Just fifty years back, drugs had yet to appear on the bodybuilding scene. It wasn't until the late 50s that we begin to hear about drug use in sport and by the early 60s Dianabol was being taken by bodybuilders. This coincided with the big drug companies seeing their opportunity of making big money through the development of their own steroid drugs most of which are still in use today. Things didn't quite turn out as expected though as the initial drug use reports appeared and many companies abandoned their products. Although many good drugs were actually patented, they were never fully developed. Throughout the sixties and seventies orals were in great use resulting in some of those bodybuilders developing liver and kidney problems, probably due to excessive use over long time periods. During the seventies, as a young bodybuilder, I never took more than 10 x 5mg Dianabol tablets daily and over short time periods. More normal was 4 to 6 Dianabol daily with 200 mg per week of an injectable [Deca or Testoviron] the total intake was around 300 to 400mg per week maximum. Quite basic stuff if you compare it with today. But during that time it was considered quite a normal stack, although some did use more and normally through extra orals - the fact was that gains were being produced through these drugs. Today, even competitors at beginner level use around 1000mg weekly (and some even more) which include quite dangerous stuff such as Oxymetholone, Halotestin, Parabolan, etc. I do realise that you can only get some of these with different names through several suppliers outside of Europe, but the toxic effects of the basic drugs remain the same. Novice bodybuilders are currently using some really impressive stacks and steroid intake increases and other products are also taken on aboard as they move on up the competitive ladder. These other products include DNP [di-nitro-phenol], various diuretic products, anti-catabolic drugs [Aminoglutethimide (Orimeten)], Nubain even, prostaglandins, IGF-1 [perhaps], as well as insulin and growth hormone. A critical level has now been reached regarding both cost and risk to health (some of which I know are related to the above mentioned drugs). The youth of today has a very blas attitude to drugs and who can blame them. The Establishment makes lots of noises about cigarettes but does little - after all the UK government still collects 8,000,000,000 per year in taxes from smokers; and that's about 5 times what it costs to treat smoking related diseases. The young do not believe anything they are told about the dangers of recreational drugs. These dangers are very often over exaggerated and they will only find out by their own experiences. Many who begin bodybuilding used or still do use a mixture of recreational substances and deciding to take a few bodybuilding drugs too does not faze them. For the more serious bodybuilders, it should be compulsory that all the recreational stuff is abandoned. But many won't and the load on their body systems will be increased as their kidneys and livers [especially] try to deal with the heavy loads of toxins. In bodybuilding at all levels, doses of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs have increased and are still increasing and we have to start to believe that this is having an effect on the health of competitors. All bodybuilders at the top levels are using very high doses of steroids and other drugs. Take no notice of those who say that they only use low doses and that it's the other bodybuilders who use far more than they do. Don't believe it; they are lying. There are guys out there who may have the most incredible genetics and can grow and condition themselves with a lot less gear than many other bodybuilders. But should this be true, and if he had used more, he could, maybe, be the best in the world. Will he continue to say that he won't use any more? If you believe the answer to be no, that he won't use more, then I think you have a different understanding of bodybuilders than the one that I have. What would I do in that position? I would use more and more until problems began to develop! Anyway, we think that problems only happen to other people. Or am I wrong? (Coming soon Part 3)
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