Popular supplement can have side effects

Date: 15-05-2003 Posted by: Anabolic Info TeamNetherlands

Cleveland, Three years after the ban of anabolic steroids, there`s another similar product on the market.
Connecting With Kids` Tonya Strong reported doctors said for teenage athletes, the temptation and the danger is great. The powerful sport supplement is called Prosteroid.

"I mean you can get big, you can get strong real fast," said Chris Girard, 21. "My friends were huge, I mean my brother even said, `The guys were just completely ripped, you know, just totally cut,` " said Garrett Prochnow, 24.

Strong said unlike their cousin, anabolic steroids, presteroids are legal. They also have the same effect.

"It`s the chemical that with a few little changes that your body`s metabolism makes, turns it into the active form of an anabolic steroid," said Dr. Sally Harris, a pediatric and adolescent medicine specialist.

They also have the same potential side effects: liver damage, heart disease, shrinking testicles and hair loss.

"They affect virtually every organ in the body, some of them are temporary effects, some of them are irreversible," Harris said.

Strong said prosteroids are widely available on the Internet and in many stores.

Geff Malone, a business owner, sells prosteroids.

"Basically it`s for someone that has lower testosterone levels to begin with, typically the age group you find most effective is somebody in their 30s, like myself," he said. "Anybody under 20 should probably stay away from it. Definitely anybody under 18.