Steriods

Steroids

Every year millions and millions of sports fan spend hours watching and following their favorite teams and players. Although there is something that could threaten their sports, that something would be steroids. Steroids are the biggest problem that sports has ever faced since the time sports were first invented. It is not that steroids changes the way that sports are played, but it causes an unfair advantage between athletes. The unfair advantage comes from the fact that steroids make you strong, faster and makes your reactions faster.

What are steroids and what do they do? Steroids are a synthetic version of the male hormone testosterone. Testosterone is what helps the process that builds muscle mass. When you take steroids the testosterone helps the body integrates the proteins that you eat into the muscle tissue. There a number of different types of steroids, but the steroid that you hear about in sports is most commonly the steroid THG or tetrahydrogestrinone. Athletes takes there steroids through injections, but some steroids come in pill form also.

In the past 20 years in sports there has been a huge increase of steroids use in professional sports. Every year the fans hear more and more facts about steroids and the players that are taking them. In the sports world today it is an unwritten rule that you don’t talk about steroids as a player. It is a huge no-no for one player to say another player that he has taken steroids. In the past couple of years some players have come out and said some players have taken steroids, which at first the player have denied that fact to find out it was true he has taken steroids. The players that have been found out for taking steroids have had differ...

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...e government has also passed new laws that gave 15 million dollars for educational programs that would show the dangers of steroids to young people.

It is great to see that professional sports have taken an understanding that it is a fact steroids are an enormous problem in sports. I just feel that we need to continue informing young people of the dangers of steroids, but they also need to make the rules tougher on players that are caught taking steroids. They have to make it so that players will be scared to take them. I feel that if they made it a rule if caught taking steroids that you are banned for life that it would go a long way to stop the problem of steroids in sports. Some would say that this is extreme, but if fans want their sports to stick around that it is going to take an extreme action to fix this problem of steroids.