Athletes strive hard to achieve success in their field. They are driven, hardworking, and disciplined. They owe their success to several things and these do not exclude the German scientist, Adolf Butenandt. This prominent man was the first to isolate androgen, which is a class of steroids that include testosterone) from a plethora of urine he obtained from a police barracks in Berlin in 1931.
His research helped people understand the general function of endocrine as well as steroids. People have a lot of questions regarding hormones and their effect when it comes to their performance in sports. Why are these hormones quite critical to a sports enthusiast or athlete’s performance?
So Why Hormones?
Human body’s development depends on the cell’s ability to replicate them. It also depends on their ability to transform from immature cells into a more specialized cell, which include bone cells, nerve cells, muscle cells, and everything in between. This process is called differentiation. Steroids, on the other hand, may be used by cancer patients for this reason. They can be used as they promote the stimulation of cell differentiation, which is otherwise stripped of specialization.
Just like you, you need to swim fast and compete with other around your father’s private parts before becoming a Facebook addict eukaryote sitting before you. Cells work the same way too in order to enable the other systems in your body to work and function well. This makes the steroids, particularly the anabolic agents quite critical to traits an athlete may feel provides them an edge.
Hormones and steroids are also considered fairly complex. Unlike other molecules, steroids have more power when it comes to penetration. They can penetrate not just cell membranes but also your very skin.
Chael Sonnen, Dan Henderson, Vitor Belfort, and many other athletes with funny doctor’s notes about requiring testosterone can attest to this because testosterone itself can also be used as a gel. The Hour between Dog and Wolf written by John Coates says, “Furthermore, unlike other hormones, which generally have effects localized to one or two tissues, steroids have receptors in almost every nucleated cell in the body. All these properties of steroids give you an inkling of their power.” In a nutshell, there is always a reason why sports-minded people, especially the athletes buy, inject, and hoard hormones to become even stronger, bigger, and faster.
Below are the top three best steroid brands that can help athletes boost their stamina.
Boldenone
Tagged as “the performance enhancing evildoer,” Boldenone, with nicknames as varied as Tyrion Lannister’s infidelities based on Wikipedia, is just like the regular anabolic agent. It attempts to replicate the tetris-like work your body needs in order to grown.
Apart from that, it also has other functions. Boldenone is responsible when it comes to nitrogen retention. This is quite essential for all ‘cheating’ athletes. Remember, the higher the amount of nitrogen that your body can retain, the greater muscle mass you can theoretically build as well. This is because your muscle, without this steroid would be broken down and eradicated due to excretory and catabolic processes.
Boldenone also stimulates the kidneys. Everyone knows that kidneys are one of the very important organs in the body as they have several functions. Kidneys filter blood, synthesize vitamin D, eradicate waste that is accumulated from metabolism, and many more.
Fluoxymesterone
Another steroid that can boost your stamina is Fluoxymesterone. What make this drug very appealing to many athletes are its androgenic properties. Human has several, different types of muscle tissue in the body. This includes the skeletal tissue, which can be voluntarily controlled, smooth and cardiac, which work with digestive system and heart and cannot be voluntarily controlled, and everything in between. Androgen agents work best in your skeletal muscles. These agents have to power to increase muscle mass, which is without a doubt one of the goals of many athletes.
Fluoxymesterone also affects lean muscle mass. This steroid has the ability to reduce fat accumulation by preventing fat cells to store lipids, which is triggered and enabled by the increase in epinephrine or norepinephrine.
What’s unique about this entire process is that fat cells are high in aromatase, which is a type of enzyme that transforms testosterone into estrogen so as to create testosterone active. This explains why there are some men who develop man boobs, also called as “gyno.” Many believe Fluoxymesterone is the best steroids to take for men.
EPO/Erythropoietin
EPO is a hormone secreted by your kidneys. They are called erythropoietin, which is a hormone that promotes the release of red blood cells. Red blood cells, on the other hand, work just like magnets in relation to the oxygen you are breathing. These cells are part of your RBC’s, which is composed of hemoglobin, an iron molecule that binds with oxygen.
The higher the amount of RBC’s your body releases, the higher the levels of oxygen your body can hold. This is what makes this steroid very popular and at the same time critical when it comes to some endurance sports like cycling.
There are so many fighters that depend on attrition to win every fight, as well as in the championship bouts. However, this is different and considered as even more critical. Governing bodies for cycling have the so called “biological passport system” which utilizes electronic records from several, different tests that have been taken over time, just like a longitudinal study. This was done with the famous cyclist, Bradley Wiggins. Physicians can determine the amount of mature red blood cells to immature ones. If a person has a lot of mature red blood cells than the immature RBC’s, then it is pretty apparent that there is something up.
Doctors look for hematocrit levels, which is the volume of red blood cells for all intents and purposes. EPO has the power to shift the balance of your blood which contains plasma, RBCs, white blood cells and platelets, and this put your heart as serious risk. It makes sense to include EPO in the context of gene doping, which WADA has already banned.