An overwhelming majority of men who use anabolic steroids have this serious, life-changing side effect.
Being a beast at the gym has its allure. If you’re a man who lifts weights to bulk up, you may feel a sense of accomplishment as your fitness grows.
Seeing your body change and develop closer to your desired image can be gratifying. It can increase your confidence. And doing it all naturally is the best way to go.
But what if you don’t? Something called the Mossman-Pacey paradox can arise in your future if you use steroids. The condition is named after the two researchers who discovered it, professors Allan Pacey and James Mossman.
Lacey says that a shocking 90% of anabolic steroid users suffer from it.
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“I noticed some men coming in to have their fertility tested and these guys were huge,” said Dr James Mossman, from Brown University in the United States, to BBC.com.
“They are trying to look really big, to look like the pinnacles of evolution. But they are making themselves very unfit in an evolutionary sense, because without exception they had no sperm in their ejaculation at all.”
The paradox lies in the fact that, as you’re trying to make yourself more attractive to women as a potential mate, your ability to procreate with them disappears.
Anabolic steroids do this by fooling the brain’s pituitary gland. They make it think the testes are going into overdrive. When this happens, the body shuts down the production of hormones involved in sperm production.
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