Turinabol (Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone)
An anabolic steroid with historical use in East German doping programs and no modern approved indication.
Medications & hormones
Research records
Historical source snapshot. Not freshly verified, not a recommendation. Study findings, community accounts and app defaults are not interchangeable.
Publication suitability · 2026-10-15: Historical reference only; not a clinical verification. Clinical, regulatory, efficacy, safety and dose claims are not independently established by this review.
Turinabol (Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone)
An anabolic steroid with historical use in East German doping programs and no modern approved indication.
Evidence category: Preclinical. This describes the source category, not approval or certainty.
Regulatory statement in source: Not FDA-approved.
Turinabol (4-chlorodehydromethyltestosterone) is an anabolic steroid introduced in the 1960s for recovery after major surgery. It was infamously administered to approximately ten thousand East German athletes as part of a systematic state-sponsored doping program. Modern controlled human trials do not exist; banned by WADA.
Benefits reported in the imported source
Risks and limits
- Muscle tightness, acne, functional liver damage
- Amenorrhea in women
- WADA banned substance
- Obtained from uncontrolled sources with contamination risk
Source bottom line: No approved medical use; controlled human safety and efficacy data absent.
Uncertainty: Reference information only. Not medical advice.
Study protocols — reports, not instructions
No study protocol recorded in this snapshot. This does not establish that no study exists.
Community and practice descriptions
Accounts of a practice are not evidence of safety or effectiveness. Words such as “standard”, “safe” or “recommended” describe the source account, not verified consensus or this wiki’s advice. Commercial and self-published citations are retained for traceability, not vendor endorsement or independent clinical corroboration.
Unverified imported account — Turinabol for Beginners: Cycle, Dosage, and What to Expect
An imported authored paraphrase, not a quotation or a recommended protocol.
Review: unverified historical account. The imported wording is preserved for attribution; its full clinical, dosing, efficacy or consensus claims have not been independently established. Unvalidated source account; no validated human dosing population or animal-to-human equivalence is inferred.
Imported wording: A dosage protocol reported on Swolverine describes beginners starting at 20-40 mg daily divided into 2-3 doses throughout the day for 6-8 week cycles, with conservative progression to 30-40 mg by week 3-4.
Unverified imported account — Unlocking Gains - The Ultimate Guide to a Turinabol Cycle
An imported authored paraphrase, not a quotation or a recommended protocol.
Review: unverified historical account. The imported wording is preserved for attribution; its full clinical, dosing, efficacy or consensus claims have not been independently established. Unvalidated source account; no validated human dosing population or animal-to-human equivalence is inferred.
Imported wording: A community protocol on Swolverine shows intermediate doses of 40-60 mg daily and advanced users reporting 60-80 mg daily within 6-8 week cycles, with emphasis on liver support.
Pharmacokinetic context
No half-life recorded in this source snapshot. No value has been inferred.
Source references
- Controlled Administration of Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone - bioRxiv
- Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone - Wikipedia
Snapshot provenance
Source ID: catalog:hormone:turinabol. Commit: adc7684614f9439b41d91a3312b62e7982c7e20e. Review state: historical-not-reverified. Authored links are retained separately from the canonical evidence links in the public data. App templates/defaults and rejected drafts are archived, not deployed.
Related entries and components
None listed.