Steroids Affecting The Human Body

Performance enhancing drugs are very bad. Steroids are one of many performance enhancing drugs that are not natural for the human body. Steroids are an enhancement drug, that will increase your muscles, body size, testosterone, and physical and mental body. Although many people think steroids don't effect your body at all negatively, they can severely injure your body. Taking steroids “can cause enlargement of the heart, which can lead to heart failure; high blood pressure; hardening of the arteries which leads to coronary heart disease; elevated cholesterol; heart attack; stroke; anaphylactic and septic shock” (Andrade). This could lead to many trips to the hospital, and could permanently stop you from working out as a whole. Another huge
negative of steroids is that your bank will be broken. Steroids are much more expensive than your average protein shake. You would be saving much more money buying organic foods and protein shakes, which are a lot more healthy than steroids. Next, your liver might be in some trouble. Taking steroids can do major permanent damage to your liver. Steroids can cause “cancer, jaundice, bleeding, and hepatitis. Also steroids have been linked to other kinds of cancer besides liver” (Andrade). Damage to your liver could really mess your body up, and prevent you from ever touching the weights again. Steroids can also kill. Taking steroids can kill you from the inside out just because they are not natural for the human body. No drug or performance enhancement is worth dying for. Lastly, your personality will change which is perhaps the worse side effect. You could get “roid rage” which includes huge mood swings from happy to super mad, manic episodes, jealousy, and depression. Your physical appearance could change, for example if you are a male you could start to develop female boobs, or if you are a female you could start to grow leg, arm, facial hair. Steroids are super bad, and you should never use them.