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Most of the bro-science on the internet claims that masteron's ability to bind SHBG, freeing up more of the other sex hormones to be unbound (test included) is a good thing. In my experience and to my knowledge, this is not necessarily true.
Masteron seems to take the desirable "edge" off of testosterone. I find that everytime I use masteron, I get an initial surge in libido and sense of well-being with a gradual decline to follow.
I am currently running 700mg Test Prop per week, with 350mg Mast prop per week. Libido has flattened out, the "alpha-testosterone" feeling is gone, I look dry and hard, but not very full. My joints are a bit achy and very crackly.
Most would chime in right away and say "low E2." While I agree with this, I do believe that masteron is also lowering my total usable testosterone. This is contradictory to what most read on the net, but here's an example:
When TRT is administered to patients with low SHBG, they tend not to respond. Yes low SHBG will increase free testosterone, but people assume that this is good. I think the opposite.
Masteron seems to make testosterone work more poorly, not better in my experience, due to lowering SHBG, increasing free testosterone (not as desirable as many think) and lowering total bound testosterone and estrogens (E2 included).
I've done labs to show that when on 350mg test prop per week and 700mg masteron prop per week, my total T was only 1300, E2 at 20 and free test very high (don't remember the number). At this time my libido was decent, but felt tired all the time and couldn't get erections for the life of me.
I like the effects that DHT/Masteron has on hardening my physique, lowering subq water and boosting libido (which only happens acutely upon starting masteron), but I feel like I may go back to test + AI instead of test + mast. Test + AI should still tip the balance toward DHT conversion and ideally wouldn't do some of these undesirable things that masteron seems to doing.
Masteron seems to take the desirable "edge" off of testosterone. I find that everytime I use masteron, I get an initial surge in libido and sense of well-being with a gradual decline to follow.
I am currently running 700mg Test Prop per week, with 350mg Mast prop per week. Libido has flattened out, the "alpha-testosterone" feeling is gone, I look dry and hard, but not very full. My joints are a bit achy and very crackly.
Most would chime in right away and say "low E2." While I agree with this, I do believe that masteron is also lowering my total usable testosterone. This is contradictory to what most read on the net, but here's an example:
When TRT is administered to patients with low SHBG, they tend not to respond. Yes low SHBG will increase free testosterone, but people assume that this is good. I think the opposite.
Masteron seems to make testosterone work more poorly, not better in my experience, due to lowering SHBG, increasing free testosterone (not as desirable as many think) and lowering total bound testosterone and estrogens (E2 included).
I've done labs to show that when on 350mg test prop per week and 700mg masteron prop per week, my total T was only 1300, E2 at 20 and free test very high (don't remember the number). At this time my libido was decent, but felt tired all the time and couldn't get erections for the life of me.
I like the effects that DHT/Masteron has on hardening my physique, lowering subq water and boosting libido (which only happens acutely upon starting masteron), but I feel like I may go back to test + AI instead of test + mast. Test + AI should still tip the balance toward DHT conversion and ideally wouldn't do some of these undesirable things that masteron seems to doing.
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