User:Saler2727/Ergogenic use of anabolic steroids

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In the world of fitness, the consumption of anabolic steroids have been consumed by professional athletics from many different sports and disciplines. However, up to this date is being used with the inclusion of common people that go to the gyms. The reasons of using anabolic steroids are having a physical, romantic and sexual attractiveness, but this consumption can change an stereotype or inference that people believe.

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Using a type of supplement that can boost your athletic performance is a reason that can be acceptable, but is not a unique reason for its use. One of the main reasons for consuming anabolic steroids is to be physically attractive, and moreover, have romantic relationships that can last for a long time. The use of AAS is to boost their appearance, build up trust, love life as the physical allowed them to meet more partners. However, in an experimental study that consists in an evaluation of physical, romantic, and sexual attractiveness of AAS-using men from heterosexual women is in contrast in what we think. The study consists in 112 heterosexual women that does not consume anabolic steroids. The characteristics of the participants are ordered by age which is from 15 to 81, sex, marital status, highest education, and sexual orientation. Participants were recruited on social media where there was a URL link in where they have to answer the questionnaire. The results from the study show no difference in participant characteristics across conditions physical attractiveness, and short-term sexual attractiveness. In contrast, there was a higher rating in long-term romantic attractiveness (t= -2.61, p<.05).

In conclusion, women rated AA users as less attractive for long-term romantic relationships, which means that this weaken the inference in what we perceived on the personality and social image of AAS users. In addition, since this consumption can have negative health effects on people by debilitating long-term romantic attractiveness when there is a use.

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The consumption of AA can have advantages for your body like having a great performance in athletics, but also has flaws that can affect your body internally and externally. Using anabolic androgenic steroids is a public health concern that affect the steroid users physically and psychological. The effects vary from gender because depends on the form that women and men use this consumption.

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For the women side, there are changes in how the body of woman should look like by promoting athletic female and muscular appearances. The use of AA in women is hard to process and can negatively affect their well-being. For example, negatively influencing in self-esteem, sexual function, and social life. Recall, that these effects are different from men that consume anabolic steroid.

For the men side, an study collected data from 90 men that have a current or previous use of steroids for more than 12 months where 41 men sought for treatment at least one time and 49 who do not. The effects and health concerns are compared between men who sought treatment and those who do not sought for treatment. As a result, all 90 men reported gynecomastia, excessive sweating, fatigue, depression, anxiety, and testosterone deficiency.

In conclusion, even though the use of AA gave certain qualities like improving body image or build more muscles, it still have negative impact either psychological and physically.