How to protect liver during steroid cycle

Steroids are blamed for many negative effects on human body, one of them being liver toxicity. But not all of them are responsible for damaging the liver. All alkylated anabolic steroids are proved to have bad influence in liver function. What are these steroids? All oral anabolics with the most common of them in the top: Dianabol, Anadrol, Anavar and of course Winstrol.

Non-alkylated steroids are injectable steroids like Testosterone, Masteron, Equipoise, Deca Durabolin, Primobolan and others. If you want free of liver effects steroids than choose one of this group. This is especially important for those who are susceptible to liver problems.

Liver has the role to clean our body of toxins. Steroids are toxins, hence when they enter the body begin to eliminate them, without letting them get in ten blood. To avoid being breakdown into liver, oral steroids were modified in a way that inhibits the excretory function of the liver. It is not able to eliminate toxins; hence they accumulate in the body causing serious health problems.

We wrote about how oral steroids destroy liver, so will will not detail too much this subject. To read more about it click  on this article “Oral Anabolic Steroids, Liver Enzyme Tests and Liver Function“.

The intend of this post is to show how to break through a steroids cycle keeping your liver fully functional. Read further and find how exactly you can do it.

Use a non-alkylated steroid as base

The use of oral steroids alone is contraindicated. It put a high pressure in the liver and it may cede. Even you have a healthy liver, always stack an injectable with an oral. Such a mix has also a great synergic effect. So that you do not only manage to protect your liver, but also accomplish great results, whether you are bulking or cutting.

The dosage has to be no higher than 350-750mg per week of stack. A higher dosage will inhibit liver function even the gains will be better then you expected. You may get bigger or slimmer, but your liver is goanna be deeply affected. Just to know, individuals can live only 2-3 days if liver function is shut down.

Read this ” Building muscle using therapeutic dosages of steroids to find out how” to understand that staying on minimal dosage still can provide you with nice gains.

Cycle duration has not to exceed 6 weeks. Of course there are many steroid users taking oral anabolics for much longer time without apparently damaging the liver. Acting so is a a big mistake. What they miss is that with every week steroids cause scar tissue which is undetected. They worsen in time as steroids consumption don’t let them heal. The finality is that you get not only with big muscle, but also big scars which put you at risk to develop cancer.

Six weeks are the frame time within the activity of liver is still normal and steroids influence is not devastating. With proper manipulation great results can be achieved even within “short steroid cycle”.  High steroid dosage for long time are too dangerous for your health to risk it.

Choose short steroid cycle over long cyles. Read here why -  The pros of using short steroid cycles

If still want to make your cycle longer, than replacing orals with injectables is a must. For every gram of Winstrol or Anadrol take Testosterone, while Anavar can be replaced with Trenbolone in a 2:3 basis. Search for the injectable which carry the same effects the oral did and make the substitution beginning with the 7th week of cycling.

No bridging between cycles

Alkylated steroids cycles have to be followed by the same amount of time if not more. Allow body time to get back to its normal function. Liver regenerate if time is allowed. And so do hormones and other vital organs.

Don’t know exactly how long the break between cycles should be ? Find here -Time between steroids

It’s common nowadays to not stop taking steroids using bridging. Aside of damaging your liver, such a method is not productive. The more steroids take, the higher resistance body builds to it so that they become inefficient after a period of time. That’s why take breaks and let the body detach from toxins that entered it during time. After a while, you can get back in cycling.

Take supplements to protect liver

Despite of caution steroid use, including liver supplements in your diet is necessary. Lecithin, Liv-52 and Milk Thistle, Essentiale are some products to take in consideration but you are not limited to them. Buy from reliable sources to make sure you ingest high quality products. And this is available for anabolics too.

No alcohol or liver toxic medications

When cycling avoid drinking alcohol at all and be caution to drugs that shows liver toxicity properties. The liver activity is already perturbed, don’t worsen the situation.

Bottom line. Before get involved in oral steroid cycle make sure your liver function is normal. The same do when cycle is over and you are ready for the next one. Throw away the idea of oral cycle if you already have liver issues. It’s not for you. In all other cases keep in mind the above mentioned tricks and liver activity will not be affected in a degree that put your health in danger.

Tren Cough: should you worry about it?

Some trenbolone acetate users who claimed that they have used this drug in the past without any side effects, but they recently suffered of terrible tren cough from the trenbolone acetate on many of the injections used. They also say that the tren cough only lasts about 30 seconds, but they consider it quite severe so that they sometimes wonder whether they are going to survive it or not.

Although they are aware of the fact that the tren cough won’t actually kill them, they feel very bad while having it and therefore are relatively scared for their life’s those few seconds that this tren cough lasts. These users have been wondering what is actually happening to them and what can they do about this.

The trenbolone acetate has an unpleasant and quite unusual property, which makes it be irritating to some of the human tissues. For example, in the case of the tongue, the trenbolone acetate is very spicy.

Also, if by mistake, the user of trenbolone acetate gets a trace of it on the hands, then he shouldn’t handle any potatoes or meat until he washes the trenbolone acetate off thoroughly, as this drug is very irritating to potatoes and meat. This is an important fact which shouldn’t be ignored.

The tissues affected by trenbolone acetate

When used at a very high concentration, the trenbolone acetate is very irritating to the lung tissue. Generally, the blood levels are not at all near to the level that is responsible for producing the tren cough. However, in specific cases, there can happen the following things:

– The individual may introduce a small amount of oil right into a very small blood vessel

- Some trenbolone acetate may enter immediately into the lymphatic system

In any of this two particular cases, the body, especially the lungs, will experience a very high level of trenbolone acetate, which will most likely result in tren cough.

The luck of every injection

Basically, it can be considered that the apparition of the tren cough is only a matter of luck, as far as even in an individual, some injections might determine the tren cough to appear, while some injections might not cause the tren cough to occur.

Another factor that can be considered responsible for the apparition of tren cough is the formulation of the injection. Factors from its formulation that might be considered responsible for the causing of tren cough include the following:

– A higher concentration of trenbolone acetate might cause such problems as the tren cough

- The benzyl alcohol may also increase the risk of the tren cough’s apparition

How to minimize the risk of tren cough apparition

Although no one can actually avoid the tren cough to occur, it is somehow possible to minimize the risk of its apparition. In order to minimize the rate of tren cough, the individual using trenbolone acetate can try doing the following:

– Reduce the dosage to 50mg/mL or to 75mg/mL and it is also preferable to opt for trenbolone acetate without benzyl alcohol

– When opting for the dosage of 50mg/mL, the formulation does need to only contain trenbolone acetate together with vegetable oil or ethyl oleate. In this formulation, the benzyl benzoate is optional

– When opting for the dosage of 75mg/mL, it is important that it contains either benzyl acetate or benzyl benzoate. It is recommended that it contains benzyl benzoate in a concentration of 20%

Conclusion

It is possible that the tren cough occurs with an injection. However, there is nothing that can be done with it, except though it out. The tren cough might seem severe, but it usually ends relatively quickly. Basically, it is gone in less than 30 seconds, in rare cases it can go up to 60 seconds and it very rarely lasts for about 90 seconds.

What is steroid aromatization

When taking steroids, there are number of process that happens in the body. Along with anabolic effect, steroids may cause some serious side effects that every bodybuilder fears of. Most of them are estrogenic issues caused by the strong aromatization.

Bodybuilders search on the internet for low aromatizing steroids or even for those who do not aromatize at all. This is a wrong approach, since all steroids aromatize, but in different degree.

To better understand why all steroids carry the risk of aromatization and how bad it is for your health, you will have to know, first of all, what aromatization means, what cause it and how can be prevented its downsides. Yes, downsides, since generally it is good process for body and you will see in this article why.

Aromatization is not triggered by steroid use. It is a natural process during which testosterone is transformed into estrogen. This process is carried out by a special enzyme in our body called aromatase, thus the whole processed was called aromatization. The main task or aromatization is the synthesis of cholesterol and fats. But it changes when body feels a testosterone boost.

Human body has a very interesting characteristic: it tend to ensure a balance in all it has-muscles, hormones, temperature and others. This stage is known as homeostasis. When big amounts of testosterone enters the body, homeostasis try to put the things in order by triggering a stronger process of aromatization. This means that a big part of injected or swallowed testosterone is converted into estrogens, causing serious side effects like bitch tits, or also called gyno.

Each system has different number of aromatase enzymes. The higher is their number, the bigger is the percentage of testosterone who get into estrogen. Thereby, persons with big volume of aromatase enzymes can experience serious health issues even taking anabolic steroids even in smallest doses. Also, this group of bodybuilders have always to pay a bigger attention to antiestrogens drugs when going throughout a cycle.

Why our system has such a categorical reaction to high amounts of testosterone?

Normally a man body produce about 7 mg of testosterone per day. This is a quite modest dose, which not leads to massive muscle gains. Even try naturally, this level will increase but  you will need to put great efforts and much time on this. And efforts doesn’t mean to work hard in the gym only, but also to keep a close eyes to your nutritional diet and rest time.

It is more easier and convenient to get the testosterone level higher by taking steroids. Usually, one dose of steroid is at least 100 mg and higher. This means that suddenly high amounts of testosterone get into body, causing a serious hormonal disbalance.Our body react and try to keep a balance, and begin to convert the surplus of testosterone into estrogen.

So, the answer is that our body is accustomed to a certain amount of testosterone produced daily. It always keep a balance, that’s  why when big doses of synthetic testosterone enters the body it turns it into estrogens. Increased level of estrogen in the system has serious side effects that have to be carefully monitored.

Estrogen has not to be seen as something bad. It has very specific functions in the body like increasing the bone mass, improve libido and greatly add muscle mass if combined with testosterone steroid, for example. Estrogen is a natural steroid, which directly participate in the muscle building process. Along with this, it makes the body to use glucose in a better way, which definitely reduce the recovery period. Being  back in the gym as soon as possible and full of energy and with no soreness is the thing that every bodybuilder want. And estrogen has good influence on all this.

But it have to be kept in normal limits. When it goes too high, serious side effects may occur as gynecomastia, weakness of immunity, and cholesterol issues. There are at least five types of antiestrogens recommended for use during post cycle therapy to reduce estrogenic activity in the body.

Antiestrogens drugs:

Arimidex(Anastrozole)

Clomid (Clomiphene Citrate)

Femara(Letrozole)

HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin)

Nolvadex

We can not say about these drugs that are very expensive as they were few years ago when 1 mg pill of brand name of Arimidex was sold with ten dollars. Nowadays the steroid market is much diversified, and you can find the same product at a very good price. Especially if you are not looking for brand names, and are ready to buy those produced by underground labs.

What are the most aromatizing steroids

All steroids aromatase. This is the most important detail every person looking to get bigger have to bear in mind. But the way they do it differ in some degree. That’s why we can talk about most and less aromatizing steroids, but not about the concept of non aromatization at all. Also, there are individual characteristics as high number of aromatase enzymes in the body, which can turn a low aromatizing steroid into one very estrogenic.

Over the years of experience it was observed that several anabolic steroids induce a greater estrogenic activity when area administered.

Top 4 most aromatizing steroids:

-Dianabol;

-Anadrol;

-Testostosterone;

-Deca

Both forms of Dbol, liquid and pills, have a high estrogenic activity. The same thing can be said about esters of testosterone. It is tremendously to run a proper post cycle therapy with recommended antiestrogens when stacking two or more steroids from the above list. Do it because these steroids are in most cases associated with gyno development.

Water retention is in another unwanted side effects caused by aromatization. Water retention means that you body hold more water, making you look swallowed especially on face aria. Also, it cause in man fat deposition along the waist. The lower is estrogenic activity in the body while running a cycle, the less water your body retain. In other words, in the end of steroid cycle you will have more lean muscle mass gains, instead of such unwanted fat. Antiestrogens are at great importance in this case, so make sure you have them included in your steroid cycle plan.

Considerations

Aromatization is the process during which the surplus of testosterone is turned into estrogens. It comes as a result of body tendency to keep an overall balance. Estrogen in normal limits is very beneficial for body since it improves libido, increase bone mass and makes the muscles get bigger especially if mixed with a synthetic steroid like testosterone. But when high amounts of testosterone enters the body, the estrogen level goes high too, causing serious health problems like gynecomastia, weak immunity and cholesterol changes.

Most of bodybuilders want a non-aromatizing steroid at all, this being unreal. Since all steroids more or less are aromatizing. So, the best would be mention low and high aromatizing steroids. The number of aromatase enzymes in the body have a great importance, the higher is their number the more testosterone into converted into estrogen. Thereby, even a low aromatizing steroid can be quite powerful for such a person.