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Anabolic steroids have multiple effects on physical activity. ... Anabolic steroids can do things like make you stronger, but also do things such as cause baldness.
The term “anabolic steroids” commonly refers to steroids that are synthetically produced, molecularly altered derivatives of testosterone. Normal testosterone has two main qualities, anabolic qualities, which build tissue, and androgenic qualities, which gives masculinizing qualities such as deepening of the voice, and growth of male hair patterns. The androgenic qualities aren’t desirable, so when scientists in the 1950’s were trying to get testosterones muscle building effects without the masculinizing effect, steroids were developed.
Steroids work by going into receptor cells. “When steroids are carried through the blood steam they pass by and attach to receptor cells on your body’s muscle cells. ... Steroids also work through a different way. ... Anabolic steroids have an anticatabolic effect, which prevents the breakdown of muscle
tissue, by displacing cortisol from muscle receptors.
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