Thank you
@Smont! Can’t wait to read the program.
It’s really funny you bring all this up now - I literally randomly decided to start reading on tamoxifen’s effects on health tonight, before you posted this, hand to God. I didn’t even know Tamoxifen significantly lowers LDL-C, and is associated with decreased risk of atherosclerosis. The Achilles heel here is that it’s also associated with increased risk of blood clots in breast cancer patients. While the risk is (arguably) acceptable for women (0.5% chance without tamoxifen and 1.2% using tamoxifen, double but still rare), in men the increase was huge (2.4% had clots without while something like 11.8% of tamoxifen users experienced clots). Now this sample group was age 27-89, and there was a significant correlation for clotting to occur more in the older population age 70+, so this isn’t exactly a worry for younger guys that are staying moving, taking Nattokinase (or baby aspirin failing that if allergic to soy), and controlling their blood values with donation/phlebotomy if necessary. But it does raise some points to consider.
If you are using drugs like eq, anadrol, or more importantly in general finding blood values that promote clotting from your AAS use, adding tamoxifen will represent an additional clotting risk burden that might be wise to reconsider.
I may or may not consider 10mg tamoxifen daily on my next blast, to cut down on AI need, allow better growth with higher estrogen (which helps raise IGF1 back up some from the tamoxifen dip) & comfier joints for heavy lifting, based on what I decide to run. I know Matt Jansen said he does this with his guys in the off-season for those reasons. Not that he’s anyone to take health advice from, or myself for that matter!