Originally Posted by Smallnaturalbuilder
1-AD is a prohormone and can be good if 1) used in high dosage and 2) you don't have any experience with steroids.
Because you're only 18 years old, you should avoid using steroids or prohormones. You're body is growing, you already have a lot of testosterone in your system and a lot of other hormones are raging in your body more than any other time in your life. Taking a prohormone or steroids can throw your system out of wack and you can do all kinds of damage that you may not be aware of until much later on.
For example, your kidneys regulate your hormones and if your body has foreign horemones introduced your kidneys will stop producing it's own horemones. If the foreign hormone stays around too much, that very top part of the kidney can shrivel up and no longer be able to work (worst case scinerio). When you stop the hormone, you can no longer produce your own. This is just one example of how things can go wrong. This is not necessarily what would happen from taking 1-AD or any other prohormone. What could happen from taking a prohormone is just more complicated and harder to understand.
The main thing is, stick to things like Creatine, Protein, Amino's, etc. Stay away from prohormones and steroids until you're at least in your early 20's. Prohormones were develped for men that have stoped producing testosterone. That should tell you about the dangers to younger people. The label of the product should also indicate that it is not to be sold to minors or used by minors.