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Anabolic Steroids Prostate Gland
1,697 wordsAnabolic steroids are synthetic compounds formulated to be like the male sex hormone testosterone. Many athletes use anabolic steroids male and female alike, such as body builders, weightlifters, baseball players, football players, swimmers, and runners. They do so because they mistakenly believe that In a male testosterone is released by the leading cells in the testes. The testosterone has two main functions androgenic and anabolic. Androgenic is the development of male sex characteristics. An...
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Body And Mind Treatment Of Depression
1,446 wordsWhy do psychologists study physiology in such great detail? Mens Sana in Compare Sano et Vice Versa. The study of physiology as an important aspect of psychology goes back a long way. We might say that the ancient Greek, Hippocrates (circa 460 B. C. - circa 377 B. C. ) could be considered not only the father of medicine, but also as the father of the physiological psychology. He observed that the brain was the ultimate source of our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pa...
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Performance Enhancing Drug Male And Female
1,508 wordsAthletes today must make a choice: to use performance-enhancing drugs (steroids) or face a competition at a disadvantage. While some athletes may not bend to pressure to succeed a large number will. Dr Gabe Market did a survey of more than 100 runners asking them the following question: If you could take a pill that would guarantee you'd win an Olympic gold medal, but would kill you within the year, would you take it? The number of positive responses, over 50 percent, is very sobering. (Clark) N...
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Major League Baseball Testosterone Levels
1,479 wordsMark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals steps to the plate as the Major League season of 1998 is winding down. McGwire, who has been chasing the single season home run record, has sixty home runs. One more will tie him with Roger Maris, the all time single season home run record holder. McGwire awaits the pitch from the opposing pitcher. Its a little outside, ball one. He steps out of the batters box to regain composure. He wipes the sweat from his brow and steps in for pitch number two. This pi...
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Extra Chromosome Genetic Material
1,960 wordsIn 1942, Dr. Harry Klinefelter and his coworkers at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston published a report about nine men who had enlarged breasts, sparse facial and body hair, small testes, and an inability to produce sperm. By the late 1950 s, researchers discovered that men with Klinefelter syndrome, as this group of symptoms came to be called, had an extra sex chromosome, XXY instead of the usual male arrangement, XY. In the early 1970 s, researchers around the world sought to ident...
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A Study On Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome
3,095 wordsA STUDY ON POLY CYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME S. No TABLE OF CONTENT PG. NO 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. RESEARCH 4 2. 1 WHAT IS POLY CYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME? 4 2. 1. 1 A NORMAL MENSTRUAL LOOP 4 2. 1. 2 A DISTURBED MENSTRUAL LOOP 5 2. 2 WHAT CAUSES PCOS? 5 2. 3 WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF PCOS? 6 2. 4 HOW IS PCOS DIAGNOSED? 6 2. 4. 1 DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS 7 2. 5 WHAT ARE THE CHANGES THAT OCCUR DUE TO PCOS? 8 2. 6 WHAT ARE THE RISK FACTORS INVOLVED WITH PC...
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Outweigh The Risks Anabolic Steroids
1,210 wordsSteroids and Their Affects On The Human Body Drugs have been used in sports almost as long as sports themselves have been around. The ancient Incas discovered that the ashes from burned leaves of the Coca tree gave the people great stores of energy, and made sleep unnecessary for hours or even days, it was later discovered to be the stimulant cocaine. They would take it before long hunts, battles, and even found it useful in ancient sport competitions. It wasnt until 1886 that the first drug-rel...
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Outweigh The Risks Anabolic Steroids
1,173 wordsDrugs have been used in sports almost as long as sports themselves have been around. The ancient Incas discovered that the ashes from burned leaves of the Coca tree gave the people great stores of energy, and made sleep unnecessary for hours or even days, it was later discovered to be the stimulant cocaine. They would take it before long hunts, battles, and even found it useful in ancient sport competitions. It wasnt until 1886 that the first drug-related death in sports occurred. A bicyclist to...
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Testosterone Levels Aggressive Behavior
2,693 wordsSports and Aggression A Research Paper Presented to a In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for English 1 By Period 1 March 27, 2000 Do sports create aggressive behavior, or simply attract people who are already aggressive? Aggression and sport have gone together as long as sports have been around, be it the players themselves, to the parents, coaches, or spectators, they just seem to be an inseparable part of each other. The term violence is defined as physical assault based on total disre...
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Lean Body Mass Creatine Monohydrate
2,355 words/Food Athletic Enhancer In this research paper I will be discussing the ever-popular athletic supplements: Creatine, Androstenedione, and HMB. It has been proven that these supplements when taken in the proper doses will produce phenomenal results in athletic performance. They are taken by athletes of all fields of play in order too give them that extra edge over competition. Creatine monohydrate, which is the number one supplement preferred by athletes, is not a mineral, herb, or steroid. Creat...
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Mental Retardation Extra Chromosome
1,780 wordsTHEKlinefelter Syndrome KLINEFELTER SYNDROME THE XXY BOY IN THE CLASSROOM Although there are exceptions, XXY boys are usually well behaved in the classroom. Most are shy, quiet, and eager to please the teacher. But when faced with material they find difficult, they tend to withdraw into quiet daydreaming. Teachers sometimes fail to realize they have a language problem, and dismiss them as lazy, saying they could do the work if they would only try. Many become so quiet that teachers forget theyre...
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Men And Women Aggressive Behavior
2,555 wordsSport and aggressive behavior, Do sports create aggressive behavior, or simply attract people who are already aggressive? Aggression and sport have gone together as long as sports have been around, be it the players themselves, to the parents, coaches, or spectators, they just seem to be an inseparable part of each other. The term violence is defined as physical assault based on total disregard for the well being of self and others, or the intent to injure another person (2. Coakley). Intimidati...
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Outweigh The Risks Anabolic Steroids
1,256 wordsSteroids Drugs have been used in sports almost as long as sports themselves have been around. The ancient Incas discovered that the ashes from burned leaves of the Coca tree gave the people great stores of energy, and made sleep unnecessary for hours or even days, it was later discovered to be the stimulant cocaine. They would take it before long hunts, battles, and even found it useful in ancient sport competitions. It wasnt until 1886 that the first drug-related death in sports occurred. A bic...
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Men And Women Androgenic Steroids
1,096 wordsIn the past three decades, steroids have become a serious problem in the athletic field. The demand for it has increased within recent years and the prices shot up since the mid- 1980 s. The smuggling of steroids into the United States increases every year. The methods have become easy. Simple methods such as stashing it inside a teddy bear, sneaking it across the Mexican border inside shampoo bottles have worked. These type of steroids are anabolic drugs that build growth hormones that include ...
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Effects Of Steroids Word Of Mouth
1,754 wordsImagine this. The year is 1999 and the New York Jets are playing the Minnesota Vikings in the last Super Bowl of the twentieth century. It is late in the fourth quarter, the score is Jets 21, Vikings 20. The Vikings are faced with a crucial fourth and one with a minute, ten left to play in the fourth quarter. The Vikings decide it? s do or die and are forced to go for it. The teams come to the line of scrimmage and the quarterback starts his cadence. The ball is snapped and the quarterback hands...
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