Do Steroids change your genetic makeup??

[MohawkMuscle]

I used steroids (testosterone) about 6 years ago. From age 18-21. During that time the only side effect I got was more hair growth. I shave my chest 3-4 times per week and shave my back 1-3 per month.

As you know native people are not very hairy.
Does that mean my son will have these traits? Or will he go by my original trait.

Someone said my sion may be hairy cauise he is 6 months old and has paech fuss on his legs and side burn.

 

[Charles Ray]

LOL nooo it does NOT change your genetic make up! Your son will not have peach fuzz on his face. lol

Test and roids just stimulate your cells to produce more protein....the hair growth side effect is from the conversion of the Test into DHT.

 

[InstantGrowth]

NO your genetic makeup (DNA) cannot be changed by AS.
IG

 

[xmoulton508x]

Actually thats how steroids work....there lipid structure allows them to penetrate the nuclear membrane in target cells. From there they alter the DNA of the cells so the cell will have altered function. EX increased protein synthesis , ect.

As for your increased hair growth...you didn't actually grow new hair. People have two types of hair follicles

Terminal follicles - long dark hair
Vellus follicles - short ,white, peach fuzz hair

Increased hormone levels like test and DHT cause Vellus follicles to be changed to terminal ones.

But I don't believe AAS use has anything to do with hairy babies.

 

[paradox]

I thought I read that A/S can permenantley alter your cells to obtain more protein, or maybe im mistaken? bump for more responses

 

[Golfer18--old]

All steroids do is bind and tell your cells to make muscle building proteins, hence more muscle. I think BigAndy has a post on this....

 

[nandi12]

There actually have been reports of a number of anabolic steroids being capable of inducing mutagenesis, including tren (1),
dbol (2), and even testosterone (3). Does that mean they can cause mutations that change your genetic makeup? No.

However if they alter the DNA in your germline stem cells that produce sperm, every sperm that is ever produced from those stem cells for the rest of your reproductive life will carry that genetic mutation, with the potential for passing it on to your offspring. How likely is this? I doubt anyone knows.


(1) Arch Toxicol 1988;62(2-3):103-9

Trenbolone growth promotant: covalent DNA binding in rat liver and in Salmonella typhimurium, and mutagenicity in the Ames test.

Lutz WK, Deuber R, Caviezel M, Sagelsdorff P, Friederich U, Schlatter C.

Institute of Toxicology, ETH, Schwerzenbach, Switzerland.

(2) Vopr Pitan 1980 Jul-Aug;(4):63-5

[Mutagenic action of methandrostenolone]

[Article in Russian]

Maganova NB, Zaitsev AN.

(3) Tsitol Genet 1995 Jan-Feb;29(1):41-5

[The effect of thyroid and gonadal hormones on the chromosomal integrity of liver cells]

[Article in Russian]

Timchenko OI.