Advice for first time steroid users must read

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I cherry picked these posts from a thread. This is all @Neuro and quite possibly the best advice I’ve ever read/heard.

Cycling on and off steroids comes from several poorly designed studies using anavar in nursing home men who were not training nor eating properly, and the results tapered off around 8-10weeks. Then the “bro’s” began consuming massive doses of AAS causing toxic lab levels, so the theory prevailed. Run high AAS for unrealistic gains for a short amount of time to lessen toxic effects of AAS.

I can’t in any form or fashion suggest cycling AAS. There’s no data suggesting this is the way.

If I were starting now at 25… I wouldn’t start now. But since your dead set on it… here’s an alternative route.

Titrate your test dose to as high as you possibly can tolerate without the use of a single ancillary. None. No nolva. No AI. Nada. Get labs along the way. Every 3 months. As long as labs stay healthy. Keep going. Once you find that dose, add in 100-200 of mast or primo to increase your androgen:estrogen ratio.

Once labs indicate stress on the body. Back off to normal therapeutic dosing of test.

If you want kids, either route cycle or continuous will potentially fuck future fertility.

Two things every enhanced athlete needs to be on to mitigate the major risks we incur by playing this game:

Glutathione (subq inj route only)

Telmisartan.

I’ve written extensively on both. Good luck. Read read read all you can on this site.

Low and slow is the long term name of the game. If you add 10lbs of mass a year you are in a rare class. If you don’t care about being around for a long time then blast away at crazy doses.

You wanna play this game into your 60-70’s and be healthy into your 80’s-90’s?

Low. Slow. No orals. No exotics that have no human testing data behind it. Stick to the compounds with data behind them.
  1. Find you test dosage for you as a genetically unique male, that requires no ancillary support whatsoever. For me personally as a genetically unique male: 400mg of test a week. Run this dose for a year. Maximize those gains from having elevated test levels. Check labs every 3months to ensure all other lab values remain in check on your unique dose.
  2. AFTER your gains slow, add in primo or mast.
I’m saying don’t cycle. I’m saying run this dose for years if you stay health. I have yet to find a study in actual support of cycling on and off AAS.
 
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Agree! Being in the medical community like @Neuro and having my friend as my Hormone and Anti-Aging prescriber who’s also a PA and amateur body builder…I agree and so does he with constant use at safe levels with testing along the way and NO cycling. For sure wait until you’ve had kids and make sure that if you haven’t, don’t want them at all, or freeze some sperm.

I’m running this protocol right now and my clinic happens to believe in constant use with medical monitoring. Ancillaries they comping and prescribe are DECA, Primo, VAR, and GLP-1 (Not constant).
 
Even though I’m not on here as often as most, I’ve been on for awhile and @Neuro know me and that we are on the same page.

You’re not being nosey! I’m 46 and honestly have only been running this protocol for a year or so. Before that I was just on regular TRT and cycled in some stuff a few times, but actually only started AAS at age 38. Already had kids and have a hell of a supportive spouse who’s my training partner and can throw the iron around with the best of them (Male or Female) who’s on similar protocol and age 41. Actually have felt better at steady state usage low doses since starting and have managed gains steadily per my Dexa scans.

6’2” and 225 at 12% BF per Dexa. Have gotten lower in BF, but didn’t feel great with such a restrictive diet, so 12% + or - a percentage is sweet spot. Looking to slowly get to a fighting weight of 230 and cruise at that level as long as I can healthfully.
 
I have a race engine customer to whom I’ve become close over the past year, and I recently hung out with him down at his home in LA while we dyno tuned his car. He knows I’m on constant TRT+ and said he consulted his physician about it (he’s 46). She immediately gave a “bro science” response, viz., that keeping one’s total test above 1000 can lead to cancer and will ultimately cause heart problems and high cholesterol. I sighed and showed him my bloods (120 total cholesterol) and told him the results of my heart scan (no LV enlargement and 0 on the plaque scale) and asked him whether he still believed her. I told him to get a different doc that is more up to date and doesn’t just reiterate the outdated BS she learned in med school 20 years ago. I also gave him some pub med articles about ultra-high test injections as a treatment for…wait for it…prostate cancer! Smashing all traditional misconceptions. More to fall. Keep at it @Neuro! You got ME going down this path, and that wasn’t easy.
 
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