The Ministry of Health and Community Protection has warned that a number of fitness centers promote and sell hormone injections and stimulants from unreliable and unlicensed sources to their users, stressing that they will confiscate all prohibited products and any components that may pose a risk to public health.
The Ministry also stressed the existence of an integrated coordination with health authorities and municipalities in the country, to ensure that there are no hormonal muscle-building products that are not licensed, because they are pharmaceutical preparations subject to the requirements and control of the ministry, being the authority responsible for registering them and allowing their import and circulation. Explaining that many of these products may contain stimulant toxins or industrial hormones related to male sex hormones, and that they may cause serious health risks, including serious liver and kidney injuries and threatening the lives of users.
Ministry control over the use of pills or stimulant injections
The Ministry of Health and Community Protection has begun monitoring the number of fitness centers as soon as they obtain information, with some fitness trainers directing the trainees to the necessity of taking stimulant pills or injections, which saves a lot of time and effort to reach the ideal muscular body, oblivious to or neglecting the negative effects of this Drugs affect the health and future of young adults, in light of the increased competition between bodybuilding and fitness centers to win the largest possible number of customers, using a variety of methods of influence, including the promotion of prohibited stimulants to inflate the muscles of its users in an effort to achieve financial rewards.
Serious health effects on young people
The Director of Empowerment and Health Compliance, Dr. Hessa Mubarak pointed out that warnings were issued by international drug institutions indicating that hormones contain stimulant toxins, steroid-like substances or industrial hormones linked to male hormones (testosterone).
Note that these substances may be dangerous and cause serious health risks, including serious injuries to the liver and kidneys that threaten the lives of people who persist in their use, especially with the absence of control over the conditions of emptying them, which leads to their damage. In addition, they cause dangerous side effects such as severe acne, hair loss, increased aggressive tendency and depression, as well as life-threatening reactions such as damage to the kidneys, heart attacks, stroke and pulmonary embolism (which is a blockage of one of the central blood vessels in the lungs) and thrombosis in the veins Deep.
The need to obtain a prescription for hormone injections
Dr. Hessa added that most adulterated hormones enter the country illegally and are sourced from unlicensed companies that do not conform to international standards, and stressed the need to limit access to hormones, especially injections, through a prescription from a licensed and licensed doctor, and based on medical analyzes, to ensure that there are no Congenital defects or deficiencies in the functions of some body systems for the trainee, so that the matter does not reach health disasters, warning of the consequences of obtaining these hormones from outside the country through travelers coming from countries that allow the purchase of these drugs without a prescription.
She advised young people who use muscle enlargement products to perform periodic medical examinations, because long-term use of muscle-building products causes negative effects such as disturbance of hormones in the body that is produced naturally, as their use leads to disruption and atrophy of the glands responsible for the production of these hormones, especially the male hormone (testosterone) and what It results in impotence and impotence.