Are there other names for steroids?
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A steroid is a lipid characterized by a carbon skeleton with four fused rings. Different steroids vary in the functional groups attached to these rings. Hundreds of distinct steroids have been identified in plants and animals. Their most important role in most living systems is as hormones.\n\n \nSteroid skeleton. Carbons 18 and above can be absent.In human physiology and medicine, the most important steroids are cholesterol, the steroid hormones, and their precursors and metabolites.\n\nIn conversations, the term steroid is often used more restrictively in specific contexts. For instance, steroid in common medical usage by non-endocrinologists usually refers to corticosteroids, nearly always glucocorticoids. In an athletic or body-building context, steroid commonly refers to anabolic steroids.\n\nCholesterol is an important steroid alcohol, being a common component of animal cell membranes. However, a high level of it can cause various conditions and diseases, such as atherosclerosis. Most other steroids are synthesized from cholesterol. Also, various hormones, including vertebrate sex hormones, are steroids created from cholesterol.\n\nThere are also various specific categories of steroids, including:\n\nAnabolic steroids - used by athletes to increase performance \nCorticosteroids - affects metabolism and electrolyte excretion \nSex hormones - androgens, estrogens, and progestagens \nProhormones - precursors to actual steroid hormones. They were manufactured by bodybuilding supplement companies until they were banned from the supplement market. \nPhytosterols - steroids naturally occurring in plants. \nSteroid hormones produce their physiological effects by binding to steroid hormone receptor proteins. The binding of steroid hormones to their receptors causes changes in gene transcription and cell function.
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The use of anabolic steroids among athletes has been widely discussed in the press and the medical literature. Sports organizations generally condemn steroid use in the interest of fair competition, while sports physicians often focus on the dangerous side effects and health risks. Anabolic steroids or their breakdown products have been detected in athletes for many years, and black-market steroids are distributed to athletes at all levels of competition. This brief review describes how and why these agents are used by athletes, their effects on body size and athletic performance, and their known side effects.\n\nMisuse of anabolic steroids, growth hormone and other ergogenic aids is a complex problem. General solutions include education and motivation of athletes to avoid these drugs, state and federal regulations to limit their production and distribution, and unannounced drug testing of competitors.\n\nDefinition of Anabolic Steroids\n\nAnabolic steroids are more precisely characterized as anabolic-androgenic steroids. They include testosterone, the primary male sex hormone, and all chemically altered derivatives of testosterone that have anabolic (tissue-building) and androgenic (masculinizing) properties. Synthetic anabolic steroids have greater anabolic activity than androgenic activity when compared with testosterone; in large quantities, however, the synthetic steroids also have strong androgenic effects. Anabolic steroids have medical indications in the treatment of refractory anemias, hereditary angioedema, certain breast cancers, hypogonadism and starvation states.\n\nAthletes use anabolic steroids in the belief that these drugs increase body mass, muscle tissue, strength and aggressiveness. Testosterone and the synthetic anabolic steroids combine with an androgen receptor in skeletal muscles and other organs. This steroid/receptor complex stimulates production of RNA/DNA, which in turn leads to increased protein synthesis (Table 2). In muscle, increased amounts of actin and myosin are produced under the influence of anabolic steroids. These force-producing contractile proteins result in increased strength. Anabolic steroids have more dramatic effects on nitrogen retention and muscular development in females, in boys and in men who have been castrated or are otherwise deficient in natural androgens. Anabolic steroids may also exert positive effects on the growth of skeletal muscle by antagonizing protein breakdown. \n\nIn addition, anabolic steroids may produce an effect that is regulated through the central nervous system. Athletes commonly say that they are far more aggressive, experience less fatigue and recover more quickly from weight-training workouts when they are using steroids. Since minimal increments in muscular performance or psychologic benefit may constitute the difference between winning and losing, athletes may perceive these small, difficult-to-measure changes as crucial to their overall performance. Athletes often feel that they can perform weight-training workouts at a higher intensity and for longer periods under the influence of anabolic steroids. The more intensive training program leads to increased muscle mass development and improvement in strength and power. However, little or no scientific evidence supports this notion.\n\nIn athletes who do not use steroids, a strength stimulus (lifting) and an adequate diet will result in increased passage of amino acids into muscle cells and a subsequent increase in protein synthesis. Strength training without steroids will increase the number of steroid receptor sites in muscle. Strength-training programs, especially when combined with anabolic steroid use, cause not only an increase in steroid receptor sites but also saturation of these receptor sites. This results in increased protein synthesis and prevention of protein breakdown.\n\nTo date, most studies that have shown significant gains in muscle mass and strength with steroids have utilized the fo
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This is the kind of question that you should ask a doctor, and not people who use steroids.\ngo to your doctor and get help.\nstop using steroids.\ngoogle steroid harm for a more realistic idea!\n\nThanks for asking <3\nAlice
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The words "safe" and "steroids" do not belong in the same sentence.
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YES lol\n\n\nhttp://egrab.com/answers/links/bonds_steroids.htm\n\n\n.
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TRY STERIODS  WORK GREAT
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No, they aren't steroids. However, they are healthy. You can eat anything healthy and become strong. The only reason why some people don't is because it tastes bad or something. Steroids are easier, but you get addicted and you lose tons of money from buying too much. It also gives boobs to men and pubic hair to women (also a man-like voice). By the way, steroids have chemicals and stuff. The other things you mentioned are natural and safe.
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what kind of steroids..the effects vary according to type so whats the name of the steroid\n\nand what the guy below said about shortening is not true. long term effects causes the body to be chemical unbalanced meaning less estrogen or test which would have impact on testicles not the penis
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Don't use steroids.They can kill you.On the news they said a man died because he used steroids.
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Yes, You can buy steroids at http://www.steroids.bz
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Steroids. Are we talking about the Barry Bonds family?
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aren't you a cop!!!!lol..steroid r illegal..but you can try mesterbol this legal...better yet go to wwww.anabolic.com they got some good legal anabolic they work really good..i at 17 pound of solid mass my body fat when down 8%.in just 2 weeks
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ANABOLIC STEROIDS DO NOT SHRINK YOUR PENIS. LONG TERM USE CAN LEAD TO TEMPORARY SHRINKAGE OF THE TESTICLES AND POSSIBLE ERECTILE PROBLEMS BUT THEY WILL NOT SHRINK YOUR PENIS.
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to keep sensitive parts of our body warm but also in some cases I have heard that hair on certain body parts is there to keep us clean and to protect the sensitive areas. people, mostly men, who have elevated Androgens cause them to grow more hair.\n\nAndrogen is the generic term for any natural or synthetic compound, usually a steroid hormone, that stimulates or controls the development and maintenance of masculine characteristics in vertebrates by binding to androgen receptors. This includes the activity of the accessory male sex organs and development of male secondary sex characteristics. Androgens, which were first discovered in 1936, are also called androgenic hormones or testoids. Androgens are also the original anabolic steroids. They are also the precursor of all estrogens, the female sex hormones. The primary and most well-known androgen is testosterone.
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It's a calming cream for 'roids.  No, not steroids, that's a different type of 'roid rage.\nhem·or·rhoid (from dictionary.com):\nAn itching or painful mass of dilated veins in swollen anal tissue.\nhemorrhoids The pathological condition in which such painful masses occur. Also called piles.
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Not really.  At the gym, guys get steroids from overseas all the time.
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they were not invented steroids are found in our body. However tehy were produced outside our body for the first time in pill for in 1942, Dr. Bill Graham Junior won the nobel prize for it