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The Harmful Side Effects Of SteroidS For over 50 years steroids have been readily used among many athletes, weightlifters in particular Steroids were noticed after Russian weightlifters broke almost all weightlifting records. Steroids greatly increase muscle mass and strength, boost your immune system and increase testosterone. Although this may all sound great steroids are harmful with many horrible side effects, and may lead to death. The biggest concern among male weightlifters who want to enter competition, …

…and are a derivative of testosterone (the male sex hormone). Testosterone is produced in both men and women. However men produce about 10mg a day, where women produce about 10 times less than that, some women less than 1 mg a day. In the 1950’s a pharmaceutical company called CIBA created the first. Oral steroid called Dinabol (methandrostendone or D-Bol). A few years later there were many steroid users, worldwide and have been ever since. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**