>>76265955
This. Roids do have negative side effects, but if you take a sensible dose, take support medication and have regular blood tests, they are way less dangerous than stuff like smoking and drinking or being overweight. I'd wager that a moderate roider has a higher life expectancy than the average guy who's fat, drinks too much and gets McDonald's three times a week.
The only actually bad side effect that is common even at low dosages is the down regulation of your own testosterone production, which can be irreversible if you take roids for too long. Fertility can pretty much always be restored via HCG injections, but your natural testosterone production can not. You can avoid it to a degree if you cycle off regularly and take HCG during cycles, you have to live with the fact that you might be dependent on exogenous testosterone way earlier than your natty peers.
