Why Were Steroids Invented?
The history of steroids is a pretty interesting one, with some fascinating twists and turns, all ultimately leading to one of the most-abused drugs of our time. We’ll look here at the history of their development, and talk more particularly to the question of why they were developed. There are very valid medical reasons for their existence, and it sheds some light on why they are so frequently misused, although it’s fairly disturbing how the abuse continues even in light of so much information that’s widely available to support the evidence that steroids are dangerous. Through all of this, then, we’ll have a better idea of what we’re looking at, and begin to understand the medicine’s proper place in our world.
There are many different theories about the development of steroids, and some of these come from an apparently very old obsession with enhancing male characteristics. It’s possible and even likely that people have been trying to increase testosterone production in the body for thousands of years, although the human race didn’t necessarily call it testosterone. In recorded and verifiable history, however, it seems to have begun in earnest in the early 1930s. Russian athletes were reported to have been injected with testosterone to improve their performance in the olympics, with some rather troubling side effects, like excessive hair growth on the body, some parts shrinking suddenly, and the like. This became interesting to athletic coaches in the U.S., with ideas about increased performance.
At the same time, however, Leopold Ruzicka, a Croatian doctor who eventually won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, was also developing steroids to increase testosterone in Germany. There are reports that it was used on Nazis in an attempt to create a super-soldier, but the actual reasons for developing the drug were for more beneficent purposes. They could help people, especially the elderly and infirm, to increase their protein intake and the body’s natural production of amino acids. It was also suspected that they could also help the body’s defenses in cancer patients, and contribute to natural healing processes in patients with other ailments. A U.S. doctor by the name of John Ziegler would take these findings and work to develop the drug for use specifically by athletes to increase muscle mass and athletic performance, which he later considered to be a very dark chapter in his life.
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