It is important to talk to your children about the dangers of steriod use ,for sport advantage. High school athletes are taking them ,will our middle school kids be next? 

 Track Mom
It seems to day almost every sport has a steroid scandal of its own. In the world of professional football, one famed 14-year NFL veteran was quoted as saying: “On some teams, between 75 and 90 percent of all athletes use steroids.”   Today, steroids use is   used by both male and female  athletes and also by boys not yet in their teens.

Dr. William N. Taylor, warned that the use of these drugs has reached “epidemic proportions.” How far-reaching is this epidemic? Taylor noted that in addition to athletes, accountants and professors as well as unskilled workers and police officers abuse steroids. “It’s not a sports problem anymore,” he said, “it’s a social problem, these users are playing with dynamite.”

Anabolic steroids are powerful synthetic versions of the male hormone testosterone. Over the years steroids have been used clinically, and under careful supervision, as an aid in bringing on puberty that is delayed, in building up muscles withered by disease or surgery, and for the protection of blood cells during radiation or chemotherapy.  For problemsdiaganosed by a doctor this “drug can  and is a powerful helpful agent.

 It was in the 50’s Russian doctors and scientists reasoned that by giving athletes megadoses of the male hormone testosterone, muscles and body mass should build up more quickly, thus enhancing the performance of their athletes. Their goal was to empower them excel in all power events.

As a result, Russian athletes went into the world arena of international sports competition with a marked edge, dominating most of the sports events at the time.

Nationalism raised its ugly head. And soon American doctors decided to even the odds on the sports battlefield by formulating a synthetic form of anabolic steroid-a drug related to testosterone-that was easier and cheaper to produce. Giving the patient athlete the choice of pill or injectable. These doctors’ formulas proved alarmingly successful. Bigger ,better bodies  with better performances through chemistry now  possible. 

There are also those who want to look good at the beach. High-school kids think steroids may enhance their ability to get an athletic scholarship.

“It is reported that Thosansds of  high School boys are using steroids right now,with no fear of the noted scientific eveidence to harming ,even to the point of death”.

The Pressure Is On

High-school athletes aspiring to be stars in the sports world, beleive that a few well placed pounds of muscles could make the difference in college or not. This begins to drive an athleteic life all it’s own.

 Dr. Taylor, said: “I have received dozens of calls from fathers who want to make their average-sized children bigger. I’ve had offers of tens of thousands of dollars to chemically manipulate children.”

It is hard to believe but true  noted experts on physical education claims that high-school athletes have the backing of both parents and coaches for steroid use.

  What Price Glory?

“People think the cocaine issue is big,” said one noted physical therapist who works with athletes. “It’s not as big as anabolic steroids. Among kids, it’s epidemic.” Young people worldwide are jumping on the steroid bandwagon.  “Paranoia, hallucinations, delusions of grandeur and violent tendencies are frightening whenever they appear,”. ” Usere may be prone to prone to such psychotic and manic symptoms, according to ongoing research.

 Steroid side effects can cause irreversible masculinazation in women-growth of body and facial hair, lower voices, shrinkage of the breasts, interruption of the menstrual cycle.

“When one considers those who use drugs to build bigger and better bodies in this so-called fitness boom, one must ask if it is fitness reality or fitness illusion? What happens to fitness after the glory has faded? Will they look back at their young lives and determine that they have paid an enormous price for sports stardom or narcissistic vanity? The wise person will realize that to sacrifice one’s body for short-lived glory and admiration by the world is indeed a striving after the wind”.

Article quotes by Frank Goh

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