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What Anabolic Steroids Do to the Body: Suppressed Testosterone, a Bigger Stiffer Heart, and Recovery That Takes Months to Never

5 days ago
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Updated: 4 days ago

Anabolic-androgenic steroids do exactly what they are taken to do - they build muscle - by flooding the body with far more androgen than it makes on its own. The physiology that follows from that flood is the whole story of their harm. The body reads the excess as a signal to shut down its own production; the heart remodels under the hormonal and training load; the testes shrink and stop making sperm; and the liver, blood and brain each take a measurable hit. What happens when a user stops is the question most want answered, and the honest answer is that most of it recovers over months, some of it takes years, and a few effects do not reverse at all.

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