There have many talks about the usage of steroids in sports. While some advocate its usage, others went off record to say that steroids can be lethal if abused. Whatever be the thought about this, there is no denying the ‘mutual’ relationship between steroids and sports.

If steroids are such a problem, why do professional athletes, sportsmen, and bodybuilders continue taking them? Why do even the high school athletes prefer them? The reason is simple - anabolic steroids work.

The name of Barry Tyson cannot be ignored who made a legitimate use of steroids to fight off HIV infections. Let us read some part of the excerpt reported in CBS News’ Sunday Morning Cover Story by Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN to make a judgment.

From CBS News.com:

Tyson said. “I noticed a change in my energy level. I noticed a change in my appetite. I noticed a change in how much I could push at the gym.”

And how crucial were steroids in his recovery?

“It was very important especially because it’s putting on that muscle that helps fight infection,” Tyson said.

To understand anabolic steroids, let’s take a look back: First developed in the 1930s, they’re synthesized from the male hormone testosterone. They’ve been used to treat wasting conditions, like HIV-AIDS and cancer. They stimulate bone growth and appetite. But along the way, these useful drugs got hijacked.

“Like many things, the steroids were developed for a purpose, which is to treat people who had deficiency,” said Dr. Jeffrey Lennox, an HIV-AIDS specialist at Emory University in Atlanta.

“And when people saw how much better people felt, that they put on muscle mass, that they got stronger because we were replacing the male hormones, athletes started to add additional hormones on top of their natural production and noticed increases in strength,” Lennox said.

It can be clearly seen that qualified use of steroids in sports or other activities cannot be termed as wrong; the problem arises when an indiscriminate usage of steroids is done to gain instant results.

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