Nah, no more "no AI" for me
Talk about feeling like absolute shit on no AI, and looking like absolute shit. Maybe some of you can get away with no AI, but if I don't take it, I'm bloating up like a balloon, my face looks like I didn't sleep for 3 weeks, and I have the worst mood ever. Not only that, I have less gains.
I'm not sure where the whole estrogen is anabolic, you don't need an AI, thing came up... wait, yeah I do... but I regret listening to that advice. I would have made more out of my cycles without that advice. Testosterone is 1000x more anabolic than estrogen. Letting the testosterone get converted to estrogen doesn't make much sense, otherwise I'd be injecting estrogen not testosterone.
Right now I'm taking .25 mg arimidex EOD, and I feel great and look great. Before, I was taking .25 mg every 3rd day (day after injecting), and I still was getting a lot of bloating, bad mood, poor sleep, etc. Since I bumped it up a few days ago, I can already tell I'm feeling much better and the puffiness went away.
I can see if you already run low in estrogen that taking an AI may not be completely necessary. Me, I was running 42 estradiol on just 125 mg of test. My total test was around 850 and I was already out of range with my E. I was a little heavier then, probably a few extra lbs of fat, but still.
Btw I'm taking .25 mg EOD on just 125 test/100 deca/100 primo. So imagine how high my E was on the "real" cycles I did. No wonder I felt like shit. My gains weren't even that great.. On my current dose I already put on a solid 6 lbs in just 20 days.
So from now on, I take an AI.
Nah, no more "no AI" for me
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Some of you guy are naturally much leaner than me. As I lean down, I am curious if I'll need less AI. For now, though, I can't afford not to take it.
Sil, that's an interesting point you make. I thought about the fact that we convert more may just be due to a very efficient metabolism.
I seriously doubt it will change much, unless you’re really damned fat. The very large adipose tissue related shifts in aromatase come from clinical settings, where your average client is going to be in the 25+% BF range.
The brain, adrenals, blood vessels, testicles (in men), ovaries (in women), skin and bone also contain these enzymes.
This is another one of those things that “natty bros” latched onto and it got turned into a retarded Ouroboros of bullshit.
ETA: in a way, it makes sense. People like to think they have more control than they do. Fat is easy to get rid of, those other things, not so much, unless you like death.