Quote Originally Posted by wampo View Post
What's HPTA? So your saying you started at 19 and quit gear until the age of 27? or am i reading this wrong. Hmmmm so your saying even 2 cycles can screw me up later in life?
One cycle can damage an underdeveloped androgen system. Sure, there's a chance it won't. No one can make a factual claim that it will absolutely cause irreversible damage. However, the odds are not in your favor. There are those who have appeared to get away with it over the years. For example, we know a lot of the bodybuilders in the early days were using steroids in their teens and early 20's, and most of them turned out just fine. However, we don't know how many of them ended up on permanent HRT and we can't know that unless they all come forward and answer.

You're comment in the OP about growth plates...there's no hard proof that early AAS use will damage growth plates. This is merely speculation. However, there is sound evidence that use at your age will be damaging to your natural hormone production. When austinite referred to HPTA, this stands for Hypothalamic Pituitary Testicular Axis. Your HPTA, in a very generalized sense regulates your reproductive organs and also plays an important role on the immune system.

Long story short, yes, you could get away with it, you might but the odds are not in your favor.