[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Frankly it scares me worse than injecting (trace amounts of) estradiol benzoate does though. Could be irrational, I admit.[/quote]
I don’t think it is irrational. I presume you are aware that a male contraceptive pill is being developed ? It is made up of testosterone and progestin. It is likely to become available in the UK and Europe first.
Just a brief extract I came across:
"David Handelsman
Yes. In fact, the male and female systems, hormonal contraception works on very similar principals in men and women. And that’s why in fact we can use progestones quite effectively in men to switch off sperm and testosterone production. But then as in women, they have to get oestrogen back - men, we have to give back testosterone.
Narration
It turns out that if you inject men with the right amount of progesterone - the same hormone in the female pill - sperm production falls to zero. But so does testosterone - which is what makes men men. So the testosterone has to be put back. It’s not a very appealing procedure. But Handelsman’s trials show that it works. What he needs is a company to turn this prototype method into a product that men would actually want to use."
So given how they seriously they screwed up with us, specially with that Depro-Provera endicrinological bomb, I don’t think your fears are unfounded.
Again, there is little research with natural progesterone and men because it is not profitable.
There have been reports of men experiencing great benefits from applying natural progesterone cream on their pre-menopausal partners - that is where the cream benefits for men came more into light.
My supplier advertises the progesterone injections ( obviously synthetic, as my rash, which is still unfolding on my face, testifies to ) for men like this:
" * Appetite and weight loss in AIDS and cancer patients
* Lack of Libido
* Men with BPH (swelling of the prostate) and other male related problems will appreciate the speed of relief with progesterone "
The men who attend this forum are well supplied of and know better about injecting testosterone than any doctor, so as long as you guys are topped up on the test and stay away from progestin, natural progesterone at low doses might open the door to balancing your organism specially from steroid cycles ( You are correct about the nastiness of progestin based compounds; I don’t think men should use it. I don’t think women should use it but we have already been and continuously are ‘ran over by the bus’ of contraceptive pills so it is “ok” for us ).
I see potential for Biotest to come up with a natural progesterone cream ( like that 11-T supplement ) to counteract side effects like you and I are experiencing with this rash, for instance. Or even the acne from AAS use; natural progesterone cream when applied on the face is supposed to have excellent results on complexion. What if small natural progesterone cream could be used in conjunction with AAS use? If you get the right ratio, could you reap the best of both progesterone and testosterone combined? Could it lessen estrogen rebound?
Could the use of peptides like GHRP and IGF-1 and even rHGH be synergistically improved, or side effects counter balanced by a natural progesterone cream?
Bill Roberts, you have homework.
Makes us proud.
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