What causes water retention?

[Slide]

I am on test 500mg EW and i was noticing that even with my diet very clean and consistant, i seem to retain water some days. How does test cause you to retain water? Estrogen?

[lovbyts]

To much salt in the diet
Not drinking enough water
Some steroids just make you also hold water
Not enough cardio
To much fat

[DEVLDOG]

its all about your diet,clean it up. you should be able to get ripped while taken test in moderate dosages which 500mg/week is. once you get over a gram a week,hypertension becomes a little ineveitable from my experiences

[SpanishStallion]

dont forger ESTROGEN. is a major cause of water retention.

[anabolictonic]

if ur talkin about steroids my first guess would be they alter the sodium level in the body which causes water retention

[ninesecz]

Some of the reason for water retention is as simple as this... when a foreign substance is introduced to the body.. the body will always try to dilute the substance with water.. For instance if you were to intake a toxic substance that your body was unsure of it will start to hold water to try and help treduce the toxicity by diluting it! On some levels this is what your body is doing with steroids.. some do convert to DHT or Estrogen which automatically produces Higher water retention, You can use the OTC Pill Xpel They work really good. I myself like the water retention Helps the joints and strength gains a little (weight is strength)

[nilrac]

I myself like the water retention Helps the joints and strength gains a little (weight is strength)

It also increases the chance of protein synthesis, right?

[ninesecz]

what/ water retention or steroids?

[nilrac]

what/ water retention or steroids?

Extra water in the muscle belly, due to anabolic steroid use.
To a far lesser extent, naturally, creatine monohydrate as well.

Though there are obviously a whole host of reasons for increased protein synthesis, a catalogue of events and effects.

[TITANIUM]

ninesecz:


EXCELLENT!!!!GOOD WORK BRO!!!!!!AS ALWAYS......

[ranging1]

estrogen mate
dw test water weight aint that bad, dbol or anadrol are a bitch
just put up with the water weight, im doing same thing u are and i get it really bad in the abdominal area, go from a tummy to a belly some days

just tolerate it, the muscle gains are worth it

[JiGGaMaN]

based on my experience: DHT's you'll never get water retention, all others you will. i had just assumed that it was conversion to estrogen that changed the amount of water being retained, which is why you dont see women who are 'ripped' naturally like a man able to achieve, if that makes sense. im going to go investigate this and maybe come up with an answer thats based in fact rather than observation. wish me luck.

[JiGGaMaN]

The fluid retention due to excess estrogen is the result of increased
reabsorption of sodium salts and water by the kidney
from Progress in conception control
By American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

the above seems to confirm my theory, although all the good information on google costs $$$ and thats the best info i can find for free. i suspect reduced urinary excretion of nitrogen associated with consumption of anabolic/androgenic steroids may be correlated to a reduced urinary excretion of sodium in some way as well.