Anabolic steroids - a view in history
Anabolic steroids, one of the growing concerns of the United States with its use and abuse not only by athletes but also by teenagers as young as 13 years old, have been in the history to as early as the time of the ancient Greeks.
Surprisingly, ancient Greek professional athletes used natural substances with steroidal effects to help enhance their anabolic and androgenic growth.
In modern medicine, steroids were first discovered during the 1930s by a German scientist. In1958, the substance Dianabol or Methandrostenolone, showed promising results in trials conducted all over the world. It was subsequently approved by the FDA in the United States.
Although steroids use became quite popular during between 1960s and 1980s, it was not until 1972 that an experiment was conducted to test its effect to the human body. Test results showed that there was no notable difference between those who received anabolic steroid injections and placebo injections.
During the 1990s, the US Congress was working into controlling the substance. The Anabolic Steroids Control Act was established, placing the substance under Class 3 classification.
It was also during this time that a controlled experiment was conducted by the National Institutes of Health. The agency finally established the clear effects of testosterone enanthate in increasing muscle mass and decreasing fat. However, doses administered were as high as 600 mg per week for a period of ten weeks.
From Test Country:
As surprising as it may sound, anabolic steroids were very much a part of ancient Greece. If you look back at history, you will see that steroids were part of the lives of professional athletes. They used natural substances that acted as steroids to increase the anabolic and androgenic growth in their bodies
