My understanding at the moment is that steroids are man-made emulations of hormones (substances that send a signal to the body) and other medications such as Ibuprofen work by suppressing existing bodily signals.
Steroids are like your parents telling you to stop spilling your water all over the floor because you’ll slip. (The intensity of their demands increase by dosage)
Other medicines are like your parents passively cleaning up your spills. (Higher dose = parents spending more energy checking for spills and cleaning them up)
What do I have wrong in my understanding and could I please get a good explanation of how common steroids and other drugs work as examples? How does this tie into each substance’s half life?
Thanks!
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Steroids are a specific kind of lipids, molecules. There are different kinds, some are hormones; such as corticosteroids, anabolic steroids and sex hormones like testosterone. But cholesterol, is also a steroid. The way they work is entirely dependent on the medication, and the goal of the medication. Corticosteroids literally means cortical steroids, i.e. hormones from the adrenal glands. So it’s a hormone, you make yourself, you can just give extra.
It inhibits inflammation, because it speeds op protein destruction, so it also cleans up the spill.
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