Positive effects of Anabolic/Androgenic steroids
Medicinal uses - Medicinal uses of steroids are doctor prescribed treatment of severe burns, and types of Breast cancer. Steroids can also be very helpful in the healing process. For example, a knee or shoulder injury (joint repair), steroids are also used in small quantities by physicians for treating some types of Anemia, Thrombosis, Osteoporosis, Endometriosis and Hereditary Angioedaema, Asthma, Muscle-wasting disorders.
For fighting against AIDS - It helps a person to gain weight for chronic nutritional deficiencies or AIDS wasting syndrome.
To improve nitrogen balance - With the help of steroids athletes can shift the nitrogen balance to the positive side for better utilization of ingested protein and the increased retention of nitrogen, the formation of a steroid-receptor complex in skeletal muscle stimulate the RNA-Polymerase system which, in turn, increases protein synthesis in the cell.
Hormonal replacement therapy - Steroids are use to treat hormonal replacement therapy after menopause. It helps to treat sexual dysfunctions. Anabolic steroids may block the effects of hormones such as Cortisol involved in tissue breakdown during and after exercise. Anabolic steroids may prevent tissue from breaking down following of an intense work-out. This would speed recovery. It helps athletes to recover faster from intense exercise. It increases muscle size through muscle fiber hypertrophy which leads to increases muscle percentage in both male and female.
