Huh? The 1st steroid known commonly as "Dianabol" was 1st developed in 1955, 1st available in 1956 distribution in the USA didn't start until 1958.
Steve Reeves won the America in 1947 and the Universe in 1950. Therefor it's IMPOSSIBLE for him to have used D-bol when he won his biggest contests.
Yes, some forms of crude testosterone were available when he competed. No proof exists if he used test or not.
Steve Reeves was a genetic freak and that's why he was a great champion.
John Grimek and Josh Bosley Ziegler
There are documents describing a connection between John Grimek and Josh Bosley Ziegler, better known as Dr. Ziegler, the Godfather of Dianabol (DBOL). John D. Fair’s research material “Isometrics or Steroids? Exploring New Frontiers of Strength in the Early 1960s”, contains the following quote:
“By the summer of 1954, Grimek was experimenting with a variety of chemical substances provided by Ziegler.”
[The sentence references another material, namely Ziegler Papers, 1954.]
The date here is crucial – 1954. At the time, Grimek was already 43-44 years old and past his prime. Consequently, this is not definitive proof that Grimek took PEDs during the active part of his career.
Nonetheless, primordial forms of the testosterone were available before the 50s.
Testosterone’s Actual Date of Birth
Many believe that steroids didn’t hit the battlefield until the late 1950s, but that assumption is incorrect as stated in nattyornot.com’s book Potential: How Big Can You Get Naturally.
Testosterone’s birth became public knowledge in the classic paper “On Crystalline Male Hormone from Testes (Testosterone): More Active than Androsterone Preparations from Urine or Cholesterol” published in 1935.
The main downside of the method used up to May 1935 was that the synthesis of testosterone required an enormous amount of animal testicles. This mechanism made the substance impractical for commercial use. Luckily, a more efficient process was just around the corner.
The same year (1935) two groups of scientists found another way to synthesize testosterone. The biochemist Adolf Butenandt and G. Hanisch of Schering (Germany) were the first to do it.
On August 24, 1935, they published an analysis entitled “On Testosterone Conversion of Dehydroandrosterone in Androstenediol and Testosterone: A Method for Preparing Testosterone from Cholesterol”.
Clinical trials on humans, involving either oral doses or injections of testosterone propionate, began around 1937.
Additional “red pills”
According to the research material “The History Of Synthetic Testosterone” by Hoberman JM, Yesalis CE, the earliest reference to anabolic steroids in a U.S. strength magazine goes back to 1938 when testosterone propionate was mentioned in a letter to the editor of Strength and Health.
In 1940, scientists conducted studies analyzing the effect of testosterone supplementation on human urine as revealed by a document entitled ”Concerning the Metabolism of Testosterone to Androsterone”. The authors are Ralph I. Dorfman and James B. Hamilton. The Yale School of Medicine supported the research. The paper arrived for publication on February 23, 1940.
Conclusion: Thanks to breakthroughs in the 1930s, testosterone “supplementation” made a debut in the 1940s.
And that conclusion is still off my 50 years as we know testosterone elixirs from pigs were already being injected by baseball players in the late 1890s
Oh but not my favorite athlete they wouldn't do that bullshit same fucking lies we have been hearing for 100 plus years now
