If you take anabolic steroids for any purpose, bear in mind that among their myriad of side effects, anabolic steroids have a significant negative impact on your cholesterol levels.

Anabolic steroids are a group of synthetic derivatives of the male hormone testosterone, and they are usually used to promote muscle growth, to treat weight loss and to increase stamina and achieve better athletic performance. Most bodybuilders who use anabolic steroids very often put themselves in quite a risk, regarding their blood cholesterol level.

According to recent study (triggered by another study on HIV patients who were treated by anabolic steroids), that was conducted upon people who had taken these steroids for a period of 12 weeks, anabolic steroids seems to dramatically raise the LDL (bad) cholesterol and lowering HDL (good) cholesterol. Although steroids have helped patients in the past who were in a life threatening situation, It spears that body builders who are out to improve their physic and performance might just put their lives in danger I the process, due to the dramatic elevation of blood cholesterol level, as a result of taking the steroids.

The results of study held in San Francisco, were published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and they do speak for themselves. The effect of anabolic steroids seem to reach its full negative potency within 12 weeks, when the use of the steroid seems to significantly reduce the good HDL cholesterol and raise the bad LDL cholesterol in such an extreme fashion, increasing the risk of high blood cholesterol symptoms such as heart disease by more than 60%.

Even if you were not diagnosed with high blood cholesterol, and are using anabolic steroids for any other reason than a life threatening disease. I strongly recommend you stop using these steroids right now. If you are a constant smoker, you are in even greater risk of a heart disease due to elevated cholesterol levels from the use of steroids.

Drugs and steroids are definitely not the solution for high blood cholesterol. If you’re taking drugs to lower cholesterol. Keep in mind that the combination of steroids and drugs can be even more dangerous as you put yourself in greater risk. For heart disease and other symptoms related with high blood cholesterol level.