Cytomel

[fanatic]

Im just curious: how effective do you guys think cytomel really is for fat loss/cutting? Also, how long should it be ran?

[JohnnyB]

Yes it is, don't go over 3 months with the same time off

JohnnyB

[MatrixGuy]

T3 is very effective in burning fat bro as long as everything else is in check. Not that it does tend to burn muscle in the higher doses. It did give me a "smooth" look though and strength gains go down the pan.

[Alpha-Male]

check this study:

A paradigm of experimentally induced mild hyperthyroidism: effects on nitrogen balance, body composition, and energy expenditure in healthy young men.

Lovejoy JC, Smith SR, Bray GA, DeLany JP, Rood JC, Gouvier D, Windhauser M, Ryan DH, Macchiavelli R, Tulley R.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70808, USA. [email protected]

Although T3 exerts major regulatory actions in both animals and humans, most clinical studies of T3 administration have been relatively short term. The present study examined the effects of more than 2 months (63 days) of low dose T3 treatment on nitrogen balance, body composition, 24-h energy expenditure (EE), and protein turnover in seven healthy men studied at an in-patient metabolic unit. Subjects were also randomly assigned to either high or low fat diets to determine the effects of diet composition. T3 treatment produced significant losses in both lean mass (1.5 +/- 0.3 kg) and fat mass (2.7 +/- 0.4 kg) by 6 weeks, with similar reductions in both at 9 weeks. The high fat diet somewhat attenuated the loss of body fat. Nitrogen balance was significantly negative for the first 3 weeks of T3 treatment, but tended to return to baseline thereafter. There were no significant effects of treatment on protein turnover at 9 weeks, although there was a slight increase in leucine oxidation (P = 0.07). Despite the apparent adaptation in nitrogen balance, total 24-h EE and sleeping EE were significantly increased at 9 weeks. We conclude that although healthy men are able to adapt to mild hyperthyroidism in terms of nitrogen balance, they exhibit significant and persistent changes in fat and fat-free mass as well as energy balance.

here's the full article:

http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/82/3/765

but basically, they received 75mcg/day for 9 weeks...an interesting note:
"Serum TSH was also suppressed from a mean baseline level of 1.50 ± 0.32 mU/L to undetectable levels (<0.03 mU/L) by 1 week in all subjects and remained suppressed throughout the study." didnt really mention recovery, hmm...

AM