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Performance Enhancing Drugs

By Maria Overby

What are Performance Enhancing Drugs? (PEDs)

- "It is defined as any substance taken in non-pharmacologic doses specifically for purposes of improving sports performance" (Nationwidechildrens.org). 

- Referred to as doping, athletes take PED drugs to reduce their athletic ability

- Used to help build muscle tissue and increase body mass

- Most commonly used by athletes or bodybuilders 

- Used to boost their strength and add muscle  

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Your body starts to produce more proteins during Anabolism

1. True
2. False

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What is the goal of blood doping?

1. Lose blood
2. Increase the amount of oxygen-carrying red blood cells in the blood
3. Increase bone strength
4. Lose body weight

Anabolic Steroids

-A group of synthetic drugs 

- Synthetic version of testosterone 

-Women have it but in much smaller amounts

-Testosterone is the main hormone in men and is needed to develop and maintain male characteristics (ex. deep voice, facial hair and muscle growth)

Women have testosterone in their bodies

1. True
2. False

                      Women

-Deeper voice

-Grow more body hair

-Lose head hair

-Stop or get their periods much less

                             Men

-Hair loss

-Increase in chance of prostate cancer

-Infertility 

-Severe acne

What is one negative side effect of PEDs?
(Men or Women)

Uses of anabolic steroids 

-Healthcare providers prescribe anabolic steroids to help with hormone problems in men, delayed puberty, and muscle loss caused by disease

-Bodybuilders and athletes misuse these steroids to build muscles and improve athletic performance 

-Doses for this kind of use could be 10 to 100 times higher than doses to treat medical conditions

-unsafe and illegal

Used For

- Boost athletic ability

- Build muscle

- Increase body mass

- Lose body fat

Signs that someone is taking PEDs

- Increased aggression

-Rapid weight gain (ex. 10 Ib/month or 40 Ib/ year

-Postule acne 

-Female (lower voice, facial hair, male body hair

Used For

- Boost athletic ability

- Build muscle

- Increase body mass

- Lose body fat

Lance Armstrong

Marion Jones

Before and after PED use

Male body dysmorphia

-Steroid use is often associated with a form of male body dysmorphia 

-Muscle dysmorphia disorder (MDD)

-Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)

-Referred to as the reverse of anorexia-bigorexia 

- These users use steroids to get bigger and increase their confidence