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Many of us have experienced the side effects from oral steroids. Whether you have taken Beastdrol, Mdrol, Helladrol, Hdrol, Epi-strong, Epistane you name it. What has become popular lately is the "bridge" cycle. Combining two or more methyl or non-methyl steroids in a single cycle overlapping them for about one week to transition into the next compound. This is analogous to running an Oral steroid with a Testosterone base but a bridge is done with two oral steroids in order to drop the use of Testosterone.
As popular as these cycles have become, they were definitely not recommended not too long ago on Anabolicminds. It was very extreme to run a "bridge" and nobody ever recommended it. Nowadays the mindset has definitely changed and it seems crazy not to bridge your cycles. It has become the norm over here to run stronger steroid cycles, at higher dosages, and combining two or more steroids.
When taking an oral steroid, one notices an instant jump in sex drive, appetite, and thirst; all great things. However, within 2-3 weeks, everything will declined rapidly for most people. Libido will go down, appetite will go down, and you enter the period of the cycle where you simply have to weather the storm so to speak. This happens because the body becomes toxic for one, and a huge hormone shift. Your natural hormones are in such a mess during a cycle that it affects your sleep, mood, appetite, joints, and libido; all negatively.
As mentioned above, the use of Testosterone injections as the base of your cycle is done to alleviate these symptoms. Testosterone is used to prevent lethargy, increase appetite, increase libido, and add gains of its own to a cycle. Everything has its downsides however as Testosterone can cause major shut down, needs to be injected deep into the muscles 2x a week, converts to high amounts of estrogen, is hard to come by, and is notoriously sold under dosed or completely bunk. However, make no mistake, real Testosterone is the best base to combat steroid side effects if one can mitigate its sides, shut down, estrogen conversion, and performs safe injection procedures as to not inject into the vein or allow for an infection.
This must be said off the bat, no OTC supplement will give you full benefits of Testosterone as a base to any cycle. If someone claims otherwise, it is simply not true.
This does not mean there are no effective compounds to be using in place of Testosterone as a base to cycles. Topical Dermacrine has long been used for this purpose of mitigating sides. Dermacrine is a combination of DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone), Pregnenelone, and a Phyto AI complex. DHEA can convert into Androstenedione, Androstenediol, Testosterone, and Estrogen. However, for these conversions, you need high amounts of the enzymes: 3b HSD, 3a HSD, and 17b HSD. None of these enzymes are found in high concentrations in the digestive system so you won't get many of these conversions through oral DHEA. These enzymes are highly concentrated in the skin especially in the shoulder areas where Topical Dermacrine is designed to be applied for high bio-availability and conversion.
Running Dermacrine on cycle will help supply some vital male hormones which are lost by using steroids. The result is alleviation in hormone deficient side effects such as lack of estrogen which causes joint pain and loss of libido, lack of testosterone which causes depression and loss of libido, and a collectively disturbed endocrine system in general which causes lack of appetite and trouble sleeping. There are also DHEA receptor sites on immune cells which means DHEA plays a role in a healthy immune system.
Dermacrine is also used as a mild pro-hormone. It will add a little kick of its own to any cycle in which is added and enhance the cycle for optimum performance and gains all the while allowing alleviation of side effects caused by oral steroids.
As popular as these cycles have become, they were definitely not recommended not too long ago on Anabolicminds. It was very extreme to run a "bridge" and nobody ever recommended it. Nowadays the mindset has definitely changed and it seems crazy not to bridge your cycles. It has become the norm over here to run stronger steroid cycles, at higher dosages, and combining two or more steroids.
When taking an oral steroid, one notices an instant jump in sex drive, appetite, and thirst; all great things. However, within 2-3 weeks, everything will declined rapidly for most people. Libido will go down, appetite will go down, and you enter the period of the cycle where you simply have to weather the storm so to speak. This happens because the body becomes toxic for one, and a huge hormone shift. Your natural hormones are in such a mess during a cycle that it affects your sleep, mood, appetite, joints, and libido; all negatively.
As mentioned above, the use of Testosterone injections as the base of your cycle is done to alleviate these symptoms. Testosterone is used to prevent lethargy, increase appetite, increase libido, and add gains of its own to a cycle. Everything has its downsides however as Testosterone can cause major shut down, needs to be injected deep into the muscles 2x a week, converts to high amounts of estrogen, is hard to come by, and is notoriously sold under dosed or completely bunk. However, make no mistake, real Testosterone is the best base to combat steroid side effects if one can mitigate its sides, shut down, estrogen conversion, and performs safe injection procedures as to not inject into the vein or allow for an infection.
This must be said off the bat, no OTC supplement will give you full benefits of Testosterone as a base to any cycle. If someone claims otherwise, it is simply not true.
This does not mean there are no effective compounds to be using in place of Testosterone as a base to cycles. Topical Dermacrine has long been used for this purpose of mitigating sides. Dermacrine is a combination of DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone), Pregnenelone, and a Phyto AI complex. DHEA can convert into Androstenedione, Androstenediol, Testosterone, and Estrogen. However, for these conversions, you need high amounts of the enzymes: 3b HSD, 3a HSD, and 17b HSD. None of these enzymes are found in high concentrations in the digestive system so you won't get many of these conversions through oral DHEA. These enzymes are highly concentrated in the skin especially in the shoulder areas where Topical Dermacrine is designed to be applied for high bio-availability and conversion.
Running Dermacrine on cycle will help supply some vital male hormones which are lost by using steroids. The result is alleviation in hormone deficient side effects such as lack of estrogen which causes joint pain and loss of libido, lack of testosterone which causes depression and loss of libido, and a collectively disturbed endocrine system in general which causes lack of appetite and trouble sleeping. There are also DHEA receptor sites on immune cells which means DHEA plays a role in a healthy immune system.
Dermacrine is also used as a mild pro-hormone. It will add a little kick of its own to any cycle in which is added and enhance the cycle for optimum performance and gains all the while allowing alleviation of side effects caused by oral steroids.
