Why bodybuilders dying in Pakistan due to steroids
What’s more tragic than the death of a young class fellow just because he used steroids? In the past month, due to excessive use of steroids, four body-builders passed away. One of the victims’ family claimed that he was just having lunch on a typical day and his food trachea broke down and his breath stopped, causing his death.
Matloob Haider, a resident of Gujranwala, and Rizwan, who was a painter by profession, met the same fate in my city Gujranwala last week. Humayun Khurram, a renowned Pakistani bodybuilder and “gold medalist” in the South Asian Bodybuilding Championship, passed away in Lahore due to mysterious circumstances. Another prominent bodybuilder Hamid Ali, who was also known as Gujju, after featuring in south Asia contest and winning a Bronze medal, wanted to become Mr. Pakistan, but died on 3rd April. And all of this because of excessive use of steroids.
Actually not only these four Pakistanis lost their lives in exchange of using steroids but this activity has destroyed many healthy youngsters. Perhaps to some extent, I’m one of them.
The fact is that certain gym instructors are offering steroids to young boys and girls, who are told that their body will change if they use this medicine. Fresh college-going students or those who are free from school, join gym and bodybuilding clubs. Some join gyms in order to build their stamina, while some do so for fitness issues. Others are mostly inspired by the well-toned physique of television models and movie stars.
The main issue which should be tackled is that most gyms are non -registered, the brutal men who are supposed to be instructors or coaches, are mostly illiterate and have no medical knowledge or how steroids can lead to the death of an individual. How can a person, who has no knowledge about any medical science or a degree in any other field of study, suggest a drug (Steroid) to another individual?
These illiterate gym instructors encourage the young members to use steroids to build their body in a short time and this is how their earning cycle operates. According to my research, a coach earns 10% of his income from coaching and the remaining 90% from these steroids.
I have seen such coaches who pocket thousands of rupees from young bodybuilders and give them substandard anabolic steroids or food supplements in return, which cost only a meager hundred rupees or more. The major mistake in this process is of the foolish teenagers like me who want to build their bodies, thinking it would be easy. If you want to build your body in just six or eight weeks, what can your coach do? If you want to lose weight in comparatively lesser time or if you want to gain your weight in a few weeks, it’s not possible without anabolic steroids and food supplements. I asked an instructor at a fitness gym as to why they force their students to use supplements or steroids, to which he replied “it’s not harmful for bodybuilders if they maintain a healthy diet”. But according to medical research, steroids are leaving many negative effects on teenagers, including less intellectual prowess.
I have done extensive research on this topic and met several medical professionals to dig out more side-effects to aware my readers and I can now tell you a long list of drastic outcomes of its side-effects. These are as follows:
Infection
Allergic Reactions
Bleeding into the joints
Skin discoloration
Weakening of bones
Breast cancer in women
Anemia
Weight lose disease in HIV
Hair loss
Severe acne, Oily skin
Kidney disease
Liver disease (Tumors)
Heart diseases (attacks, severe pain etc)
Alterations in cholesterol and other blood lipids
High blood pressure
Bacterial infections
Purple or red spots on the body
51% users of anabolic steroids reported unspecified mood disturbance
Aggression
Depression
Cholesterol problems
Abnormalities of liver
Weight gain
Problems in sleeping
Infertility
Shrinking of testicals
Excessive growth of body hair
Losing their vitality before their prime age
The use of steroids results in ghastly side effect such as brain cancer
Violent behavior
Yellowing of eyes and skin
Bad breath severe ache
Heart attack strokes
Liver tumors
Liver cancer
Nausea and vomiting
Kidney disease and stunted growth and many infections.
These effects are very dangerous for their social and personal life. I asked an instructor why he inoculated the steroids injection on the back of his trainee and not on his arm. He said that since the steroids were of very high potency, human arm couldn’t bear them. It’s such a critical medication being done by a non-professional man.
Why doesn’t the government impose any check on these body building clubs? Why the government does not ban these anabolic steroids and supplements? These poisoned steroids are being sold at Hafeez Center and Pace Lahore, by people having licenses to sell but many shops are opened in bazaars with no license. As government is establishing a cyber crime cell of FIA, it should also establish a department that looks after these bodybuilding and health activities to control this anabolic abuse to mental and physical health of teenagers and young generation.
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