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Fifty or more years ago, drugs played little part in bodybuilding. The first we heard of drug use in sport was in the late 1950s and top level bodybuilders were starting to use Dianabol in the early 60s. It was about this time that all the major drug companies thought that they could make lots of money if they developed their own steroid drugs and almost all the steroid drugs which are still in use today were developed then. Of course steroids were never the great bonanza that drug companies expected and when the first reports of drug use in sports started to appear, a lot of companies abandoned the products. There are lots of steroids that had patents registered but were never fully developed - some of them quite good products too. Right through the sixties and seventies there was major use of orals and some bodybuilders of the time have suffered liver and kidney problems, which were probably exacerbated by the use of large amounts of such drugs over very long periods. In the seventies, as a young bodybuilder, I never used more than 10 x 5mg Dianabol tablets per day and even that was not for long periods. More normal was 4 to 6 Dianabol per day with 200 mg per week of an injectable [Deca or Testoviron] the total intake was about 300 to 400mg per week maximum. Pretty basic stuff compared 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). Today's youth don't really take the drug issue seriously and who can really blame them. Let's take cigarette smoking as an example, where health warnings are in place. The UK government takes a total of $16,000,000,000 from tobacco revenues per year, which is about 5 times as much as it costs to treat smoking related diseases. It's sad to say that the youth are just not convinced 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 throughout all levels, doses of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs have multiplied and are still on the up and we have to begin to believe that this is having an effect on the health of competitors. All bodybuilders at higher levels are using extremely high doses of steroids and other drugs. Don't pay any attention to those who say that they only use low doses and that it's the other bodybuilders who use a lot 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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