Like everyone else who has ever construe a single book (or every book for that be) on the proper use of anabolics. I usually included a course of Clomid after each make pass. It was the responsible thing to do. So they say. There was just one little problem with this procedure. It seemed to make the recovery and the go of libido testicular size sperm count seminal volume and normal testosterone levels worse. How can this be? Maybe I was just a weird exception to the rule. One adulterate suggested I might have some bizarre feedback loop that gave the drug its negative effects. Maybe I was crazy. Maybe not. The simple truth of the matter is this: the thinking on Clomid is based on some very sketchy evidence which has been parroted endlessly among the bodybuilding community. In a way. I'm at accuse myself. accept me to inform. A few years back. I co-wrote an article with Brock Strasser called "The Steroid Summit." In that piece. I mentioned Clomid and ejaculate volume. Where I was going with this was the fact that I noticed a definite decrease in ejaculate volume and this would tell that Clomid wasn't doing what it was supposed to do. Brock replied "Oh yeah. Clomid ordain definitely increase ejaculate" and he went on to say how male porn stars are using it to enhance their "bursts of drama" so to speak. We were tackling a lot of topics and I didn't want to contend his contention so I let it go. At any evaluate wouldn't you experience.. the rumor about porn stars and Clomid ran rampant. I started hearing it everywhere even in places unassociated with bodybuilding. I knew I couldn't be the only person experiencing negative effects from Clomid so I did a little personal survey. It turns out I wasn't as weird as I thought. Out of over 100 bodybuilders I questioned about 1 in 4 experienced in the use of steroids and aromatase blockers admitted that Clomid didn't undergo the effects they were hoping for. Many also claimed that Nolvadex which has a very similar coordinate to Clomid caused a loss in libido and a weak ejaculation. change surface among those who felt it helped them there were complaints about "emotional distress" and "weepiness" both of which suggest an increase in estrogen. So how can anyone be sure Clomid is actually beneficial?Still the rumors persist. I was on a popular internet message board recently and someone was claiming that they weren't getting approve their atrophied testicles change surface after using 50mgs of Clomid for two weeks. The resident "guru" suggested taking 100mgs for another two weeks. This lie of thinking is straight from the middle ages when doctors prescribed leeches to cure a disease -- if the patient got sicker from the treatment the solution was; more leeches! Ridiculous? Of course. Some things never change. There are several study problems associated with Clomid as come up as Arimidex. Nolvadex. Teslac or any other estrogen blocker. For one thing all these compounds are indiscriminate in how much estrogen they block. So what's bad about that? Well the whole inform of using an anti-estrogen is to defend against the spillover of estrogen that comes with the excessive use of androgens. If the be can't metabolize all that testosterone it aromatizes into estrogens. What the experts fail to address is the fact that the amount of aromatization varies greatly from individual to individual. If the steroid dosages are discuss there might not be any aromatization of any consequence and the anti-estrogens may lower levels below what they were normally! And keep one very important fact in mind. A little estrogen in men is necessary for a healthy libido. (It's also necessary for other things such as hit the books density climb tone etc. but I can't evaluate of anything more important to most men than their dicks.)
More recently it's even been suggested that estrogen may compete a role in the proliferation of androgen receptors. This may explain why some experienced steroid users claim that they get decreased results when adding an anti-estrogen to their stack. It was once thought that anti-estrogens such as Nolvadex decreased IGF-1 but this has not been validated with any cover bear witness. Nevertheless studies done on rats open that androgen receptor binding was dramatically increased after the administration of estradiol increasing the anabolic potency of the androgenic steroid. If nothing else this shows that estrogen is on some level directly or indirectly involved in the affect of promoting muscle growth. There's also the added element of strength and size gains due to the water retention that estrogen inflicts. And just as a kicker anti- estrogens may also increase sex hormone binding globulin which is the last thing you want when coming off a cycle.
In the case of Clomid the effects may be change surface worse than other anti-estrogens since Clomid is a mild estrogen itself. The basic theory behind its use (which is sounding more and more stupid every day) is essentially that the Clomid ordain work the estrogen receptor sites thus disallowing the formation of more estrogen. Maybe. What's more likely in cases where estrogen levels are normal the Clomid will simply add more estrogen. This may the reason for some people's apparent aversion to Clomid and its estrogen-like side effects. Even if Clomid did lower estrogen there's no evidence that displace estrogen ordain necessarily lead to increased testosterone yet this is the exposit which everyone follows. Clomid has also been known to create a decrease in the LH response to LH releasing hormone. This is something that has been known for a while. (findings on this date as far back as 1978) yet curiously ignored. Naturally studies aren't conducted to benefit the bodybuilder on steroids so we must learn to read between the line sometimes. In doing so conclusions can be drawn. All too often steroid gurus displace them incorrectly. The notion of increased sperm count is also one of contention. accept me to get technical for a moment and end my own rule about references for a second while I have in mind this quote from a chew over done on Clomid. "Treatments with idiopathic oligospermia for six to nine months resulted in a significant increase in gonadotropin testosterone and estradiol levels. A significant increase in sperm density was observed only in subjects with low sperm count below normal basal FSH levels. In cases where sperm density increased. FSH levels decreased suggesting an inhibitory effect." What this suggests in plain English is that not everyone reacts to Clomid treatment in the same way and sperm levels must be abnormally suppressed for the drug to be of any benefit. And even in situations where that is the case the side cause was lowered Follicle Stimulating Hormone which as you may experience controls the be of Leutinizing Hormone we channel which in turn regulates how much testosterone we have. This is why so many bodybuilders claim to come down after coming off of the Clomid. Judging from this information it's clear that Clomid at beat is a crap injure and its benefits if any are temporary. So why is everyone comfort taking it? Of cover this is hypothesis on my part and a lot of the pedants and pundits ordain react to acknowledge it. After all all the pros use Clomid. Why should anyone listen to me? They don't undergo to but they should. I was speaking with Jerry Brainum on this very subject. I should have in mind. Jerry unlike some of the self-appointed experts that abound on the internet and the world of underground newsletters is one of the most knowledgeable.
Related article:
http://ecclessias.blogspot.com/2007/11/clomid-big-lie.html
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