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TRT - How Healthy, Lean and Muscular Will Testosterone Replacement Make You? Data from Recent Meta-Analysis

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TRT - What to expect in terms of its effects on a man's body composition? If you hear people talk about "gear" (=performance enhancing drugs | PED), you get the impression that one injection of testosterone, nandrolone and co would turn a scrawny beginner into an Olympian. Reality, however, looks much different ... in fact, the number of people who ruin their health with (often oral) designer steroids without seeing any of the results they expect has been increasing continuously over the past years (Baker. 2006a,b; Graham. 2008; Rahnema. 2014) and that despite the fact that the "Anabolic Steroid Control Act" of 2004 was originally meant to prevent exactly that from happening (Herschthal. 2012). In spite of the fact that the introduction of today's SuppVersity article focused on PED, the purpose of the meta-analysis and thus its summary was "systematically review [...] available observational and register studies reporting data on body composition ...

Tribulus Boosts Testosterone (+12%), IGF-1 (+20%), Sheds 2kg (7%) Body Fat and Maintains Lean Mass in 12 Wk RCT

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Could a high dose of purified saponin tribulus extract as it was obviously used in the study at hand actually be a valid TRT alternative or even option?  No, this is not the 2015 study in trained boxers that found similarly surprising, because impressive benefits from tribulus terrestris (TT) supplementation ( read it ). It's a new study from the  Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education  in Katowice, Poland (Wilk. 2016) that has no direct link to the previously discussed study from the   Shanghai University of Sport Affiliated School of Sports in China. And even though, the aim, i.e. to determine the effects of steriodal saponins from tribulus terrestris on the blood concentration of testosterone (T), GH and IGF-1 was similar, the overall design of the study was significantly different. Don't forget to work out - Without exercise you're not going to get lean and jacked, bro! Tri- or Multi-Set Training for Body Recomp.? Aug '15 Ex.Res. Upd.: Nitra...

Is DHT Really the 'Bad and the Ugly'?

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Fellow men, common (bro-)science tells us that dihydrotestosterone (DHT, molecular structure see image on the right. HMDB ) will make your hair fall out and trigger cancerous growth of your prostate. Current research, however, suggests that Estrogen might just as well be the real culprit when it comes to unwanted growth a few inches above your testes. This is, as Williams (2010) phrases it, part of a "controversial break-through" achieved by scientists in the course of the last months and the results of which he sums up as follows: "The synergistic action of unopposed oestrogen and leptin , compounded by increasing insulin, cortisol and xeno-oestrogen exposure directly initiate , promote and exacerbate obesity, type 2 diabetes, uterine overgrowth, prostatic enlargement, prostate cancer and breast cancer ." It was thus certainly no bodily injury caused by negligence, when Konnelius et.al. 2002 administered 125-250mg transdermal DHT to 60 subjects (age range, 50...
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