Teens And Steroids – Never A Good Mix
By Dane C. Fletcher

When youths start anabolic steroid abuse, they are in an essence involved in a little more than using the steroids to bulk up and improve the appearance and improving the stature of their athletic ability. The steroids ostensibly come with vast doses of fatal effects for those who abuse them, which could become seriously lethal for teenagers. The main reason, however, as to why teens and anabolic steroids are insoluble is magnanimously the fact that any usage of these substances of abuse within the prime of their teens may forever affect their growth. Many teens, more so males, have not fully grown to their full potential.

Young people have a way of looking at the dimensions of steroids usage, mostly side effects, as positive effects that they have no serious qualms about. These effects, which hinder their judgment, include voice-deepening, increase in the traits of the male gender and the potentials of muscle building.

Their bodies have been naturally programmed to go ahead with growth till the levels of the hormone testosterone have been reduced to specific levels. With the onset of steroid usage, their growth plates begin experiencing premature ossification, which in very simple terms means that the teen will have a stunted growth if the abuse of the substances commences as such.

Most teenagers have that affinity of feeling invincible and acquiring the attitude which translates into the fact that such effects of steroids usage cannot harm them, and end up following blindly those individuals who happen to be advocating for anabolic steroid usage. There also exist other fatal effects, which anybody, regardless of their current age, may start experiencing after the commencement of anabolic steroid usage. The bitter truth is that, no matter what the literature is or what they believe the literature contains, or even how steroids fatally affect the adult males, anabolic steroids and young teenagers have never fried in the same pot.

They include sterility, which is sometimes temporary though an extension into steroid usage may make it permanent, aggression, acne, connective tissue injury, liver damage plus negative alterations of cholesterol levels. A more additional diabolic effect is that teens using injections pose themselves at a great risk of being transmitted with HIV and hepatitis through shared needles.

Teenagers also expose themselves to side effects that are overtly gender specific. For instance, male teens can increase their breast tissue, which is commonly called Gynecomastia (gyno), which is depicted as a permanent plus, a premature-kind of baldness. On the other hand, most females experience masculine characteristics or virilization, which are seen in the light of deepening of voice, an increase in body hair as well as patterned male baldness.

While most adults who have decided to begin the use of steroids may come with counteract measures to counter the negative nature of the drugs, the major advantage is that they will at no time whatsoever experience any predicaments of stunted growth. On the other hand lots of teens who engulf in this fatal practice may be setting themselves up towards serious health problems, which might run up to the end of their lives.

Dane Fletcher is the world’s most prolific bodybuilding and fitness expert and is currently the executive editor for BodybuildingToday.com. If you are looking for more bodybuilding tips or information on weight training, or supplementation, please visit www.BodybuildingToday.com, the bodybuilding and fitness authority site with hundreds of articles available FREE to help you meet your goals.

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