I went back up to school this past weekend to hit the bar scene and catch up with some old friends. Ran into a friend, recent PHD Grad in Chem, and he noticed the LBM I’d put on over the summer. He asked what I had done. Told him I had upped my protein, plus through in some 4-Androstenediol and Tribex. He flipped when I told him I took the 4-AD. He proceeded to tell me that any “diol” will basically suck water from your system. He recommended androstenedione. I told him hell no, I wouldn’t take a substance that would potentially aromatize more to estrogen than T. He said, “Well, I’d rather get a little bitch tits to me than have a dry fucking liver”. What the fuck was he getting at? I’m convinced that 4-AD gave me hella better results than any AndrosteneDIONE I’ve taken in the past, but what gives? Any truth to these statements?
Your friend’s “theories” have zero basis
in fact, and zero basis of any kind.
Either he was TRULY drunk and actually
believed what he was saying, or he
may know a lot about atoms, molecules,
and how to make them react but nothing
about anything to do with the human body,
or he was pulling your leg. What he said
is just not true.
Your friend doesn’t have a deep understanding of what he’s reading. I’ve taken biochemistry and endocrinology, and a shit load of other science courses (at the undergrad level). These textbooks, which I’m sure are written by brilliant PHDs, always present steriods as causing impotence and liver damage. In reality, Deca and Anabol can cause those respecitively but there’s dozens of steriods/hormones that don’t cause those side effects. In short, academia has a chip on it’s shoulder when it comes to steriods and not coincidently is grossly ignorant of the facts.