I just came off a tren cycle. I started at 10mg ED for the first week, and went to 20mg ED for week 2. In both weeks my sleep was horrific. I was going to tap out, but a friend suggested upping my dose, so I went to 350mg per week then slowly came back down. I immediately got great sleep in that first week – in fact no sides at all. …

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Steven-

You can get all of that information from ChatGpt brother. You are asking a lot. I am curious though, what part of this regimen do you see will be helping your muscle growth axis? This is just a bunch of peptides and doesnt even include CJC or Ipa which would be common for the muscle growth part, certainly in my experience.

You would…

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Thanks Peter.

If the source is normally legit, its likely carrier oil. I have different colors too, but some are in MCT and some are in a different oil and look darker.

Hi,

I am almost ready to begin my next cycle of 500 test/250 npp. I have gone as high as 700mg of test in the past but only for a short burst, and been stable at 400mg test. To begin this cycle, I could start slow, go from 250mg test (current) to 300 for a week, then perhaps 400 and then finally 500. Similar with the NPP. I have…

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Ha great idea!

Thanks Clare.

I am traveling to Sydney in October and would welcome connecting.

Nick.

Meg,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Your suggestion of going for 4 weeks as an assessment is very practical. I pull bloods every 4 weeks as I push up doses anyway so this would be a no-drama, sensible approach.

I admit I wasnt expecting your last suggestion, though it makes a lot of sense too – if I need an AI then look for something else. …

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Ryan-

Thanks for the response. I was worried about the NPP load too. I definitely want to try NPP with test for my bulk, if I can manage the estrogen problem. I have aromasin on hand and I also have some EQ/mast and primo. I suspect I aromatize well given the high e2 number so 500mg test alone is going to push that, before the NPP even though…

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Hi,

This is definitely a basic question, that I realize I have leaned on my coaches for direction on in the past.

First, in the US the ref range is something like 20-40 pg/ml according to Google, but my Good Labs report says the range is 0-29 which doesnt correlate.

A few months back on 400mg of test cyp, my total test was 2487, free was…

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Thanks Peter.

Henry have you considered MOTs-C instead, given its more focused AMPK/Insulin-sensitivity impact without the problems that come with metformin?

Nick.

Thanks Phoebe; appreciate you responding. I was definitely nervous after such a good push up to the surgery, and I am now thankful most of what was lost is likely water and maybe a little muscle but nothing deleterious it seems. The advice here was priceless.

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Thanks Louis. This is all encouraging – I think I may have seen a video with Dorian Yates where he says you lose it all, though I dont recall if he factored in a cruise dose of ~200mg. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I have definitely learnt something here.

Thanks Ryan. When you say you came off everything, I am guessing that means PCT to zero injectables, and no TRT?

I went onto TRT when I hit 50 because my testosterone was a disaster, perhaps after perma-fasting for too many years. Its good to know that ~200mg allowed you to maintain a lot of your tissue produced on much bigger doses -…

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The dieting advice here makes a lot of sense. Admittedly I was thinking I would need to reduce some calories, but the more I think about it, if the mission is max-muscle-retention, then some fluff is part of the mission.

For training volume, I currently follow JP’s Upper/Lower, 2 set regimen, 4x a week. Would dropping to just 1 intense set…

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Thanks Allison, your advice was very helpful.

Sasan, thanks for this. Am I on the right track, if I think of it like a push, gain muscle tissue, cruise and lose some, but still holding onto some new muscle tissue, just not 100%, with the idea being once health is back inline, pushing again and thus slowly building on the real muscle tissue gains over time. For example, I start at…

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Hi-

I am unable to get the search facility to help look if this has been covered, apologies if it has.

I am educating myself on the realistic expectations and methods for keeping gains. I am on TRT+ of 200-250mg. I am intending to go onto a cycle of 500mg test, 250 NPP. Doing my research, I see people stating that once you return to a…

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Wanted to give an update. Surgery was July 1st. My original starting weight, after previously dropping my testosterone to 200mg/wk, was 162lb from 166lb on 400mg/wk. I did the surgery and within a week dropped to 154lb. Once I could workout, about 10 days later, I upped my test to 250mg/wk after my bloodwork looked great, and I am back…

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Thank you – I will keep you posted. Day 1 post-op has been very painful but i am getting my calories in which is great.

Thanks again,

Nick.

Sasan/Marc-

Thank you for your very helpful advice and encouragement. I am going to take that advice for maintenance calories -~5% too. I completely forgot to mention I am on 2mg of Reta, so I am leaning on it a little too.

This was super helpful and put my anxiety at bay. Thank you guys.

Nick.

Hi, first post here. I did search but the tool isnt great – apologies if this has been explained somewhere.

I finished a 400mg/test cyp+3IU of HGH cycle – 14 weeks, approximately 3 weeks ago. I grew from 151lb to 165lb but have now come back to 161lb. I dropped my test to 200mg too, to get all my bloodwork dialed in.

Today I had a…

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