Friday, October 18, 2013

How Anabolic Steroids Affect Your Sex Drive

Your libido is, well, essential. That is an understatement. If you can’t feel like a man, no use looking like the best built one. Okay, some things are known about male sex drive, many things are not. We will focus on what we do know, and, what the majority of cases I’ve seen have taught me. We have already mentioned much of the effect of DHT on the sex drive in the DHT section, however, we can expand a bit and give you some more useful and practical information. With respect to anabolic steroids, the male sex drive is affected by the following.

I. The androgenicity of the drug(s) used. II. The aromatizing qualities of the drug(s) used. III. The progestagenic influence of the drug. IV. The total amount of drug(s) in the system at any give time.

I. First, the androgenicity of the drug. In general, anabolic steroids that are highly androgenic have an intense affect on the libido. Authors will argue expertise about which drugs are more and less androgenic. You’ll read that deca is moderate, then you’ll read its very androgenic, you’ll read that winstrol is anabolic, then you’ll read its more androgenic…bla, bla, bla. Here is the empirical facts in most (again not all, and there are some exceptions) cases. Testosterone makes you horny. Unless you have been on a cycle forever with no break, the first few days and weeks of test use definitely increase sex drive. Dianabol is also a popular one for making juicers super horny. These drugs in almost all of the literature are known “androgenic drugs”. These are two no brainers. This is just the ground level illustration of anabolic steroids having a positive affect on sex drive.

Nandrolone, as we’ve mentioned has a lessening affect on the sex drive. This is variable from person to person as we’ve stated previously, but is largely related to dosage. The reasons why we have discussed in the DHT section. Whether or not you agree or whatever you’ve read that may be different is always informative. Hey, the more you read, the better off you’ll be. Just be careful to pick and choose the advice you follow wisely. Okay, anyway, we all know deca has a negative affect on your sex drive. This also means that other esters of the drug such as the old school Laurabolin (nandrolone laurate) the eleven ester chain form of deca will have a similar affect if used in a similar dosage pattern. The half-life is very close to deca but exceeds it by a few days. The literature often says two weeks or more, but from experience, I’d say deca five to six days, and laurabolin, eight to ten. The shorter acting versions such an nandrolone phenylpropionate will also have the same affect. Also, the onset of phenylprop will be faster which will probably cause you to notice a decreased sex drive earlier in your cycle. Remember that many side affects with anabolic steroids are duration dependent as well as dosage dependent and you may not always experience the effects listed in the information sources you read and study.

Trenbolone is interesting because much of what you read will end in two truths. Number one, it is androgenic (some literature actually says six times more androgenic thatn testosterone), and two, it is a progesterone derived drug. This sounds like a paradox. For functional purposes, tren is a hearty androgen that also has a chemical structure that is very similar to progesterone. Trenbolone is also non-aromatizing. The real world application is that tren can make you strong and grow like you are on test, without the water weight (there will be no estrogen), and without the increased sex drive caused by testosterone (because of tren’s anti-libido progestagenic affect).

II. Aromatizing drugs affect your natural testosterone production by interfering with the classic feed-back loop. Most know that hight estrogen levels affect your pituitary gland and shuts down your body’s natural production of testosterone. The pituitary gland is a master regulator of hormonal levels. Actually, it is controlled by the true master gland, the hypothalamus…but this can get confusing and will take us off topic. For now, just know that the pituitary senses high estrogen or progesterone, and shuts off a hormone called leutinizing hormone or LH. LH travels from the pituitary to the testes, finds specific cells called Leydig cells, and tells the Leydig cells to kick out some test. If you interefere with this message, you interfere with natural testosterone production. This is called the hypo-thalamic-pituitary-testicular-axis. All this means is a loop that senses estrogen or progesterone levels for the purpose of regulating testosterone. This is also the very loop that makes anti-estrogenic drugs effective at increasing your testosterone levels post cycle.

Once your system is clean from anabolics (days to weeks depending on the dosage and drugs used), use of anti-estrogens work to block the estrogen from the pituitary, thereby telling the pituitary, “hey, we don’t have enough testosterone round these parts, fire some up there Billy Bob”. The pituitary then sends/ allows LH to be produced once again where it then travels to the Leydig cells of the testes, and stimulates the machinery to turn back on. You will know when this happens because this is when you can first tell that your balls are getting bigger again, your energy level comes back up, you start to feel good again since being off, etc. Common drugs that aromatize include the nandrolones, dianabol and all the testosterone esters. The rest of the anabolic steroids are constantly disagreed upon amongst gurus, and their outcomes are not definitive enough to mention in detail, whether you are considering the likelihood of chemical structures, or empirical real world effects. After all, deca, test and d-bol are the drugs most used that will be the major culprits with regards to aromatization. I know, you all have probably known someone who has gotten some nasty estrogenic type side effects from some other drug besides deca, test or d-bol. Those side effects come from other root causes…However you look at it, estrogenic affects from anabolic steroids serve to decrease sex drive by shutting off your natural supply.

Only if the drugs are androgenic enough and affect the sexual areas of your brain in just the right way will the drug cancel its own affects and increase sex drive. Your individual biochemistry comes into play with many of the sexual highs and lows of anabolic steroid usage, it takes individual experience to know what you need and when. But the information found here will hopefully take much of the guesswork out of your experiences.

III. Progestagenic Affects of drugs are often over-looked. This is because most individuals do not know how potent progesterone really is in the body. All you ever really here is the bad stuff about estrogen. Well, progesterone my friends can be pretty nasty. Remember what we've said about sex offenders and progesterone. the govenment itself uses progesterone treatment to kill the sex drive of male sex offenders in order to help control their cravings. If it works on a freak, it will definitely work on a normal person. Don't forget, progesterone kills sex drive in the male.

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