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If a favored sports star makes the news due to revelations of anabolic steroid use it leads to a large amount of deliberation on the side effects. However, this is nothing out of the ordinary and reports on the issue go back for many years. One beloved professional football player died of brain cancer very many years ago. He confessed to using anabolic steroids for the extent of his professional career. He cited his use of steroids as a cause for his illness. Steroid use to enhance sports performance hardly seems to be a viable approach regardless of any special technique. The dire side effects of anabolic steroids will now be parlayed.

We all know that professional levels of sports such as football in the US are highly dangerous in many ways. It is impossible to know who may be using steroids, or not. But it is interesting to note that very many high-level performance athletes, such as in football, experience tendon and ligament injuries. We do not mean anything with this utterance. It's been shown that using steroids greatly increase the likelihood that an athlete will eventually suffer ligament damage. Rationally speaking, it's easy to understand the explanation for that. Steroids make the muscles much stronger, but they have no effect on the strength of tendons and ligaments. It is comparable to extending a rubber band further and further until it finally snaps. Commonly referred to as "roid rage", the uncontrolled sense of heightened aggression is associated with anabolic steroid use. The underlying cause for this is increased levels of the hormone testosterone. The aggressive behavior is often related to how the steroids cause the over-production of testosterone in the body. Legal problems may be experienced by someone using steroids because of the behavioral side effects.

There is also a variety of other ill effects from the use of steroids that is not as widely known. Fundamentally, psychological addiction comes from within. Physical and psychological addictions are never defined there is a myriad of causes and effects. When quitting the use of steroids, it is well known there will be a withdrawal process.

When stopping the use, it would only stand to reason that you would experience this reaction. As well as the painful course of action when you go through the withdrawal process.

Choosing to use steroids could be a decision you might regret. Of all the different steroids, the actions and reactions may be completely dissimilar. Due to the substantially dangerous aspect; the diagnostic aftermath may be quite unfavorable, maybe even fateful. The person who is involved in the heavy use of these steroids could develop malignant tumors, cancers of various organs and organ failure. The pursuit of sports glory through the abuse of anabolic steroids is a mindset that is difficult to grasp for the ordinary person.