Building Muscle with Pills This is how the anabolic steroids damage your health

Anabolic steroids: Man (s) ends up with the urologist: Multiple injuries occur as a result of the unauthorized means
On the way to the dream figure or special physical fitness are also many recreational athletes any means right. For example, around one million people regularly or occasionally use doping substances or medicines to exercise or before the next marathon. In fact, the thick muscles almost come on their own - but at first often accompanied by pimples, later impotence, infertility, breast growth, kidney and organ damage. The Uro-GmbH North Rhine, an association of established urologists, therefore warns athletes urgently against the intake of performance-enhancing substances.

The long-term effects of many consumers are not aware. Only when the erectile ability diminishes, the desire to have a baby remains unfulfilled or breasts have grown to cup size A, many men are worried and go to the urologist. "Anabolic steroids are either testosterone itself or related substances of the male sex hormone," explains Drs. Reinhold Schaefer, urologist and managing director of the Uro-GmbH Nordrhein. "By ingesting the body stops its own hormone production. As a result, testicles, potency and sperm count decrease. "This process is partly irreversible, so it can not be undone. Whether the body's own hormone production comes back up depends on the substances taken.

Anabolic steroids can have far-reaching health consequences. Image: Markus Mainka - fotolia

In infertility, however, many men often only artificial insemination, if they want to become father. And not even this is guaranteed success, because a sufficient number of sperm is a prerequisite.

Male breast growth, also known as gynaecomastia, has a health problem in addition to the aesthetic aspect: the risk of getting breast cancer increases. Gynecomastia is treated by surgical removal of excess glandular and adipose tissue. The kidneys, liver and cardiovascular system are also affected. While exercise usually has beneficial effects on these organs by lowering bad blood lipids, taking anabolic steroids has the opposite effect. The result: irreversible liver damage, liver cancer and damage to the cardiovascular system from arteriosclerosis to heart attack. In addition, men who use performance-enhancing drugs often suffer from aggressive behavior, depression, and typical steroid acne.

Anyone who is aware of the consequences of anabolic steroids will soon come to the conclusion that a muscle-packed, high-performance body is not everything in life. (Pm)