The History Of Steroids

In order to trace the history and development of anaboilc steroids from their beginning to their present day form we first need to look back towards ancient times whey it was known that the testicles were required for both the development and maintenance of male sexual characteristics. In modernity this concept was further developed by a scientist named “Berthoid” and his experiment on cockerels done in 1849.

He removed the testes for birds, and they lost several of the characteristics common to the male of their species, including sexual faction. So we knew as early as 1849 that the testicles were removed and then transplanted to the abdomen, the sexual function of the birds was largely unaffected. When  the birds were extensive series of capitalization took place.
 
This provide that this blood then had a systemic effect on the entire organism. Anabolic steroids history therefore can be truly said to have made its first step with this simple series of experiments.

Later in 1929 a procedure to produce an extract to potent activity from bull’s testicles was attempted and in 1935 a more purified from of this extract was created. A year later a scientist named “Ruzicka” Synthesized the compound, testosterone from cholesterol as did two other scientists, Butenandt and Hanisch. Testosterone was of coarse the first anabolic steroid ever created and renames the basic for all other derivations we have currently being used in medicine today.
 
Testosterone was then used in 1936 in an experiment demonstrating that nitrogen excretion of the castrated dog could be increased by giving the dog supplemental testosterone, and this would increase its body weight. Shortly after this time the Nazi’s were rumored to have given their soldiers anaboilc steroids but that rumor seems to be largely undocumented.

Later further experiments were carried out in men, of course showing that testosterone was a potent anabolic substance in humans. Later between the years of 1948 & 1954 the pharmaceutical firms Searle and Ciba had experimented with the synthesizing of over a thousand different testosterone derivatives and similar analogue.