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And we do a one-hour phone call between me and you totally uncensored can talk about anything you want during that phone call. If you enjoy the podcast. This is a valuable thing to take advantage of first question for today is from Zach who asks question for the podcast. I've noticed I've been getting pretty drastic mood swings recently some days. I'll feel really you. Eric confident and outgoing I notice those days I feel pretty swollen tight lean looking face no bloating and the other half of the time I'll feel like I can't think straight annoyed for no reason bloated and puffy in the face and anti-social my physique will also feel soft and flat was wondering if this was common and how to address it currently on week 4 of 400 test ananth a per week and 800 equipoise per week. He's not using In anti-estrogen tablet, but he has it hasn't had a tri nipples. So hasn't used any thanks man. Yeah. Well, so first thing is that hormones and steroids that cause mood issues. So everybody has their mood affected to some degree by hormones. You can see that very clearly when women have their period Or when women go on birth control, there are always major changes that they experience in their moods and the same thing is what goes on with you. Like if you're saying that it's a few days, you know some days that you're having these effects then other days that you aren't well if you don't have any anti-estrogen problems, or if you don't have any estrogen problems, like nipple sensitivity, it's probable that you don't really produce a lot of estrogen or possess a lot of a Matias enzyme that transforms anabolic steroids into estrogen in your body, but that doesn't mean that you have none. So the way the most of these injectable steroids work is that most of them even long Esther's like an ante and equipoise they Peak within the first 24 to 48 hours after you take an injection and then the the difference between a long Esther in a short Esther is that you know, a short-acting Esther like propionate or acetate. You know that that Peaks actually only a couple hours after injection and then it rapidly releases the entire injected dose into your system within two or three days. Whereas with like an ant 8 or you know, you said you're taking equipoise which is bouldin on unda cyclin a ton de cycling a is the long-acting Esther attached to equipoise bouldin on and both of those those Esters and at they and and de cycling night. They still release the steroid in the highest concentration that is ever going to be released into your bloodstream in the first 24 to 48 hours after the injection, but then they stay elevated for a longer period of time instead of dropping off rapidly in the amount of core moan that's being released into your system the way that like a propionate or an acetate would the ananth a or the under cycling 8 they keep on releasing, you know, a comparable amount of steroid into your bloodstream. I'm for you know three to four or five days after the injection and then they start to drop off so, I don't know how frequently you do your injections. There wasn't a lot of information provided there, but most likely what's happening is that you're having hormone level fluctuations. So some people inject even long Esters every day in order to avoid that. You know most people that really have freaky physiques Etc. Most of them take steroids every day. That's you know, a lot of people say, you know, I don't want to take injections really frequently, but the reality of the matter is that you know, for people that look like bodybuilding is their life. They also want it usually want to take an injection every day. That's like part of what they want to do each day and there's various reasons for that. But one of the things that that does do is that it stabilizes those levels so that they're always the same. So if you take an injection and then the next couple days you feel some mood effects or something like that and then everything goes back to normal, you know, the more the more testosterone especially that you have in your blood the more estrogen that you're going to have going on and you know bloating so just because you don't have sensitive nipples doesn't mean that you don't have Esther. Levels that are out of range. One of the one of the really good indicators also of having estrogen levels that are high would be having a face that is unusually pink or red tinted for your normal. A lot of white people have normally pink tinted skin to begin with so if that's normal for you, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about if it's more than normal for you. This is an indicator and then another one would be if If you wake up in the morning, or if you lay down on your bed sometime during the day and you like lay on your stomach and then when you when you get up from the bed, you know, maybe lay down your stomach on the bed for like 10 or 15 minutes. And then when you get up from the bed, you can see markings all over your chest and your stomach from where the bed or the blanket or something like that was pressing into you or at the same thing. If you do if you get that same effect on your leg from wearing socks, this would be subcutaneous water retention. Caused by high estrogen levels and it's a very good indicator of high estrogen levels, you know, not everyone gets all the same side effects. So if you are not getting you no effects in your nipples, that doesn't that doesn't mean you know, right there. You don't have high estrogen but you know, it's probably likely that you don't have super high estrogen. Okay, if you're not getting effects in your nipples like itchy burning nipple. But instead you're getting these effects like, you know, a bloated puffy face and a softer less defined looking body. It's it's probable that you have raised estrogen levels during those times, but that they're not super res. So in your situation, you can just take a small amount of you can experiment you can either go get a blood test because that always works that always tells you, you know, what the information you need to know, but you know, if I say that to everyone people are going to be like, yeah. Thanks for helping me because I'm not going to go get a blood test, you know, so I'm trying to tell you guys because I know that that's the way a lot of people are is they're not going to get the blood test. So I'm trying to give you some anecdotal evidence that can help you troubleshoot what's going on instead and what I would do if you know if we were talking and you were telling me about your situation is I would advise to Have your anti-estrogen tablet but to cut it up into smaller pieces and maybe take a 1/4 of the tablet. It doesn't matter whether it's a remedy X XM s 10 or letrozole it doesn't matter. Whatever tablet you had. I would I would say let's let's try taking a piece of that tablet. And so maybe take a quarter of the tablet a third of the tablet a half of the tablet. It would be up to you. And then you could start putting that in on those days that you were feeling that moodiness and seeing what it did what it did, you know anti-estrogen tablets kick in and they have effects in your body within two to three hours and some like XMS Dane even have effects within 60 minutes after taking them so you can you can see whether or not the problems that you're having are caused by estrogen pretty quickly. This is one of the ways that you can troubleshoot them. But if you're not having you know full ADI estrogen effects, you know like heavy bloating and you know, like swollen nipples or like a prostate making it kind of harder to pee if you're just having you know some light bloating in your face and that's it with some mood swing issues. Then it's probable that your estrogen is not far out of range just slightly out of range which then if you don't take a blood test and see exactly, you know, what's going on, then you could start trying to you know, Instead of doing that you could do some troubleshooting and one of the ways that you could do the troubleshooting would be to cut up the anti-estrogen tablets into small pieces and just take one and wait about four hours. Wait about three or four hours and see what happens see how you're feeling. This is one of those things, you know guys were talking about right now. We're talking about very small very small changes to hormone levels and This is one of those things that it's really difficult to just tell you, you know what to do. I can give you tips like this. This is like hints or tips from from an experienced user about things that work, you know, in order to treat or troubleshoot side effects like this, but these kinds of things like getting your estrogen in range, you know feeling feeling great on hormones and making these small little alterations. These are one of those things that it really Stir have someone in close contact with you. So I mean before I answered Zex question. I said something about you know, the one hour phone call consultations or the text message based coaching that I do, you know for things like this that really helps because then I can use my experience and it to ask you the right questions and you know tell you these different troubleshooting things that you can do and we can really dial in you know exactly what it takes to. Make you be feeling good because it's more of something where we're we're going to be making these small tiny changes taking fractions of estrogen tablets and stuff anti-estrogen tablets and stuff to try and get you feeling great. It doesn't really sound like your problems are really big, you know with your estrogen. It sounds like it's just more of an annoyance and and you know, one thing that makes me that immediately makes me think though is that, you know taking gear as a So taking anabolic steroids is a hassle. So anybody that thinks that it's just going to be like some smooth easygoing thing and it's not going to add any stress to your life. Like that's that's a fantasy. That's literally a fantasy taking steroids is a hassle. They do affect your mood from time to time. You know, you mostly want them to affect your mood in a good way, but they increase things like paranoia, you know, they can cause other hormones to Open that can you know hurt your sex drive elevate your sex drive and they can do things like make you more aggressive and you know, not not as trusting towards other people. They definitely increase paranoia and your your tendency to assume assume bad intentions of others. They increase those things we talked about in the last episode we What about some of the effects of steroids and alcohol and what they produce together? So I think it's good that we discussed some of these Mental effects that steroids produce. They don't they don't produce psychosis. But you know paranoia some having some some types of mood swings or not being in as much of control as your mood your as far as moods go, it's more it's more common with steroid users to have Have a strong mood rather than just a middle mood. It's more common to have a mood that is you know, very happy or very sad or very relaxed or very stressed out, you know, these things increase your personality. They increase your assertiveness the increase who you are so you have to expect those kinds of effects to be coming with them and when you say like, you know, sometimes you have You feel great and other times you don't feel so good. I just have to say in addition to your estrogen levels, you know, having these slight out of range things. You've also got a just be realistic and remember that you know steroids and hormones they cause they Cause your mood to be different at times and you can see this very clearly when a woman has her period or when a woman goes on birth control because women are so sensitive. of mentally to the effects of hormones more so than males are but males are sensitive to So that's my answer to your question. The next question is from Yan Aero and he asks. Hey, man, I just finished a PCT with Coloma de Nova. I did a blood work and it came back at 400 nanograms per deciliter of testosterone and 11 of sex hormone-binding globulin, which is low. How can I increase my sex hormone-binding globulin? What do you think? Okay. Yeah, so your testosterone level your total testosterone level of 400 that came back kind of low because you want to definitely be on the higher end of the total testosterone range when you get a testosterone test, so, you know how the range for what a normal testosterone level is at the doctor's office is like anywhere from 200 nanograms per deciliter all the way up to, you know, 900 nanograms per deciliter or even a thousand 100 nanograms per deciliter and you How could there be a variance of four or five times the amount and that all be considered normal, you know with other blood reading markers, you know, there's never a four or five times amount and it's all normal. Like hey, you have four or five times the blood pressure of another person that's normal now get out of here. That's that's completely unrealistic and is totally bullshit. So the testosterone level and what is considered normal the studies that were conducted on that and the data that was extracted from them to produce those levels. They were taken from studies that took data from young men around the ages of eighteen all the way up to men around the ages of 80 years old. Okay. So there was Data pulled from you know, people young young men middle-aged men and old men. They took the the testosterone levels of total testosterone levels of men of all ages large amount of And then they compiled the data and they came out with this data that you know anywhere between 200 nanograms per deciliter up to a thousand 100. Nanograms per deciliter is all normal total testosterone levels, which is totally untrue, you know, you know an 80 year old man his testosterone levels what's normal for him, which is included in this data is not normal at all for an 18 year old guy a 30 year old guy or even a 40 year old guy. You don't want to have low testosterone some of the political things that that influence this too is the fact that you know, they don't want to give you testosterone like it's very powerful hormone. And you know, there's a general there's a general suppression about knowledge of male hormones and you know how powerful they are in medicine one of the reasons for that is because you know male hormones are very cheap to produce and they cure a lot of disease. Is and when you know, you have such a cheap easy cure to diseases, especially a natural hormone that can't be patented like testosterone. Well, then what about all the other medicines that the pharmaceutical companies make to treat these illnesses that are patented. How are they going to be able to you know endure losing their money selling you those those drugs to cure your illness has when something that isn't even patentable like testosterone can come in carrier illnesses. So there's political reasons and you know, they these people these pharmaceutical companies are one of the major La beers of politicians and making the laws stuff like that. So when you're talking about, you know, what is normal testosterone level you really have to read between the lines and look at how they came up with these normal testosterone level data has your insurance company doesn't want to pay for your testosterone replacement therapy. Okay, they're happy to say that, you know the level of an 80 year old man. You know two to three hundred nanograms per deciliter or 400 and a grams per deciliter. They're very happy to accept that and say hey, this is normal your normal 25 year old man 30 year old man 35 year old man, and and and we will not pay for your testosterone replacement therapy. You're in the normal range get the hell out of here. I mean, they're very happy to do that. So that's talking about testosterone levels total. Testosterone levels and where those numbers came from and why those numbers that the doctors tell you our normal is totally not true as totally not true. Okay. This is not medical advice. I'm just telling you that you know in reality if you look at the data and how they came up with those numbers is it's very dishonest to go around telling younger men that 200 nanograms per deciliter is in the normal range and They have that that they can't get testosterone replacement therapy. I mean that's fucked up. That's fucked up. Okay, okay, but you you're asking about your shbg. So 400 nanograms per deciliter. Okay. It's on the lower end of the spectrum but it's not like totally horribly low, you know, it's just you're on the lower end of the spectrum. Okay, but then you said you also have low shbg. So this is the way that some guy's testosterone readings are is they have lower? total testosterone, but then they have low shbg which means that the free testosterone level the active testosterone level is actually higher and if you take a free testosterone test almost always these guys that have the lower shbg will have the higher free testosterone that you know, it won't be a low lower end of the spectrum normal range like 400 nanograms per deciliter is where his Ian uruz total testosterone level came back, but most likely if you His free testosterone, you know, it would not be at the low end of the normal range like that. It would be higher because he has the low shbg. Let's talk about what shbg does so shbg is sex hormone-binding globulin, which is a molecule that floats around in your blood and it's very attracted to hormones. Okay sex hormones specifically attracted to sex hormones and when sex hormones are bound up, Up, they couple like they link on the sex hormone-binding globulin links on to sex hormones. And when that happens, they get linked like that. It makes it so that the sex hormones can no longer attached to their receptors. So like estrogen if it was attached to shbg it would not be able to attach to the estrogen receptor and express its effects that there and the same thing with testosterone or the same thing with Decca durable. Or the same thing with Deanna ball, whatever if it is attached to sex hormone-binding globulin, then it is not going to be able to attach itself to the Androgen receptor and express its effects their Express the effects that the hormone does. Okay, so generally if you are somebody who wants hormones in your body and you're putting hormones in your body artificially from the outside, it's called exogenously endogenously means hormones from the inside, you know, naturally produced hormones and exogenously means hormones from the outside non, you know, non naturally produced hormones that you put in to your body. So if you have exogenously hormones and you're putting them in your body, that means that you want to up your level of active hormones, obviously, so you want to have low shbg, but the same thing goes I mean if you if you have a if you want to have the effects of Your hormones then you need to have lower shbg. Okay, if the shbg level is high then shbg is binding on to your hormones and making them inactive. They can't do anything in your body unless they get rid of that shbg. Okay. So this is you know, shbg Pines up a huge percentage of the sex hormones that you produce something around 98 99. Out of all the testosterone that you produce in your body is actually bound up to sex hormone-binding globulin and only that little remaining one or two percent is actually able to express its effects in the body and do what testosterone does. So since you have the lower total testosterone level at 400, but you also have the low sex hormone-binding globulin shbg level, you know, that's a good thing because like I said, if you took a test and looked at your free testosterone levels, they'd Likely not be on that kind of lower end of the spectrum that most likely be just moderate just totally normal and that's really the only number that you really even need to worry about total testosterone. It doesn't really tell you that much because it's a it's how much free testosterone that's what actually matters the free testosterone in your body is what actually does something. Okay, and the more shbg you have the less free testosterone you have the more bound test. Roster own inactive testosterone you have okay. So with you saying like, how can I get my shbg up? You don't want to do that. You want to keep your shbg low because that's what's, you know, allowing your hormone system to to work. Okay different people, you know, some people have more shbg naturally and then they have they also produce more total testosterone naturally and then you know, they will have somewhat of a middling free testosterone level and then other people Produce like you less total testosterone, but also less sex hormone-binding globulin and then still have you know that same middling free testosterone level. Like I said free testosterone is the only number that matters and the let the less shbg that you have the higher your free testosterone can be. So what are some things that reduce the levels of shbg in your body because I'm sure that if you're listening to this, that's the next that you're thinking is, okay. Okay. Well if shbg makes my hormones and active and I'm doing bodybuilding or I'm doing Athletics, obviously, I want to have low shbg. Okay, that is that is definitely something that makes a big difference. Okay. So and also if you have a low sex drive shbg is a big factor because shbg, you know, it's attracted to testosterone. Okay, but you know what it's even more attracted to is dihydrotestosterone the brain chemical the Chemical that makes your sex drive that makes your penis work that makes you be able to get an erection dihydrotestosterone is converted when an ends is its created in the body when testosterone interacts with an enzyme that's also found in the body called 5-alpha reductase. And when those when that enzyme 5-alpha reductase interacts with testosterone, then it transforms the testosterone into this super potent brain chemical and and also it works in the skin and like I said like In the penis their reproductive organs and several other areas of the body and get me gives you things like your sex drive makes things like a like your beard grow like body hair, you know all those effects more oil on the skin. Those are all dihydrotestosterone effects. Okay, and dihydrotestosterone is even more attracted to sex hormone-binding globulin then then testosterone is okay. So if you have sex - sex hormone-binding globulin that Also be a reason for low sex drive or you know trouble with erections things like that. So the way to get rid of shbg and lower it is to number one take steroids and take more steroids higher dosages of steroids when you raise the dosages of steroids that you have in your body shbg levels go down. That's it. That's what that's what happens. It's the same thing. The Androgen receptors when you put more steroids in your body your body creates more Androgen receptors on muscle tissue and it decreases the level of sex hormone-binding globulin. Those are the effects of increasing your hormone levels. And then another one of the ways that you can decrease sex hormone-binding globulin even more potent Lee shbg is by using oral steroids. probe ayran Diana ball and Winstrol are both super shbg lowering molecules. So provider in is the best at this and if you put probe ayran in you'll notice a huge increase in your sex drive. That's because it's basically an orally available. It means is you take a tablet and it's basically dihydrotestosterone that molecule that is very attracted to shbg even more so than testosterone. So basically when you take that probe irony, But the chemical name for provider in is mr. Loan, then that probe ayran tablet the master loan that comes from it the the sex hormone-binding globulin in your body recognize that as dihydrotestosterone and since it's so attracted to dihydrotestosterone, it goes right in there and attaches to that probe. Ayran. And once that happens well now there's not that sex hormone-binding globulin in the body that can attach itself to your other steroids. Ads that are muscle building because provider in is not a muscle building steroid. So but once it's attached to the the probe iren well now there's going to be more of the testosterone you're taking available in your body because it's not going to be attached to sex hormone-binding globulin anymore. There's going to be more of the equipoise, you know, more of the Preamble and whatever that are going to be active in your body. So there's a couple injectable injectable hormones to and and by the way on the dosages for You know, like I said probe. Ayran is the best one at reducing the shbg but Dianabol and Winstrol are also very potent at reducing shbg and the dosage that works for those to get the effects that have been these have been studied in humans at these dosages and seen what are the effects on shbg taking those hormones. Okay, and it's 25 milligrams per day the any of those hormones Winstrol polaron or Dianabol 25 milligrams per day of any of those. Hormones makes a dramatic drop in shbg levels. Okay, but then there's a couple of injectables to that work really well for reducing shbg levels. Like I said just taking more steroids in general reduces shbg, but these two injectable steroids do it really well specifically and that is Master on and tremble own. Okay tremble own is basically immune to sex hormone-binding globulin. It's one of the only hormones that you can take that. Sex hormone-binding globulin cannot bind to it. So it's very active in your body when you take it. That's one of the reasons why it's so strong is because it can't be bound up in an activated by a sex hormone-binding globulin, like most hormones can and also as a potent lowering effect of the total body load of shbg and then Master on it has a similar effect like like probe ayran does in the way that it lowers the sh BG levels in the body. So I mean you'll notice if you take any of these things that it increases your muscle growth, it increases your sex drive, it increases your nutrient partitioning the amount of food that you can eat and gain muscle without getting fat. I mean this is this is actually, you know, a worthwhile component of bodybuilding to or taking hormones to understand the six hormone-binding globulin thing and if you're on TR He or something and you know, you just you've got the higher testosterone levels and you got your doctor to give you HCG to but you're still wondering like why is my sex drive still messed up because occasionally this does happen with guys. Okay, then a Next Step that could that could really help you would be looking at your shbg levels and and lowering them since the neuro steroid dihydrotestosterone functions on your brain functions on your penis. Since that one is specifically attracted to shbg and inactivated by shbg more than the other hormones. If you you know, you got the the good dosage is a good testosterone levels on your trt. And you're on HCG to and you still having sex drive issues then a good thing to look at would be your shbg or if you just you know on a cruise or something and you're wondering in a why is my sex drive low look at the shbg and if that's high basically a non-toxic Sick way to take care of that is to take 25 milligrams of probe. Ayran per day because unlike most oral steroids probe. Ayran, you know, as I said, it's not muscle building its deactivated the moment. It enters muscle tissue by an enzyme. They're called 3 beta hydroxy steroid dehydrogenase, but and that's the same. That's the same thing that happens with the neuro stereo dihydrotestosterone, even though it's very potent. It's inactivated the moment it gets inside of muscle tissue by that same enzyme but with probe ayran You know, it will bind up that shbg and lower the levels to so that more of your testosterone that you've been injecting for your testosterone replacement therapy and the testosterone that's coming from your balls from injecting the shbg is then available to work in your body and you know, it'll make your sex drive go way up as well. Yeah probe. Ayran, if you if you're lacking your sex drive, okay, if you're lacking your sex drive. And you don't know why and you're trying to troubleshoot that and HCG is not working. Then probe eyring can be a really good one to experiment with because I don't know anyone on planet Earth that did not experience an increase in their mental sex drive and urge to do it from taking provider and tablets. Okay, you know, I'm not going to get too into this but just because I'm on the topic of troubleshooting sex drive something like looking at your thyroid hormone levels, if they're low that can be another thing if your thyroid hormonal levels are low that can decrease your sex drive because thyroid is counterbalancing hormone with prolactin and high prolactin levels completely shut off the male sexual reproductive system from being able to work. So if you've got a low thyroid level well, then that most likely means that you're going to have a high prolactin level right these these hormones are counterbalancing when thyroid levels are high prolactin is usually low. And then the reverse so that can be another troubleshooting thing to look at for sex drive when you're thinking why isn't my sex drive high all my hormones look good. What's wrong? Next question is from nisus who asks could did you ever take an Ace inhibitor for high blood pressure the answer to that is no some people do do this because blood pressure is a known issue with people who use steroids, especially in higher. Dosages and there's some some hormones that are more notorious for high blood pressure than others usually hormones that have a high androgenic component to them. And also a lot of steroids that / have some estrogen effects that go with them testosterone. It can definitely increase your blood pressure high dosages of testosterone. So can things like Dianabol so can things like Trend blown that really stimulate you so when getting the high blood From that, you know have I ever used ACE inhibitors or beta blockers? No, I have not those. I mean those are two different classes of chemicals. But those are like standard blood pressure medications and I don't take those and the reason why is that, you know, you can take all the cocktail of drugs that you want and you know become like a walking Pharmacy if you want, but you know, that's a slippery slope. Hope that's a slippery slope, you know, no no normal healthy. Athletic guy should be taking ACE inhibitors and beta blockers and things like that. Okay for their blood pressure. That's the sign of something being wrong and needing to not not do what you're doing, you know changing changing something or a sign that you know, drug abuse is going on and you need to not do that. So I am realistic though in that, you know, I know that steroids can increase blood pressure. So here's some of the things that really do. These are normal components of a lot of people's lives and these things really do increase blood pressure. Okay, first thing caffeine for most people taking caffeine increases their systolic blood pressure 10 to 20 points. Okay. So blood pressure is measured in systolic and diastolic. Like the systolic number is on the top. The diastolic number is on the bottom what systolic measures is the tension tension on the blood vessels when the heart pumps or pounds and then the diastolic blood pressure is the blood pressure that is measured measured or the pressure inside the blood vessels when the heart is in the non pump part of its beating Rhythm. Okay. So systolic is when it goes boom and then systolic Rick is during that little resting phase where it you know, pulls back and reloads again for the next boom. Okay, and usually people who are on steroids have a higher, you know, if they have an out of range part of their blood pressure. Normally that's going to be the systolic number the hardness, you know, the pressure within the veins when the heart pumps or when the heart beats hard. So there are some things that And reduce your blood pressure that you can do. If you are experiencing a high systolic or just High General blood pressure in general while you are on steroids. Okay. So the first thing that you can do is fix your diet, so if you're eating packaged Foods, there's a lot of chemicals in those things. I know that it's so normal to eat packaged foods that you don't even think like this could be a thing. Okay, but this is true guys is that In packaged Foods, there's a lot of chemicals added to them and like supplementation of the food that's not natural at all that come from foods that you buy in boxes or packages and these things have deleterious effects on your health, especially if you're eating them often. So one of the things that happens with them is it's very common for people that are eating a lot of packaged foods to have that affect their blood pressure. And if you just stop eating foods that do come in the packages and you Or eating instead things that are grown in the ground things that are grown in the ground or eating animals or eating things that come from animals natural things like a natural human would eat that, you know was you know killing things in the wild and Gathering things in the wild generally your blood pressure will drop fairly dramatically if you make that one dietary switch. Okay, the other thing is eating carbohydrates if you have high blood pressure. And you go on a ketogenic diet. You can almost guarantee that right there doing that one simple thing will solve your high blood pressure issues. I know that that sounds like what because everybody's you know, eating so many carbohydrates all the time, but honestly, it makes a huge difference and if you're really having blood pressure issues and you know, you're saying I can't take steroids or something without having blood pressure. Well, this could be the thing that could you know changed. For you because it has a massive effect on your blood pressure. You know, the the blood pressure. It's a bad one. You don't want to you don't want to mess with this too much. You want to you want to make sure that the the blood pressure is, you know not above 140 for sure if it's above 140 the systolic blood pressure you're having an issue. Okay, so some of the carbohydrates that do seem to not increase the blood pressure. As much though if carbohydrates is in fact your problem you experiment with that is rice rice seems to be a pretty clean carbohydrate that does not impact blood pressure so much and then another thing guys is obviously caffeine caffeine makes it I think I might have mentioned this a minute ago, but I'll mention it again. It increases your blood pressure. Okay. So another thing that you can do drug wise before you go to something like an Ace inhibitor or a blood block Beta blocker which I don't recommend is taking Cialis. Okay, Cialis was developed. It was researched and developed for the purpose of being a blood pressure medication, but the side effect that was discovered with you know, they're called phosphodiesterase type 5 Inhibitors Viagra Cialis, you know, all those erection drugs. They were being studied as blood pressure medications. Okay, but when they were being studied that was oh this has the side effect that it makes people get erections. Okay, and so then they changed what they were marketing at 4 and it does still reduce your blood pressure. Okay, but they changed the way that they Market it to being marketed for sexual dysfunction and erections instead of blood pressure. So if you take like five milligrams of Cialis per day, I mean that's approved and prescribed for sexual dysfunctions for daily use five milligrams Cialis tadalafil per day and you know that does reduce your blood pressure it relaxes your Blood vessels it's a vasodilator and it's a pretty potent one and generally just doing that one change right there 5 milligrams of Cialis tadalafil per day. It usually reduces blood pressure by about 10 to 15 points, especially on this systolic number just you know, making that alteration and so that's that's a drug that you know, it doesn't have effects on your kidneys like something like a ace inhibitor and doesn't have effects on your heartbeat or you know, causing dizziness or anything like that. So and it also has the side effect of making, you know your dick rock hard. So if I'm going to use something for my blood pressure and you know what occasionally I do if I might you know, if I might have a blood pressure headache or something because I did something stupid which I have in the past. Like I've injected 300 milligrams of testosterone propionate in one injection and the Today, I had a pounding blood pressure headache take a Cialis. It's one thing you can do and it'll help drop your blood pressure down right away. So that's what I do. I don't want to be too much of a walking Pharmacy and taking things taking a medications that are not meant for healthy active men who are you know, doing high intensity exercises and stuff like that. I don't want to be taking things. It's like blood pressure medications ACE inhibitors beta blockers that bullshit if I'm going to take something if I'm going to take something that's going to you know, lower my blood pressure a little bit. Then it's going to be something that gives me an erection at the same time. So that's going to be tadalafil Cialis. All right next question. It's from Coolio how to keep pretty boy looks while using gear does the muscles you get around your face from steroids go away once you stop taking gear. Where is your face permanently changed from gear? Use thanks, bro. No, the face really isn't that permanently changed from gear use it's pretty much the main the main structural changes that happen to a man's face. Not a female's face. Okay, but a man's face is the muscles built up around your skull they build up quite a bit, especially on cycle. But even if you just go off cycle like if you PCT and you know, something like Three months later or if you just go on a cruise dosage of testosterone like 200 milligrams per week something like 2 to 3 months later. You can notice a reduction in the in the in the musculature around your skull it those those muscles respond pretty strongly to steroids. And when you when you stop taking them or you dramatically lower your dosages, they do definitely go down something like For an extended period of time if you take steroids all the time and you just you know decide you know, I'm only going to take 200 milligrams of testosterone for the next few months generally within two or three months those facial muscles, especially the ones around your temples to the sides of your eye sockets. Those are one of the major muscles that really grow from chewing while you're on steroids. And those are one of the ones that kind of change your head shape because when you're looking head-on at someone and you see those that that Outwards appearance happen right there where their temples are around the sides of their eyes. That's like one of the signature looks of, you know high power athlete Arnold Schwarzenegger in NFL football player. And that's that's because of steroids. They have an effect on that chewing muscle right there. It helps with closing your jaw clamping your jaw that muscle you can see it. If you open and close your jaw, you'll see it moving around there. And that's one of the main muscles that on your face that grow from using steroids other one that Grows quite a bit is the one underneath your chin. So it's sort of that muscle. That is it's it's not on your neck, but it's underneath your chin. Like it's it's in that Gap where the jaw bone is underneath your the ring or the Horseshoe shape of teeth that is in your mouth. If you if you touch right below their back, you know you touch your chin and then go back about an inch. There's a muscle there that can kind of hang down and kind of give like a A double chin, look it's not it's not a fat double chin look, but if you notice in a lot of steroid users, you'll see something kind of hanging down or kind of a shadow underneath the lower part of their jaw. And that's that's that muscle right there getting really bulked up from using gear. So like I said, no having those muscles big that is not that is not permanent. And you know when you lower your dose, Judges, you know that goes away. You have to lower them severely though. It's mostly if you go off if you go off of steroids that goes away but if you lower them, you know severely down to something like true to your tea, you know, a hundred milligrams or 200 milligrams or so of testosterone and maintain that for per week and met then maintain that for a few months then yeah, those muscles do go down Fresh Prince asks, can you use metformin on trt? Yeah. You can use metformin on trt, but I wouldn't recommend it for growing your muscle because you know, there's so much speculation on Metformin. Okay, so doctors don't know how metformin works. Okay, they know some things some effects that metformin produces, but they don't know why it produces those effects. Okay, and so there's so much conflicting evidence from study after study on Metformin because it's one of the main drugs that is prescribed for diabetes. So when you go looking for info information, Anon metformin for poor performance enhancing effects on line. It's like a total cluster fuck and it will leave you like with a headache being like what the hell, you know, I feel bad because all this information that I just looked at confuse me even more. Okay. So the way the way to determine about metformin is you shouldn't look at studies too much. Okay, because it's going to confuse the hell out of you what you should look at with metformin is observing the effects of what it does. Okay. So it does increase the amount of carbohydrates that your muscles can take into them. Okay, and then it does things like decreases the amount of carbohydrates that your body absorbs from your intestines and decreases the amount of carbohydrates that are sorry fat that your body absorbs from your intestines and then it does other things like with natural people. It reduces the level of testosterone that they create by about half and also the same thing goes with the their growth hormone and igf-1 levels. Okay. So as far as somebody that's not supplementing with those hormones growth hormone and igf-1 and they're trying to get big and you know supplement with metformin to help them do that. It's probably not a good idea, especially if you're not on testosterone, okay, but you know personally I would use metformin in combination if I was trying you can use it to get full to Temporary glycogen loading effect in your muscles. Okay, you can use that instead of insulin to get a temporary increased ability to load carbohydrate fuel storage in your muscles. You can use metformin but generally if you're trying to like grow muscle and get big it's better to use growth hormone and that form or and testosterone at the same time as you use metformin since those are two major muscle building hormones. And when you take Metformin both of those hormones the natural levels that you have of Them are cut in half. Okay, but metformin really shines as a weight-loss agent. So for guys that are having trouble losing weight. It shifts the body's energy consumption towards fatty acid consumption consumption quite a bit and it also decreases the amount of energy that you absorb from your intestines and it gives you some diarrhea and the combination of the fact that it makes your body's metabolism. Go more towards preferring to burn a fatty acids instead of burning carbohydrates for its energy requirements. And it decreases the amount of fat and carbohydrates that you can absorb from your intestines and it gives you diarrhea for the first, you know, three weeks or month that you use it. Those those factors go together and create, you know, quite a weight loss environment. So, you know, it's not going to make you lose muscle if you take it with testosterone, okay? okay, but if you're looking to like get cut up like dude, you can take like a thousand or two thousand milligrams of Metformin per day for like three weeks and honestly expect to lose something if you're on steroids, if you're on testosterone, then you can honestly expect to lose something like 7 to 10 even like 15 pounds of fat like it can really cause some serious fat loss if you're if you've got some gear in there and you're taking that Okay, especially if you're adding in things like cardio with it, you know cardio works great for fat loss which is you know, a lot of people say that you know cardio doesn't work for body building and fat loss which is ridiculous because we all know from our experience not reading books, but from our experience that cardio does help with fat loss. Okay, and then if you look up scientific research on the effects of exercise on Fat Loss low intensity exercise of the muscles ache. AKA walking or jogging increases all types of lipolysis, which is the way that the body breaks down fatty acids from you know, the fat droplets cells around your body and then uses them for energy to supply that vital energy for other organs to function all processes and hormones created that regulate that process of fat burning lipolysis. All those processes are enhanced when you do low intensity. Exercise and especially when low when insulin levels are low. Okay. So cardio is good for fat loss the bodybuilders who say that the who say that it's not what you can say to them is dude. You were born with some kind of ridiculous metabolism. You're not a normal person. Okay. So yeah, if you do anything of the middle weight lifting and eating you lose all the muscle, but those people are almost always born super lean and really can't I'm gained much fat anyways, so they're not the normal people don't listen to them. Okay, the next question is about testosterone an ant date and it is on 250 milligrams of testosterone a week is once a week injection fine, or should they do twice per week. You can do once per week. Okay testosterone from an ante will definitely stay in your system for one week and you'll have normal testosterone levels all week long from that one testosterone shot. Okay, but it Is very the amount of testosterone that you'll have on certain days of that week from taking that one shot. So I mentioned this earlier in the podcast today that testosterone and Aunt eight Peaks 24 hours after injection. So about 24 hours or so after your injection of 250 milligrams of test and an update, you've got about 25 milligrams or 20 milligrams or so from that shot released in your bloodstream. Okay, and so then for the next three days three or four days So it's pretty similar to that releasing something like, you know, 20 milligrams 18 milligrams 17 milligrams, you know each day from that shot in your blood. Okay, but then after that after that like third or fourth day until like day 5 day 6 day 7 on those days, it starts dropping off, you know more so, you know on day four day five. It's only like 10 milligrams or so, you know, 12 milligrams 10 milligrams, you know day6 they said The something like, you know, six milligrams seven milligrams being released into your blood on those days from that one shot. Okay, and this varies from person to person and the way that they metabolize testosterone. That's why I'm giving you these, you know ranges right now. You can't tell you an exact number because each person is different and their ability to metabolize or destroy breakdown testosterone and the anantha Esther and their blood okay, but those are the regular numbers. So if you can see from from the way that I was just describing that you know, On the first day after your shot you're going to be releasing, you know, at least double the testosterone into your blood from that shot that you release, you know on the seventh day, you know on the seventh day. It's going to be much less reduce released into your blood from that shot. Then you got released on the first day after that shot so you can do it that way and you'll still have natural testosterone, you know a good fine testosterone level. It's not like you're going to have low testosterone, but if you do Twice per week. You get rid of that whole thing and then, you know during the whole week you're getting like, you know, only a variance of a few milligrams released into your blood per day, you know somewhere between you know, 15 to 20 to 25 milligrams somewhere in that range is being re-released into your blood each day of testosterone instead of somewhere between you know, like 5 and 25 milligrams being released each day in your blood. So there's more of a hormonal roller coaster. If you but it's not an extreme hormonal roller coaster, you know, it's a slight effect that you can feel if you're doing it once per week versus twice per week. If you hate doing injections, it's fine just do once per week. If you want to maintain a more stable testosterone level and have a you know, the same what we're what feels like the same level of testosterone in your body every single day. Well, then you'll need even with an amp date to be doing twice a week. The next question is from jimin awake and he says injectable orals versus oral or oh, okay, so you can inject oral antibiotics steroids. What does that mean? Okay. So oral antibiotics steroids are active in your body because they possess a chemical alteration to the hormone called 17 Alpha alkylation, okay. The 17 Alpha alkylation prevents the liver from breaking it down when it goes into your system whenever you take any kind of drug or any kind of hormone any kind of steroid. What happens is there is a vein that leads straight to your liver from your stomach and the drug goes through and passes through that vein into the liver and then the liver processes it. Okay, and mostly destroys it before it can get to your to your blood. That's What the liver does is it breaks things down it breaks down toxins. And so in order to make steroids be able to be taken through your mouth and then be able to get into your bloodstream. The chemists had to do something to the steroids to prevent the liver from breaking them down when they went through that Vein from the stomach into the liver and then they're in the liver. They had to make they had to put something on the steroid to prevent it from being broken down before it could get into the bloodstream into the Nation and the molecule that prevents that prevents the liver from breaking down the steroid and destroying it before it can get into the circulation the blood stream and you know, go find the muscles and everything like that. Is this Melech is this molecule on the steroid called 17 Alpha alkylation that prevents the liver from destroying it before it can get into the body's blood circulation. Okay, so just because it has this 17 Alpha alkylation. Molecule attached to the steroid. That doesn't mean that it can't also be injected. Okay, so even though it can be taken orally it can still be injected like any other steroid hormone. Okay, and it's still very effective if it's injected actually, it's more effective if it's injected, you know for some for something like Winstrol because this is a common injectable but also or okay Winstrol inject and Winstrol oral are both the same chemical, okay? They're both stenos along. That's the chemical name and they both, you know, if you had a vial of injectable Winstrol you could drink that and it would be the same as taking the tablets because it would be taking the same ingredient that is in the same active ingredient that is in the tablets if you drink that vial, okay, but that's not the same as something like like testosterone and ante okay because testosterone and ante, you know you there's no testosterone an empty table. Tablet and that's for a reason that's because an ant they testosterone Anthony does not propose sa 17 alkylation molecule to that steroid. And so if you ate it your liver would destroy it when it went into the liver through the vein from the stomach into the liver. Then the liver would obliterate it and you'd barely get any at all in your blood circulation. Okay, but this it's different with an oral steroid because Oral steroid or any steroid with the 17 of alkylation can withstand the metabolic breakdown processes of the liver so you can either take it in your mouth or you can inject it. Okay, but the reason why it's more infected effective when you inject it is because you bypass that first, it's called first pass metabolism, which is where the chemical goes through the vein from the stomach into the liver and then the liver. The chemical and metabolizing it that's called first pass metabolism. And then it gets to the bloodstream. Okay, if you just put it into your body by injecting it instead of taking it orally well now it doesn't have to go through that first pass liver metabolism instead it goes through the liver once it's already inside of your body and your bloodstream, then it goes through the liver. Okay. So because it didn't have that first pass liver metabolism what that means is that Part of the you know, when even with the 17 Alpha alkylation still some of this steroid gets broken down in metabolized during first pass metabolism. When you orally take a 17 off alkylated steroid part of it still gets destroyed by your liver. Okay, but not much of it, you know, but but it's enough it's something like it's something like, you know, 20 25 percent or so, we'll get destroyed by the liver. But then on the way on the way in on the way into your bloodstream on the way into circulation in your bloodstream, something like 20 25 percent can get destroyed by the liver. But if you inject that same oral steroid, and the way that they do that is that you know, they put the crystals that would be normally in the tablets. They put the crystals in in like sterile water and then you know you inject that sterile water and Crystal solution. Into the muscle and then you know, it didn't have to pass the liver before it could get into your bloodstream instead. You just put it into your bloodstream by putting it into the muscle. So then there is more of it active in your bloodstream. So there's been studies on that measure like taking 50 milligrams of winstrol orally and then taking 50 milligrams of wind straw on an injection and the difference the difference in the the concentration would would generally be something like a 20 to 30 percent increase in the amount of of mass of the stairway that actually got into the circulation from the injection if they injected the same amount as they took orally generally something like 20 to 30 percent more of the active steroid was measured and ended up in the bloodstream when they did when the scientists took measurements on the effects of doing this, okay? So that's the main difference between injecting an oral steroid and in you know taking it through your mouth because once that oral steroid is in your body and it is got that 17 of alkylation, even if you injected it it still is liver toxic. Okay, and your liver still has to break that down. It's just that you were able to put the whole steroid in your body and get it in there without the liver being broken down. So instead of getting, you know part of the steroid from Can orally you get the whole steroid, you know the whole amount of the steroid instead of part of the amount of the steroid because you injected it. So you get the whole amount put into your bloodstream and so, you know / dosage injectable oral antibiotics, like injectable Winstrol for example is stronger than oral when straw at the same dosage the same thing with like injectable Dianabol versus oral Dianabol if you take 50 milligrams of Dianabol inject it's going to be stronger than 50 milligrams of Dianabol taken through your mouth. If you take 50 milligrams of winstrol injected it's going to be stronger than taking 50 milligrams of winstrol through your mouth more ends up in the bloodstream, but it's not less toxic. Okay, the steroid still has to go through the liver and it still has to be broken down there and metabolize there before it can get out of your body and if you look online Case reports of people having you know problems from you know, using oral steroids. There's plenty of examples of people, you know going into the hospital for liver problems from using injectable Winstrol from using injectable Mattia known which is the chemical name for Dianabol K and the same thing with any other these injectable steroids. There's kind of a thought that goes on in the online community of bodybuilders that you know, it's going to be safe if you inject it because then you miss the liver on the way into the body, you know, because you didn't take it in your in your mouth and let it pass through the liver well know that that's not actually correct, you know, once once it gets into your body through an injection, it's still got to go through your liver. It just bypassed that what's called first pass metabolism and instead. It's at a later time metabolized by your liver. It's stronger. You know, it's stronger milligram per milligram. If you take 50 milligrams of inject versus oral they inject is stronger, but it's still toxic. And if you want to confirm that there's plenty of case reports of people injecting oral antibiotics steroids and having you know liver problems liver failure liver disease elevated liver enzymes stuff like that. Okay. Okay having problems is that normal? No, it's not normal to take oral steroids and you know out of nowhere have some liver problems. Okay, but I'm just saying that don't think that because you inject the oral steroid that it's like oh it's not toxic or something. No, it's still toxic the main thing that you get from injecting it versus taking it through your mouth is that you get more of the milligrams into your body for a for the same dosage. So it's more effective. Okay, it's more effective. If you take the same amount of milligrams of oral or inject. The inject is more effective. That's the main effect of oral steroids taking them through your mouth versus injecting them in an intramuscular injection. If you would like your questions to be answered on the steroids podcast go to steroids podcast.com and leave a comment with your questions or email or private message steroids podcast at gmail.com or steroids podcast on Instagram until next time.
Oral Steroids Effects - The Steroids Podcast Episode 21  ask questions for the show - https://steroidspodcast.com Inquire about consultation and training Steroidspodcast@gmail.com   0:00 Mood Disorders or Mood Swings on Steroids 3:30 Difference between Long Acting and Short Acting Injectable Steroids Esters 5:20 Most Bodybuilders with Freaky Physiques take Injections every day 6:20 Indicators of High Estrogen Levels 12:40 Social Paranoia Increased by Anabolic Steroids 15:00 Testosterone Levels after PCT at 400ng/dl and Low Sex Hormone Binding Glubulin 16:15 How the "Normal Testosterone Level" reference range in the Medical Industry was created 20:00 How SHBG Sex-Hormone-Binding-Globulin affects free testosterone levels 25:12 How to Reduce SHBG Levels 30:17 Trenbolone is Immune to SHBG and Cannot Bind to It 33:58 Thyroid Hormone Levels vs Prolactin Levels and Sex Drive 34:40 High Blood Pressure Medications Do Not Belong in Bodybuilding and are an Indicator of Drug Abuse 36:30 Normal Components of Most Modern People's Lives that Increase Blood Pressure 41:50 Cialis and Blood Pressure (Penis Medication) 43:40 Do the Muscles that grow around your Face and Skull go away after you stop taking steroids or Cruise 47:20 Can You use Metformin on TRT 49:55 Metformin Shines as a Weight Loss Agent 51:40 Effects of Cardio Activity of Fat Loss 53:00 For Someone taking 250mg Testosterone Per Week is Once Weekly Injections ok or are Twice Weekly testosterone Injections Required 56:30 Injectable Oral Steroids Liver Toxicity Effects and Chemistry of 17 alpha alkylated Oral Anabolic Steroids   This Podcast is for entertainment and conversational purposes only. This author does not support the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs. If any substances mentioned in this video are illegal in your country do not use them. Consult a doctor before beginning any exercise or supplement routine. Do not take anything mentioned in this video as advice. It is simply conversation, not advice. 