What are Anabolic Steroids?
Anabolic steroids can be also known in more specific medical terms as anabolic-androgen steroids (AAS). Moreover, ASS is a drug class name and they are steroidal androgen. Additionally, a group of sex hormones known as androgen plays a vital role in an individual’s over-body and sexual health growth and development. All genders produce androgen but also males produce it more. Additionally, experts consider Testosterone as the main androgen hormone. Furthermore, this drug class synthesizes or helps to replace naturally producing testosterone levels in patients to treat various conditions.
Also, here are some functions that Anabolic steroids do:
- Increase protein within the cells of the body
- Moreover, replace the work and level of Testosterone
- Also, boost testosterone levels in the body
- Develop and also maintain male characteristics
- Also, play part in facial and body hair growth and maintaining its thickness
- Additionally, affects the voice
- Promote and also preserve muscle growth
- Stimulate the body and sexual growth of a person during puberty
- Also, stimulate bone marrow
- Prevent bone loss in elderly men
- Treat some issues during the postmenstrual phase in some women
- Stimulate appetite levels
- Furthermore, aids to gain weight
- Stimulate lean body mass
- Moreover, combats long-term corticosteroid therapy’s catabolic effect on the body
- Also, help to recover from severe burns
- Induce male puberty
- Also, improve libido
What are The Uses of Anabolic Steroids?
The discovery of this medicine was done in the 1930s and since then it is given by doctors to treat several conditions like:
- Hypoplastic anemias
- Growth failure in children
- Chronic wasting conditions also from conditions like cancers or AIDS
- Bone loss in old men
- Osteoporosis in women during the postmenstrual phase
- Weight loss due to chronic infection, physical trauma, or post-surgery
- Moreover, preventing the catabolic effect of corticosteroid therapy
- Also, recovering from severe burns
- Idiopathic short stature
- Hereditary angioedema
- Alcoholic hepatitis
- Hypogonadism
- Prevents further delay during puberty
- Cryptorchidism
- Also, treats Erectile dysfunction in males
- Other symptoms during menopause (hot flashes, high libido, and energy)
- Postpartum breast pain and engorgement
- Moreover, treats Breast cancer
- Also, be part of androgen replacement therapy
- Part of Masculinizing hormone therapy also
- Also, enhances the body’s endurance level
- Additionally, helps bodybuilders and powerlifters to get strength and physique
What are The Medicines That Come under Anabolic Steroids?
So, here is a long list of Anabolic steroids available forms as follows:
- testosterone undecanoate
- nandrolone decanoate
- testosterone enanthate
- nandrolone phenylpropionate
- testosterone cypionate
- stanozolol
- testosterone propionate
- methandrostenolone
- methyltestosterone
- oxandrolone
- mesterolone
- oxymetholone
- dromostanolone propionate
- methylandrostenolone
- methenolone acetate
- fluoxymesterone
- methenolone enanthate
- androstanolone
- stanolone
- Boldenone undecylenate
- trenbolone acetate
- dihydroboldenone
- methasterone
- trenbolone enanthate
- desoxymethyltestosterone
- tetrahydrogestrinone
- methylstenbolone
What are The Benefits of Anabolic Steroids?
No matter how generic or heavy a medicine is, a person should always consult a doctor and also get a medical prescription before consuming any kind of medicine. Moreover, here are some benefits of consuming Anabolic steroids as follows:
- Aids in quick muscle and injury recovery
- Boost and increase muscle mass
- Aid to provide lean muscles
- Reduces body far
- Increases metabolic rates
- Increases testosterone
- Helps to achieve masculine traits more
- Treat several medical conditions
- Increases production of red blood cell
- Boost workout performances
- Increases levels of appetite
What are The Side Effects of Anabolic Steroid?
Here are some unwanted side effects that Anabolic steroids might give you as follows:
- erectile dysfunction
- reduces sperm count
- infertility issues
- testicles shrunk
- hair loss
- severe acne
- breast development in males
- increases the risk of prostate cancer
- stomach pain
Furthermore, women experience side effects like
- a deepened voice
- facial hair growth and body hair
- loss of breasts
- problems with periods
- swelling of the clitoris
- severe acne
