Why are steroids bad to the body if they enhance physical capabilities and why can’t we nullify those side effects?
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Not a doctor, but here is are the facts as I understand them:
First, not all steroids exist to prompt muscle growth, they’re just a classification of chemicals that can be used to prompt reactions in the body.
The user’s body will try to compensate for the presence of the steroids, upping production of some hormones and lessening others which can mean that your body stops functioning without them.
You can imagine this as a intricate balancing act, and a steroid will apply a weight to one or more of the points that the body is trying to balance, and the method your body uses to keep the balance is to increase or decrease the production of other chemicals, but the interactions of these chemicals is something that we as a civilization don’t have a complete understanding of (and the actual model of how it works may never be understood by humans). If the body sees the steroid as a particular type or class of hormone it will reduce production of that hormone and increase production of others that counteract it and balance it out. Add to that the fact that the body compensating for too much of something can kill it’s ability to make that hormone and if the body makes something that suppresses it then you have to up the dosage in order to get similar results.
For the ones that are for forcing muscle growth, it’s done by damaging your muscles, forcing them to heal. Technically that’s also how exercise works, you slightly damage your muscles then your body responds by regenerating the damage and then some. The issue then becomes the fact that just your muscles are growing, not your bones, cartilage and ligaments.
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