CJPopovich
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Well here it is. I've waited a little while to review CRE-02 for a few reasons, which I'll get into below.
The short: I like & recommend it.
The long: To keep this on the short side, a couple of years ago I tried a prohormone. I didn't get much out of it, but it was a nice little boost. I had blood work done immediately after and it was great. Perfect. No issues. I mentally figured I'd try it again down the road if I didn't want to compete tested. Well, down the road came (very recently), I bought the same supplement from the same company, got the same blood work done and it was.... horrible. The "same" stuff wasn't the same. My cholesterol had more than doubled (392), my good cholesterol was near single digits (13), my liver values looked like odds on the lottery, and my testosterone values were "0". Not a little off, not low, but zero. Shut down. This from a pulse with a reasonable dosage. I'm not here to defend myself from guys who want to believe what they're taking is safe, but to keep it within bounds I am no fool when it comes to supplement usage, and took proper precautions.
I immediately stopped all supps except MVP, ZMK, and Ragnarok. Non-millenium supps I took included protien (obviously), red yeast rice, COQ10, AI cycle support, niacin, and some liver cleanse thing which name escapes me. 4 weeks later my test was low, but at least I had SOME, my cholesterol was 212, and my good cholesterol was 30. LIver values were just over high-normal. 6 weeks after that my cholesterol was 188, good 42, liver values normal, and test a little low.
So why all this on a CRE-02 review? I started taking CRE-02 while in the middle of this. My first priority was obviously to get healthy. My second priority was to keep my strength. I had a lot of things going against me, and knowing that my test was lower than that of a 10 year old girl was not helping. The first couple weeks I took CRE-02 I didn't feel anything. Strength had been going down (expected), endurance wasn't there (expected) and the weights just felt heavy (expected). I talked to my man here at Millennium, and he advised since I'm a bigger lifter, doubling the dosage on lifting days might help.
That's what I did. I took 6 caps on my heavy days and 3 on non-lifting or lighter days. The bottom line here is that with everything going against me, the CRE-02 helped, and helped quite a bit. I'm sure the MVP and ZMK weren't hurting me (or the somnidren), but the CRE-02 significantly added to my training volume ability.
This has been no walk in the park, and sponsored or not, I'd take the CRE-02. I though this deserved its own thread.
There is something to be said for a supplement that you can take that doesn't cost too much, helps you out, and isn't going to hurt you. I now extend significantly LESS trust out to other manufacturers, and I suggest that all of us take care what we put in our body. I can't express how pissed off I was when I heard the news, I was expecting my doctor to be happy with my results, I had been eating better, doing more cardio, you name it. Imagine my surprise. I thought I knew how my body would respond to the PH -and I did- but what was in an earlier bottle was not the same as the later bottles.
So, the CRE-02 works well and as an additional plus, it won't kill you.
Recommended.
-Chris
The short: I like & recommend it.
The long: To keep this on the short side, a couple of years ago I tried a prohormone. I didn't get much out of it, but it was a nice little boost. I had blood work done immediately after and it was great. Perfect. No issues. I mentally figured I'd try it again down the road if I didn't want to compete tested. Well, down the road came (very recently), I bought the same supplement from the same company, got the same blood work done and it was.... horrible. The "same" stuff wasn't the same. My cholesterol had more than doubled (392), my good cholesterol was near single digits (13), my liver values looked like odds on the lottery, and my testosterone values were "0". Not a little off, not low, but zero. Shut down. This from a pulse with a reasonable dosage. I'm not here to defend myself from guys who want to believe what they're taking is safe, but to keep it within bounds I am no fool when it comes to supplement usage, and took proper precautions.
I immediately stopped all supps except MVP, ZMK, and Ragnarok. Non-millenium supps I took included protien (obviously), red yeast rice, COQ10, AI cycle support, niacin, and some liver cleanse thing which name escapes me. 4 weeks later my test was low, but at least I had SOME, my cholesterol was 212, and my good cholesterol was 30. LIver values were just over high-normal. 6 weeks after that my cholesterol was 188, good 42, liver values normal, and test a little low.
So why all this on a CRE-02 review? I started taking CRE-02 while in the middle of this. My first priority was obviously to get healthy. My second priority was to keep my strength. I had a lot of things going against me, and knowing that my test was lower than that of a 10 year old girl was not helping. The first couple weeks I took CRE-02 I didn't feel anything. Strength had been going down (expected), endurance wasn't there (expected) and the weights just felt heavy (expected). I talked to my man here at Millennium, and he advised since I'm a bigger lifter, doubling the dosage on lifting days might help.
That's what I did. I took 6 caps on my heavy days and 3 on non-lifting or lighter days. The bottom line here is that with everything going against me, the CRE-02 helped, and helped quite a bit. I'm sure the MVP and ZMK weren't hurting me (or the somnidren), but the CRE-02 significantly added to my training volume ability.
This has been no walk in the park, and sponsored or not, I'd take the CRE-02. I though this deserved its own thread.
There is something to be said for a supplement that you can take that doesn't cost too much, helps you out, and isn't going to hurt you. I now extend significantly LESS trust out to other manufacturers, and I suggest that all of us take care what we put in our body. I can't express how pissed off I was when I heard the news, I was expecting my doctor to be happy with my results, I had been eating better, doing more cardio, you name it. Imagine my surprise. I thought I knew how my body would respond to the PH -and I did- but what was in an earlier bottle was not the same as the later bottles.
So, the CRE-02 works well and as an additional plus, it won't kill you.
Recommended.-Chris
