I didn't say that it didn't work... because it works really well. That doesn't change the fact that it does come with many drawbacks. For many, the sides aren't worth dealing with.
First off you'll have the stuff I mentioned above. You risk further chance of injury if you're using it to help cure joint problems. If you're runnin winny, and use nandrolone to help cure the stiffness and discomfort... you're really at risk. Winny causes overstimulation of the collagenase enzyme and this leads to weak, inelastic, brittle connective tissues. This is why your joints start to ache. If you're using nandrolone to cover that up... then you're really risking injury cuz your connective tissue is in bad shape and you can't tell. A few weeks post cycle and your joint pains will come back and more often than not, worse than they were before you started your cycle.
Next, nandrolone cross binds to the progesterone receptor. Again... you can't use winny to combat this for reasons I just stated. If you use some bromo or something like that... you're gonna feel like crap and have no sex drive whatsoever. Talk about deca dick... heh heh.
Now the another drawback is the hyooge detection time. The long halflife contributes to the fact that the metabolites are around for forever. The long halflife also contributes to the fact that nandrolone is THE most suppressive AAS to the HPTA that there is. Even a single 200mg injection can shut down GnRH production in about a week.
Lastly, and most important of all... recovery is a bitch. Standard recovery drugs don't do dick with nandrolone in your system. Nandrolone tends to desensitize the leydig cells to pituitary hormones. This means that even post cycle, if the HPTA is no longer inhibited and is producting FSH/LH in plenty of volume... the leydig cells don't really do much of anything. This is also why HCG doesn't do dick (or much less than it normally does) while/after using nandrolone. It can take several months before the desensitization passes, and then several more months for test levels to come back to normal after that. Right there is the reason you see so many people saying they feel like crap post cycle for months and months... or they just do their 8 weeks off and hit the gear again so they get back their sex drive and fire in the gym.
In my opinion, nandrolone is for use by experienced/elite bodybuilders only. If you're gonna be running an extended cycle (20 weeks or more), then go ahead and pump yourself full of nandrolone initially. You should frontload it pretty heavily, and then just run with a maintenance dose for a few weeks... cuz the halflife is forever long. That's probably the best way to use nandrolone. Then you drop it after a brief peried... and from then on out you have plenty of time for it's effects to wear off. You're still getting all the benefits of nandrolone (namely that it does pack on meat really well) and cuz you're still on the gear while the leydig desensitizaion wears off, you're still growing and progressing with the other stuff... come recovery time, HCG and all the rest should work just as usual.
I'm sure that after plenty of experience, through trial and error, most of the guys that have been in the game for a while have come to this same conclusion on their own. Am I right?
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