SubscribeAdolescents who use anabolic steroids likely do permanent damage to their brain.
Since the teenage brain is still growing and not yet completely formed, anabolic steroids can permanently knock it off its proper development course.
One research center shows the brain’s serotonin neurotransmitter system may never recover. Serotonin is one of the major chemicals neurons use to communicate with each other, and is strongly associated with depression.
It is estimated that 4%-12% of high school athletes use anabolic steroids.
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Do you know the names of the specific steroids that may cause this brain damage? Any reports that you can refer me to? Thank you.
Sex- and age-specific effects of anabolic androgenic steroids on reproductive behaviors and on GABAergic transmission in neuroendocrine control regions.
Lasting changes in neuronal activation patterns in select forebrain regions of aggressive, adolescent anabolic/androgenic steroid-treated hamsters
Serotonin-1A receptor activity and expression modulate adolescent anabolic/androgenic steroid-induced aggression in hamsters
These are animal models, so we can not extrapolate with 100% accuracy to humans. Nonetheless, based on these findings, there is strong reason to believe anabolics impact the human brain in a similar fashion.
Will the same damage occur from anabolics that are not steroids? Such as plant based anabolics?
A chemical basically has the same effects whether a plant makes it, a laboratory makes it, or an animal makes it.