The words that we have come to know as "anabolic" and "androgenic" originated from the Greek words: "anabolic", meaning "to make larger," and "androgenic", meaning "masculinizing." The male hormone, testosterone, has numerous androgenic properties, which are initiated at puberty. These include the stimulation of the male hormonal system leading to increased body hair and a deeper voice. Muscles also need anabolic hormones to aid in protein retention for muscle mass, strength and size. These secrets are about to be reveled. This article was designed by individuals who pioneered the bodybuilding community.
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Speeding up protein synthesis. Strength and recovery. Muscle mass strength and size. Childhood growth and puberty in boys. Increased sexual desires.
Once the muscle-building properties became known, it wasn't long before athletes began experimenting with them in an attempt to get bigger and stronger. At first, use was limited to weight lifters and bodybuilders, but it wasn't long before they made inroads into such other power sports as football, track and field, and power lifting.....
History
Anabolic steroids are a class of performance enhancing hormones that were first developed in the 1930's to treat diseases of the male reproductive system, as well as to combat the ravages of various wasting diseases. They were also employed in the months after World War II to help the emaciated victims of German and Japanese concentration camps.
Drug use to gain a competitive advantage has existed for at least 2000 years. The sports competitors of ancient Greece supposedly used stimulants to gain an edge on their fellow competitors. As early as the third century B.C., asses hooves and roses were ground and boiled in oil, and given to athletes in the belief that it would improve their athletic performance. While anabolic steroid use has captured the attention of the public, many do not realize that steroids have only been used in sports for the past 60 years.
Synthetic testosterone is a byproduct of over a century's research into hormones. Early researchers were not attempting to find substances that could improve athletic performance; rather they were searching for the fountain of youth. In 1889 Dr. Brown-Sequard, upon injecting himself with an extract derived from dog testicles, claimed a rejuvenating effect (he was 72 at the time), especially when it came to satisfying his new young wife. But he was not taken seriously by his colleagues, his wife walked out, and he died five years later.
Dr. Laqueur, a German pharmacologist, succeeded in isolating crystals from bull testicles in 1935. The chemistry of the crystals was determined by Dutch chemists and given the name testosterone. In the same year, Swiss chemists succeeded in synthesizing testosterone from cholesterol. Researchers discovered that some of these newly synthesized drugs, which chemically belonged to a class of compounds called steroid hormones, could cause muscle building (anabolic) effects. Therefore the name "anabolic steroid" was adopted. It wasn't long before athletes from many different sports were in the market to buy Steroids.
These drugs (together with other hormone preparations) were so successful clinically, that they became very profitable to market. German scientists held most of the patents for industrial synthesis of hormone preparations and formed a cartel to control production, and drove up prices, in a manner similar to modern day OPEC. The cartel was broken in 1938 when a British group of scientists developed a cheaper method of synthesis.
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