Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/gaEyGNCJd_0   Using anabolic steroids to bulk up is associated with accelerated brain aging as seen on magnetic resonance imaging.  Norwegian neuroscientists just published their study comparing the brains of 130 weightlifting men who consistently ingested anabolic steroids with 99 non-using lifters.   The investigators used machine learning protocols on brain images of 1838 healthy men to set age-dependent brain appearance standards.   Applying this model to images from using and non-using lifters, they found that anabolic steroid consumption was associated with older looking brains.  Inordinate aging in all brain regions was most marked in those with greater than 10 years of drug use.   Anabolic steroids are dangerously toxic.   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451902221000197?via%3Dihub   #bodybuilding #steroids #aging #dementia