From body image to body dysmorphia
The way we look to ourselves and the outside world is for an important part driven by media.
If we go back in time, we mostly call certain looks to a decade. The fifties brought the “Rock and roll” and Elvis retro-style hair. When I think “sixties” I see long hair, hippies, free love, a lot of flowers and a distinct music. Its was followed by “ Punk “. People follow a certain code in fashion, hairstyle, music etc.
As long as it comes to fashion or hairstyles, most people can adapt to these unwritten rules, mostly the younger people are very eager to be accepted, you’re “in” or “out”, in the sixties you where either “hip” or not, now the magic word is “cool”. What if this typation involves our body-image?
In the mid-sixties the most admired look changed from Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe to a British fashion model called “Twiggy”. The most wanted body type changed from a fully curved voluptuous blond model to a boyish thin girl.
Whether you're thin, fat, small, dark, blond, redhead, you wanna be something else," said the world's first boldface supermodel. "I wanted a fairy godmother to make me look like Marilyn Monroe. I had no boobs, no hips, and I wanted it desperately."
Since then the fashion markets unnatural cq unhealthy thin models. To achieve this look , mostly very young, girls develop an unnatural eating behaviour from diet pills to bulimia and anorexia. The first signs of body dysmorphia embodied in eating disorders.
What you are about to read is the actual drug cycle used by an IFBB male professional bodybuilder preparing for Joe Weider’s 1995 Mr. Olympia contest, the most illustrious and coveted title in bodybuilding. It’s the first time this information has ever been published. This IFBB professional bodybuilder entrusted me with bringing the information public upon my assurance of his anonymity. I’ll describe him as follows:
No evidence supports the notion that muscle growth can be achieved by chemical means through the administration of steroids even in ultra-high dosages. Research in a variety of animals has proven that no more muscle can be grown by ultra-high dosages other than the gains achieved by normal doses. There is however evidence to prove that steroids can be used to develop muscle if they are used in addition to a disciplined training program and a diet that is rich in proteins. The training program must be in exercise prior and in the course of the administration of anabolic steroids.
History of the Development of Anabolic Androgenic Steroids
BY RONNY TOBER 2006
I wrote this article in 2006 for a great bodybuilding magazine. Times changed and a year after this article was posted Organon Greece produced its last vials. Does that mean they disappeared from the market? The real ones did, but the counterfeits are still readily available (see picture). I’ll post more from my old articles and will update them as soon as they change appearance.
In the nineties Jin Lei a brilliant Chinese pharmaceutical student, who graduated from Beijing University in 1985, studied in the USA. In his free time he worked hard as a research scientist at Genentech, an American biotech company and one of the world’s leading producers of human growth hormones. His special interest where antibodies that bind to human growth hormones.