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• Hot flashes • Headache Zoladex Treatment For Prostate Cancer In Men Prostate cancer affects men and Zoladex is used to manage it. During the use of Zoladex, you have to be prepared for Zoladex side effects prostate cancer which is similar to Zoladex side effects endometriosis. In men, testosterone supports cancer cells to grow. When Zoladex is taken by a man, the testosterone levels declines significantly, this prevents prostate cancer from spreading and the cancer cells shrink.…

Student athletes should just say “No!” People who take and use steroids can have serious side effects. For instance males can develop things such as breasts, shrinking of testicals, infertility, and male pattern baldness, and heart/liver problems. On the other hand women can develop things such as excessive growing of body hair and male pattern baldness, and heart/ liver problems . All student athletes should be drug tested before they are allowed to play sports because drug tests prevent…

The use of enhancement drugs in sports has always been a debated topic of whether it is safe and fair for athletes. In Savulescu’s article, “Why we should allow performance enhancing drugs in sport”, he argues that enhancement drugs in sports is not a safety issue as long as the there is a limit to the enhancements. Savulescu proposed that as long as the level of enhancement is regulated then there is no danger put onto the athlete. In William Saletan’s article, “The Beam in Your Eyes”, he…

When someone mentions “steroids”, how do people respond to it? Some people will argue that steroids are very harmful to an individual. Some say they may even cause death. But some select individuals say “now just wait a second, are they really that harmful?” Through the film Bigger, Stronger, Faster, director Chris Bell tackles that question effectively in the stance that they are a lot less harmful than the media portrays them to be. By using multiple renowned doctors and writers, Chris Bell…

Jim Sensenbrenner once said, “These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.” This is very true. People claim that the steroid era is over, but the fact of the matter is steroid use is still very common in today’s professional sports. In Forbes magazine, Josh Smith states that performance enhancing drugs and treatments have become the biggest scourge of professional sports leagues(Smith). Each year multiple people are banned from their…

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat. (Lou Brock). That is why Doping damages the integrity of professional sports. There is a ongoing conflict about whether professional athletes should be allowed to use performance enhancing drugs. Because of the health concerns it has, doping damages the integrity of professional sports. Professional athletes should not use performance enhancing…

What does Cholesterol Do? “Your body needs some cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that help you digest foods.”(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, What is Cholesterol) This helps the blood carry the vitamin D over to the heart. The vitamin D is what makes us survive. Cholesterol is found everywhere in the body by every cell. Cholesterol helps the body what parts of our blood needs. Without cholesterol, we wouldn’t survive. What does Steroids Do? “Here is what…

What are performance drugs? Performance drugs also known as, PED are substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans. Doping drugs are banned from being used in bodybuilding and athletic sports. When you participate in these type of activities professionally, you are drug tested regularly. Anabolic drug will build up your muscles, types of these drugs include steroids and hormones. Gene doping is a medicated gene…

Steroids are natural substances with many different effects in the human body, which begin over several days. The primary use of steroids in health care is to reduce inflammation and other disease symptoms. Steroids make the whole immune system less active, which can be very useful in illnesses where there is an immune component. Steroids are the ultimate anti inflammatory drugs. Steroids are a family of lipid molecules that includes cholesterol, steroid hormones, and bile salts. These…

While there are many drugs in this world, anabolic steroids happen to be among the most commonly used addictive drugs. “Anabolic steroids refer to synthetic variants of the male sex hormone testosterone” according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse ("What are the Health"). Certain medical conditions can be treated with anabolic steroids. However the dosage taken by steroid abusers is anywhere from ten to one hundred times higher than that of the dosage prescribed for medical conditions.…