Preformance enhancing drugs such as steroids.

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There are many people today in sports teams, in the olympics, or even just normal people you see walking town the hall every day, that don't feel sucure about them selves and think they need steroids for any one to like or pay attention to them. Some times it's like anerexics and bolimics and you can't even tell. There are also physical side effects which are noticable. Such as;¤Cancer, ¤Liver Damage, ¤Feminizing effects in males (growth of breast tissue), ¤Male attributes in females (deepening of voice, excessive hair growth), Enlarged clitoris, Shrunken testicles,Limb loss,Heart disease/heart attacks,Physical addiction,HIV/AIDS from the sharing of needles,Reduced sperm count,Impotence,Infertility, Baldness,Pain and difficulty urinating,Enlarged prostate,Baldness,Smaller Breast in women, Menstrual cycle stops,Adolescents experience premature closure of the growth plates (stunted growth), Liver Damage,Feminizing effects in males (growth of breast tissue),Male attributes in females (deepening of voice, excessive hair growth),Enlarged clitoris,Shrunken testicles,Limb loss,Heart disease/heart attacks,Physical addiction,HIV/AIDS from the sharing of needles,Reduced sperm count,Impotence,Infertility,Baldness, Pain and difficulty urinating,Enlarged prostate, Smaller Breast in women,Menstrual cycle stops, Adolescents experience premature closure of the growth plates (stunted growth).

And that was only steroids. There are more of them. ~

Steroids,creatine, and androstenedione are the three main preformance inhancing drugs. For many years, the world's foremost studies of creatine and its effect on athletic performance were carried out in secrecy by communist Eastern-bloc countries. But after the fall of Communism, the training and experimental drugs used on Soviet and East German Olympic athletes was revealed. Aside from exposing the truth about illegal anabolic steroid use, there was the discovery of a "vitamin" called creatine, which was quickly introduced to the U.S. and marketed as an ergogenic, or energy-enhancing supplement.

Creatine was not a vitamin, however, but a synthesized blend of certain amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins.