A lot has been said recently, especially on SKY news, that one of the contributing factors as to why Raoul Moat killed his ex-girlfriend's partner Chris Brown, shot her, and the attempted murder of PC David Rathband, was that he was using anabolic steroids which causes individuals to rage with anger, violence and hostility. This is completely untrue with no sound evidence to support this. Basically if you're an idiot without steroids, you'll be an idiot on steroids!
Anabolic steroids are simply a synthetic version of testosterone which is a naturally producing substance in our bodies. For men wishing to gain a lot more muscle size, steroids help enormously, and quickly, for that cause. They can't work on their own, the individual has to train hard, very hard, and diet well for the muscles to get bigger, steroids simply magnify the gains. The problem is that when men come off steroids they lose a lot of their gains which is why many men are addicted to them.
Steroids in the medical world are a wonder drug. For individuals experiencing a great deal of atrophy (muscle wasting), from burns, AIDS, HIV, cancer etc. steroids help people gain more weight. The amount of deaths per year in the US from alcohol? 75,000. The amount of deaths per year from tobacco? 475,000. The amount of deaths from steroids in the US per year? 3!!
In terms of emergency room visits from drug use, alcohol comes first obviously, aspirin comes 25, and steroids come in at 142! That's even lower down the list than your multi-vitamins!
Incredible how steroids get such a bad rap and yet we let people drink alcohol freely which leads to an unbelievable amount of problems many of which are never reported such as domestic violence and rape.
The problems with steroids, like most drugs, is they are abused by men wishing to enhance their gains as quickly as possible. Steroids for 90% of exercisers are completely unnecessary as the gains that most would like to make can be made without steroids. Only those involved in very serious training, and have training experience of at least 5-10 years, and have pushed their genetic potential to it's heights, would benefit better from steroid use. For everyone else, no need.
Exercisers should be aware that anabolic steroid use in certain countries such as the US is illegal and many have been prosecuted for steroid use. Alcohol is legal in the US and available to purchase almost anywhere! Maybe we need to re-think things??? :-)
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