The Psychological Effects Of Using Steroids

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the right training stimulus and diet, these steroids enables the user to process protein into muscle fibers at astonishing rates, creating increased muscle size and strength with a drop in body fat (due to an increase in metabolic rate) . They are, in effect, the chemical essence of manliness, physical power and masculine aggression (Nichols 38).
Synthetic steroids were developed in the 1930’s to rebuild and prevent the breakdown of body tissue from disease. In the 1950’s, synthetic steroids became popular with athletes because they helped produce this greater-than-normal muscle size and strength, but the abuse of these synthetic steroids has many dangerous physical and psychological effects.
Steroids are fast catching up with antibiotics as the most abused class of drugs prescribed by doctors even though they cannot cure one single condition. All steroids can do is suppress the bodies ability to express a normal response. Sometimes suppression will give the body a chance to ...

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