EXCLUSIVEHow gymgoers are unknowingly pumping themselves 十分な of steroids with 傾向 for testosterone - and doctors say it could be deadly
Men taking testosterone as a gym 補足（する） are unwittingly putting themselves at 危険 of heart attacks, 専門家s 警告する.
Doctors say the danger comes from men not realising synthetic 見解／翻訳／版s of the male sex hormone are a steroid.
Testosterone levels typically 減少（する） with age, with some men in their 40s and 50s getting 補足（する）s, called?testosterone 交替／補充 therapy, to?上げる their mood, energy levels, libido, and 演習 業績／成果.
But?taking too much, typically from vials 存在 sold online,?can come with a host of dangers, 含むing a 高くする，増すd 危険 of cardiovascular problems and testicle shrinkage which can 衝撃 fertility in the 未来.
にもかかわらず 存在 違法な to sell in the UK without a prescription, vials of synthetic 'T' or '実験（する）' are ubiquitous on social マスコミ.
A TikTok account run by?Finbar Marshall-強硬派s, （人命などを）奪う，主張するs testosterone can 'cure' 不景気 while 申し込む／申し出ing some 使用者s 'pharmacy grade sources at cheap prices'
In the comments section of his ビデオs Mr Marshall 強硬派s 申し込む／申し出s to connect 顧客s to 供給（する）s of steroids 含むing testosterone?
MailOnline 設立する doses of testosterone for sale on 多重の websites for as little as £30.?
Some 現在の it as a gym 業績／成果 補足（する）, whilst others have （人命などを）奪う，主張するd it could help 妨害する 不景気.?
Dr Jeff Foster, a GP specialising in men's health at H3 Health, told this website men wanting to use testosterone as shortcut to building muscle were playing 'ロシアの roulette' with their health.
He said many such men misunderstood the 真面目さ of what they were doing.
'(Testosterone) is a steroid, it is a steroid hormone ,' he said.
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'If you don’t need to take testosterone because you don’t have a 医療の 欠陥／不足 you are 簡単に taking a recreational 麻薬 and that comes with 重要な health 危険s.?
'You will feel 広大な／多数の／重要な at this time, and you may think you can get away with it, the problem is you won’t know.
'You may not know the 損失 it has done to your heart, you may not know the 損失 it has done to your fertility for many years.'
Dr Foster said 混乱 partly stemmed from T 存在 a natural hormone 決定的な to men's health which gave some men the 誤った impression that the more you take the better is is for you.?
'It’s going to make your muscles bigger, so it looks good, people like that idea,' he said.?
'There’s this misconception that if you have more muscles and you’re fitter or faster, it must be better for you.
'But, of course, that's not the 事例／患者. Like with any 麻薬, if used in the wrong way it becomes unhealthy.'
Dr Foster 追加するd that the levels of?testosterone taken の中で muscle-keen men have 急に上がるd in 最近の years.
'The 容積／容量 of testosterone a lot of people are taking on the recreational 味方する is so much higher that what it was 20 to 30 years ago,' he said.
'People look almost un-human.
'If you’re an impressionable younger bloke who doesn’t やむを得ず know the 危険s you think "井戸／弁護士席, I want to look like that", and take this enormous dose.'
There are 多重の 危険s of taking too much?testosterone.
Dr Foster said one the most serious is that, as testosterone 増加するs 血 生産／産物, it raises the 危険 of dangerous 血 clots and other cardiovascular health problems that in turn 高さ en the chance of heart attacks and 一打／打撃s.?
Another is testicular shrinkage as the 実験（する）s, which 自然に produce testosterone, atrophy as the male 団体／死体 試みる／企てるs to 補償する for the artificially high levels of the hormone it is 存在 exposed to.?
This, Dr Foster explained, can leave men 苦しむing fertility problems, いつかs 永久的に.
'It comes 支援する to bite them years later,' he said.
Dr Foster said it was 批判的な to remember that for a 明確な／細部 group, men with abnormally low levels, testosterone 治療 at 安全な doses is a 'life changing 麻薬' that 供給するs 大規模な 上げるs to mood and sex lives.?
'This is only for (患者s) who 港／避難所’t got enough, and a doctor has told you that,' he said.
'さもなければ, you’re 基本的に just taking 麻薬s.'
Brits are also 存在 sold on the 利益s of taking T on social マスコミ 壇・綱領・公約s which are たびたび（訪れる）d by young men and boys.?
UK TikTok accounts brazenly brand themselves as 'steroid coaches' able to connect 可能性のある 使用者s with testosterone 供給者s.??
Some accounts also make dangerous （人命などを）奪う，主張するs on the 利益s of testosterone, touting it as a 'cure' for 不景気 and recommending 苦しんでいる人s 溝へはまらせる／不時着する NHS recommended 医薬 for the mental health 条件.
One such account is run by Finbar Marshall-強硬派s who 誇るs of having 'pharmacy grade sources at cheap prices'.
Mr Marshall-強硬派s, who also runs a Minecraft gaming channel on YouTube, says he has used steroids for six years and coached people on how to use them for five.
In a ビデオ to his 40,000 信奉者s earlier this year, Mr Marshall-強硬派s （人命などを）奪う，主張するd taking testosterone could cure 不景気 within two to three weeks.
Labelling the steroid 'the best antidepressant for men', he called SSRIs (the 麻薬s NHS medics routinely 定める／命ずる for people with 不景気) 'the devil', （人命などを）奪う，主張するing they?原因（となる） the mental health 条件 to get worse.
'All these guys I've helped, within two weeks of starting the testosterone cycle they said their 不景気 had 完全に 解除するd and gone, and I was able to 次第に減少する off the SSRIs they were on,' he said.
'So, if you're hav ing 問題／発行するs with 不景気 and have low testosterone and the doctors won't help you give me a message.
'It's worked every 選び出す／独身 time for the （弁護士の）依頼人s I've had over the past few years so defiantly get in touch with me.'?
Testosterone, while known to 上げる mood, is not a recognised 治療 for 不景気 by the NHS.
SSRIs, the 十分な 指名する of which is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, are a 議論の的になる form of 医薬, with 尊敬（する）・点d 専門家s 警告 they can 損失 sex lives?years after people stop taking them.
However, medics 勧める 患者s taking antidepressants not to やめる without talking to the 医療の professional 責任がある their care first. This way they can 確実にする 患者s are adequately supported as they come off the 麻薬.
Clinicians can いつかs 申し込む／申し出 an 代案／選択肢 dose, a different 麻薬, or 定める／命ずる another 医薬 to 戦闘 味方する 影響s.
Dr Foster said some of the 医療の advice on the supposed 利益s of testosterone 存在 spread on social マスコミ was 'worrying'.
'You’re having someone, untrained in true 医療の knowledge, giving advice that’s generic to a wide 範囲 of people,’ he said.?
'If you’re genuinely thinking "where do I get my 医療の （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） from" TikTok has got to be at the 底（に届く） of your 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）.'
He 追加するd that while there were definitely 事例／患者s of men on antidepressants coming off them に引き続いて testosterone 治療, encouraging 患者s with 不景気 to change their 医薬 政権 was 'crazy' without 協議 with a medic.
'潜在的に you’re making things an awful lot worse,' he said.
It comes as 合法的 利益／興味 in testosterone 治療s is at an 史上最高, によれば NHS 支援するd-prescription data for England.?
A total of 38,614 testosterone prescriptions dished out by the nation's GPs as of the start of 2024, the 最新の 利用できる data.?
This is almost 二塁打 the number of prescriptions 記録，記録的な／記録するd five years 事前の.
Such prescriptions will not only 含む male 患者s 存在 扱う／治療するd for low testosterone but also 女性（の）s receiving the hormone for menopause driven libido 問題／発行するs or trans men wanting to change gender.?
