As everybody who is connected with the world of competitive sport or bodybuilding today will appreciate, the pressures that go hand in hand with trying to attain optimal performance are absolutely huge. Occasionally some athletes may feel that they are unable to reach their pinnacle without having to synthetically enhance their power of recovery from periods of very intensive training. A way in which they are able to speed up this process is by using anabolic steroids. But why exactly do they buy steroids and what do these actually do that help with the powers of recovery?
Anabolic steroids have a main ingredient called testosterone which happens to be the principal male hormone and is produced in the male testes. Testosterone has the ability of affecting the body in two main ways and these are either as an anabolic, which helps the body build tissue by increasing bone density and muscle mass, and an androgenic effect which affects secondary sex characteristics in male humans.
There has been some fascinating research carried out recently that has brought to light some interesting information relating to testosterone. First, it has an effect on muscle size through a process called muscle fibre hypertrophy and produces a proliferation in the cross section area of the muscle fibre itself. Second, the dosage needed to raise the body’s testosterone levels above the norm is at least 300 milligrams. Third, it will act directly on the muscle only. Fourth, it acts as a stimulant for the release of certain growth hormones. And finally, it actually has an anti-catabolic effect.
All of these facts together can help one assume that testosterone can act as an efficient muscle building aid and has to be taken in considerable quantities to have this kind of effect. To the extent that bodybuilding athletes are concerned, knowledge beyond this point is rather sketchy as most users’ steroid regimes are more trial and error than anything else. Due to the illicit nature of steroid usage, very little scientific data actually exists to corroborate the usefulness of many of the steroid supplements in use today.
It is most probably the inclination of some bodybuilders to employ a mishmash of powerful steroids and other drugs which produce the very real menace that has every so often led to catastrophic consequences.
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