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This man has been taking steroids for about 6 years at the time the picture was taken. Not looking great. Most men don’t know what they’re even doing with these drugs.
Would you trade your fertility and erections for a deformed body that looks nothing like the old aesthetic ideal? Most steroid users don’t even look like they take steroids.
Men who use anabolic steroids to build muscle for that “perfect bod” may be harming their testicular function for years after they stop taking the drugs, according to a new study of nonathletic bodybuilders.
“It has been unclear whether illicit use of anabolic steroids caused a long-lasting or even persistent impairment of the testosterone production in the testicles,” said study author Dr. Jon Rasmussen, a scientist at Rigshospitalet, a highly specialized hospital affiliated with the University of Copenhagen.
“These results suggest a long-lasting testicular dysfunction,” Rasmussen said via email.
His message to men who are thinking of using them to enhance their body: “Don’t even consider it. Use of anabolic steroids can cause persistent adverse effects on several organs in the body and could even be lethal.”
Anabolic steroids are synthetic, lab-made variations of the male sex hormone testosterone. Use of these artificial steroids impairs the hypothalamus-pituitary-testicular hormonal axis, which then stops the testicular production of testosterone and impairs fertility, Rasmussen said.
“Recovery of this hormonal axis can be long-term or (it) may not recover at all,” he said.
Use of anabolic steroids has been linked to shrunken testicles, lower testosterone levels, decreased sex drive, poor erections and low sperm counts, as well as breast growth and hair loss.
“A lot of people think anabolic steroid abuse is just a problem of cheating in sports among professional athletes,” said Dr. Shalender Bhasin, a Harvard Medical School professor of medicine who was not involved in the study.
“The real story is that the vast majority of anabolic steroid users — more than 90% — are not elite athletes. In fact, they are not athletes at all. They are recreational bodybuilders who use these compounds to look leaner and more muscular,” said Bhasin, who chaired the task force on testosterone treatment for the latest Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline.
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The study, published Tuesday in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, followed 132 men between 18 and 50 who did recreational strength training. The men fell into three groups: never users, current users or former users of anabolic steroids who quit nearly three years earlier.
Because testosterone levels fluctuate throughout the day, the study used a new marker to determine a lack of testicular function called serum insulin-like factor 3 (INSL3), a hormone made by the same cells in the testes that make testosterone.
Compared with never users, men who once used steroids had much lower concentrations of INSL3. The longer the men had used steroids, the lower the levels, the study found.
“One of the major takeaways of the study is that former users of anabolic steroids still show gonadal dysfunction more than 2½ years following (anabolic steroid) cessation,” Rasmussen said.
“The study is important in confirming what clinicians who care for patients have previously known — long-term use of anabolic steroids can suppress testicular function, and even when these men stopped using anabolic steroids, the recovery of testicular function can be incomplete or recovery may not occur,” Bhasin said.
What they don’t talk about is the effect this has on men emotionally.
Everyone thinks of “roid rage,” but regular steroid users will also just start crying at odd intervals, due to their body creating huge amounts of estrogen to try to keep up with the testosterone.
Movie stars are almost all on steroids, and they do look good. But they have professional doctors administering them, and they also only do short cycles for when they need to be in movies.
If you catch any of these guys at the beach in the off-season, they look like crap, because they are only cycling the drugs for the 2-3 month filming period.
A lot of men end up taking steroids and don’t even get much benefit from it, because the reason they are taking them in the first place is that they don’t know what they’re doing as far as health and fitness.
You should learn about health and fitness, a topic we’ve covered extensively on this site, and not try to look like an action star, but instead simply have firm arms and legs and a flat stomach, as is the aesthetic ideal.
