Illegal steroids is the name given to anabolic steroids that were once legal. Bodybuilders and other strength athletes began using illegal steroids in the 1950’s and 1960’s when the reports of the strength and size building properties became known.
How are illegal steroids made?
Most steroid drugs are made by pharmaceutical companies from such natural substances as cholesterol or from Mexican wild yams. These compounds have to be chemically modified to have any anabolic effect in the body. On their own they don’t exhibit the same effects as illegal steroids.
What is the history of illegal steroids?
The first illegal steroids were testosterone drugs developed to treat wounded soldiers and those suffering cancer and other wasting diseases. They were also used to treat the victims of German concentration camps. Then once the muscle-building effects of the drugs became know, it wasn’t long before weightlifters and bodybuilders began using them.
Who is the father of illegal steroids?
- Even though the first testosterone drugs were steroid-based it was 1958 before the first real anabolic steroid was created. The drug’s “father” was Dr John Ziegler, who developed the drug while working at the Ciba corporation. He developed the drug after hearing about Russian weightlifters using testosterone with their weightlifters. He wanted to give American weightlifters their own version of illegal steroids. Created by www.steroid.org
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