The Ministry of Health and Community Protection has warned that a number of fitness centers promote and sell hormone injections and stimulants from untrusted, unlicensed sources to their users, confirming that they will confiscate all prohibited products, and any components that may pose a risk to public health.
The Ministry emphasized the existence of an integrated coordination with health authorities and municipalities in the country, to ensure that there are no hormonal products for muscle building 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 toxins A stimulant, or synthetic hormone, is linked to male sex hormones, and they may cause serious health risks that include serious liver and kidney injuries and threaten the lives of users.
The Ministry of Health and Community Protection began monitoring a number of fitness centers as soon as it obtained information that some fitness instructors instruct the trainees on the necessity of taking pills, or stimulant injections that reduce a lot of time and effort to reach the ideal muscular body, oblivious or forgetting, about the negative effects These drugs affect the health and future of young people, in light of the increasing competition between bodybuilding and fitness centers to gain the largest possible number of customers using various influence methods, including the promotion of prohibited stimulants to inflate the muscles of its users, in pursuit of financial rewards.
Dr. Hessa Mubarak, Director of Empowerment and Health Compliance, pointed to the issuance of warnings from international drug institutions indicating that hormones contain stimulant toxins or steroid-like substances or industrial hormones related to male hormones (testosterone), knowing that these materials may be dangerous and cause serious health risks that include serious injuries In the liver and kidneys the lives of people who persist in its use are threatened, especially with no control over their storage conditions, which leads to damage, in addition to causing dangerous side effects such as severe acne, hair loss, increased aggressive tendency and depression as it causes p Life-threatening reactions such as kidney damage, heart attack, stroke, and pulmonary embolism (a blockage of one of the central blood vessels in the lungs) and deep vein thrombosis in.
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 medical prescription from a licensed and licensed doctor and based on medical analyzes to ensure that there are no birth defects or A deficiency 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 results from it. Such as impotence and infertility.