The epidemic has slowed down, and the fitness room has finally reopened. Many fitness people can't wait to resume dumbbell exercises, hoping to welcome the hot summer with a strong body line.
However, some people pursue muscle mass or lines to a frenzy level, absorbing excess whey protein to "build muscle", and even taking unapproved drugs to achieve their training goals.
In fact, drug abuse may lead to side effects such as heart failure, enlarged prostate, liver and kidney failure, and even fatal if serious.
Written by: LIU Kaiji, a medical consultant with a good doctor and a former deputy consultant doctor of the Hong Kong Poisoning Consultation Center
Contestants in bodybuilding competitions have obvious muscle lines, and the muscles in some body parts are hypertrophic, which has become the fitness goal of many people.
However, some people do not hesitate to take shortcuts, taking or injecting drugs to increase muscle mass, "burn fat", and then abuse diuretics to drain water to achieve the "dry body" effect.
In fact, most of these drugs are banned.
For example, Androgenic anabolic steroids (Androgenic anabolic steroids) can provide androgenic effects to help increase muscle strength and increase thickness; it seems that there is no harm, but this drug is purely cosmetic in appearance to make muscles more impressive and posture. Being fitter does not necessarily enhance our athletic performance and training.
In general sports competitions, players cannot take anabolic steroids before the competition.
In addition, the abuse of these anabolic steroids may cause physiological side effects such as high blood pressure, heart failure, cardiac hypertrophy, high liver enzymes, cholestasis, kidney failure and gynecomastia.
Some male users, in order to prevent breast development, they will take Tamoxifen (Tamoxifen), which is used to treat breast cancer and regulate estrogen, which has a greater impact on the body.
Psychologically, there may also be depression, or even insanity.
Women taking anabolic steroids may induce polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Clenbuterol and gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) are also commonly abused.
The former itself is a banned asthma drug. Later, it was found that pigs can reduce fat and increase lean meat after eating. It has also been misused by humans as a drug to reduce body fat. Excessive consumption will cause side effects such as hypokalemia and arrhythmia.
The latter achieves the effect of reducing fat and increasing muscle by stimulating the secretion of growth hormone, but the side effects are central nervous system depression, hypotension, respiratory depression and seizures.
Many people also have the habit of drinking whey protein powder. Although it can increase protein intake, excessive consumption can also damage kidney and liver functions.
If you want to gain muscle and lose fat in a healthy way, don’t seek and rely on medication, you should follow the training of professional fitness trainers, and get enough protein from a balanced diet is the best practice.
▼All fitness studios in Hong Kong can reopen on April 21▼
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