Anabolic steroids are banned in most countries and are also banned for world class and certain country sporting events such as the Super Bowl, Olympics and Commonwealth Games. This is because of the advantages that steroid users have over non steroid users so do I here you ask then why doesn’t everyone use steroids. Mainly because the other reason is that steroids have various negative long term effects that can damage a person’s body for their life time. Steroids are a way of manipulating the muscles into rapid growth phases though this is only temporary and all gain is lost after the steroid course is finished.

Here are some basic reasons what the abuse of steroids will do to people over the short and long term. They are known to produce breasts in men and increase the size of the female genitals until the vagina looks like a penis. They often leave men impotent and can even shrink the testicles. There are often joint soreness complaints which can be attributed to the retention of fluid, mostly water. Aggressiveness becomes a daily problem for steroid users and there is a good chance that psychosis will eventuate. Heart disease and high blood pressure are also some of the many side effects.

After reading this list you would wonder why so many people are taking steroids on a regular basis. Because of the performance enhancing ability steroids can make you faster, stronger and give rapid muscle growth. Steroids were originally designed to manipulate growth, reduce the effects of cancer and also give bone growth a helping hand. However many people have abused the steroids for their own personal gain but as you can see from the side effects listed above that these people are only getting themselves into trouble.