Testosterone and Size

As I understand the question, it is can you be "natty" massive while being on low test, and my idea is that you dont have to have much testosterone to be naturally massive. Some would argue that is genetics, but in my own example, and seeing other men around me, I would say that there is some combination of hormones when ratios just match and you suddenly are very virile, muscular, attratctive, horny and proactive.

It may sound funny here, but 25mg clomiphene made changed me dramatically, and my max test levels were 23nmo/l at that time. So, no, I dont think high testosterone is the key to being a "muscular natural guy". But somehow that state where stuff just falls into place is very hard to recreate artificially (maybe there is a very narrow window of E2, T, DHT concentrations so without an internal "hormonostat" that is no easy feat?), so using higher dosages of testosterone does the trick via some alternative pathway.

For me, using trt solo test doesn't do any trick, in fact I loose mass, be my levels 20 nmol/l or 60 nmol/l. The next best thing is masteron: test 1:1 mass ratio, where I feel sharp and muscles a bit bigger but far cry from muscular guy. I am plannig to try primabolan instead of mast, and DHT on that line of therapy. I plan on incorporating nandrolone to see what it looks like too.

Just a remark, when I started eq and started dropping masterone I felt really good for a short time and it was definitely going in the direction of virile, muscular, attractive, horny and proactive. That was a transient period so the effect vanished, but it left me with question is there some possibilty in combining mast and eq to match test and to accomplish the natty muscular physique that way?
Why do you keep saying natty muscular physique?
You're talking about eq, mast + test. Any one of those 3 alone isnt natty. Trt isnt either let alone that stack.
The ops question was about using 750-1500 testosterone to become ridiculously massive (context he competes in bodybuilding, very very unnatural) instead of using trt with a high dose of other steroids.
I get maybe youre looking to attain a beachbody look thats cool. That's not at all what the original poster is investigating.
 
Arnold’s favorite stack
15mg Dbol base
200mg Primo E

He didn’t need grams of gear to win the Olympi
Arnold’s favorite stack
15mg Dbol base
200mg Primo E

He didn’t need grams of gear to win the Olympia.
you forgot the deca champ lol.. in this day and age with how far we have come with peds and aas we know a cycle like that is not the most wise or beneficial... they didn’t know any better back then
 
Why do you keep saying natty muscular physique?
You're talking about eq, mast + test. Any one of those 3 alone isnt natty. Trt isnt either let alone that stack.
The ops question was about using 750-1500 testosterone to become ridiculously massive (context he competes in bodybuilding, very very unnatural) instead of using trt with a high dose of other steroids.
I get maybe youre looking to attain a beachbody look thats cool. That's not at all what the original poster is investigating.

I am here for health reasons so trt is the only option for me, be it natural or not. And I realized that trt using test alone is not enough for me, not because of less muscle but because I just can’t function (waking up, psyche, strength to do daily activities). That is strange but so it is.

Idk, maybe I misunderstood the thread. I was thinking that the op wanted to see if there are people who can attain enough muscle with low test dosages of 100-200mg per week as he is an older guy who started using aas in his later years and is now considering retiring with the aas usage, but he isn’t keen on losing the muscle mass he acquired. If that is so that the op wanted to check if it is more sane to use more test less other ass or moderate test and more other aas, idk where to point him at.

And where I live ppl don’t use much steroids and they can be muscular, at least with some gym time and when young. So I used natty muscular physique term, it’s not just a cool beach body; slender and showing abs. They can be quite massive and they don’t use aas so I speculate that it is due to some special ordering of natural male hormones. (Which are not just test and (often forgotten) DHT, some men produce nandrolone too, horses produce boldenone too).
 

There is research that has found nanomolar levels of two downstream metabolites of 19-nortestosterone =>19-norandrosterone and 19-noretiocholanolone (the same two that have been used in doping testing to identify nandro use) in the urine of males with no history of AAS use indicating the possibility of endogenous 19-nortestosterone synthesis.

Urinary Nandrolone Metabolites of Endogenous Origin in Man: A Confirmation by Output Regulation under Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Stimulation
Code:
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/86/1/146/2841137?login=true

Update on nandrolone and norsteroids: how endogenous or xenobiotic are these substances?
Code:
https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/47599008/s00421-004-1051-320160728-12997-ky4i9t.pdf?1469731042=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DUpdate_on_nandrolone_and_norsteroids_how.pdf&Expires=1619637873&Signature=X-IXfczdShANrWcW86hbUfzkCBOMglGizpQ2~TR~NahwuwI27P9q-GRLsTdgRhfQffs0Z6OTPAh~HSrfSOE863LM6BA3eOxqwkelyI8B0yYicnmF122gQEgT-jBO~cUx4OXNAs65-zd-Q80DZVatFqsX35TDruBFdiVklhxcGRk-JCqL6Qq4-WEYtYV3KtyoJ9Lyywv9yntIy87XoX-ZufeoCPdlG6HEWmdidGB~W1CtgeQOzHQQ4h5zfZBRf5ZppMBTL~7eNRh9QuRg9d3wxq2Vgi1x2n88Jq~S0SuXViIFrMfazopWc1HwJoHn887VkZ9vIfqb2DwRK0Gb4t06cQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
 
There is research that has found nanomolar levels of two downstream metabolites of 19-nortestosterone =>19-norandrosterone and 19-noretiocholanolone (the same two that have been used in doping testing to identify nandro use) in the urine of males with no history of AAS use indicating the possibility of endogenous 19-nortestosterone synthesis.

Urinary Nandrolone Metabolites of Endogenous Origin in Man: A Confirmation by Output Regulation under Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Stimulation
Code:
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/86/1/146/2841137?login=true

Update on nandrolone and norsteroids: how endogenous or xenobiotic are these substances?
Code:
https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/47599008/s00421-004-1051-320160728-12997-ky4i9t.pdf?1469731042=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DUpdate_on_nandrolone_and_norsteroids_how.pdf&Expires=1619637873&Signature=X-IXfczdShANrWcW86hbUfzkCBOMglGizpQ2~TR~NahwuwI27P9q-GRLsTdgRhfQffs0Z6OTPAh~HSrfSOE863LM6BA3eOxqwkelyI8B0yYicnmF122gQEgT-jBO~cUx4OXNAs65-zd-Q80DZVatFqsX35TDruBFdiVklhxcGRk-JCqL6Qq4-WEYtYV3KtyoJ9Lyywv9yntIy87XoX-ZufeoCPdlG6HEWmdidGB~W1CtgeQOzHQQ4h5zfZBRf5ZppMBTL~7eNRh9QuRg9d3wxq2Vgi1x2n88Jq~S0SuXViIFrMfazopWc1HwJoHn887VkZ9vIfqb2DwRK0Gb4t06cQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
What’s more likely? That we’re naturally producing nandrolone, or that a competing athlete lied about aas use?
 
Yeah, seems to be . . . try this this three weeks and then this the next three weeks as an experiment so you can see what each compound does to your body, rather than, "Here is about what I ran the first 3-5 years"
Yea I didnt like that part of it. It was kinda like one of those rich pianna protocols
 
Yeah, seems to be . . . try this this three weeks and then this the next three weeks as an experiment so you can see what each compound does to your body, rather than, "Here is about what I ran the first 3-5 years"
I used to like him but I think he started shilling for a trt doc.
 
What’s more likely? That we’re naturally producing nandrolone, or that a competing athlete lied about aas use?
The metabolites were found in non-AAS using males. It would not surprise me that incredibly small amounts are transiently formed. It's not uncommon for pathway reactions to not be 100% efficient and intermediates are lost along the way.
 
There is research that has found nanomolar levels of two downstream metabolites of 19-nortestosterone =>19-norandrosterone and 19-noretiocholanolone (the same two that have been used in doping testing to identify nandro use) in the urine of males with no history of AAS use indicating the possibility of endogenous 19-nortestosterone synthesis.

Urinary Nandrolone Metabolites of Endogenous Origin in Man: A Confirmation by Output Regulation under Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Stimulation
Code:
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/86/1/146/2841137?login=true

Update on nandrolone and norsteroids: how endogenous or xenobiotic are these substances?
Code:
https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/47599008/s00421-004-1051-320160728-12997-ky4i9t.pdf?1469731042=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DUpdate_on_nandrolone_and_norsteroids_how.pdf&Expires=1619637873&Signature=X-IXfczdShANrWcW86hbUfzkCBOMglGizpQ2~TR~NahwuwI27P9q-GRLsTdgRhfQffs0Z6OTPAh~HSrfSOE863LM6BA3eOxqwkelyI8B0yYicnmF122gQEgT-jBO~cUx4OXNAs65-zd-Q80DZVatFqsX35TDruBFdiVklhxcGRk-JCqL6Qq4-WEYtYV3KtyoJ9Lyywv9yntIy87XoX-ZufeoCPdlG6HEWmdidGB~W1CtgeQOzHQQ4h5zfZBRf5ZppMBTL~7eNRh9QuRg9d3wxq2Vgi1x2n88Jq~S0SuXViIFrMfazopWc1HwJoHn887VkZ9vIfqb2DwRK0Gb4t06cQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
I first learned about this from Mauro DiPasquale. He was one of the first to raise attention to this issue, testifying as an expert witness in early anti-doping cases. He wrote this article published on MESO-Rx almost 20 years ago:

 
While mildly interesting, this was a study of 10 subjects in which NONE produced and nandrolone metabolites without HCG administration first. EVEN THEN only 4 of 10 produced metabolites and those productions were all submolar (read as barely trace amounts at all).

The poster's original statement about "nattty" physiques implied that men producing nandrolones would have some sort of effect. No fucking way. And these guys in the study were not naturally producing them at all. It REQUIRED the use of HCG to get even to trace levels.

Even as an anti-testing argument (and I am against any doping testing at all) it is thin gruel as the amounts detected aren't anything like the thresholds tested for right now (and how did a "natty" athlete even have these levels when they are ONLY achievable through doping with HCG?).
 
While mildly interesting, this was a study of 10 subjects in which NONE produced and nandrolone metabolites without HCG administration first. EVEN THEN only 4 of 10 produced metabolites and those productions were all submolar (read as barely trace amounts at all).

The poster's original statement about "nattty" physiques implied that men producing nandrolones would have some sort of effect. No fucking way. And these guys in the study were not naturally producing them at all. It REQUIRED the use of HCG to get even to trace levels.

Even as an anti-testing argument (and I am against any doping testing at all) it is thin gruel as the amounts detected aren't anything like the thresholds tested for right now (and how did a "natty" athlete even have these levels when they are ONLY achievable through doping with HCG?).

NA was detected in basal urine samples from all subjects, with a mean urinary excretion rate (UER) of 3.17 ± 0.35 ng/h, whereas NE was detected in 4 of 10 (UER range, 0.8–4.7 ng/h).

Basal means without hcg.

I don't disagree with the lack of clinical relevance of any transiently formed 19-NT.
 
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Anybody here big but always runs low testosterone?

I am genuinely curious.


Let's qualify "big." Big enough to win open class in NPC amateur competition.


I am asking because it seems every time I see somebody posting about running low testosterone exclusively, that person is small. Any exceptions to that here on Meso?
No. You want big, your dose is in grams/week.
 
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