Biohacking and grappling chemist

[james13]

Hi folks.
New to steroids.
I started with TRT at 42.
I was a US army infantry guy (joined 2000) and more of a cardio and fighting guy (boxing, bjj, MMA, kickboxing).
For a living I am a chemist. I specialize in organic and inorganic synthesis.

My body is all sorts of messed up.
Testosterone and tirzepatide changed everything for me.
Im now on test, NPP, mast P, and HGH.
Im also on reta, SS31, MOTS-C, GHK-Cu, NAD+. Im off KLOW for now.

I do very low doses. Im currently 177 lb, 5'10" 10.9%bf. I want to get down to 8% bf and gain 10 lb of muscle.

I am not into taking bodybuilder doses. Im too old for that. Besides, the baby doses I take work for me. I watch my blood markers every 5 weeks. As long as Im good, I increase my doses very conservatively, while looking for max effect. Then i just cruise at those doses. I retest in 5 weeks. If my markers are good, my blood pressure is good, I sleep well, my mood is good, dont grow boobs, and dont lose (more) hair, I will increase doses.
So far this is working for me.

Anyway, Im looking forward to helping and learning. Ttyl

 

[verb]

Hi folks.
New to steroids.
I started with TRT at 42.
I was a US army infantry guy (joined 2000) and more of a cardio and fighting guy (boxing, bjj, MMA, kickboxing).
For a living I am a chemist. I specialize in organic and inorganic synthesis.

My body is all sorts of messed up.
Testosterone and tirzepatide changed everything for me.
Im now on test, NPP, mast P, and HGH.
Im also on reta, SS31, MOTS-C, GHK-Cu, NAD+. Im off KLOW for now.

I do very low doses. Im currently 177 lb, 5'10" 10.9%bf. I want to get down to 8% bf and gain 10 lb of muscle.

I am not into taking bodybuilder doses. Im too old for that. Besides, the baby doses I take work for me. I watch my blood markers every 5 weeks. As long as Im good, I increase my doses very conservatively, while looking for max effect. Then i just cruise at those doses. I retest in 5 weeks. If my markers are good, my blood pressure is good, I sleep well, my mood is good, dont grow boobs, and dont lose (more) hair, I will increase doses.
So far this is working for me.

Anyway, Im looking forward to helping and learning. Ttyl

What doses do you take?

 

[Elektrobot]

and more of a cardio and fighting guy

test, NPP, mast P, and HGH

How do you deal with the pumps during endurance sports?

I do some gymnastics style training, and on just 15mg test and 3iu gh every day the pumps are disabling.

It's fckn great in the gym for 30 seconds at a time. But not so much for non-stop action

 

[james13]

What doses do you take?

125mg test, 100mg npp, 90 mg mast p weekly dose.

But i pin everyday so /7. 3 IU GH ED.

 

[james13]

How do you deal with the pumps during endurance sports?

I do some gymnastics style training, and on just 15mg test and 3iu gh every day the pumps are disabling.

It's fckn great in the gym for 30 seconds at a time. But not so much for non-stop action

I get those pumps during hypertrophy resistance days. But during rolls or sparring I dont get pumps. Perhaps because I sweat buckets. The debilitating things I get are cramps. Like nasty stabbing cramps when I sit still in my car on the freeway. I take a shit ton of electrolytes. Potassium chloride (you have to be careful with K on ARBs though), zinc carnosinate, magnesium complex, calcium lactate, sodium iodide. Lots of glucose.

 

[james13]

How do you deal with the pumps during endurance sports?

I do some gymnastics style training, and on just 15mg test and 3iu gh every day the pumps are disabling.

It's fckn great in the gym for 30 seconds at a time. But not so much for non-stop action

You get the pumps on masteron too?

 

[Elektrobot]

You get the pumps on masteron too?

I haven't tried mast. I kinda assumed that any anabolic is going to increase pumps, but I don't have experience with them to actually know.

 

[james13]

I only layered masteron on after seeing how I reacted to NPP. I did gain volume on NPP but AFAIK its a lot of water weight (sarcoplasmic hypertophy?) Point of layering mast on was to add anabolic/androgenic load and promote myofibrillar hypertrophy and "dry" me up (not in the estrogenic way; my E2 levels increased on mast P actually, which is good. But serum E2 increased. Idk if this means tissue E2 increased or decreased).
Tldr; maybe mast will help with pumps. You gotta stay hyrated tho. My test:npp:mast P mass ratios are 100:85:65 and even this has me feeling a little too dehydrated.

 

[verb]

125mg test, 100mg npp, 90 mg mast p weekly dose.

But i pin everyday so /7. 3 IU GH ED.

Nice, my add-ons are 75mg nandrolone, 75mg masteron and 75mg dhb

 

[james13]

Nice, my add-ons are 75mg nandrolone, 75mg masteron and 75mg dhb

Love the nandrolone masteron combo. Its a very thoughtful combo you have, a 19-nor, a DHT, and a boldenone class. Have you been checking your liver on DHB?

 

[verb]

Love the nandrolone masteron combo. Its a very thoughtful combo you have, a 19-nor, a DHT, and a boldenone class. Have you been checking your liver on DHB?

Yup, everything on my blood work is golden except HDL

 

[james13]

Yup, everything on my blood work is golden except HDL

NIce. If the HDL bothers you, id look at apoB or get on 5mg a day ezetimibe.

 

[IndividualMan]

Love the nandrolone masteron combo. Its a very thoughtful combo you have, a 19-nor, a DHT, and a boldenone class. Have you been checking your liver on DHB?

"a boldenone class" sybau, DHB/1-test has got nothing to do with Boldenone, its a misnomer. Boldenone does not 5 alpha reduce into DHB, and the synthesis also starts with DHT, not with Boldenone.

It is a DHT derivative, and a pretty mid one at that, especially considering the sides.

AI glaze typa writing you got there btw. sounds very odd.

 

[james13]

"a boldenone class" sybau, DHB/1-test has got nothing to do with Boldenone, its a misnomer. Boldenone does not 5 alpha reduce into DHB, and the synthesis also starts with DHT, not with Boldenone.

It is a DHT derivative, and a pretty mid one at that, especially considering the sides.

AI glaze typa writing you got there btw. sounds very odd.

In vivo, boldenone IS 5α‑reduced to dihydroboldenone (a.k.a. DHB / 1‑testosterone) by 5α‑reductase, analogous to testosterone to DHT.
In the lab, you can synthesize DHB starting from DHT, but that does not negate the boldenone to DHB metabolic pathway, so saying it “has nothing to do with boldenone” is incorrect. Calling DHB a DHT derivative is arguable (depends whether you classify by synthetic route vs by parent scaffold), but it’s at least defensible: you can obtain DHB by modifying DHT’s A‑ring, so youre partially right.
Im an old man. Ive published in peer reviewed scientific journals in both chemistry and biochemistry. I'm not gonna dumb down my writing to fit in. But you are right about DHB being a DHT derivative though. But so am I about DHB coming from boldenone.

 

[IndividualMan]

In vivo, boldenone IS 5α‑reduced to dihydroboldenone

correct, but at which rates? (hint: Boldenones affinity for 5-ar is damn near 0, so the chance of any meaningful amount of DHB being produced is, again, damn near 0 (low rate of conversion+low affinity for the enzyme needed for conversion compared to other androgens + competition with other androgens), you might get a few measly milligrams of DHB out of several hundred mgs of Boldenone, but thats about as important to keep track of as the .005mg of test base you absorbed after forgetting to take off you gloves and accidentally rubbing your nose)

(I had to look up the conversion thing again, because I was sure the doping tests dont list DHB and its breakdown products as indicators for Boldenone use, but the low conversion rate + affinity definitely explains it. still, if there isnt enough of it to test for it, it might as well not be there at all)

depends whether you classify by synthetic route vs by parent scaffold

on here we generally go by synthesis route, starting with the most common precursor for each compound (which still is an AAS usable in the context of performance enhancement, so DHT, Test, and 19-nor-test) (otherwise everything is a plant sterol/ yam derivative, or cholesterol if you do the syntheses old school).

Strange system if you think about it, but its an easy way to differentiate them somewhat and explain rough differences to newbies.
Thats why I was so snappy/hostily regarding the "boldenone class" part, because that one would fall under the umbrella of testosterone derivatives.