ghb used for bodybuilding
August 20, 2024
What Is GHB?
GHB is a metabolite for the neurotransmitter GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), the most prevalent inhibitory neurotransmitter that occurs in the central nervous system. Inhibitory neurotransmitters have numerous functions, but they basically modulate the central nervous system by slowing down the firing of other neurons in the brain and spinal cord. This has a number of useful effects.
GHB was also use as an anesthetic at one time, but its use resulted in a number of serious side effects, and this use was discontinue. GHB became a popular drug in the 1980s, used to improve athletic performance and reduce body fat. Its popularity with bodybuilders for this capacity remains, although the drug is not an anabolic steroid as it is often portraye to be. GHB also develope a reputation as an aphrodisiac and was one of the major date rape drugs use by predators in the early part of the century (and still may be use for this purpose).
Its use was ban by the DEA in 2000; however, two years later, it was found to be useful in treating narcolepsy. As a result, it was given special permissions by the FDA to be use for that purpose.
GHB can be produce artificially by using some very common ingredients.
Its abuse still occurs in three major groups of individuals.
- GHB is use as a rave or club drug. It still has a reputation with younger people as being a safer alternative to ecstasy. It produces feelings of euphoria and sociability, and it is still consider to be an aphrodisiac.
- Predators still use GHB as a date rape drug. It can produce unconsciousness and memory loss when given to individuals who take it unsuspectingly.
- Athletes and bodybuilders still use GHB as a fat burning aid and to increase energy and athletic performance.
Nearly 60 percent of individuals using GHB are between the ages of 18 and 25.
Despite its use by the three groups listed above, many of the reputed properties of GHB, such as its ability to increase muscle mass, as an aphrodisiac, and as an athletic performance enhancer, are mostly fictitious.
Its effect on memory and consciousness when used as a date rape drug is valid.
