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How steroids affect our body
Performance enhancement, is the most common goal that drives most athletes to use and abuse steroids. In the quest to be the best at their game, most athletes dose up on steroids, which end up affecting their bodies seriously. Medical wise steroids are meant to help in the reduction of inflammations and manage a number of health symptoms. Chronic asthma patients use steroid inhalers, people suffering from Eczema use steroid creams to clear their break outs and steroids are used to reduce the pain induced through aches in the body's ligaments and joints. Advanced cancer patients are given steroid treatment, which helps to lower their immune system and in turn lowers the effects of the cancer cells in their bodies. Steroids are very effective in the management of brain tumors by reducing swelling and may result in reversing the symptoms associated with brain tumors. Steroids are however administered sparingly due to the side effects they present in the body.
When steroids are used for a prolonged period of time or in high doses, their levels build up within the body. Excessive levels of steroids in the body present a number of grave limitations to our bodies functioning systems. The excessive use of steroid creams affect the skin by weakening it and causing it to thin out. When steroids get to the body's skeletal and bone structures, calcium leaks out of the bones weakening them and leaving them susceptible to fractures. Constant hunger is another side effect of excessive use of steroids and they also raise blood sugar levels. Steroid users are therefore susceptible to acquiring diabetes from prolonged use, which builds the steroid levels in the blood system.
The body's immune system is very important in helping our bodies fight disease and prevent us from getting ill. Steroid use lowers our immune systems leaving our bodies unprotected and susceptible to diseases and illnesses. Chest infections are also presented in the body as side effects of using high doses of steroids. Their prolonged use leads to different types of cancers attacking the body.
Prolonged use of steroids alter the brains functions and creates euphoric tenancies in those who constantly use them. Sleep deprivation and disturbance patterns are also experienced from excessive steroid use. Psychiatric conditions such as psychosis, delusions and paranoia can be brought about through prolonged steroid use. These conditions are highly enhanced if an individual is also on other drugs that affect functioning of the brain.
Other side effects of steroids include jaundice, which presents itself in the instance of liver failure, malignant cancers, fluid retention, high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. Men experience shrunken testes, decrease in sperm count therefore increasing their chances of being infertile, they experience the falling of their hair , breast development and their chances of acquiring prostate cancer increases. Women experience the growth of beards, balding, breaking of the voice during and after menstrual cycles and enlargement of their clitoris. In teenagers, steroids have the effect of catapulting their bodies into adulthood while halting their growth functions.
Performance enhancement, is the most common goal that drives most athletes to use and abuse steroids. In the quest to be the best at their game, most athletes dose up on steroids, which end up affecting their bodies seriously. Medical wise steroids are meant to help in the reduction of inflammations and manage a number of health symptoms. Chronic asthma patients use steroid inhalers, people suffering from Eczema use steroid creams to clear their break outs and steroids are used to reduce the pain induced through aches in the body's ligaments and joints. Advanced cancer patients are given steroid treatment, which helps to lower their immune system and in turn lowers the effects of the cancer cells in their bodies. Steroids are very effective in the management of brain tumors by reducing swelling and may result in reversing the symptoms associated with brain tumors. Steroids are however administered sparingly due to the side effects they present in the body.
When steroids are used for a prolonged period of time or in high doses, their levels build up within the body. Excessive levels of steroids in the body present a number of grave limitations to our bodies functioning systems. The excessive use of steroid creams affect the skin by weakening it and causing it to thin out. When steroids get to the body's skeletal and bone structures, calcium leaks out of the bones weakening them and leaving them susceptible to fractures. Constant hunger is another side effect of excessive use of steroids and they also raise blood sugar levels. Steroid users are therefore susceptible to acquiring diabetes from prolonged use, which builds the steroid levels in the blood system.
The body's immune system is very important in helping our bodies fight disease and prevent us from getting ill. Steroid use lowers our immune systems leaving our bodies unprotected and susceptible to diseases and illnesses. Chest infections are also presented in the body as side effects of using high doses of steroids. Their prolonged use leads to different types of cancers attacking the body.
Prolonged use of steroids alter the brains functions and creates euphoric tenancies in those who constantly use them. Sleep deprivation and disturbance patterns are also experienced from excessive steroid use. Psychiatric conditions such as psychosis, delusions and paranoia can be brought about through prolonged steroid use. These conditions are highly enhanced if an individual is also on other drugs that affect functioning of the brain.
Other side effects of steroids include jaundice, which presents itself in the instance of liver failure, malignant cancers, fluid retention, high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. Men experience shrunken testes, decrease in sperm count therefore increasing their chances of being infertile, they experience the falling of their hair , breast development and their chances of acquiring prostate cancer increases. Women experience the growth of beards, balding, breaking of the voice during and after menstrual cycles and enlargement of their clitoris. In teenagers, steroids have the effect of catapulting their bodies into adulthood while halting their growth functions.
