MLB Baseball Player Steroid Cycles Relatively Safe Compared to Pro Bodybuilders

The use of anabolic steroids by professional baseball players is relatively safe especially when compared to the extreme use of anabolic steroid by professional bodybuilders. The idea that anabolic steroids can be used responsibly and safely is categorically refuted by many anti-steroid crusaders in spite of scientifically evidence to the contrary.

“Think about it: medical science has been using steroids safely in a clinical setting for the last 70 years.” Professor Charles Yesalis, steroid expert and epidemiologist at Penn State University, acknowledges that the media has overstated the dangers of steroids, “Anabolic steroids can be used relatively safely, but at even low doses they can have side effects. No drug, supplement, or substance is totally ’safe.’ Heck, you can even overdose on water.”

Modern-day steroid hysteria has so demonized and stigmatized anabolic steroids that many people are convinced that all steroid use is inherently irresponsible. The use of anabolic steroids in moderation to achieve performance enhancing results is impossible according to critics who believe the dangerous side effects far outweigh the potential benefits at any level of use. Some critics believe that even a single instance of steroid use can cause permanent and irreversible health consequences that may even include fatal steroid overdoses.

Ironically, society has largely accepted the possibility that far more dangerous drugs can be used relatively safely in moderation. Alcohol and cigarettes are arguably far more dangerous than anabolic steroids yet the concept of responsible use for this substance has largely been accepted. Everyone knows that cirrhosis of the liver in cases of alcoholism and lung cancer from long-term cigarette smoking represent extreme cases of irresponsible and unhealthy drug use.

“You know, if my son came home and said, Dad, I’m either going to start smoking or I’m going to get on steroids,’ I’d have to say I would hope he would choose steroids,” acknowledges Dr. Charles Yesalis.

Few people propose the criminalization and prohibition of alcohol and/or cigarettes based on the side effects experienced by a small minority of individuals who used the substances excessively and/or irresponsibly. Anti-steroid crusaders seek to further criminalize anabolic steroids based on overstated side effects and/or health consequences experienced by extreme and excessive users of steroids.

Anabolic steroids, like many other substances, can be used relatively safely and effectively for its desired purpose. “As used by most people, including athletes, the adverse effects o