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Quote[/b] (VIPER @ July 06 2004,4:57)]If anything I said is wrong please correct me. I want to know a little more about PH in general, and sorry about so many questions. Thanks.
Not wrong per se, somewhat off. I'd reccomend a lot more reading before you delve into PH/PS use, and if your under 26 I'd say stay away period. That said, here's some info.
It's not after the cycle your test is down, but during
and after. Most if not all prohormones and steroids supress natural test production as you use them for period of time necessary to get gains out of them. It's the post cycle crash where, if it's not handled properly, people lose their gains.
Aromatization is what happens when a steroid gets metabolized to estrogen, estradiol, progesterone, or whatever other female sex hormone it can turn into. For aromatizing PH/PSs, once you stop taking it there's nothing in your body to counteract the effects of the high estrogen levels in your body. What people do is take a SERM like Nolvadex or Clomid. What these do is competitively bind to the estrogen receptors in a lot of your tissues in your body blocking the estrogen from doing its work, and sensing a lack of estrogen your body will up the leutenizing hormone production causing your nads to release more testosterone so it can aromatize and create a normal level of estrogen. It's negative feedback basically. By blocking the effects of the raised estrogen you do two things. You save most of your gains and you trick your body into raising natural test production up a lot faster than it normally would.
During a cycle most people favor aromatase inhibitors like Arimidex. These don't compete with the estrogen, they block its production in the body to begin with. So say you're on Dianabol, a popular steroid that aromatizes like crazy. If you take Arimidex you stop most of it from changing into estrogen, so you have less of a problem post cycle. Post cycle however you need a SERM like Nolvadex or Clomid.
Some steroids and prohormones don't aromatize, which means they don't directly turn into estrogen. They still supress natural test production and leave you with artificially and relatively high estrogen levels in your blood post cycle.
Assuming you are at an age where you can take such things, which one you choose depends on your goals and what you can tolerate. If you're bulking you would
want an aromatizing PH/PS more likely than not because estrogen plays an important part in getting big. You just shouldn't have too much of it. If you're looking to increase strength then a nonaromatizing PH/PS such as 1 testosterone, its precursor 1-AD, or one of the nor andros would work good. Or you could stack a combo to get the benefits of both. Like I said, it depends on your goals.
Some things to know: Do BOATLOADS of research. Try
www.anabolicminds.com, it's a good forum for info. Someone here pointed me to it a long time ago. Also read the articles at
www.bulknutrition.com. DON'T, I repeat DON'T mess with this stuff if you're under 26. It can screw you up good if your hormones haven't settled naturally yet. DON'T, I repeat DON'T mess around with ANY of the methylated prosteroids out there for a first cycle. They're very hard on the liver and require some experience to manage right. Using them wrong is a nice efficient way to mess yourself up real good. Make sure you know what your goals are and, FIRST AND FOREMOST, see why you aren't acheiving them without PH/PS use. Or perhaps you aren't achieving them as fast as you want. To that I'd say too bad, and that the discipline earned by sticking it out and working towards the goal over time is worth a hell of a lot more than the quick fix PH/PS route. And
always first see if you can achieve your goals by modifying your training and especially your diet.