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For a BODYBUILDER who is using steroids to BUILD MUSCLE, the pulsing protocol is INEFFECTIVE!
*MUSCLE GROWTH IS A SIDE-EFFECT!
Pulsing will MINIMIZE SOME side-effects(while INCREASING others), but it will also drastically MINIMIZE MUSCLE GAIN! Muscle-gain is a side-effect of the ANABOLIC/ANDROGENIC effect produced by the partuclar compound or compounds being administered. Although a steroid compound may be ACTIVE several hours after your very first dose, you won't see "GAINS" until many days later!
"Peak BLOOD LEVELS" are never actually reached or sustained using this method, which is HOW Anabolic steroids build muscle!
Anabolic steroids do ALOT more than JUST build muscle! For instance, if one were to use Dianabol for the SOLE purpose of LOWERING CORTISOL, then a "pulse" schedule would suffice to ilicit the desired EFFECT(cortisol reduction) while limiting side-effects--MUSCLE GROWTH being one of them! But for a BODYBUILDER who is using steroids to BUILD MUSCLE, the pulsing protocol is INEFFECTIVE!
But FIRST OF ALL...
Pulsing is NOT a valid method of drug adminstration USED IN THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY.
"Pulsing Corticosteroids" was a method of drug administration ONCE used in the the treatment of Epileptic Siezures. CORTICOSTEROIDS have a life-threatening effect on the brain, and are far more dangerous in high dosages than anabolic steroids are. Therefore, establishing an ACCEPTABLE level of conrtol over the epilepsy while minimizing side-effects was the foremost concern.
For the treatment of severe epilepsy, steroids are usually initiated at the highest acceptable dose per kg on a daily basis, given in the morning. Once seizure control is established, the steroids are gradually reduced and at some stage – as determined by treating specialists – the switch is made to a pulse therapy schedule. The aim is to achieve seizure control with as many days between dosing as possible, and on the lowest dose possible. If a trial to pulse every 3-4 day fails, then the patient may attempt alternate day dosing (still highly preferable to daily dosing). Pulsing every 3-4 days is not always successful but, given the benefits, it is certainly worth trialling. Once control over the episodes were established, dosages would begin to be reduced, as the DESIRED EFFECT had been produced. Again, these corticosteroids are not only dangerous but FATAL in higher dosages. The goal was to ABSOLUTELY MINIMIZE the use of these drugs. With the advent of safer drugs and BETTER protocols, "pulsing" is no longer used.
Using this "pulsing" method with ANABOLIC STEROIDS is not only INEFFECTIVE, but actually COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
*MUSCLE GROWTH IS A SIDE-EFFECT! Although a steroid compound may be ACTIVE several hours after your very first dose, you won't see "GAINS" until many days later. This "side-effect" of muscle gain is the result of continued use of the ANABOLIC/ANDROGENIC compound.
Steroid blood levels also need to remain STABLE! While using such a PULSE protocol, your blood levels will be CHAOTIC. WIth ANABOLIC ANDROGENIC STEROIDS, this means LESS GAINS and MORE SIDE-EFFECTS!
No offense to "Dr. D", whoever this guy is, but the information presented in some of these threads I have read is just DOWNRIGHT INACCURATE. Furthermore, I felt like I was being "pitched" the entire time on this "pulsing method".
It is NOT EFFECTIVE.
Furthermore, it is POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS based on Dr D's advice to "INCREASE DOSAGES" and run for "LONGER PERIODS OF TIME". This is not ok. All steroids have a THRESHOLD dosage and increasing much beyond that point will ONLY lead to greater side-effects.
Corticosteroids for the Treatment of Landau-Kleffner Syndrome and Continuous Spike-Wave Discharge During Sleep.
Pediatric Neurology, Volume 32, Issue 5, Pages 300-306
D. Sinclair, T. Snyder
1: J Am Acad Dermatol. 2005 Jul;53(1 Suppl 1):S50-8. Links
Corticosteroids: options in the era of steroid-sparing therapy.Del Rosso J, Friedlander SF.
Department of Dermatology, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
1: Eur J Immunol. 1986 Apr;16(4):370-5. Links
Antigen presentation by human monocytes: effects of modifying major histocompatibility complex class II antigen expression and interleukin 1 production by using recombinant interferons and corticosteroids.Rhodes J, Ivanyi J, Cozens P.
*MUSCLE GROWTH IS A SIDE-EFFECT!
Pulsing will MINIMIZE SOME side-effects(while INCREASING others), but it will also drastically MINIMIZE MUSCLE GAIN! Muscle-gain is a side-effect of the ANABOLIC/ANDROGENIC effect produced by the partuclar compound or compounds being administered. Although a steroid compound may be ACTIVE several hours after your very first dose, you won't see "GAINS" until many days later!
"Peak BLOOD LEVELS" are never actually reached or sustained using this method, which is HOW Anabolic steroids build muscle!
Anabolic steroids do ALOT more than JUST build muscle! For instance, if one were to use Dianabol for the SOLE purpose of LOWERING CORTISOL, then a "pulse" schedule would suffice to ilicit the desired EFFECT(cortisol reduction) while limiting side-effects--MUSCLE GROWTH being one of them! But for a BODYBUILDER who is using steroids to BUILD MUSCLE, the pulsing protocol is INEFFECTIVE!
But FIRST OF ALL...
Pulsing is NOT a valid method of drug adminstration USED IN THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY.
"Pulsing Corticosteroids" was a method of drug administration ONCE used in the the treatment of Epileptic Siezures. CORTICOSTEROIDS have a life-threatening effect on the brain, and are far more dangerous in high dosages than anabolic steroids are. Therefore, establishing an ACCEPTABLE level of conrtol over the epilepsy while minimizing side-effects was the foremost concern.
For the treatment of severe epilepsy, steroids are usually initiated at the highest acceptable dose per kg on a daily basis, given in the morning. Once seizure control is established, the steroids are gradually reduced and at some stage – as determined by treating specialists – the switch is made to a pulse therapy schedule. The aim is to achieve seizure control with as many days between dosing as possible, and on the lowest dose possible. If a trial to pulse every 3-4 day fails, then the patient may attempt alternate day dosing (still highly preferable to daily dosing). Pulsing every 3-4 days is not always successful but, given the benefits, it is certainly worth trialling. Once control over the episodes were established, dosages would begin to be reduced, as the DESIRED EFFECT had been produced. Again, these corticosteroids are not only dangerous but FATAL in higher dosages. The goal was to ABSOLUTELY MINIMIZE the use of these drugs. With the advent of safer drugs and BETTER protocols, "pulsing" is no longer used.
Using this "pulsing" method with ANABOLIC STEROIDS is not only INEFFECTIVE, but actually COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
*MUSCLE GROWTH IS A SIDE-EFFECT! Although a steroid compound may be ACTIVE several hours after your very first dose, you won't see "GAINS" until many days later. This "side-effect" of muscle gain is the result of continued use of the ANABOLIC/ANDROGENIC compound.
Steroid blood levels also need to remain STABLE! While using such a PULSE protocol, your blood levels will be CHAOTIC. WIth ANABOLIC ANDROGENIC STEROIDS, this means LESS GAINS and MORE SIDE-EFFECTS!
No offense to "Dr. D", whoever this guy is, but the information presented in some of these threads I have read is just DOWNRIGHT INACCURATE. Furthermore, I felt like I was being "pitched" the entire time on this "pulsing method".
It is NOT EFFECTIVE.
Furthermore, it is POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS based on Dr D's advice to "INCREASE DOSAGES" and run for "LONGER PERIODS OF TIME". This is not ok. All steroids have a THRESHOLD dosage and increasing much beyond that point will ONLY lead to greater side-effects.
Corticosteroids for the Treatment of Landau-Kleffner Syndrome and Continuous Spike-Wave Discharge During Sleep.
Pediatric Neurology, Volume 32, Issue 5, Pages 300-306
D. Sinclair, T. Snyder
1: J Am Acad Dermatol. 2005 Jul;53(1 Suppl 1):S50-8. Links
Corticosteroids: options in the era of steroid-sparing therapy.Del Rosso J, Friedlander SF.
Department of Dermatology, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
1: Eur J Immunol. 1986 Apr;16(4):370-5. Links
Antigen presentation by human monocytes: effects of modifying major histocompatibility complex class II antigen expression and interleukin 1 production by using recombinant interferons and corticosteroids.Rhodes J, Ivanyi J, Cozens P.