why are so many people on that post doing gear along side IF? The whole point of IF is to cleanse your body of synthetic crap, of which gear is part of, and kickstart your own natural hormone production. DOing gear blunts your endocrine response, possibly completely, to fasting. If you can't give up gear do it while your not fasting. Use the fasting period to get your own natural process's back in order, than you can cycle again.