Every time I go to the gym, I notice individuals who use steroids (mountains of muscle, swelling, acne on the back and shoulders). Most likely they inject themselves with testosterone esters (propionate, enanthate).
For example, in my gym the trainers do it. I understand their motivation, but I don't think they understand the health consequences at all. For such guys I will try to explain non-trivially what such "therapy" is threatened by 🧐:
1️⃣The most important thing to know is that the more testosterone you have the shorter your life. Why is that? It's quite simple. Such people have a problematic blood picture - blood pressure, high cholesterol, high hematocrit. Banally do not take out the blood vessels and heart. In addition, such people are more prone to stupid behavior (fights, motorcycles, unjustified risk, etc.), which sometimes leads to death.
2️⃣Testosterone from the outside makes a man not only stupid but sterile. There's an interesting paradox here. In puberty, testosterone helps develop the male genitalia. But in adulthood, under the influence of testosterone in injections no growth occurs, moreover, testicles atrophy. After all, why do you need them if you have testosterone without them? 🙂
3️⃣Guys with high testosterone can have a triad of problems - acne, baldness, prostate problems. For some reason, testosterone makes hair grow on the body and face, but it reduces the amount of hair on the head. And sebaceous glands and prostate glands get enlarged, so there's a problem.
4️⃣Guys who use steroids can "poison" their girlfriends with them when they exchange fluids (kissing, sex).❗️ Which can harm girls with cycle failure and dark hair on the face and body. And most of all they can harm in pregnancy, as I have already written above.
5️⃣ Well, and the most relatively neutral point of all this that few people know about: Girls whose boyfriends used steroids shortly before conception are more likely to have girls🐣 This is almost an established fact. Just look at the family of Stallone, Ronnie Coleman and other jocks 🙂
Evidence citations:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33503312/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34899607/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28782738/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33292112/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10332571/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30089321/
