Anabolic steroids a serious global health problem amid boom in cosmetic use
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Anabolic steroids a serious global health problem amid boom in cosmetic use
Dominic Sagoe, University of Bergen
A competitive spirit is an indispensable aspect of human life, where it could be argued that a failure to compete only results in participating in a competition to fail. Over a very long period of time, humans have relied on various kinds of performance-enhancing substances. It has been suggested, for example, that the ancient Greeks turned to potions to improve performance.
Today, these substances range from “soft” or legal substances such as energy drinks to “hard” substances such as steroids and amphetamines, and other more “natural” methods, including blood doping to increase the number of rich red blood cells in the bloodstream.
In the exercise or athletic world, anabolic-androgenic steroids or anabolic steroids are a very popular performance-enhancing substance. But over the past 40 years they have increasingly been used for aesthetic or “beauty” reasons. This is wha...
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