The Top 7 Performance Enhancing Drugs Used by Athletes Flashcards
What are anabolic steroids?
Anabolic steroids: Anabolic steroids increase the testosterone produced by your body making muscles bigger and helps the body recover from work outs more quickly. It can be taken as a pill, injection, or a topical treatment.
What is androstenedione?
Androstenedione: Androstenedione allows athletes to train harder and recover quicker from strenuous work-outs. Some risks are acne, decrease in sperm production, shrinking of the testicles, and masculinization in women.
What is Human Growth Hormone (HGH)?
Human Growth Hormone, only available by prescription and is administered through injections. Risks include fluid retention, cardiomyopathy which is the weakening of the heart muscle, muscle weakness, and joint pain.
What is Erythropoietin?
Erythropoietin: Erythropoietin is taken by athletes to increase the movement of oxygen in muscles. This drug is extremely dangerous and can cause death, strokes, and heart attacks.
What are diuretics?
Diuretics: Diuretics cause a change in the body’s natural water and salt levels. Use of this drug may be to lower weight or clean out the body to help pass drug tests. Diuretics can lead to dehydration, exhaustion, heatstroke, heart arrhythmias, and death.
What is Creatine?
Creatine: Creatine is the most popular supplement among the performance enhancing drugs in sports. It is sold over the counter and is used to help the muscles release energy. Side effects of creatine are stomach and muscle cramps, nausea, weight gain, and in high-doses liver and kidney damage.
What are stimulants?
Stimulants: Stimulants increase heart rate and blood pressure and are taken to improve endurance, reduce fatigue, and increase alertness. The consequences of this drug include stroke, dehydration, convulsions, heart attack, and heart palpitations. Negative Side Effects Include: baldness, acne, infertility, hypertension, drug dependence, liver abnormalities, tumors, heart and circulatory problems.
What is a biological passport?
An athlete biological passport is an individual electronic record for professional athletes, in which profiles of biological markers of doping and results of doping tests are collated over a period of time.
What are narcotic analgesics?
Narcotic analgesics are used to provide relief from moderate-to-severe acute or chronic pain.
What is blood doping?
Blood doping is the practice of boosting the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream in order to enhance athletic performance. Because such blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, a higher concentration in the blood can improve an athlete’s aerobic capacity (VO2 max) and endurance.
What is the most common oral anabolic steroid?
Dianabol. Helps users build mass in a relatively short time and costs around R400 for 60 capsules.
What is the most common injectable used?
Testosterone Propionate, which according to steroid.com, promotes nitrogen retention in the muscle, and the more nitrogen the muscles hold, the more protein the muscles stores. It goes for R380 for 10ml
What did Habib Noorbhai state?
Health24 Biokinetikist and fitness expert, Habib Noorbhai says that some urologists have reported that teenagers and young men (as young as 16 – 19 years of age) have been complaining of erectile dysfunction due to increased intake of various anabolic steroids.
