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To provide information about steroids To assist students in understanding

consequences of steroid use To motivate students to make informed

choices about steroid use


Steroids Overview Part 1 Steroids Overview Part 2 Technical

Information from the National Institute of Drug Abuse


What do you think influences kids more what athletes and media stars do or what they say?


Adrenocortical: Regarding or made by the adrenal gland, which produces steroid hormones.

Anabolic Steroids: Steroids that promote tissue growth by creating protein in an attempt to enhance muscle growth. Testosterone (the male sex hormone) is the main steroid.

Androgen is any natural or synthetic compound, usually a steroid hormone, that stimulates or controls the development and maintenance of masculine characteristics. This includes the activity of the male sex organs and development of male secondary sex characteristics. Androgens are also the original anabolic steroids. The primary, and most well-known, androgen is testosterone.


Androstenedione: A type of androgen produced by the adrenal glands which is partially transformed into testosterone

Creatine: Protein derivative in muscle tissue. Sometimes found in body-building supplements

Ergogenic: Something that can increase muscular work capacity.

hGH (Human growth hormone): A peptide hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland in the brain. HGH enhances tissue growth by stimulating protein formation


Reference: http://www.musclenet.com/steroid.htm◦ hypertension, blood clotting and cholesterol

changes, liver cysts and cancer, kidney cancer, hostility and aggression, acne; in adolescents, premature stoppage of growth; in males, prostate cancer, reduced sperm production, shrunken testicles, breast enlargement; in females, menstrual irregularities, development of beard and other masculine characteristics

Steroid Dangers Supplemental Reading


GHB a common Anabolic Steroid GHB Video 1 (60 minutes) Muscle Physiology from University of Califor

nia at San Diego Muscle Physiology Part II Anabolic Steroids


How effective do you thing GHB could be as a bodybuilding supplement given its other effects?


Symptoms: ◦ Mood swings, fatigue, restlessness, loss of

appetite, insomnia, reduced sex drive, and the desire to take more steroids. The most dangerous of the withdrawal symptoms is depression, because it sometimes leads to suicide attempts. Untreated, some depressive symptoms associated with anabolic steroid withdrawal have been known to persist for a year or more after the abuser stops taking the drugs.

Tapering may not completely prevent withdrawal symptoms


If steroids are taken during pregnancy, there is the possibility of a masculinization of the female fetus.


ESPN Drugs and Sports Series


Bodybuilding Myths


Research and discuss alternatives to steroid use


Overview Online Reading Review Anabolic steroids are artificial versions of a

hormone that's in all of us -- testosterone Anabolic steroids can weaken the immune

system, lead to liver damage or cancer, permanently stop bones from growing in teenagers.

Doctors sometimes prescribe, but these aren't anabolic steroids, they're corticosteroids.


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