Post Cycle Therapy Primer
October 7th 2011 Posted at Muscle Building
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Post cycle therapy (PCT) is a must for maximum benefits from any prohormone or steroid cycle! Anabolic steroids are the synthetic derivatives of the naturally occurring male anabolic hormone testosterone. Testosterone is a hormone that is responsible for the secondary sex characteristics you see in males such as deep voice, body hair etc. Anabolic-androgenic steroids , hormones that boost muscle anabolism , have been used by professional and recreational athletes for decades. Periods of AAS use , referred to as steroid cycles , are employed to generate greater increases in strength and muscle hypertrophy . PCT’s are used to come off of a cycle of a (prohormone/prosteroid/anabolic-androgenic steroid) cycle. A PCT’s function is not only to help maintain gains, but to bring your body back to where it would naturally be, or as close to that as possible, help prevent rebound effects, and control some of the other ‘bad’ effects a cycle creatine supplements can create. Post-cycle therapy will start the day after you stop taking your testosterone enhancers. Hormone levels want to be in a precise balance, which includes the testosterone/estrogen balance. Many pro-hormones claim that their products cannot aromatize, thus leading you to a conclusion that you do not need to worry about estrogen. Hormones are powerful chemical messengers and should always be treated as such to avoid unwanted results. Estrogen as well inhibits the production of natural testosterone, and in the period between the return of natural testosterone and the end of a cycle, a lot of mass is lost. So its in everybody’s best interest to bring back natural test as soon as humanly possible. Clomid and Nolvadex will reduce the post-cycle estrogen, so that the hypothalamus is stimulated to regenerate natural testosterone production in the body. That’s basically how the mechanism works, nothing more, nothing less.