Steroids Research Paper

Many people, even professional athletes and super models, want to improve something about their bodies. Whether it is steroids or weight loss supplements, drug dealers and drug companies all claim to have the answer to happiness through products that claim to improve our bodies. But they never tell you about the price that you can pay: the cancers, depression, liver damage, acne, balding, or anger that can result. Happiness and athletic success don't come from a pill or a needle; they come from hard work and practice. The simple fact is that as a teen, your body is already running like a well-oiled machine and you have optimal potential to look good and be healthy. Following a solid work-out routine created by a coach or doctor, practicing, and eating and sleeping lots are all
you need to excel as an athlete or to improve your body.
There are many kinds of steroids, but when you hear about them in the news in relation to sports, "doping," or performance enhancement, they almost always mean Anabolic-androgenic steroids. These are man-made substances that are related to male sex hormones such as testosterone. Steroids primarily help you bulk up by increasing growth hormone levels like

testosterone.
But as a teen, you already have all the testosterone and energy that you need to bulk up and reduce body fat. Starting at puberty, your testosterone levels increase rapidly, peak at 20, and stay level until around 40. Nature has already given you everything you need. All you have to do is exercise, eat healthy, and sleep. Remember, more-and-more high schools and all colleges test their athletes for steroids. Not only will testing positive for steroids cause a student to be banned from sports, it could also cause his/her team to forfeit a game or entire season.
Steroids affect your heart. Steroid abuse has been associated with cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke. These heart problems can even happen to athletes under the age of 30. Steroids affect your liver and kidneys. Steroids can cause high blood pressure and kidney and liver tumors. Steroid use can also cause blood-filled cysts to develop in the liver. Both the tumors and cysts can rupture, causing internal bleeding. Steroids affect your appearance. In both sexes, steroids can cause male-pattern baldness, cysts, acne, and oily hair and skin. Steroids can affect your growth. Under normal
conditions,

sex hormones trigger growth spurts during puberty and also signal the body to stop growing when they reach a certain level. When teens take steroids, the resulting high sex hormone levels can signal bones to prematurely stop growing, stunting the user's growth. Steroids can make you angry and hostile for no reason. This is commonly referred to as "roid rage." This can also include suicidal thoughts and/or attempts, fatigue, restlessness, loss of appetite, and insomnia. There are many cases of steroids causing users to become violent towards themselves and others and some users developed behavioral problems that were so extreme that they could not function within their workplace or society.
When used legally, these drugs help patients who do not produce enough natural testosterone or whose muscles are wasting away from a debilitating disease like AIDS or injury such as paralysis. Any use without a prescription can lead to serious health problems, some irreversible, even death. Often patients, who carefully use steroids with the direction of a doctor, still have negative side affects