Dianabol Debate

As someone who lifts, you want to maximise the effectiveness of your workout. And who can blame you? When you’re hitting the gym hard, you want proof that all that hard work is paying off. You want results.

- Cat James

But what’s the best way to optimise muscle gains and strip body fat? After training for a while and hitting plateaus, you may be thinking about steroids.

Dianabol has been a go-to choice for bodybuilders over the years. One of the most popular cases to date of dianabol use comes from The Terminator himself; Arnold Schwarzenegger, during his competitive bodybuilding days before the drug was banned.

It was withdrawn from the market by CIBA, the company who made it, in 1983. Then it was completely banned in 1990, meaning generic production of the drug was gone too. Why was it banned? Because of the side effects.

A lot of people who take dianabol (and most of the people who sell it illegally) will tell you that as long as you take it in cycles, you’ll avoid the side effects. But that simply isn’t true.

WHAT ARE THE MOST COMMON SIDE EFFECTS OF DIANABOL?

1: MEN COULD GROW BREASTS (YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT!)

Dianabol is an estrogenic drug. It’s common for users to suffer from the effects of gynecomastia, which is the growth of breast tissue in men.

Gynecomastia can happen early on in the cycle, which – and I’m just guessing here – probably isn’t the effect you’re looking for from a steroid. It can affect either one breast or both, depending on how your body responds. And the more dianabol you take, the quicker it can occur.

2: YOU’LL HOLD A LOT OF WATER