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[|Steroids and Your Body]


This wikipage is to help you teens who think that you need to take steroids to be good at sports, to live up to your famly's expectations, or to impress the ladies. In the real world though taking steroids actually hurts you more then helps you. when you take steroids you start to become more and more dependent on them until your like the man in the right picture (gregg valentino). Although steroids are illegal still millions of people take them. Although there are medical uses for steroids; people use them in the wrong ways and suffer.

Taking steroids have many effects on your body. Some of these systems and organs include the [|endocrine system],[|musculoskeletal system],cardiovascular system, liver and skin. Other things steroids effect are your behavior, and your over all body image. 

__//**Effects of steroids on your Endocrine system**//__


 * disrupts the normal production of hormones in the body (both reversable and nonreversable)
 * reduced sperm production
 * shrinking of testicles (testicular atrophy)
 * male pattern baldness
 * breast development for men (gynecomastia)

__**//Effects of steroids on your musculoskeletal system//**__
 * rising levels of testosterone and other sex hormones
 * triggers a growth spurt
 * high sex hormone levels can signal the bones to stop growing (when a child or adolescent takes steroids)
 * when taken in high doeses steroids increase irritability and aggression ("roid rage")

__**//Effects of steroids on your cardiovascular system//**__
 * heart attacks
 * strokes
 * atherosclerosis
 * blood clots
 * weakens heart muscle
 * causes other CVDs (cardiovascular diseases)


 * //__Effects of steroids on your liver__//**
 * liver tumors
 * peliosis hepatis
 * rupture of the tumors causing internal bleeding


 * //__Effects of steroids on your skin__//**
 * acne
 * cysts
 * oily hair
 * oily skin

__Physical changes__

males females teens
 * 1) severe acne
 * 2) early balding
 * 3) yellowing of the skin and eyes
 * 4) development of female- type breasts
 * 5) shrinking of testicles
 * 1) voice deepens permanently
 * 2) breasts shrink
 * 3) periods become irregular
 * 4) hair on the head is lost but is grown from the face and body
 * 1) all of those from above
 * 2) stunting of growth

Facts/ history of steroids

​ In 1920s, physicians inserted slices of monkey testicles into male athletes to boost vitality. In the 1930s Hitler allegedly administered the hormone testosterone to himself and his troops to increase aggressiveness. An estimated one million Americans, half of them adolescents, use black market steroids.over half of the teens start useing steroids before they are 16. 6 to 12 percent of boys want to be sport athletes, but over one third of them aren't even on a high school team. 57% of teens say that they were influenced by the dozen or so muscle magazines that today have a readership of at least 7 million people. 43% sayed they were influenced by famous athletes who they thought took steroids. The black-market sales for steroids topped $400 million.

Works Citied

Louise, Gerdes "Performance-Enhancing Drugs Are Harmful to Health." Opposing Viewpoints: //Performance// //Enhancing Drugs //.  Detroit: Greenhaven Press,  2008 //Opposing Viewpoints Resorce Center // Web. 5 Feb. 2010. . Schrof, Joannie "Pumped up. (teen use of steroids) (Cover Story)." //Opposing Viewpoints.// //U.S. News & World Report : //June. 1992 //Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center//. 5 Feb. 2010 

Jost, Kenneth. "Performance-Enhancing Drugs: An Overview." //At Issue: Performance Enhancing Drugs//.

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