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Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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20.08.2009 |
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Testicle size worries? Try a cycle of tamoxifen + Andriol
Taking steroids by definition reduces your body's own testosterone production, underground handbooks will tell you. Well, not necessarily. In the 1990s Greek endocrinologists at the Elena Venizelou Hospital published the results of a study in which they had given men light doses that increased the body's own testosterone production.
The researchers reported that there was quite a difference in the values for testosterone and for FSH – a messenger hormone that triggers the production of testosterone in the testes. But from the patchy information they give, we've managed to put together the table below. The picture is clear, but not all trends are statistically significant. T= tamoxifen; T+A = tamoxifen + Andriol.
In the bottom row you can see that the combination of Andriol and tamoxifen not only results in a higher testosterone level, but also in more FSH. So it is possible: to take androgens and at the same time stimulate the pituitary< and the testes to produce more testosterone.
When a cycle of steroids is taken the testes usually shrink in size. But during this trial the volume of the testes actually increased. In the graph below the solid line represents the testes volume of the placebo group. The line with dots and dashes represents the Andriol group. The line with long dashes represents the tamoxifen group, and the line with short dashes represents the men who took Andriol + tamoxifen.
The men also produced more sperm as a result of the treatment, and the combination of Andriol and tamoxifen was most effective.
Now, an oral dose of 120 mg of testosterone-undecanoate is of little interest to athletes. But maybe it's also possible to keep the axis up if instead of taking Andriol you take a more effective anabolic steroid, that places relatively little pressure on the axis. Say, stanozolol or oxandrolone.
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