Oral Turinabol was first developed by scientists in East Germany for their Olympic and national-level athletes to use. This, plus the eventual removal of it from the market caused Turinabol to become a very "sexy" drug for athletes to try and obtain. The East Germans studied this drug pretty extensively for many years and some of the success of this now defunct country was attributed to this drug, which made itīs first appearance to athletes in East Germany as little blue "Vitamins" their coaches gave to them.

Due to this 4-chloro substitution in the A-Ring of its Steran Nucleus, this drug cannot be aromatized. This is, as you know, quite beneficial and is one of the reasons Turinabol has been called a "gentle d-bol." You will probably not get any typical estrogenic side effects like water retention, acne, gyno, etc, at any dose of this drug. It has been recommended that men should take between 20-40mg every day and women a 5mg every day.

The only negative thing we have heard about this drug is that in high doses (10+mg) virilization has been seen in women and there has been at least one case of testicular tumors, and one case of a guy who suffered adverse effects from 5 years of high-dose use of Turinabol. It should be noted that the former East Germans did many experiments with this drug in high doses though, and found it to be a very suitable compound for their athletes. Many of the women suffered virilization at higher doses, though. During the 68-72 Olympic cycles, the East German Sports Turinabol program made its biggest impact. It was around this time, that the East German weightlifters were taking over 10g/year of Turinabol, and their leading male sprinter was taking under 730mgs/year of Turinabol. For real weight gains, and huge gains in the weight room, youīre going to need bank-breaking dosages of this stuff. On the bright side, if you are an athlete looking to get faster, a little bit of Turinabol will get you there pretty easily, and with minimal (if any) side effects). We think that itīs inability to cause negative side effects, and itīs ability to produce a favorable increase in lean body mass and thus a favorable increase in strength/speed and an athleteīs strength:bodyweight ratio is what turned the East German coaches and scientists on. It must be noted that, at the time, this stuff was mostly undetectable, and that was certainly a sought after trait by the East Germans, who were looking to circumvent the drug testing procedures of the IOC. Now, of course, Turinabol is detectable, as once itīs administered to man, three major metabolites are formed: 6 beta-hydroxy-turinabol, 6 beta, 12-dihydroxy-turinabol, and 6 beta, 16-dihydroxy-turinabol. All of those metabolites are now detectable by drug screeners. In much smaller quantities at least another three metabolites are excreted, one of which could be identified as 17 epi-turinabol, and is easily detected by modern drug tests... No measurable amounts of Turinabol itself is detected in any of the urine samples investigated in sports doping procedures, but the presence of the metabolites is enough to warrant a positive result, and a failed test. Keeping all of this in mind, it is still important to note that the rate of metabolism and urinary excretion or Oral Turinabol is reasonably fast, even though it is technically eliminated biphastically (in two stages) by the body, with a terminal 16hr ― life.

This stuff is a potent lean tissue builder, and good for cutting.