Poison Part 5— It’s just one little pill.

I would be surprised if the name Sergey Lazovski meant a great deal to you. He was a scientist involved in the training of Soviet athletes in the 80’s. He experimented with a number of hormonal treatments that helped East German women develop large amounts of testosterone, masculine features, and in many cases cancers that were never treated. His work was, however ethically questionable, remarkably effective.

Part of his efforts were to develop female athletes who had the physical performance of their male counterparts. What is less known is that there were projects set up that worked with man, using many of the same principles, to reshape them in a feminine mold. While both impressive and dramatic, these techniques held little in the way of practical application in sport, and so were largely forgotten.

Forgotten that is until 1991, when the wall fell and every scientist that wasn’t confined to a gulag or a jail headed out of the Soviet Union and made for the technologically advanced markets for their knowledge, in the North American pharmaceutical business. And so FM1 was born. Of course, Lazovski is long gone. He fell of a motorcycle on the Oregon Coast while holidaying there, but not before having worked on the FM project for 15 years. I worked under him for six years, before taking over the department, his research notes, and continuing his…