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Understanding The Effects of Anabolic Steroids
Anabolic steroids are vital organic compounds, which act as hormones within the physical body that are either Testosterone itself, or they're just like Testosterone and/or mimic Testosterone’s actions with other variations in their observable effects. The effects of steroids as hormones and analogues/derivatives of hormones are very diverse, and while Testosterone, for instance , might exhibit favorable effects in one or two areas of the human body it might also exhibit unfavorable or unwanted effects in others. This is the normal trade-off when it comes to the use of anabolic steroids, or almost anything in this world. This is why anabolic steroids hold such a good array of application in science and medicine, which may be attributed to their diverse governance on the various systems of the body. In terms of anabolic steroid analogues and derivatives, which are modified variants of Testosterone, the different effects of steroids can then be changed in order to create a more favorable effect during a particular area of the body while reducing the extensiveness of its effects on another system or area of the body. This was one of the original goals of the anabolic steroid development boom of the 1950s.
During the 1950s, many pharmaceutical corporations raced frantically to aim to make the ‘perfect’ steroid hormone , which might be defined as an steroid hormone that might exhibit all of the effects of steroids which may be favorable and desirable (such because the increases in strength and muscle mass) with none of the negative effects of steroids that might be unfavorable (such as the estrogenic and androgenic effects). Although no perfect anabolic steroid was ever created, science did come very close with the development of a select few anabolic steroids, such as Anavar (Oxandrolone). Regardless, the character of anabolic steroids is such the anabolic (tissue building) effects can't be completely separated from the androgenic (masculinizing) effects, because the two are intrinsically intertwined. Only a distinct distancing of the two might be possible to a certain extent, but never a total elimination or separation of them. However, the many different anabolic steroid analogues in existence provide individuals with the ability to select and choose which anabolic steroid might be more favorable to their needs according to each anabolic steroid’s effects.
There are many different anabolic steroid analogues and derivatives, and they are derived from one of three primary hormones that are naturally created and found within the human body. They are: Testosterone, Nandrolone, and Dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Essentially, all anabolic steroid derivatives are derivatives of Testosterone, as Testosterone is in fact the precursor for Nandrolone and Dihydrotestosterone. Without Testosterone, either of the latter two would exist. However, once isolated in a laboratory, Nandrolone and Dihydrotestosterone themselves can be directly modified at their chemical structures in order to create an analogue or derivative of whichever hormone is being modified (known as the parent or progenitor hormone). Trenbolone, for instance , is a derivative of the parent hormone Nandrolone. Boldenone (Equipoise), for example, is an analogue/derivative of Testosterone, which is its parent/progenitor hormone. Each of these hormones share close properties with their parent hormones by virtue of the fact that they are derived from them, but in some rare occasions the derivative hormone is very much capable of exhibiting completely different properties that might seem to go against the logic in regards to the effects of steroids being shared or passed down from the progenitor hormone to its derivative. Anadrol (Oxymetholone) is one such example, which is a derivative of DHT. Derivatives of DHT should normally exhibit no estrogenic effects on the body by virtue of the very fact that they can't convert (aromatize) into Estrogen. Although Anadrol too cannot aromatize, the current hypothesis is that it (or its metabolites) seems to act as an Estrogen itself in various tissues of the body[1]. This is an ideal example of how various anabolic steroids will exhibit different effects than others, and maybe some will exhibit unpredictable effects as compared to others.
The effects of steroids can essentially be categorized and generalized into two primary types:
1. Desirable (positive) effects of steroids
2. Undesirable (negative) effects of steroids
What enables an steroid hormone to exhibit positive or negative (desirable or undesirable) effects is extremely much limited to individual the individual, which makes the consequences of steroids very relative (to the individual). For example, while many might regard the hair growth effect of steroids to be undesirable, there are actually many individuals who seek the utilization of anabolic steroids for this effect, which is desirable, and therefore a positive effect. With this having been established, on a general level there are effects of steroids that can be considered undesirable for most, which is why they are placed under the category of ‘undesirable effects of steroids’. In some cases, generalizations must be made even though in the abstract, such an issue is a grey issue rather than black and white. Another example of mixed opinions on an effect of steroids that might be desirable among some and undesirable among others is the fact that anabolic steroids for the most part tend to cause an increase in libido and sexual function[2]. Although rare, there are some individuals that regard such a large increase in libido and sex drive to be undesirable and/or very inconvenient. However, because the increase in libido and sexual function is one of the effects of steroids that is desired by the majority of the population, such an effect is then considered to be a desirable effect (even though, as previously mentioned, there exists a small percentage of the population that might regard the libido increases as an undesirable and therefore negative effect of steroids).