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Week 1: 10mg daily
Week 2: 15mg daily
Week 3-6: 20mg daily (140mg weekly dose)
I used 10mg of Mike Arnold's Cardarine (pill form) first thing every morning during the 6 weeks to prevent any potential lipid issues.
The sponsor I used for trest is IA SuperPharma
Results seem to be solid. Didn't change my diet or training (full body EOD and HIIT or some form of moderate cardio post weights). Weight is roughly the same, a few pounds heavier, but it looks like I have lost fat. The lipolysis effects stand out to me more than anything. I'm more vascular and feel like I look a little bigger/better. Nothing dramatic but I used a low dose so I feel like I got what I expected. I do look better visually. Strength up from what it was on just TRT. I feel and look like a beast. I am sure if this was my first cycle, the results would be more dramatic.
I remained on my 20mg test cyp TRT the whole time. I did not use an AI, however, I am taking 250mg DIM per day for natural estrogen regulation. I did not notice any estrogenic symptoms. No gyno or bloating at all.
Ok here is the fascinating part: My LDL IMPROVED compared to before I started from 137 to 97. My HDL, however, is down slightly from 45 to 37...Cardarine is some seriously crazy stuff when it comes to just lipid numbers. This is the second time I noticed lipids improvements when taking it, but last time I tested it when I wasn't using anything that would harm my lipids.
I DID NOT test the most important cholesterol stuff, like LDL-P, APO-B, etc. because I didn't feel like spending the money to check those again when I had them tested already not long ago. I recently scored a calcium score of 0 so I am not terribly worried about coronary plaque at the moment.
Bad: hematocrit is a little higher.
I believe I am using real trest because I had to double my dose of BP meds since my BP and HR were showing signs of increase at first. Now they are what they were before on twice the amount of BP meds (Telmisartan and Bystolic). I never allow by systolic BP number to get above 115-118 or my resting HR to exceed 65 and will take the necessary steps to ensure that. I am crazy about my health, and specifically heart health, so I'm not playing around with my blood pressure.
Side note: I switched brands of astragalus from Vitamin Shoppe to Nusapure and am using a lower dose (unintentionally) and my eGFR went down to 84. This is for those of you paying attention to the Astragalus thread. Nusapure is a scam company that tries to trick us into thinking we are using higher doses of astragalus than we are. Stay away.
Week 2: 15mg daily
Week 3-6: 20mg daily (140mg weekly dose)
I used 10mg of Mike Arnold's Cardarine (pill form) first thing every morning during the 6 weeks to prevent any potential lipid issues.
The sponsor I used for trest is IA SuperPharma
Results seem to be solid. Didn't change my diet or training (full body EOD and HIIT or some form of moderate cardio post weights). Weight is roughly the same, a few pounds heavier, but it looks like I have lost fat. The lipolysis effects stand out to me more than anything. I'm more vascular and feel like I look a little bigger/better. Nothing dramatic but I used a low dose so I feel like I got what I expected. I do look better visually. Strength up from what it was on just TRT. I feel and look like a beast. I am sure if this was my first cycle, the results would be more dramatic.
I remained on my 20mg test cyp TRT the whole time. I did not use an AI, however, I am taking 250mg DIM per day for natural estrogen regulation. I did not notice any estrogenic symptoms. No gyno or bloating at all.
Ok here is the fascinating part: My LDL IMPROVED compared to before I started from 137 to 97. My HDL, however, is down slightly from 45 to 37...Cardarine is some seriously crazy stuff when it comes to just lipid numbers. This is the second time I noticed lipids improvements when taking it, but last time I tested it when I wasn't using anything that would harm my lipids.
I DID NOT test the most important cholesterol stuff, like LDL-P, APO-B, etc. because I didn't feel like spending the money to check those again when I had them tested already not long ago. I recently scored a calcium score of 0 so I am not terribly worried about coronary plaque at the moment.
Bad: hematocrit is a little higher.
I believe I am using real trest because I had to double my dose of BP meds since my BP and HR were showing signs of increase at first. Now they are what they were before on twice the amount of BP meds (Telmisartan and Bystolic). I never allow by systolic BP number to get above 115-118 or my resting HR to exceed 65 and will take the necessary steps to ensure that. I am crazy about my health, and specifically heart health, so I'm not playing around with my blood pressure.
Side note: I switched brands of astragalus from Vitamin Shoppe to Nusapure and am using a lower dose (unintentionally) and my eGFR went down to 84. This is for those of you paying attention to the Astragalus thread. Nusapure is a scam company that tries to trick us into thinking we are using higher doses of astragalus than we are. Stay away.