What do steroids do?

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Anabolic steroids - used by athletes to increase performance
Corticosteroids - affects metabolism and electrolyte excretion these are used to treat astama and athritis
Sex hormones - androgens, estrogens, and progestagens
Prohormones - precursors to actual steroid hormones. They were manufactured by bodybuilding supplement companies until they were banned from the supplement market.
Phytosterols - steroids naturally occurring in plants.

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There are two types of steroids - Androgenic and Anabolic. Androgenic increases your male charateristics and Anabolic builds up your body muscles.

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cause cancer

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Steroids are drugs used by people to grow their muscles and enhance performance. This is mostly used in professional sports, but mostly used in Baseball I heard. Theyre drugs which are illegal in sports.

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They build muscle. But be careful as they also increase blood presure.

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The steroids are the steroids hormones produced by adrenal cortex, They consist of 2 groups, Glucocorticoids which have effects on intermediary metabolism, catabolism and inflamation, and Mineralocorticoids, which regulate sodium reabsorption in the tubules renales.

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Increased protein synthesis from amino acids
Increased muscle mass and strength
Increased appetite
Increased bone remodelling and growth
Stimulation of bone marrow increasing production of red blood cells

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Steroids are a class of molecules defined by their chemical structure. There are many different activites associated with different steroid molecules: cholesterol is one - an essential component of mammalian cell membranes ; several sex hormones are steroids: estradiol, progesterone, testosterone; the hormones involved in regulation of salt levels in the blood (cortisol and aldosterone)and in the stress response (cortisol); the cardiac glycosides (digoxin = Lanoxin(R)) have a steroid moiety in their structure and are important drugs in the treatment of certain heart conditions. Commonly abused (or illicitley used) steroids are the anabolic steroids used by athletes to build muscle mass but also, in some parts of the world, the synthetic glucocorticoid analogues like betamethasone and dexamethasone which cause constriction of the blood vessels in the skin and produce a skin lightening effect. These are used cosmetically in some countries by some dark skinned people as skin lighteners and have very serious longer term side effects.

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They make you stroger!

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