If your teenage boy is building muscle mass faster than his peers, has continuous unpleasant breath odor, is more prone to tantrums and has excessive acne he might be taking anabolic steroids online. While the swelling physique of your child may be a source of family pride, the abuse of anabolic steroids may damage your son’s health for the rest of his life.
Taking steroid hormones is drug abuse, just like crack, heroin or methamphetamines. As a parent, your children’s health and welfare should be a top priority. Do you ever overhear them talking about “roids, hype, pump” with their friends? Then they may be taking, or considering taking steroids.
Anabolic steroids are powerful muscle builders but are not good for building supportive tissues like tendons and ligaments. Steroids promote growth of skeletal muscle (anabolic effect) and the development of male sexual characteristics (androgenic effects) Testosterone administered by mouth is rapidly absorbed, but converts to inactive metabolites, of which only about 1/6 is available in active form.
Oral synthetic forms of testosterone are cleared more slowly by the liver, but tend to be liver toxic. In whichever way it is taken, orally or through injections, steroid dosages commonly used within athletic abuse may result in liver failure or stomach bleeding. On top of this, the added power of the steroid boosted muscles puts severe demands on the heart which can lead to enlarged heart, a condition that is permanent and life debilitating.
Anabolic steroids are chemical derivatives of the male sex hormone, testosterone. Testosterone has both androgenic and anabolic effects. The androgenic effect influences male voice, hair growth, libido, body build and bone structure. The anabolic effect mainly deals with conversion of nutrients and protein into muscle mass. The anabolic state is what the person wanting rapid muscle growth is after.