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Cholesteroid Informative Speech

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What is cholesterol you might think? Cholesterol is a compound of sterol that is found in the body’s tissue. Cholesterol is also a type of fat that is found in blood. Cholesterol is good for your body because it helps the brain, skin, and other organs to be healthy and make sure that they are working the way they have to be working. The organ that produces cholesterol is the liver. The liver makes cholesterol from mostly animal products like cheese, milk, and especially eggs. This compound is found and can affect your body if there is a lot in your body. What are steroids you might think or wonder? Steroids are is any large amount of organic compounds with molecular structure containing four carbon atoms. Your body produces steroids to make your body grow healthier. There are two types of steroids that both make a change in your body. Like I said your body produces organic steroids to help your body grow as you get older. The other type …show more content…

The first type of steroid is a natural steroid that is produced from your body that is natural not artificial. This steroid is not bad for you because it is naturally part of your body and is produced from your body. This steroids helps your body to grow as you get older. Lots of people picture this steroid like water because it is natural and is needed to survive. This steroid also helps your body function the way it is suppose to and make sure that everything is healthy in your body. On the other hand there is a steroid that is not natural but artificial. This kind of steroid.can be dangerous if taken much often. People use this kind of steroid to get more energy and make themselves stronger and build muscles.This steroid if taken often can result in heart attack, stroke, and even death. Even though this steroids are dangerous doctors use them on patients. Doctors say that they use their steroids as medicine to calm, num, or relax patients when in

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The negative side effects of steroids are often not shown. Steroids can harm a full grown adult’s body, and the effects are only amplified in teenagers. Anabolic steroids can have long-lasing and sometimes irreversible effects on the body. They have been linked to high cholesterol, blood clots, strokes, and musculoskeletal problems. Since steroids are a hormone like testosterone, the effects can cause a sort of hyper-masculinity in young men.

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Commonly known as juice, roids, and gym candy, anabolic steroids or PEDs (performance enhancing drugs) are illegally used for unfair advantages by many players in Major League Baseball. Since the 1930’s, steroids have been available for use. Anabolic steroids are a synthetic type of male hormone, testosterone, that are used in combination with a workout. Also similar to steroids are human growth hormones commonly known as HGH. Both anabolic steroids and HGH help contribute to endurance during a hard workout, greater muscle mass and strength, and quicker recovery.

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Steroids are considered a drug. With any drugs, there are harms that it can do to the body. According to Daniel DeNoon, steroids can; make men develop breast, get painful erections, shrinkage of testicals, and become fertile. In the article “Steroids And Their Harmful Side Effects” states that steroids can make a person have mood swings, paranoia, high levels of anxiety, make females have a deeper voice, cataracts or glaucoma to the eye. It can also make male and female users become bald, high level of cholesterol, blood clot in the veins disrupting the blood flow to the heart causing a heart attack.

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Not everything we take like drugs is good. Everything has it’s side effects and it’s on us to take the risk. If someone chooses to take steroids is at their own risk and I think that people shouldn’t judge an individual because not everything in life is based on truth. We should focus more on the bigger problems that are out in the

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The term steroids are normally associated with drugs that are used to treat many medical conditions. Steroids do have many medical purposes, such as, maintaining sexual characteristics in males following them having surgery for testicular cancer and the loss of muscle tissue. They are also used to increase muscle mass, bone mass, inflammation, and other medical conditions. (mayoclinic.com 2014) Anabolic steroids, which mean use of something that causes a building of tissue, are a class of synthetic drugs that are designed to copy the effects of testosterone. Testosterone main effect is the tissue.

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Answer: Most types of natural-based steroids are perfectly safe if a person takes them according to the directions. They can have some unwanted side effects if a man tries to take too large of a dose though. Question: What side effects do natural-based steroids have?

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Literary Analysis: Hills Like White Elephants The “Hills Like White Elephants”, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a story about a couple who have a decision to make. Though it is never said anywhere throughout the story, the couple is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. The characters have a tough decision to make nd they have different opinions on what the right choice is.

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Steroids should only be used for medical reasons and not for better performance. I cannot seem to understand why athletes would take any kind of drug without medical advice or take any drug with so many hazardous side effects. There are reasons why people do what they do, but after researching performance enhancing drugs, I would not think of any reason to use such a drug with so many ill side effects. In my opinion, if you do not have the natural ability and have to rely on a performance-enhancing type of drug, you should not be playing. Drug testing would be the best idea, but it is still not 100% on results quite yet.

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Being strong physically will have a deadline, but being strong mentally will last you a lifetime, therefore it will give people the best chance of leading a successful life. Steroids are a deprivation to our mental state because the effects cause a drastic increase to our visible muscle growth leading to our focuses away from us becoming stronger mentally. One well known side effect involving a consumer’s mental state is known as “roid rage”. “Steroids have been reported to increase a person’s aggressiveness or lead them to become more violent” (Cesar). While using steroids, many consumers of the drug are victims to the effect of roid rage, showing an uncontrollable aggression for no apparent reason.

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PEDs can cause aggression and other mood changes as well as more serious disorders like depression 4. PEDs are unhealthy for the body and the mind. Steroids and other PEDs don’t increase dopamine in the brain like other drugs; dopamine produces the “high” feeling. But they can become addictive and people that use them will continue to do so despite physical problems and negative effects on social relationships 5.

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We see them as a negative thing but some of us need them for our daily lives. There are many different types of steroids that contain different types of active hormones. The first thing i found research on was steroid Colombian Electronic Encyclopedia and it told me the different types of steroids and the use for them. The research tells me that their are many different types of steroids and different uses and side effects of them.

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Lastly (transition), many athletes that use steroids are better than their opponents, by cheating. Athletes that use steroids should have bigger consequences. First of all (transitions), reports show that athletes that use steroids have a number of health issues. According to www.drugabuse.gov , all steroid users could get liver damage, heart disease, changes in cholesterol, and weight loss. While (conjunctions) males will develop breast, have shrinking testicals,

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Steroids are very unhealthy for multiple parts of the human body, many health issues can arise from the use of such a drug. Primarily, the users’ continuous use of the drug will deplete the body’s ability to produce testosterone

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Also, when drugs are used it takes the human effort away from sports where athletes have trained hard. There are many different types of PEDs and here are some of the major ones that are used: Stimulants: Stimulants are substances that act directly on the central nervous system to speed up parts of the brain and body. Anabolic steroids: They build muscle and increase endurance. They are used mostly by football players and weightlifters.

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Treatment may not be able to change it back, notice changes in their genital area, grow more body hair, lose the hair on the head, stop getting periods or get them much less often than they used to. All people who use anabolic steroids might start to get: Severe acne, a higher risk of swollen or torn cords in the body called tendons, which attach muscle to bone, Liver tumors, or other changes to the liver, higher levels of the "bad" cholesterol, called low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, lower levels of the "good" cholesterol, called high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, high blood pressure, problems with the heart and blood flow, issues with anger or violence, Mental health conditions, such as depression”(1). As you can see the amount of affects that PED’s can have the body is astonishing. You may be wondering, why would anyone put their body through that? Well a main reason is that they simply just like the way their muscles look while on the drugs.

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