In 1954, a doctor named John Ziegler participated in the world weightlifting championships in Vienna, Austria as a team doctor. The Soviets dominated the competition that year and easily broke several world records and won gold medals in the legion weight classes. According to unofficial reports, Ziegler invited the Soviet team doctor to a bar and the doctor told him that his competitors were using testosterone injections as part of their training routines. Whether this story is true or not, the Americans finally returned from the World Cup that year and immediately began their efforts to defeat the Soviets with pharmaceutical improvements.
Unsurprisingly, upon their return to the United States, the team doctor began giving pure testosterone to his lifters. He also joined Ciba, a large pharmaceutical company, and attempted to synthesize a substance with potentiating effects comparable to or better than testosterone. Methandrostenolone was created in 1956 and was called “Dianabol”.
In the following years, the small pink Dianabol tablets were included in the training plan of many weightlifters, accelerated by several years, and by the beginning of the 1960s there was a clear divide between the weightlifters of Ziegler and the rest from the country. between them and the Soviets. Another anabolic steroid was developed in the 1960s to treat short stature in children with Turner syndrome dianabol side effects.
A similar story took place in the United States around the same time. Prior to 1988, steroids were only prescription drugs according to the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) classification. The FDA determines which drugs will be classified as over-the-counter drugs versus those that will only be available by prescription. At the time, a federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was enacted which restricted the availability of steroids and made them available by prescription only. At that time, however, it was not yet about controlled substances. Steroids have remained in the media and have occasionally surfaced when an athlete has tested positive or admitted they are being used, but for decades they have remained exceptionally out of media attention.
At the start of the new millennium, steroids were again in the forefront of the news with the introduction of prohormones, which were first developed and marketed by Patrick Arnold. At this point, the history of baseball steroids begins to become more pronounced; this is likely due to Major League Baseball not having a steroid testing program in place during this time. During his expedition to break Roger Mari’s race record, the journalist discovered that Mark Maguire had a bottle of androstenedione in his cupboard. Although androstenedione is not a steroid and is only a prohormone, the word steroid comes up in the news every night.
Shortly after breaking Roger Mari’s record, fellow baseball player Jason Gambami and several other athletes were found to have been using anabolic steroids. Congress convened the hearing again and, as it did for the first time in 1990, did not declare steroids to be a danger, but that the danger lay more in the protection of professional sports organizations. Updated status has been updated to disable prohormones as well. The definition of an anabolic steroid, as currently defined in the United States, is that “anabolic steroid” means any drug or substance that is hormonally, chemically, and pharmacologically related to testosterone (other than estrogen). progestins, corticosteroids and dehydroepiandrosterone.
Currently, the use of steroids is far from declining. Among 12-year-old students in the 2000 survey, 2.5% said they had used steroids at least once in their life, compared to 3.4% in 2004. A recent Internet study also concluded that steroids anabolics in weightlifters and bodybuilders he continues and that seems to exist, there is no indication that he will leave athletics in the foreseeable future.
Additionally, the legitimate use of anabolic steroids for a variety of health conditions continues, from treating andropause or menopause to accelerating the recovery of burn victims to improving the quality of life of AIDS and breast cancer patients. Cancer. and prevent osteoporosis.
The story of anabolic steroids is therefore not something already happened and written, but rather an ongoing story written every day by scientists, legislators, doctors and, of course, athletes.
Around this time doctors in the United States started taking notice of steroids and many studies were done of athletes using them in an attempt to stop the influx of athletes trying to get steroids to use in the sport.
Early studies on steroids clearly showed that anabolic steroids provide no athletic benefit, but in retrospect it can be said that they have several structural deficiencies. The first and clearest problem with these studies was that the doses were usually very low, too low to have much effect. It was also rare that these studies were not double-blind and non-randomized. A double-blind study is a study in which neither the researchers nor the subjects know whether they are receiving the drug or a placebo. A randomized study is a study in which the actual drug is randomly distributed to the test group. Finally, in these early studies, diet and exercise were not really controlled or standardized. Shortly after completing these incorrect studies, the Physicians Desk Reference boldly (and incorrectly) claimed that anabolic steroids did not help improve athletic performance. Nevertheless, in 1967 the International Olympic Council banned the use of anabolic steroids, and by the mid-1970s major sports organizations had banned them.
Steroids at the Olympics:
Shortly before the ban on steroids at the Olympics, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) started a program to synthesize new anabolic steroids for use by its athletes in various sports. His research is still the largest collection of information ever about steroid use in athletes. Despite their small size, their countries have been able to regularly dominate the leading positions in various sports.
In 1982, the International Olympic Council had developed a test to detect high levels of testosterone in athletes, known as the “testosterone test: epitestosterone test”. This test measures testosterone against epitestosterone, and if the testosterone level is 6 times higher than the epitestosterone level, it can be safely judged that the athlete has taken some form of testosterone. Testosterone normally does not exceed 6 times the natural levels of epitestosterone, which is found naturally in the body. Therefore, if there was more than this relationship, it probably did not happen naturally. As usual, the IOC was one step behind the athletes. The RDA has already conducted a study of its athletes with a form of testosterone that would quickly leave the body and be ready for an IOC test within three days of the last injection. They then developed a protocol that allowed their athletes to continue on steroids, giving them just enough time to pass the doping test. Additionally, the German company Jenapharm, which supplied steroids to the government for its athletes, developed an epitestosterone product to be administered to athletes to restore normalcy without discontinuing steroid use.
But his doping methods were so advanced that they went unnoticed for many years, until late 1989 when reports reached the Western media of a state-sponsored program for the systematic administration and secret of anabolic steroids. Finally, in the early 1990s, the Germans finally caught up and the ensuing scandal helped to give anabolic steroids the bad reputation they have had ever since. It is ironic that in the early 1990s when the medical community began using anabolic steroids to improve survival in AIDS and cancer patients, muscle loss was found to be associated with increased mortality. to these diseases.