not quite JD
the reason you preload is for the hawthorne berry in the cycle assist product. when you first start using hawthorne, youll get a blood pressure spike for the first week or so. then when you start the cycle, youll get another blood pressure spike from the steroid. if you dont preload hawthorne, youll end up with some fuked up headaches for a week or two
if you wanna save some money, just buy some bulk haworne berry on amazon. u dont even need the extract (even though its just barely more expensive). just start at around 500mg hawthorne berry a day, and work yourself up to 1.5g or so over 10-14 days. youll never get that high of a dose from a cycle assist btw, its just a way to be exta sure your body has adjusted to it