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    Arrow Half-Life

    Why is the Half-Life of a topical like Axiron so different from an injectable like Cypionate ?

    Axiron can bump you from 300 to 650 in 2 hours, but it goes back down to 300 or so within 24 hours.

    Cypionate can do the same thing, but it takes 10 days to return to where you started?

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    gels get in your blood stream immediately, where shots have a slow release.

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    Topicals are straight testosterone without an ester attached. Testosterone has a half-life of something like 10-100 minutes.

    Testosterone cypionate has an ester attached to the testosterone. It takes time for you body (liver I think) to cleave the ester off the testosterone molecule. Hence the long half-life.

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    The purpose of the quick response to gels is to mimick the bodies natural rise and fall (diurnal) of endogenous testosterone . Closest thing to "natural" we have but it's a pain in the ars.....some do great on it though!
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    Quote Originally Posted by kelkel View Post
    The purpose of the quick response to gels is to mimick the bodies natural rise and fall (diurnal) of endogenous testosterone. Closest thing to "natural" we have but it's a pain in the ars.....some do great on it though!
    What does a normal (non-hypogonadal) rise & fall look like as far as numbers?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lockout888 View Post
    What does a normal (non-hypogonadal) rise & fall look like as far as numbers?
    see the attached chart:Click image for larger version. 

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Deadlifting Dog View Post
    see the attached chart:
    So normal levels naturally rise about 400 ng/dl each day and then fall?

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    Yes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Deadlifting Dog View Post
    Yes.
    Was going to comment on the chart you posted, but now that I look at it more closely, I have no comment, please disregard.
    Last edited by xcraider37; 05-21-2013 at 02:34 PM.

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