What are prohormones, how do they work, and how are they related to legal and illegal steroids? Prohormones are the precursors which your body can use to convert to anabolic steroids, which are illegal when taken in drug form without a prescription but which your body will make in varying amounts naturally. The difference between illegal steroids and those that your body naturally produces is that your body has a limit to the amount of these substances that can be converted, while taking anabolic steroid drugs does not come with this built in limitation. The prohormones your body converts into steroids are legal in most cases, because your body does the conversion internally. Prohormones were banned in part by the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004, but not all of the substances were banned under this act. New products appear on the market regularly, and some of the companies may be operating in a shady area of the law.
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