Increased organs from the use of steroids, growth hormone, or maybe IGF. You've probably heard stories of this nature, where this kind of thing has been intimidated. Add to that the stories of cancer formation and it makes your hair stand on end. But is it really so?
I will not speak for everyone, everyone has his own lifestyle, body's strength reserve, and I will not lie about the quality of drugs. Some people take 2 cc of some AAS, and others at least +2 grams per week. But I dared to make an experiment last year personally on myself. I had never used a substance that promoted an increase in growth hormone or IGF/Somatomedin C. I ended up taking the real INFRAJET brand IGF, tried using it for a few months. After that, did a little rest. Plugged in a form of testosterone undecanoate in therapeutic dosage and plugged INFRAJET 1 before training again.
I tried to eat about 4500-5000k calories a day, work out, in short keep more or less active. I've been training with a PL style bias, but my pumping is at least strength building style. I hear a bunch of stories about side effects all the time. You know, this story today is similar to the protein situation. We all have acquaintances who drank buckets of protein, injected steroids, got pumped up, deflated, now he has brain and potency problems, and not only women know this, but also men (I wonder how the men tested his potency). However, no one has any examinations, duplicated data, studies BEFORE and AFTER.
Before my first performances, I very carefully monitor the tests, and not just blood. I make sure to monitor the organs, their function and size. I also closely examine the condition of my blood vessels, both in my upper body and in my lower body. One of the things I do is squatting in bandages. I don't want unnecessary problems. I try to have these procedures done every year. In order to trace the dynamics. And it doesn't matter if you're using something like a hormonal supplement or not, you have to have these procedures.
What do I have in the end? My main problem is my eyes. My eyesight is 8. If you carefully study the physiology of the eye organ, there is information that the increase of certain hormones will have a negative effect, and if we add to this work with a barbell. At this stage I was doing 260 kilos in the squat and 285 in the deadlift in reverse. The most interesting thing is that my vision even improved by a small fraction of a percent, in part my dry eye even decreased.
We take the heart. I'm not just doing an EKG. I do a full ultrasound. And I do the ultrasound after a small cardio load on purpose. Listening to all the valves, in short, a complete check of the work and condition. And now shock content!!! When I started working out, I weighed exactly 42 kg! I was about 19 years old at the time. My heart didn't increase in crazy size. Slight good hypertrophy is provided by the left ventricle, which all athletes will be a bit enlarged due to exercise since you have to constantly pump blood to the muscle in large sizes. At this point I weighed 111.5 kg. When I had the ultrasound a year and a half ago, I had no change for the worse. However, there was a slight prolapse in the valve. This time there was no prolapse at all. And the heart was the size of an average static person, only with a slight tilt again in the ventricle because of the specifics of the sport.
Moving on, the vessels. I feel very strongly about this whole subject. You know atherosclerosis, plaques, caloric diet, throw in some hormones, endothelial destruction, the list goes on. Plus my parents have varicose veins (there is a certain genetic predisposition), and I am not 18 years old anymore. As a result, I have not found anything bad or even critical in any segment, which I am very happy about. Therefore I can safely continue to use bandages and improve my strength potential.
Now let's go over the rest of the organs, from the kidneys and liver to the pancreas and spleen. Unfortunately, I have a little liver dyskinesia. I've had it since I was a teenager. Of course, when you don't eat, but you eat 5000 calories of food, the gastrointestinal tract won't thank you. I'm not a natural heavyweight at all, but by some miracle I once crawled up to +100. As a result, little bile issues are present as usual. However, every single organ is in the same condition.
What is the moral of the fable? I, not recommending you to put substances for nothing. Before you do anything, study the material. Take measurements BEFORE and AFTER (this may apply to analysis). Next, draw conclusions, analyze your options, there may be mistakes. However, if you hear very contradictory reviews, before you believe them, try to find out why the person thinks so. Unfortunately, most of the time people stick to Grandma Agafia's recipes rather than their own research and conclusions.
Ps: I have not only used IGF to maintain the body, there is another range of supplements, treatments that I do. I'm sure it's a combination of all factors combined.
