Doping in Sport and Exercise

In most cases, people use anabolic steroids in sports and exercise. Athletes, including football players athletes, bodybuilders and others, who put a lot of attention to improving performance in the field, and use the frequent use of the drug. It is the same for those who want to build muscle and reduce body fat, which displays toned physique well.
The researchers found that there is a growing trend among young people to abuse steroids. In sport and exercise is known that this phenomenon occurs for a long time. But there are cases where it seems well built a lot of people use drugs, saying that without it they will look small and insignificant. In medical parlance, is called muscle dysmorphia, which is surprisingly common among men and women, albeit to a lesser extent, in the latter case.

It is known the same steroids cause less damage to the health risk to use on short and long term, what is also true that there are many myths surrounding the supposed bad effects. One is that such steroids cause shrinking in penis and testicles. While this is true in the short term, in the long term the size returns to normal shortly after management has been shut down foreign androgens. This is one of the reasons why boys never suggested at the tender age of drug use, because in their case, and the impact could be very damaging.

In any case, the fact that the drug can increase muscle size and ability to perform well in the practice games mean that the use of steroids in sports and exercise is not going away forever. In this regard, the role of regulators of drug abuse is important.

In fact, this is why in the U.S. Act on the Control of doping in 2004 to ban the sale and use of steroids and pro-hormones without prescription related. The extent to which the new law is able to check the abuse of doping in sport and exercise, while not unnecessarily preventing genuine medical reasons, and it remains to be seen.