@iron_yuppie has 2 tendencies on this forum that follow him in almost every comment… First one is, that he likes to make everything sound way worse than it is. He is the guy who wouldnt recomend you vitamin C because if you read the WORSE POSSIBLE side effects of vitamin C it actually says - joint pain, weakness, blood in urine, vaginal cramps for women etc.
In reality, almost no one has those side effects but he doesnt know because he has never taken it.
And second one is - he always writes stuff that looks like a copy of wikipedia but he never actually says anything real about his experience. Like how much, what, when, how and what did happen to him when he did it? I am pretty sure by now, he has never used half the stuff he writes about so surely so his steroid advice is like looking up some web md and finding out you probably have cancer because you sneezed once.
All in all, not hating, just stating the obvious that under all those copy-paste articles, there is no real experience, but - some of the stuff is good, and so is this one advice :
This is correct and i do agree…
Then i can only share MY OWN real experience with the stuff, without copying anything off the internet :
As he mentioned, yes, EQ does lower e2, but in MY EXPERIENCE it does not kill it. I cant give you cool sounding studies, i can only tell you what it does to me :
So my lab e2 normal range is 0-39… My e2 on 400mg of test with AI etc is around 38… adding 700mgs of EQ lowered my e2 to 29, so exactly 10 points or around 25%…
Sure, everyone reacts different, and you do need to do bloodwork regulary of course, but i wouldnt be so rush to yell scarry words like - KILLS your e2… It does lower… does not kill…
I would like to see @iron_yuppie bloodwork without EQ and then 6 weeks into his EQ blast but im sure he has never taken it, so all you have is my experience with it…
Also, killing e2 is not actually a big deal… You drop the AI and it will double and double and double every week till its back. Again - MY EXPERIENCE, i can just take double dose of test, and my e2 is higher in 3-5 days.
The problem would be only if you on your test cycle without any AI are at low levels of e2… like 10 out of 40, and then you do EQ whichs nukes off the last 10 you had, and then you have a problem, because EQ doesnt clear for a while… but also then you could just double the test…
As far as real advice on EQ goes - if you are not e2 sensitive, fuck EQ… you know whats better than 400mg of test and 800mg of EQ? 1g of test.
Again, no studies, no fancy copy-paste, only my experience and my phisique pictures are on the other tread, so you can look at me and think if i look like i can tell what works and what doesnt.
I cant handle test, my E2 is sky high with tons of AI if i go over 400mgs of test, so i HAVE TO TAKE EQ…
EQ is a shittier version of test which does not fuck your e2 and maybe even helps with it, if that is an issue.
If you dont have this problem, there is no need to take a weaker compound just for the fuck of it.
If i could, i would switch my 400mgs of test and 700mgs of EQ to just 875-1000mgs of test.
But for you - 500mgs of test as a cycle is enough tho, and here i again, have to agree with internet science.