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prosteroids dont exist !
I've seen many times people using the term " pro steroid " for describing a PH product and I wanted to make this clear : prosteroids DOES NOT exists, chemically wise. Steroids are a type of lipid characterized by a carbon skeleton fused with four rings. They are synthesized from cholesterol. Now concerning steroid hormones they can be classified into five groups by the receptors to which they bind : glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids, androgens, estrogens, and progestins. The aas are all based on a chemically structure of a category called sex steroids (androgens), which gather testosterone, dht, dhea, dheas and androstenedione. Now prohormones as you all know, are chemical compounds that are PRECURSORS to an actual hormone, in that its converted to full hormones via enzymatic processes that occurs during metabolism, mostly resulting in an addition of whichever atoms happen to to be missing from the chemical structure of the compound. Bottom line is that steroids aren't a precise molecule, but a special type of molecular structure. So, if we admit the fact that there could ever be a chemical compound that'd be a " pro- steroid", it would literally mean that it must be converted in order to change its OWN structure to then being active. The same mistake could be made if we'd say for example "prolipids". Its a CATEGORY of chemical compounds, thats all ! Using the word " prosteroids " sounds better to the customer because in a bodybuilding context the tendency is often to believe that vulgarly steroids are basically drugs making muscle grow, and that such substances aren't found in our bodies. I guess 3/4 of the people who heard the word steroid in their lifes don't even know its meaning. Steroid is a type of chemical compound. Sterols are a subgroup of steroids. But for example, peptide hormones are radically different from steroid hormones. Thats what I wanted to make clear. I guess not a lot of people know that bodybuilders's enemy (estrogen) are actually also steroids. So a female produce lots of steroids in her endocrine system, but that remark could surprise some people who thought steroids were only in male, and used for bodybuilding and muscle growing purposes. Using the term " prosteroid " is , in a biochemistry context, totally false. But we don't need to be chemists in order to use the adapted words. The term has been made only in order to make false HYPE around people who thought that steroids was a synonym for anabolics ( admitting that they knew what anabolic meant)
I've seen many times people using the term " pro steroid " for describing a PH product and I wanted to make this clear : prosteroids DOES NOT exists, chemically wise. Steroids are a type of lipid characterized by a carbon skeleton fused with four rings. They are synthesized from cholesterol. Now concerning steroid hormones they can be classified into five groups by the receptors to which they bind : glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids, androgens, estrogens, and progestins. The aas are all based on a chemically structure of a category called sex steroids (androgens), which gather testosterone, dht, dhea, dheas and androstenedione. Now prohormones as you all know, are chemical compounds that are PRECURSORS to an actual hormone, in that its converted to full hormones via enzymatic processes that occurs during metabolism, mostly resulting in an addition of whichever atoms happen to to be missing from the chemical structure of the compound. Bottom line is that steroids aren't a precise molecule, but a special type of molecular structure. So, if we admit the fact that there could ever be a chemical compound that'd be a " pro- steroid", it would literally mean that it must be converted in order to change its OWN structure to then being active. The same mistake could be made if we'd say for example "prolipids". Its a CATEGORY of chemical compounds, thats all ! Using the word " prosteroids " sounds better to the customer because in a bodybuilding context the tendency is often to believe that vulgarly steroids are basically drugs making muscle grow, and that such substances aren't found in our bodies. I guess 3/4 of the people who heard the word steroid in their lifes don't even know its meaning. Steroid is a type of chemical compound. Sterols are a subgroup of steroids. But for example, peptide hormones are radically different from steroid hormones. Thats what I wanted to make clear. I guess not a lot of people know that bodybuilders's enemy (estrogen) are actually also steroids. So a female produce lots of steroids in her endocrine system, but that remark could surprise some people who thought steroids were only in male, and used for bodybuilding and muscle growing purposes. Using the term " prosteroid " is , in a biochemistry context, totally false. But we don't need to be chemists in order to use the adapted words. The term has been made only in order to make false HYPE around people who thought that steroids was a synonym for anabolics ( admitting that they knew what anabolic meant)
