What are designer performance-enhancing drugs?
An example of a designer performance-enhancing agent might be a chemical that looks like testosterone, but when an athlete gets screened for testosterone, it would come up negative. These drugs may also have a longer half-life, meaning they stay in the body for a longer period of time, causing a more profound effect in growing muscle tissue. What are the side effects of steroids? One adverse effect of anabolic-androgenic steroids, such as testosterone, is decreased sperm count in men. If men have a lot of testosterone, the pituitary gland won’t be screaming so loud, so it gets turned off. As a result, sperm production gets turned off. However, many of the users and abusers of anabolic steroids have found ways to circumvent this. In fact, there are other medicines that can keep the sperm count up, even when you’re using or abusing testosterone. Testosterone has adverse effects on your lipid profile. Your lipid profile is cholesterol, triglycerides, “good” high-density lipoprotein (HDL)
