Take it easy, just wanted to clear some things up regarding the statement I made yesterday about estrogen and Dan's ideas. here is what it says in the World Anabolic Review.

The fact is however that various test compounds can only achieve their full effect if the estrogen level is sufficiently high. Dan Duchaine in his book Ask the Guru bolstered this thesis: "but test is not anabolic in and of itself, because it requires the body to have a sufficent level of estrogen in order to achieve it's fullest anabolic effect. This is why there is reduced anabolic activity from many steroids when Nolvedex is added to a steroid stack."

Now steroids and how they work is a very complicated thing and involves many factors. I'm no bloody expert, but I do make obsevations on how they effect me and other people. e.g. I've seen skinney 130/140 lb guy's make absolutley phenomenal gains on steroids. Why? probably because they had very low levels of natural testosterone to begin with. Other guy's I have seen who weighed maybe 200 lb's or more before they started using, made f**k all gains because they probably already had high natural levels of test.

A lot of it has to do with genetics especially your natural levels of testosterone, estrogen and DHT will all play a part in determining how well you react to steroid therapy.

If you have high levels of the 5-alpha-reductase enzyme in your body then a lot of the extra test you inject will be converted to DHT. Which is great if you want to grow lots of body hair get prostate problems and feel really horny all the time. However it is absolutely useless if your main objective is to grow extra muscle.

Some guy's bodies have high levels of aromatase enzymes which convert extra test to estrogen. Which is why some guy's only have to smell testosterone and they grow breasts and get acne all over their back.

What I'm trying to say is that you have to find out what works for you. It doesn't matter a damn what some scientist in a white coat says about how this works or why this works, everyone is different.I still have not found out what works best for me.

If you want my opinion on why the pro's are a lot better built than us, it's because (a) genetics and (b) they also found out very quickly what worked and what did not work for them.

As Clint would say:

The man has got to know his limitations.