Use of Performance Enhancing Agents (PEAs) (Including Anabolic Androgenic Steroids-AASs) among the Male Body Building Community in the Western Province of Sri Lanka a Preliminary Study

Performance enhancing agents (PEAs) are substances used to improve any form of activity performed by humans. These widely athletes and body builders. Being a frequent subject controversy in the sporting world, use performance-enhancing drugs has shown disturbing growth over past fifty years. The enhance human performance sports occurred at least since time original Olympic Games (from 776 393 BC). In 1860s, group swimmers Amsterdam were charged for taking speed up their races. For next 80 years, who wanted cheat focused mostly on stimulants themselves up. A wide range PEAs today field. They include Anabolic Androgenic Steroids (AASs), peptide hormones, factors, beta-2 agonists, diuretics, masking agents, stimulants, narcotics even cannabinoids. Though extensive research is being done doping industry, throughout developed very few published available from third world countries including Sri Lanka. This preliminary study revealed that variety inadvertently without justifiable scientific reason reasonable understanding how they work what adverse effects are, gym users It also showed significant proportion them experience side directly attributable PEAs.