How do steroids affect your muscles— and the rest of your body? - Anees Bahji

Dig into the science of how anabolic steroids and their recreational use can affect your body, organs and brain.

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Steroids. They’ve caused global scandals. They’re banned in most athletic competitions. Yet the same properties that help elite athletes and bodybuilders improve performance also make steroids valuable for treating many illnesses and injuries, such as AIDS and cancer. So if steroids are used as medicine, they must be safe to use recreationally, right? Anees Bahji explores the effects of steroids.

Lesson by Anees Bahji, directed by Cris Wiegandt.

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[blueeye]

The animators had real fun animating this.

[Alchemist]

Was really hoping the narrator was going to start with "Hey guys, its Derek from More Plates More Dates"

[adamnorlen]

Actually a pretty good video compared of most "educational" videos on the subject, but one correction. The testicles shrinking isn't mainly due to feminizing effects, but due to the suppression of the HPTA that testosterone causes. In short, exogenous testosterone will cause the testicles to stop producing their own testosterone, which causes them to shrink.

[mropgg]

"Promotes deepening of the voice" I never knew Ronnie Coleman was natty

[sketchyskies]

I'd never thought I'd be seeing broccoli with a beard, but here I am.

[JustADioWhosAHeroForFun]

"I don't like a-steorids" - Dinosaurs

[boi_mayor]

Long term anabolic steroid user here. This is a pretty decent video. One thing it misses is that a lot of the side effects you hear about (anger, hair loss, liver problems, etc.) are not general to steroids as a whole, but unique to certain steroids specifically. Your liver really isn't at risk from any injectable steroid, it's oral steroids that harm your liver. The anger issue is really only present in stronger drugs like trenbolone, nandralone, or halotestin. I think the general populace tends to generalize all anabolics as just "steroids" but there is a world of difference between different compounds.

[ahmetziyaaktas]

“Learn what makes your muscles grow naturally.” What a meaningful sentence. Thank you for this informative video!

[shalmali-]

muscular broccoli is what i live for, thanks for instilling that image Ted.

[avyreddy]

Everyone who is on steroids: *im going to pretend i didnt see that*

[bargestchannel]

"This can lead to shrinking testicles"
I think this one alone is frightening enough for me

[enantiomer]

My bro was diagnosed with low T and elected to get on TRT. He is now at a normal testosterone range and says he feels great. There's a lot of people that take testosterone who it really helps. Doing it right means your under the guidance of a doctor with regular blood checks.

[Ara_Ara]

Video: It can lead to mania and psychosis

Me: hehe cute brocolli

[higgloman]

The way you animate those athletes though 😂

[SwasthyaNeer]

I rarely comment on videos but just wanted to say that this guy is providing quality science based information with a world renowned researcher, excellent demonstrations and absolutely no filler content.

[Alonsos]

Next TED-Ed video: "How No Nut November affects your body."

[jungleforeva]

I’m on 6 different steroids and have been for years. Sometimes I am on more. I have a terminal illness and they keep me alive. The side effects are horrible and too many to name.

[Vicariously...I]

I know a few guys that were "recreational" users just trying to get bigger and bigger in the gym. The first problem is that no matter how big they got (and they did get a lot bigger) it was never enough and they just kept using more and more. A couple of them were even good about trying to off-cycle and do it as safely as possible. Unfortunately a couple of them are also now experiencing health problems with their liver and kidneys about 10 years later. Moral of the story, ... it's not worth it because you'll likely never feel satisfied with the gains you get from them anyway (even though you will get significant muscle growth), you will lose most of those gains rapidly when you do decide to stop taking them, and you will very likely do yourself a lot of harm in the process. Absolutely not worth it unless you want to devote you're entire life to professional powerlifting or something similar.

[dinoflagella]

A kid at my highschool died from a heart attack. I thought that it was weird. We later found out that he was taking steroids. He really wanted to be a pro baseball player so he got on steroids and I guess it enlarged his heart. He dropped dead during baseball practice.

[Nominals]

That laughing pill in the beginning reminded me of SpongeBob's Plankton (mwah ha ha)