
The credit of making Dianabol goes to the Americans. The history is described below;
Russian athletes that participated in the World Championship of 1953, used the steroid Testosterone very successfully. They achieved very good results with the help of this steroid. It was the time when a Doctor who was working as a physician with US Weightlifting team, named John Zeigler, started a research in collaboration with Ciba in order to develop a equal alternative for US athletes. Of course, they were impressed by the performance of Russian athletes after they used Testosterone. This was the time when he started working on Dianabol but this steroid was not known by this name at that time. The original trade name suggested for the steroid was Cibas Methandrostenolone but it was called Dbol by the athletes. They found this name easy to pronounce as athletes are not good with medical terms. Of course, this is not their field as well. The original package that was produced stated that a dose of 10mgs per day will be enough for an athlete to provide full androgen replacement. Dr. Ziegler suggested all the athletes to use this steroid in measurement of 5-10mgs per day. It is also said that until 1970’s this dose was also used by bodybuilders as well. This really helped them to create better muscles in a short period of time. Some people also call it Arnold’s dose as well. The business was conducted under the name of “The John Zeigler Fan Club” and it was quite famous at that time.