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In today’s times, there have been many talks about use of steroids in sports. While some think that it would be great to legalize steroids, some fear that steroids can prove dangerous to sports. In short, there is a relationship between steroids and sports that just cannot be ignored.

If steroids are such a problem then there would be no point in professional athletes and sportsmen continuing with them. But, the underlying fact is that anabolic steroids work and this is the reason why sportsmen get attracted to them.

Who can forget Barry Tyson, who legitimately used steroids to treat his HIV Infections?

Let us read some excerpts of CBS News’ Sunday Morning Cover Story by Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN to make a judgment on whether steroids work or not.

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.

From the above statements, it can be clearly found that the use of steroids in sports cannot be termed as wrong.

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