Let's lift the veil on anabolic steroids

Let's lift the veil on anabolic steroids

You dream of it without being able to admit it to those around you, or even to yourself. Yet, like most of your fellow human beings, you desire it in the depths of your flesh and your soul ... you fantasize it to the point of imagining the slightest of its outlines. You project its firmness and its dynamism, as the most beautiful testimony of your personality. Who is it ?

Of your body in search of ideal of course. This body which gives itself to be seen, throughout our existence. This body which speaks of our history, in spite of us. This body which according to its forms catalogs us and ranks us in the boxes of the athlete, the luscious, the dynamic or then the slack, the fat, the ugly see the neglected. Eh yes, the body is an essential vector in self-esteem and in its relationship to others. So, we secretly yearn for a perfect, firm, muscular and fat-free body.

And why in this quest for the perfect body, we would not appeal to anabolic steroids to achieve our goal, to finally reach our dream? They have all the anabolic potential to give us a muscular body without fat. But now, anabolic steroids do not have a good reputation in the public sphere!

So what to think? Daring by opposing public opinion? Or, to close his dream to side with the right-thinking?

And if for once, we were once again free from any prejudice, to discover or rediscover the true face as well as the history of anabolic steroidsΒ ?

What are anabolic steroids?

To understand anabolic steroids and how they work on the body, it is important to review the basic functioning of the body.

At the biological level, two processes will be determining in the physiognomy of our body. It's about catabolism and anabolism. The first (catabolism) is responsible for destroying nutrients (lipids, carbohydrates and proteins) in order to provide the body with energy to ensure its proper functioning and vital functions. The second, anabolism, takes care of building the essential structures of our body, from the basic materials. These two processes will therefore be the basis of the evolution of our silhouette. If fat anabolism, for example, is more important than catabolism, then we will tend to gain weight. And conversely if the process of catabolism is superior to the anabolic action, then our body would tend to lose weight. This approach is obviously schematic since in the balance between catabolism and anabolism will enter two determining factors: the quality of the nutrients ingested as well as the intensity of our physical activity.

Indeed, to refine your silhouette means lose fat and not muscle. Yet when we lower our caloric intake each day, in order to lose weight, we often lose a large part of muscle. While the muscles provide the shapes of a perfect curve. It is therefore important to maintain them and develop them as needed. For this, we will therefore have to transform our energy into muscles.

The body naturally disposes of three anabolic hormones what are : the Testosterone, the Nandrolone and Dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Testosterone, in particular, has the ability to build muscle mass by increasing the number of cells in muscle tissue. This process is carried out through the synthesis of proteins. Β Β Β 

Sports supplements called "Β anabolic steroidsΒ Β»Therefore correspond, quite simply, to the synthetic form of the three hormones anabolics of the body as well as their derivatives, namely Testosterone, Nandrole and DHT. Science has thus synthesized these hormones and created derivatives with the aim ofprovide the most specific and effective assistance possible, people wishing to improve their physical capacities

How were anabolic steroids discovered? Β 

Thinking of the sublime Greek statues, we realize that the search for a perfect, muscular and fat-free body does not correspond to contemporary social behavior. Man has always been in search of bodily perfection. At 19e century, the Franco-British neurologist Charles-Γ‰douard Brown-SΓ©quard is already bragging about benefits felt when extracts of dog and guinea pig testicles were injected into his body.

However, the identification and isolation of anabolic steroids will not be done until the thirties. It all started in 1931, with the extraction of 15 mg of androsterone from more than 10,000 liters of urine by the chemist Adolf Butenandt. This hormone will be synthesized in 1934 by Leopold Ruzicka, in Zurich.

Knowing that the testes contain an even more powerful androgenic hormone, pharmaceutical companies then decide to finance its isolation to three groups of researchers, in different countries. The countries concerned are Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. This hormone will therefore be identified by David Karoly Gyula, E. Dingemanse, J. Freud and Ernst Laqueur in 1935. Testosterone had just been discovered. However, the patent for this discovery will be filed by other researchers a week later. They are Ruzicka and A. Wettstein, German researchers, who will even receive the Nobel Prize for their discovery, in 1939. The Nazi government forbids the two chemists to receive the Nobel Prize.

At the beginning of his isolation, researchers believed that Testosterone provided power and youth. They still had no idea of its effect on muscle development. Tests were then carried out on the German soldiers in order to increase their strength and their aggressiveness, as well as on the prisoners of war, in the concentration camps.

After the fall of the Third Reich, other countries will be interested in the properties of Testosterone and discover its anabolic capacities. Thus the USSR and other countries of Eastern Europe, begin to use Testosterone to increase their performance, especially for the Olympics. From this arose an anabolic competition between countries, in order to provide the most powerful anabolic for athletes. In this atmosphere, Dr. John Ziegler, then working for the American team, will manage to develop an analogue of Testosterone, less restrictive at the level of Side effectsΒ : Dianabol was born.

Since then, science has actively continued its research to develop more specific steroids with the fewest side effects possible.

The effects of anabolic steroids:

The positive effects of anabolic steroids:

 

During'a cure of anabolic steroids, you may see (depending on your goals and the steroid chosen), the following benefits:

  • Significant development of muscle mass
  • Significant increase in muscle strength
  • Fat melting
  • Energy boost

The anabolic steroids allow you to reach your goals (weight loss, volume gain, muscle development, strength gain) easily and quickly and to obtain long-term results.

Side effects of anabolic steroids:

It is important to specify that if the treatment is supervised by a specialized coach and the precautions taken, no serious side effects are to be feared. The most harmful side effects most often occur with inappropriate combinations or overdose.

However, without the precautions taken, here are the effects that a testosterone treatment can cause:

  • Decrease or even stop the production of natural testosterone. In order to boost the production of natural Testosterone, it is essential to follow a PCT (a post cycle recovery cure).
  • Liver damage during treatment of oral steroids without taking protections. Oral steroid cures are most often accompanied by Samarin to protect the liver.
  • The development of male breasts, the famous gynecomastia, following a conversion of steroids into estrogen.
  • Increased blood pressure
  • Cardiovascular risks
  • A growth stoppage if the treatment is carried out before age 21
  • Baldness
  • The appearance of hair on the back, torso and face in women.

However, a well-supervised steroid treatment does not present any major risk.

The perception of anabolic steroids:

In the sport :

In the sport, the use of anabolic steroids is associated with both cheating and doping. All sports federations have banned their consumption, classifying anabolic steroids as doping products. There is even the World Anti-Doping Agency, drawing up a list of all products banned from competitions. If an athlete is tested positive, in the doping test, the sanctions against him are quite strict: temporary exclusion from competitions, heavy fine or even a few months suspended prison sentence. Β 

In the media :

Anabolic steroids don't mix well with the press. Indeed journalists like to compare anabolic steroids to the new trendy drug, supposedly taken by uneducated people. They often forget to talk about studies conducted on steroid users revealing consumers with higher incomes than the average population and people extremely knowledgeable about the effects of steroids.

Journalists prefer to turn on the red alarm to warn of the dangers of anabolic steroids, failing to specify that if the cure is well supervised and supplemented by liver protections as well as a stimulus cure, the risks are minor.

At the level of the law:

Well the law, it is changeable, since it varies from one country to another. Some paranoid countries like France, will ban its consumption and sale without a prescription, while others will be more tolerant or even completely open to their practice. Among the countries most open to the use of anabolic steroids we find Mexico and Thailand.

Decriminalization movement:

Anabolic steroids are used in the medical sphere for trto treat many diseases. But their use for aesthetic purposes is disturbing. However, certain movements have emerged, in particular in the United States, to attempt to decriminalize their use.

Indeed, to date no serious scientific study has highlighted the real dangers of anabolic steroids. On the other hand, their legality in all countries would make it possible to put an end to clandestine laboratories, which themselves represent a real threat to the lives of these users, by providing them with adulterated, uncontrolled products manufactured without hygiene standards. . Β 

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Comments (3)

  • Yvon

    Although steroids are prohibited by law in many countries, they are more or less socially accepted. It is the law that is lagging behind.

    26 October 2017 at 2:41 PM
  • Stanyslas

    I live in France all year round! I also have everything I want (steroid question of course), just simply order on sites like this.

    22 October 2017 at 1:30 PM
  • Manolo

    Every year I spend 6 months in Mexico and 6 months in France. I feel lucky to be able to do my cure there. No restrictions, we have everything we want.

    11 October 2017 at 4:39 PM

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