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■ Broadcast: Kim Sung-joon's current affairs observatory (FM 103.5 MHz 14:20 ~ 16:00)
■ Progress: SBS Kim Sungjun anchor
■ Broadcast date and time: Monday, March 25, 2019
■ Speech: Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital,
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- Steroids are often used for therapeutic purposes, and if used indiscriminately,
- It's easiest and quickest to create muscle, it's easy to fall in temptation.
- Overeating, long-term use, infertility, diabetes mellitus, myocardial infarction, such as inducing complications
- Gymnasiums · Broad distribution on-line, illegal acquisition without doctor's prescription
- It is illegal drugs in the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law, but rarely goes to actual punishment.
- Muscle-Strengthening Protein Supplement The main ingredient is creatine
- steroid-containing protein supplements, domestic illicit
- 'Food safety food country' can check steroid content

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

Recently, bodybuilders have used illegal drugs to raise their bodies, confessing their experiences of side effects, and the issue of illegal steroids has become a social issue. But not only professional bodybuilders, but also ordinary people can easily buy this illegal steroid shot through the health club or the internet. In today's interview, Professor Bae Ha-seok, who is the chairman of the Korean Society of Sports Science and Exercise, will link up with Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mokdong Hospital. Professor Hello.

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

Yes. Hello.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

First of all, I have been told that steroids are used in steroids. Steroids are not drugs or bad drugs, right?

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

right. When steroids are used for therapeutic purposes, doctors use them very much. This steroid itself has a very strong anti-inflammatory effect, so it is very popular in the treatment of inflammatory diseases. It is then temporarily used for a short period of time to increase the amount of muscle when there is a decrease in muscle due to some disease. This is followed by a wide variety of hormonal treatments, especially for the treatment of male hormone deficiency. Therefore, it is a very good indicator to use it properly and suitably for the purpose of treatment. If you use it indiscriminately, you may know that it is a deadly toxic drug that ruins your body.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

When I look at it, for example, if you have an eye irritation or go to a hospital, do not use too much to give steroids. I've been told this story by my doctors. It is a problem to spend a lot. It looks like this, right?

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

right. It does not matter if you write a small amount properly, but there is always a problem when you use excessive amount because you are greedy.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

It is tempting to increase muscle mass in the end of what you said. We use illegal steroids in places like bodybuilders and health clubs where we need to discuss today.

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

right. Because it is the easiest way to stretch your muscles in a fast time. It's a lot of temptation.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

But do you get injected with steroids or do you have more muscles?

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

The rate of muscle formation is very fast. So just exercise a little bit more muscle as you want. Once you are attracted to the effect, people will not be able to stop the medicine. Because you can not train for a few months to train those muscles normally. However, eating this medicine is very easy. So I'm falling into this temptation. Especially for bodybuilders and power-hungry players.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

But in the case of professional players. Is there a so-called doping test? So, is not this excessive use of steroids a doping test?

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

It takes everything. So the drug for doping is the steroid we ate at the most popular Ben Johnson player in the S1 line. It uses a lot of steroids called glucocorticoids which are used for it and for therapeutic purposes. However, anabolic steroids, which increase muscle mass, and steroids that cause anabolic effects, are becoming a serious problem.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

Is that what we call illegal steroids right now?

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

right. It is illegal steroid to the person who exercises. And not fit for therapeutic purposes. The drug is a specialty drug. Because it is illegal to acquire specialty medicines through other routes without being prescribed by a doctor, and to fit the body. You should never do these things.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

Yes. But the public. It has the effect of rapidly increasing the muscle. So, once I tasted it, it was not easy to get out. I think it is very good to feel good on one side, but on the other side it seems very scary.

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

right. Those who first experienced it. Do not you experience the increase of muscle at first? Good to see you? I can do a little bit of exercise, and it works right away. I'm taking this overdose. If you take a long time and take an overdose. It causes fatal complications. Those who have complications once are suffering tremendously. There is also a problem in the treatment process. So, once you have experienced these side effects, will you take the medicine again? Then I am very afraid to eat.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

What complications are there? Tell me more.

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

Usually when we are male, we take male hormones. When male hormones enter from the outside, the amount of normal hormones produced by the body is reduced, so production is reduced. If you do not take the medicine then this masculinity will disappear. So, infertility, testicular atrophy, or feminization symptoms appear, and the symptoms are getting bigger breast. Women get injected with male hormones or eat them, resulting in excessive hairs in their hair, or a beard that causes these symptoms. And heart disease in both men and women, skin disease, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease. Those who are very serious in this way are steroids that can cause very serious complications that can lead to death.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

We only use it a little when you are prescribed steroids in the hospital. As soon as the symptoms improve, please stop and say. If you continue to use this, you will have dependency here, and you will need to use stronger steroids. Later, there are cases where inflammation is not treated well even if it is strong. I heard that. Is that right, of course?

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

right. So this is a very dangerous drug, so doctors prescribe and use medicine, use it very carefully depending on the disease, and use the terms of the term well. So it is steroids that we carefully prescribe to the patient while monitoring whether the side effects do not occur.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

Then, if I can not take such a long time, I have a problem. So I have to stop. Does stopping solve the problem?

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

Gradually reducing the drug. If you suddenly lose it, you will have another complication. So if you go to the hospital and take the medicine, you need to gradually reduce the dose. So, those who say that I have overdone for a long time need to go to the hospital, receive a correct diagnosis, and receive appropriate treatment, gradually reducing the medicine. You have just used this, and those who say that I have not overdone are now advised to gradually reduce the amount and reduce the dose.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

It is so scary and not easy to cure. It says that it is widely circulated in the gym or online. It looks easy to buy, right?

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

We are surprised now too. At a health club in college. Nowadays, the body is so popular that I use a lot of these drugs to make my body. Most of the purchase path is through the SNS. It is said that it is very easy to make purchases. I have not tried to make a purchase, but when I talked to a gym who was at my side, I told him that I could easily get this medicine and there were a lot of people doing it.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

By the way, basically it is a prescription drug, so you can not buy more than a certain amount without a doctor's prescription and prescription. It means that something is coming through a very illegal distribution channel.

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

right. The current pharmacist law also defines those who sell it as illegal drugs, and impose various penalties and fines. In fact, it is not known that we are caught or punished for this. So I think I need to strengthen this part a bit more.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

It could be a big problem. However, this very explicitly through the SNS purchase of illegal steroid injections and self-injection, as well as this case. If you are exercising, you usually take protein powder to increase your muscles. I do not want to taste it, but if you see people who are working hard to increase muscle, I want to be great. I heard that the protein supplements contain steroids.

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

I eat a lot of protein supplements these days and those that have creatine ingredient there to make muscles. Some products are purely pure, but some products often contain steroids. So, to find out if this is a steroid-blended product, go to the Food and Drug Administration and find a site for these supplements. Therefore, it is better to look at the product or manufacturer in the country where the food is safe and eat the product with the ingredient clearly. For example, some ingredients and other products are not sure what they contain. It is fine to have about 10 products if it is verified that there are exactly 10, and there are exactly 10 of them. Do not eat products that are obscurely obscured. It would be helpful to go to the site of the drug store and check it.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

But is it basically illegal for protein supplements to contain steroids? Or to what extent?

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

It is illegal in Korea itself. Products in foreign countries often contain very small amounts of steroids. Things that are being sold. That's what comes into our country. It's a problem because it takes an overdose without taking a dose. Anyway, because eating illegal steroids is illegal for us to consider. I think you need to be very careful in that part.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

Okay. You can check if you go to the Food Safety Section of the Food and Drug Administration's website.

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

Yes.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

Okay. I heard you today. thank you.

▶ Bae Hae-Seok, MD, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mokdong Hospital:

Yes.

▷ Kim Seong-joon / Host:

So far, I have been talking about the illegal steroid drugs and the Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mokdong Hospital.