This is What Happens to your Body After Doping for 1 year

Dec 16, 2020BJJEEArticles

Chris Jones guides us through a bodybuilder’s 1 year transformation while taking st*roids.

The guy in the video is young, early 20,s but after just one year has the body of someone that has been training for a good number of years.

The guy in the video is named Bostin Loyd,a bodybuilder. At the beginning he had a solid base but after one year of st*roids and hard training, he’s a completely different man.

Using performance-enhancing drugs isn’t without risks. The most common performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic st*roids that are taken by BJJ or MMA athletes are androstenedione, human growth hormone, erythropoietin, diuretics and stimulants.

Check out the video to see the transformation:

Take the time to learn about the potential benefits, the health risks and the many unknowns regarding so-called performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic st*roids, androstenedione, human growth hormone, erythropoietin, diuretics, creatine and stimulants. You may decide that the benefits aren’t worth the risks.

from Mayo Clinic:

Anabolic st*roids

What are they?
Some athletes take a form of st*roids — known as anabolic-androgen st*roids or just anabolic st*roids — to increase their muscle mass and strength. The main anabolic st*roid hormone produced by your body is testosterone.

Testosterone has two main effects on your body:

Anabolic effects promote muscle building.
Androgenic effects are responsible for male traits, such as facial hair and a deeper voice.

Some athletes take straight testosterone to boost their performance. Frequently, the anabolic st*roids that athletes use are synthetic modifications of testosterone. These hormones have approved medical uses, though improving athletic performance is not one of them. They can be taken as pills, injections or topical treatments.

Why are these drugs so appealing to athletes? Besides making muscles bigger, anabolic st*roids may help athletes recover from a hard workout more quickly by reducing the muscle damage that occurs during the session. This enables athletes to work out harder and more frequently without overtraining. In addition, some athletes may like the aggressive feelings they get when they take the drugs.

Designer st*roids
A particularly dangerous class of anabolic st*roids are the so-called designer drugs — synthetic st*roids that have been illicitly created to be undetectable by current drug tests. They are made specifically for athletes and have no approved medical use. Because of this, they haven’t been tested or approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and represent a particular health threat to athletes.

Risks
Many athletes take anabolic st*roids at doses that are much higher than those prescribed for medical reasons, and most of what is known about the drugs’ effects on athletes comes from observing users. It is impossible for researchers to design studies that would accurately test the effects of large doses of st*roids on athletes, because giving participants such high doses would be unethical. This means that the effects of taking anabolic st*roids at very high doses haven’t been well studied.

Anabolic st*roids come with serious physical side effects as well.

Men may develop:

Prominent breasts
Baldness
Shrunken testicles
Infertility
Impotence

Women may develop:

A deeper voice
An enlarged cl*toris
Increased body hair
Baldness
Infrequent or absent periods

Both men and women might experience:

Severe acne
Increased risk of tendinitis and tendon rupture
Liver abnormalities and tumors
Increased low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (the “bad” cholesterol)
Decreased high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (the “good” cholesterol)
High blood pressure (hypertension)
Heart and circulatory problems
Prostate gland enlargement
Aggressive behaviors, rage or violence
Psychiatric disorders, such as depression
Drug dependence
Infections or diseases such as HIV or hepatitis if you’re injecting the drugs
Inhibited growth and development, and risk of future health problems in teenagers

Taking anabolic-androgenic st*roids to enhance athletic performance, besides being prohibited by most sports organizations, is illegal. In the past 20 years, more effective law enforcement in the United States has pushed much of the illegal st*roid industry into the black market. This poses additional health risks because the drugs are either made in other countries and smuggled in or made in clandestine labs in the United States. Either way, they aren’t subject to government safety standards and could be impure or mislabeled.

Androstenedione

What is it?
Androstenedione (andro) is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands, ovaries and testes. It’s a hormone that’s normally converted to testosterone and estradiol in both men and women.

Andro is available legally only in prescription form, and is a controlled substance. Manufacturers and bodybuilding magazines tout its ability to allow athletes to train harder and recover more quickly. However, its use as a performance-enhancing drug is illegal in the United States.

Scientific studies that refute these claims show that supplemental androstenedione doesn’t increase testosterone and that your muscles don’t get stronger with andro use. In fact, almost all of the andro is rapidly converted to estrogen, the primary hormone in females.

Risks
Side effects of andro in men include:

Acne
Diminished sperm production
Shrinking of the testicles
Enlargement of the breasts

In women, side effects include:

Acne
Masculinization, such as deepening of the voice and male-pattern baldness

In both men and women, andro can decrease HDL cholesterol (the “good” cholesterol), which puts you at greater risk of heart attack and stroke.

Human growth hormone

What is it?
Human growth hormone, also known as gonadotropin, is a hormone that has an anabolic effect. Athletes take it to improve muscle mass and performance. However, it hasn’t been shown conclusively to improve either strength or endurance. It is available only by prescription and is administered by injection.

Risks
Adverse effects related to human growth hormone range in severity and may include:

Joint pain
Muscle weakness
Fluid retention
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Impaired glucose regulation
Cardiomyopathy
High cholesterol (hyperlipidemia)
Diabetes
High blood pressure (hypertension)

Erythropoietin

What is it?
Erythropoietin is a type of hormone used to treat anemia in people with severe kidney disease. It increases production of red blood cells and hemoglobin, resulting in improved movement of oxygen to the muscles. Epoetin, a synthetic form of erythropoietin, is commonly used by endurance athletes.

Risks
Erythropoietin use among competitive cyclists was common in the 1990s and allegedly contributed to at least 18 deaths. Inappropriate use of erythropoietin may increase the risk of thrombotic events, such as stroke, heart attack and pulmonary edema.

Diuretics

What are they?
Diuretics are drugs that change your body’s natural balance of fluids and salts (electrolytes) and can lead to dehydration. This loss of water can decrease an athlete’s weight, helping him or her to compete in a lighter weight class, which many athletes prefer. Diuretics may also help athletes pass drug tests by diluting their urine and are sometimes referred to as a “masking” agent.

Risks
Diuretics taken at any dose, even medically recommended doses, predispose athletes to adverse effects such as: