There’s a myriad of drug medications on the market that can address most of the issues that arise from taking anabolic steroids, what they are and why they are so popular for people like bodybuilders and athletes. The truth is that taking steroids cause an increase in female hormones called estrogens in a man’s body that enlarges a man’s breast which bodybuilders just won’t accept! Read on and learn more.
The inevitable question
When you are a complete stranger to the subject of drug medication such as Tamoxifen (which most of us are), the first thing you would likely do is to wonder what the heck Tamoxifen is so we’ll lend you a helping hand.
Tamoxifen (Nolvadex) is a drug medication that’s available only by prescription for the treatment of breast cancer in men and women.
An added use of Temoxifen in bodybuilding
The medication has been known to exist for more than 30 years but a twist to its use occurred when it became popular with the bodybuilding community.
In bodybuilding, it’s used as during an anabolic steroid cycle when bodybuilders immerse themselves strenuously in their bid to gaining lean muscle mass and for athletes to boost their performance.
As is known by bodybuilders, the use of Tamoxifen is as an ancillary drug as well as during a post anabolic steroid cycle therapy (PCT) at the end of a steroid cycle.
By ancillary drug is meant a substance that’s ingested so that it may counter the highly undesirable side effects to bodybuilders who take anabolic steroids.
For the sake of clarity, it’s essential that we know what an anabolic steroid cycle is all about and we are told that this is the period when a bodybuilder intensifies his use of anabolic steroid.
This is the very essence of bodybuilding where the bodybuilder focuses on practically nothing else but the foremost goal of building lean muscles of colossal size while losing weight at the same time.
All these aspirations are achievable with the use of Tamoxifen, especially when taken as an integral part of your steroid cycle. If you do, these are the rewards you’ll reap:
- attainment of colossal muscle mass and strength
- enhanced athletic performance
- development of a harder, ripped and leaner physique
Moreover, it should be borne in mind that Tamoxifen is not an anabolic steroid but a drug that’s safe to use since all it does is bind itself to estrogen receptors to prevent the hormones from acting a food source for cancer.
But more on anabolic steroids
What anabolic steroids possess are aromatization traits that can result in the enlargement of the breast also medically known as gynecomastia as well as an increase in lipid or fat deposits that are non-soluble in water.
It’s precisely because of the ability of steroids to enhance the production of estrogen in the body that Tamoxifen is the perfect drug to take while a bodybuilder also consumes anabolic steroids during a steroid cycle.
Normally the dose taken of Tamoxifen varies between 10 mg to 40 mg daily, but if you are new to bodybuilding, you’re cautioned not to take the medication for your bodybuilding regimen.
You should instead train yourself for a couple of years first before you take the drug medication.
A physical check-up
You can, at a later stage approach you doctor and tell him of your intentions of taking Tamoxifen. He is sure to advise you that the first thing you need would be a body check-up.
The examination will ascertain whether or not you have conditions which can exacerbate or make your condition worse when you take the drug.
If that’s the problem you should forget about taking the drug medication. If you go ahead despite the red lights, your underlying condition may not only increase your risk of aggravating side effects but would also impact your own health.
It may be that you’d tend to think the medication won’t do you harm just as they haven’t harmed the other bodybuilders.
The thing to remember here is that the other bodybuilders are not the same as you and they may not harbor the medical conditions that you have.
The best thing to do under the circumstances is to see your doctor so that you can have reliable information on which to base your decision so you can do the right thing.
Be wise and start small
When the time comes for you to use the drug medication alongside anabolic steroids, you should stay clear of the strong steroids. Adapt your system to the steroids by taking milder steroids instead of jumping in and take the strong steroids.
Moreover, you can actually take the Tamoxifen tablets by themselves and still attain your bodybuilding goals.
You should remember not to take your freedom to use drugs for granted. In other countries steroid use for improving physical appearance and strength is illegal, but you can do so under the supervision of a medical practitioner such as your doctor or pharmacist.
At the end of the anabolic steroid cycle
This is where you stop taking your doses of anabolic steroids and focus on how best to recover from such overuse of steroids.
It’s the start of the post cycle therapy or PCT where you allow the body to return to normalcy before the start of the steroid cycle when you were consuming lots of steroids.
Start of PCT towards recovery
Once you reach the point of no return to your steroids (at least until the next steroid cycle), it’s critical that you immediately begin a PCT (post cycle therapy).
The reason for this is that you’ll prevent the loss of the muscles you gained during the steroid cycle. The drug Tamoxifen will help stimulate the resumed production of testosterone which had been suppressed during the cycle when the use of steroids was at its peak.
The normal daily therapy for men for starting the recovery is 40 mg daily. From there the dose is decreased until you stop using it completely during the PCT period of four to six weeks but this depends on the how long the steroid cycle takes.
Bottom line It’s true that it takes more than three or four pages to include all the information that one needs to know about a drug medication such as Tamoxifen or any other drug treatment for that matter. However, in most cases, access to and knowledge of the highly pertinent information about any medication is all that’s needed for even a beginner to effectively use for a steroid cycle or a PCT.
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