Letro Vs Anastrozole (Bask8kace Help Plz)
Posted by Bask8kace:
Both Arimidex/Ldex/Anastrozole and Femara/Letrozole hurt your cholesterol. The way these 2 anti e's work is they inhibit the aromatase enzyme. By inhibiting the enzyme which converts testosterone to estrogen, you reduce or even come close to eliminating estrogen production. We need some estrogen to be healthy. The major drawback to this is without estrogen, your lipid profile gets F***ed.
Aromasin (Exemestane) works differently. It does not stop the body from producing estrogen. Rather, it makes it so the estrogen is unable to bind to receptors by deactivating the binding enzyme. If the estrogen cannot bind, you simply will not get bloated or get gyno. The estrogen is crippled due to exemestane. However, since the estrogen is still floating around, it will not negatively affect your lipid/cholesterol profile.
Anastrozole (Arimidex) doesnt cause a rebound effect, and neither does exemestane, but letrozole does. This means after you stop the letrozole, your estrogen rebounds and goes pretty high for a while, eventually it normalizes. You can avoid this by tapering your letro dose down before stopping it, but that is a pain in the ass. Higher than normal can mess many things up post cycle when you stop. Since the HPTA has a feedback loop is primarily controlled by estrogen, high estrogen will tell your HPTA to produce less testosterone, because it thinks the high estrogen is caused by too much testosterone. This is fact. Now post cycle, dont we want to raise our test levels, not lower them? Of course! So, rebounds are bad. If you use letro taper the dose off to zero over a couple weeks.
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Q1 Bask8Kace or anyone else that knows can you explain why Anastrozole does not cause an estrogen rebound while letrozole does. I could be mistaken but I thought those drugs worked in very similar ways, so I can't understand why one would cause an estrogen rebound while the other would not? Also why does letro diminsih sex drive with the other does not.
Q2 Does anyone have any experience using both ARR's letro and liquidex (anastrozole)? Which did you prefer and why? I have had great success with ARR letro in the past, but am thinking about trying the liquidex in my experiments. My reasons for this are my rats want to avoid an estrogen rebound and will aslo be running nolva as well to help improve their lipid profile. Nolva hurts the strength of letro where as I have not found any info on nolva reducing the strength of anastrozole. Any comments? (edited) i'm an idiot I re-read that article and nolva does diminish the strentgh of anastrozole. But the rebound question still stands.