Let’s imagine you chose to bite the bullet and take a chance. You decided to finish an anabolic steroid course. You obtained them in the gym, along with all the guidance you need. You understand how and when to take them.
Unfortunately, it is not as easy to stop using steroids if you change your mind. Since it’s difficult to quit using steroids abruptly, you shouldn’t.
Completing a second course called “post cycle therapy” (or PCT for short) might be very beneficial. Everyone avoids the “post-cycle crash” as much as possible. This phrase refers to a decline in natural hormone synthesis following a steroid cycle.
For instance, taking Anavar or Tren causes your body to cease naturally generating hormones. This implies that after you stop using steroids, there will be a time when no hormones are created or artificially introduced into your system. As a result, androgen levels are reduced while corticosteroid levels are maintained. Your freshly developed muscle tissue may start to disintegrate because you lack enough androgens to offset the effects of corticosteroids, which break down muscle (catabolic) processes.
By the time your body realises there is a problem and starts producing hormones once more, the damage may have been done.
The science underlying a PCT and the several medications required is quite intricate. The three primary medications, Clomid, Nolvadex, and Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG), must be understood, though. These three medications make up a whole PCT. By themselves, Clomid and Nolvadex are insufficient to boost natural testosterone production. They will most likely be remembered as HCG-supporting medications.
Prescription fertility medication HCG imitates luteinizing hormone (LH). Because we may inject as much of this medicine as necessary to shock the testes into generating testosterone more quickly, it is successful. As a result, the rate of catabolism (muscle breakdown) will be slowed.
So, at this point, we are aware of the medications we require for a thorough PCT and only enough about them to comprehend their potential significance. We must now learn how to take them.
Unexpectedly, there aren’t many PCT protocols published in medical publications. 19 young men who had been using Nandrolone for 12 weeks were examined as part of another programme called PoWeR (Programme for Wellness Restoration). The following medications made up the PCT that was administered to them.
- On the day after the last dosage of steroids, Nolvadex was administered for 45 days.
- On the day following the last dosage of steroids, clomid was taken for 30 days.
- The day following the last dosage of steroids, HCG was administered for 16 days.
It’s understandable if you assumed a PCT would be a little bit shorter than this, lasting around a week or something like that, but sadly, this isn’t the case. Your body is finally able to balance out hormonal abnormalities after a long period. You might be shocked to learn that the medications you need to finish the PCT might cost just as much as the steroids, which can be hard on your wallet.
Before experimenting with the world of steroid use, it is preferable in every way to look into the alternatives, especially in light of the market’s recent creation of healthy, safe, and efficient substitutes.
