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"Steroids" [0] are a very broad category of organic compounds, and it is a mistake to assume that the effects of steroids used for performance enhancing and bod

"Steroids" [0] are a very broad category of organic compounds, and it is a mistake to assume that the effects of steroids used for performance enhancing and bodybuilding —anabolic steroids, themselves still a broad category [1]— have anything to do with steroids in general and the specific clinical use cases that each of them may have. Furthermore, the steroids that you are referring to are most likely corticosteroids [2], which are most certainly not prescribed to "boost your immune system" but rather to reduce the immune response when it is excessive, or even suppress it to treat autoimmune diseases. Please don't assume that off-label anabolic steroid usage is somehow safe and healthy only because modern medicine uses completely different compounds which happen to share a portion of their chemical structure for treating specific medical issues. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabolic_steroid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabolic_steroid [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corticosteroid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corticosteroid

DoreenMichele 2y ago
Technically, vitamin D is a steroid, not a vitamin. I'm not assuming it's safe. I'm merely asserting it's not as cut and dried as "steroids: bad."
- Mordisquitos 2y ago
  You asserted that 'it's never men doing stupidly risky stuff to try to look young and beautiful', to which a commenter replied that 'steroid use is increasingly common among "hobby bodybuilders", a predominantly male demographic'. Don't you think that is an example of men doing 'stupidly risky stuff' for cosmetic reasons?
  - DoreenMichele 2y ago
    To my mind, it's a little different because bodybuilding is a form of fitness when done right. Injecting blood into the skin on your face is purely cosmetic. And I have a lot of experience with doing things that helped my health in the face of not having a proper diagnosis for nearly 36 years that other people were highly critical of, so I'm a tad skeptical that young men using steroids are all 100 percent merely being stupid and self destructive. No doubt that some are. But I feel it's more complicated than the kinds of cosmetic crap women tend to do.

DoreenMichele 2y ago

Technically, vitamin D is a steroid, not a vitamin. I'm not assuming it's safe. I'm merely asserting it's not as cut and dried as "steroids: bad."

Mordisquitos 2y ago
You asserted that 'it's never men doing stupidly risky stuff to try to look young and beautiful', to which a commenter replied that 'steroid use is increasingly common among "hobby bodybuilders", a predominantly male demographic'. Don't you think that is an example of men doing 'stupidly risky stuff' for cosmetic reasons?
- DoreenMichele 2y ago
  To my mind, it's a little different because bodybuilding is a form of fitness when done right. Injecting blood into the skin on your face is purely cosmetic. And I have a lot of experience with doing things that helped my health in the face of not having a proper diagnosis for nearly 36 years that other people were highly critical of, so I'm a tad skeptical that young men using steroids are all 100 percent merely being stupid and self destructive. No doubt that some are. But I feel it's more complicated than the kinds of cosmetic crap women tend to do.