[quote]NewDamage wrote:
Now to hijack this too much, but…
1)There is no guarantee someone at 18 is still cranking out massive levels of testosterone, anymore. More and more young men are even showing up hypogonadal.
2)Optimal test levels at 18 should still be within the physiological range. While throughout puberty there may certainly be spikes which cause levels to rise into the technical supraphysiological range, its not as if testosterone is hovering at 5000 ng/dl or higher, as is seen with steroid usage.
3)Testosterone levels are not the final word. There are other metabolites of testoterone which drugs may elevate which may be more or less anabolic or androgenic than testosterone itself. For instance, MAG-10 jacked up 1-testosterone levels to something like 9000 ng/dl, and 1-test is more anabolic than testosterone.
So, its not as if at 18 you won’t get any benefit from prohormone usage, depending on the hormones which are elevated - you should still be able to achieve supraphysiological levels far beyond what, even optimally, you should be churning out at that age, which will give you amplified results.
The issue really becomes more about safety and endocrine development. There is no guarantee one’s endocrine system is fully stabilized at that age (in some it may be, in some it might not be.) Taking prohormones during endocrine development is most likely not a wise idea.
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EXACTLY. It’s not that prohormones wouldn’t have benefits at any age. Of COURSE they would. They bring hormones to supraphysiological levels, and that is the whole pointm of them. These are steroids, not endogenous T boosters and it doesn’t matter how young someone is or if they’re firing on all cylinders.
With proper training and, they’ll benefit greatly [as far as strength and size goes]. I don’t know how people could not understand this. The issue is exactly what ND said. Many people’s endocrine system is not fully developed at 18, and there is no guarantee you wouldn’t be doing permanent damage.