Dianabol®  history – use and dosages

Most articles about steroids start with the use of Dianabol at the end of the 1950’s or 1960 in  bodybuilding. Most of these articles also claim that Dr Ziegler  (on the picture on the left) alone or in concert with CIBA, developed 1-dehydro-17α -methyl-testosterone methandrostenolone Dianabol®  Let us review the facts briefly and see what it learns us.

But..Dr.John Ziegler was not the inventor of Dianabol  You can find it anywhere on the web, if you search for information about the history of Dianabol or methandrostenolone. That one sentence. "Methandrostenolone was originally developed by John Ziegler and released in the U.S. in 1956 by Ciba."  It is even in the lemma about Dianabol in Wikipedia.

An article states : “Ziegler discovered a kinder  gentler testosterone, according to sources, he submitted his discovery to the Ciba Pharmaceutical company and they agreed to purchase the formula. He was paid $100."

A nice story, but it is not true. Ziegler had nothing to do with the invention of dianabol. Ziegler was a doctor, not a chemist. You can follow the development of Dianabol in the patent literature of the fifties. In these patentapplications you will never find the name of John Bosley Ziegler. What John Ziegler did was researching the effects of these new means “in vivo” on the York weightlifters.