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    Those are just a few examples of performance drugs and the affects they have on the human body. Usually when using performance drugs it is used in reference with anabolic steroids. An example of an anabolic steroid would be testosterone which is a primarily male steroid and also enhances the muscle tissue. Anti doping organizations such as WADA, prevent sports…

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    Steroids Research Paper

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    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…

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    to prevent undesirable side effects and to provide the body’s hormonal system a sporadic chance to recover. Incessant practice of steroids can drop the body’s sensitivity to the drugs as well as making the body to discontinue reproducing its own testosterone; pauses in steroid use are thought to amend these issues. “Cycling” consequently refers to “a pattern of use in which steroids are taken for periods of weeks or months, after which use is stopped for a period of time and then restarted.”…

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    Affects Sexual Performance

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    What Affects Sexual Performance Sexual performance is a broad term that encompasses many issues and conditions that affects sexual health life. This is a reduction in sexual performance as a result of external problems that interfere with sustained erection ability (impotency). Numerous Psychological and physiological conditions leads to erectile dysfunction. Physical stress increase, either at home or workplace is the main cause of inability to keep up a steady erection during…

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    Steroids are lipids because they are hydrophobic and difficult in water, but they do not feature lipids since they have a design composed of four fused rings. Cholesterol is the most frequent steroid and is the messenger to vitamin D, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, aldosterone, cortisol, and animus salts. Cholesterol is a basic of the phospholipid bilayer and plays a role in the structure and function of membranes. Steroids are found in the brain and adjust electrical activity in the…

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    athlete, unfairly winning and destroying their reputation. Drugs used to enhance athlete’s abilities are a disgrace to the world of sport and should be banned evermore. Many different types of performance enhancing drugs are manufactured such as testosterone, Hgh and bloody doping. Taking these drugs to improve an athlete’s ability causes many health risks to rise. Liver damage, blood cancers, stroke and heart attacks are some of the horrific byproducts that may follow. In some views it is felt…

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    I-Search Paper By Evan Steiner April 14, 2015 STEROIDS Baseball is the most amazing sport in the world, in my opinion at least. I’ve played the sport for as long as I can remember and I have always admired what the pros are capable of doing. When I was little I remember watching TV with my friend Garrett and seeing players like Alex Rodriguez hit home run after home run. Garrett’s dad used to say that Alex Rodriguez was cheating, but I didn’t exactly know what he meant when he said that. He…

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    Anabolic Steroid Abuse

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    Steroid abusers subject themselves to over 70 different side effects that ranged from acne to severity sides such as cancer. Anabolic steroids are known as enhancing drugs that are used for natural and synthetic substances. There are different kinds of steroids that have different functions. The functions can range from increased muscle mass, stimulants, weight control and etc. When steroids was introduced into sports in the late 1950’s the use of anabolic steroids has been a controversial issue…

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    As you age, the size of the prostate changes; during puberty the prostate grows rapidly due to the rise in male hormones, such as dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and testosterone. (“American Cancer Society”, 2015) With it the average size of a walnut, the prostate gland is located between the bladder and the penis, and is part of the male reproductive system. The prostate secretes fluids that nourishes and protects the sperm. Additionally, there are three main diseases associated with the prostate,…

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    cancer and even baldness. Both conditions are largely genetic and there is no scientific proof that they cause the conditions. In actuality there have been studies that show “men with higher levels of testosterone are at no greater risk of developing prostate cancer than men with low testosterone.” (maroulis) The biggest myth of steroid use is “roid rage”, a condition that has been dispelled in multitudes of studies, but that fact is conveniently omitted from the public health system…

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