E. 182 10 PEDs Bikini Competitors Use: Risks, Side Effects & What You Need to Know

Number one on the list, anabolic androgenic steroids.

So this is anything from testosterone, anivar, mastron, winstrol, primobolin.

There are other anabolics, but these are the ones I'm going to focus on today.

And it's really more so globally that I want to talk about these drugs.

They are anabolic, meaning that they are going to promote muscle growth, but they are also androgenic, which means that none of them in entirety are devoid of their potential.

to cause masculinization.

So what that means, clitoral growth, voice deepening, facial hair growth, oilier skin, therefore acne.

You can even find that at high doses, facial changes, so structural changes can occur.

Now, a point that often is missed that doesn't really fall under virilization specifically is that these drugs cause downregulation in FSH and LH.

So we're already in a sport that probably is going to lend to lower levels of sex hormones.

But these drugs also encourage this as well.

They also drive these hormones down.

Now, the biggest risk I would say for most individuals who care about preserving their femininity is going to be virilization.

But these individual compounds, compound to compound, all have varying risk depending on the delivery method.

So some of them you're going to inject, some of them you're going to take orally.

And depending on how you select your compound and its delivery method, this can have a slew of impacts across different systems within the body.

So cardiac, liver, kidneys, we need to understand that this is not a drug that just puts on muscle.

That's the thing that it's very good at, yes, but there is collateral in the mix.

a lot of people they stop at the virilization aspect and they're like okay well as long as i don't take too much and i don't take it for too long i'm good but for anyone with comorbidities if you already have some kind of cardiac condition if you already have issues at the liver now the thing that oftentimes i think gets glossed over in our space is that people will look to certain compounds and they'll be like well this one is female friendly this one is safe for females to use And really the thing I want you to take away from this part of the video is that none of these compounds are completely risk-free.

None of them are completely devoid of that androgenic potential.

So I would say first and foremost, you have to define what do you like about your femininity? If you are biological female, if you are trying to preserve your femininity, then you need to consider this because oftentimes one cycle is never really just one cycle.

a lot of people who experience these drugs and use them they typically want to continue to use them because they work and the thing is it's easy to move that goal post around your femininity and start to look to the next show the next photo shoot the next physique goal or even get talked into it peer pressured into using a little bit more because of other people's experience Your total lifetime exposure, the amount of the drug you use in milligrams, the total duration of use, ultimately that's what's going to determine whether or not virilization occurs.

The higher that number is, the more number of weeks, number of days that you use these drugs, and the higher the dose.

It's that collected number that is ultimately going to increase your risk of virilization.

And some of those effects are irreversible.