Bodybuilding with/out Steroids Steroids and bodybuilding have been a mismatch from the start. It is wrong to use steroids to build up your body so you can look like Mr. Universe when all along, steroids are eating you up inside. If you must engage in bodybuilding, then do it the right way. Steroids are dangerous artificial means of getting something that is just cosmetic. If you start taking steroids and find that you cannot live without them, you will not live long enough to appreciate your body because it will fail you. If you haven’t heard enough of the ill effects of taking steroids to eliminate the excess fat, then you need to take a serious look at the following information. Steroids causes high blood pressure, liver tumors, infertility and less chances of having children, fluid retention, shrinking of the male testicles, and hair growth for women. Women taking steroids will start to look and sound like men, while men who take steroids will loss their hair, virility, and will start developing breast. That’s only part of the symptoms, and does not even include the psychological trauma you will likely experience like depression, delusions, irritability, impaired judgment and paranoia. With all these, isn’t it logical not to take steroids? Sure, looking at a bodybuilding male on steroids is very impressive. It’s inhumanly amazing how bodybuilding with the help of steroids can build up muscle like that. Until you realize that what you see is not the entire picture. Right now, there are about 100 different kinds of steroids in the market, and all of them require a prescription from a doctor before you will be able to legitimately buy any. Naturally, if there is a strong, motivated desire to find steroids without a prescription, there is the black market. However, before you start buying from these people, think about where the steroids came from. Were they made by someone in their kitchen or garage? There is no legitimate lab that makes steroids only to sell it in the black market. This means the steroids for sale on the streets are not checked for quality and consistency in potency. There are even such a thing today as fake drugs that are sold a little below market price. Buyers think they are getting a good deal when all along they are just buying duds. Now, look at the other side of the coin. Bodybuilding without the use of steroids is something that is entirely possible. It’s been done over and over in the past. The successful bodybuilders who have maintained their bodies in good shape would not have been able to do so if they used steroids. What’s wrong with doing it right anyway? The benefits from proper training and good diet is much more than if you trued to take the short cut with steroids. Here are some of the benefits: 1. Exercise will make you body and mind work in synch with other better. 2. Increase in flexibility, muscle control and stamina 3. Endurance and body strengthening 4. Slowly but surely your muscles will develop, and develop properly. Plus your body will grow as one, and not as separate muscle groups. Bodybuilding is an art. When you see well developed muscles, you will appreciate all the hard work that t takes them to do. People who take steroids are a shame to the bodybuilding community for being cheats and very lazy. They also appear to have a death wish. Steroids should be left as a prescribed drug for people who need it for medicinal purposes.