Steroid use leads to more than home runs

Using steroids to enhance athletic performance can get you more than home runs – it can lead to huge health problems. Baseball fans everywhere are aware of the difference between home run records set by past athletes, Roger Maris and Hank Aaron, who enhanced their performance through diet and exercise, versus unknown supplements supplied by entrusted trainers – as might have been the case with Barry Bonds.

Performance enhancing supplements and steroid use might lead to more home runs, but they can also lead to a lifetime of health problems. Barry Bonds is an example of the negative impact of steroid use.

Teenagers are especially vulnerable to claims of “muscle strength” from illicit steroids sold on the internet. Anabolic Halo and Jack3d are examples. Steroids for sale are under scrutiny by the FDA, but to date are still available.

Steroids, used solely to enhance athletic performance, need to be avoided to maintain good health throughout life, and to preserve fair competition in baseball and other sports. Barry Bonds used Winstrol to supplement his intense workouts in 1998, pumping himself up from 210 to 223 pounds. The steroid effect most certainly caused physical and emotional harm.

According to an article published in Sports Illustrated Magazine, …”the massive, pumped-up Bonds of 2001 didn't look anything like the Giant of the late '90s, much less the lithe, young Pirate of the late '80s and early '90s who used to knock the ball into the gap, accelerate as he took the turn at first base and fly into second for a double.”

Additional information includes how Barry Bonds’ personality changed, described by Bonds’ girlfriend Kimberly Bell. She blamed it on the steroids. During his steroid use, Bonds suffered an elbow injury, and complained of multiple physical ailments, including eye problems.

Performance enhancers and steroids might get more home runs, but the risks can lead to a lifetime of health issues. A recent study revealed that long term steroid use can cause severe kidney damage, in a first study of its kind to examine the use of anabolic steroids among body builders. Keep your home runs honest, and your health intact by avoiding steroids – just like our true baseball heroes, focus on diet and exercise rather than performance enhancing supplements to play the best possible game.

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