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Can Dianabol Be Used as a Bridge Between Steroid Cycles?

January 8, 2011 by Bill Roberts Leave a Comment

Dr. John Ziegler and Dianabol aka methandrostenolone and methandienone

Q: Can Dianabol be used to bridge two different steroid cycles? Or does it prevent androgen receptors from cleaning out? Isn’t receptor downregulation a myth?

A: Downregulation of androgen receptors in response to supraphysiological levels of androgen is a myth with not only no proof for it, but no evidence except in a few cases where testing methods are shown to be flawed.

There isn’t an issue of receptors being clean or not.

It can be the case (not that it always will be the case) that Dianabol can be used while maintaining normal LH. I only know of that being found where it has been used morning-only rather than in divided doses.

I used to advocate modest morning-only use in the early recovery phase but stopped doing so on recoveries fairly clearly averaging slower when this was done.

But where steroids weren’t used previously, even 50 mg/day morning only can still allow normal LH production. I’m not saying it always will but it can. That is even without an antiaromatase.

One problem with bridging use is, If one is using orals off cycle, then how does the liver get a break from the alkylateds if planning to use them during cycles as well? Is the off-cycle use going to be at the cost of sacrificing their use during cycles?

But if wanting to try this use, I would test estrogen level, keep it low normal, and see what happens with T levels.

In this instance I think it is not necessary to measure LH because at least in my previous experience with this (haven’t done any such testing in a long time) Dianabol did not seem to be picked up by the tests as falsely being testosterone.

Dianabol aka methandrostenolone and methandienone
Dianabol aka methandrostenolone and methandienone

About the author

Bill Roberts
Medicinal chemist

Bill Roberts is an internationally-recognized expert on anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). He received a bachelor degree in Microbiology and Cell Science and completed the educational and research requirements for a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry at a major American university.

Bill entered the nutritional supplement industry prior to completing his doctoral thesis but his education was invaluable so far as being able to design/improve nutritional supplement compounds, since it was in the field of designing drug molecules and secondarily some work in transdermal delivery.

His education was not specifically "geared" toward anabolic steroids other than expertise with pharmacological principles having broad applications. This has allowed Bill to provide unique insight into the field of anabolic pharmacology with knowledge of points which he would not have known otherwise.

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