I wonder about the steroids too....perhaps taking them can have an effect of diminishing your regular testosterone eventually....
This steroid use for performance enhancing has very serious side effects. There is another use that concerns me too. Men are taking testosterone to replace the diminished testosterone due to the natural effects of ageing. In ether case, if the steroids levels are not maintained, that feeling of male function from heightened testosterone levels becomes a psychological low equivalent to being rendered a eunuch. Jenner confused that low to thinking he had an inner female self. Depression does things to people. It is as much a depression caused by substance abuse. If, like you say, steroids affect the production of natural testosterone, that is a very serious side effect. This may account for why athletes may become physically abusive to their mates. When they stop taking the steroids to hide their use from the tests, they are depressed, irritated and don’t like feeling like a eunuch. Their natural testosterone levels have been compromised as well as the lows from not taking the steroids. They become really depressed and want to strike out an be a man with everyone around them. In Jenner’s case, the alternative approach was taken: He wanted to strike out as a man and be a woman. To get that fame and glory in sports, they pay a hell of a price.