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PrimobolanComplete info about Primobolan
Primobolan is one of those anabolic steroids with a cult following not unlike the old original version of Masteron. Actually, as you can easily see from it's anabolic/ androgenic ratio, it's a pretty weak steroid—but actually stronger(!) than Masteron in both regards. We are probably justified in speculating that you'd probably get similar results from either of them, when you consider the fact that you are getting quite a bit less actual drug and more ester when you choose injectable Primobolan (which has the very, long enanthate ester attached to it) over Masteron (which has the very short propionate ester attached to it). I happen to be one of the few people who have used drostanolone enanthate (Masteron with the enanthate ester attached) as well as methenolone enanthate (injectable Primobolan). The results from these two compounds, when ester and mg potency are the same, are in fact very similar. One study performed on sheep involved administering 100mgs of Methenolone, and electronically stimulating their lats (electronic stimulation was used because they kept falling off the chin-up bars). Anyway, when compared with the control group, the group receiving the drug gained significantly more muscle mass as well as strength (1)(2). It also has a relatively high affinity for binding to the AR, actually binding better than testosterone (3). This ability to strongly bind to the AR may be why Primobolan is such a good "fat burner." Strong AR binding has been positively correlated with lypolysis (fat-burning) (8). Although nobody would ever suggest to use Primobolan as a bulking agent, it's been studied as an agent to halt wasting and possibly reverse many of the adverse effects of anemia. It is a shocking failure in both areas, according to some of the case studies I've read (5)(6), and this should come to no surprise to anyone. Anadrol reigns supreme in this area, and nobody in the athletic community would ever compare those two drugs. However, Michael Mooney and many other respected doctors who work with AIDS patients have found sufficient evidence to claim that Primobolan is an immune enhancer and as such is very useful for AIDS patients. AIDS patients aren't really in need of bulking drugs, so an immune enhancer like Primo which will add small, quality gains in muscle is perfect for them. And since we aren't even going to vaguely consider the use of Primobolan as a bulking agent, clearly this leaves us with considering it primarily for use in gaining and maintaining lean tissue. It's a great choice for this purpose, and many competitors have used it very successfully to retain muscle while on a reduced-calorie diet. The reason Primo is so useful for this purpose is that one of it's primary functions is to help your body retain nitrogen (7) at a greatly enhanced rate. The greater your nitrogen retention, the more muscle you will build. In the case of using primo as a pre-contest drug, this nitrogen retention will help you retain muscle and ensure that your dieting preferentially favors fat loss over muscle loss. Primobolan is a very unique steroid, as it is one of the few that comes in both an oral as well as an injectable version. Winstrol does also, but Primobolan actually has a different ester on the oral (acetate) and injectable (enanthate) versions. The oral version is one of the more interesting oral compounds. For starters, it's one of the few compounds available to athletes and bodybuilders that is both oral as well as non-17-alpha-alkylation. This alteration is what generally makes oral steroids survive their first pass through your liver, but also makes them hepatoxic (liver-toxic). Oral Primo doesn't have this feature, so it is very mild on your liver (actually it basically isn't liver toxic at all), but also is largely destroyed by it, since 17 beta esterification and 1 alkylation is the method used to make this stuff orally available. You'll need to take a lot of this stuff for it to be effective: 100mgs/day of the oral version is a safe estimate for reasonable gains. Women can get away with less, perhaps 25mgs/day. Even though the acetate ester has a 2-3 day active life, your liver will do some damage to oral primo, so every day dosing will still be necessary. When men were given a 30-45mg dose of the oral version of Primo, they experienced a 15-65% decrease in gonadotropin levels (9). Remember, I said 100mgs is a good dose for gains—well, you'll also reduce your gonadotropin levels considerably. It is har to understand why people recommend either oral or injectable Primobolan as a possible bridging compound for this reason. Maybe at a too-low-to-do-anything dose of 10mgs it could be used as a bridge. And forget about using injectable Primo to bridge. Generally, injectable primo needs to be used at a dose of at least 350mgs/week (100mgs/ every other day), and preferably at a dose of 400-600mgs/week. The unfortunate truth about injectable Primo is that it's a very expensive chemical to obtain, and that price is reflected in the cost to the average consumer. As if that's not enough, this is also one of the most commonly counterfeited steroids on the black market. Here's how your body metabolizes methenolone: References:
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