The Seriousness of Steroids on Athletes

By: Dr. Mohammed Awad Mahmoud

Steroids are used by athletes and substance which is banned by the International Olympic Committee, which will increase the activity of the player, is active, making it the natural way competes with an unfair or dishonest.

Steroids cause damage to health and hold the drugs of abuse. And steroids are drugs that stimulate the body’s functions. Namely, the material is active the brain and central nervous system. This activation generates attention and high mood and alertness, reduce appetite and increase movement. And rarely used as a treatment. But misuse is common among people practicing the sport

And steroids are working to alert the central nervous system; doping can improve the body’s ability to training and competition to the highest levels. They also reduce fatigue associated with training and time required to recover after physical exertion.

Stimulants and addictive, and show a false activity, and with frequent abuse cause muscle atrophy, and the player recovers his strength. The player and avoid drinking cola drinks, tea, coffee, chocolate and cocoa because it has caffeine, a stimulant and a diuretic, which affects the player’s drought. And through training, but some of the best athletes hurry. These steroids have wasted their efforts when it detects them at the medical examination in the championships.

And these anabolic steroids are substances foreign to the body, or sometimes natural materials are taken in quantities of abnormal and unusual way contribute to raising the fitness abnormally in addition to those covered by the psychological effects that affect the fitness substances harmful to the health of athletes and their effects negative and dangerous short of madness and sometimes hormonal imbalance effects of injury and cause kidney disease and the psychological point of feeling depressed mood disorders and the desire to victims of aggressive and doping mention Finland, champion in weightlifting star Timmy who was paralyzed as a result of doping.

And must at all who is interested is sports an awareness-raising campaigns and lectures to explain the seriousness of eating sport of doping and there must be an essential role of the family and coach sports and school and flags to clarify the seriousness of steroids and the need to stay away from them because of the resulting serious risks may lead to death as we mentioned earlier.