For fifty years and running Anavar (also known as Oxandrolone) has been a key player in the world of anabolic steroids. It gained its fame during the 1960s and the 1980s when research of anabolic steroids was fast gaining popularity. Anavar was discovered at a time when science was in a race against time to find a perfect anabolic steroid. It was the closest science ever came to realizing the dream of the perfect anabolic steroid.