Quote Originally Posted by Windex View Post
Every male has their testosterone levels naturally decrease as they age, regardless of whether or not they weightlift or exercise. It's just part of getting older and the natural degradation of the human body.

You should take everything with a grain of salt when it comes to what other people preach as it pertains to fitness and steroids. Professionals are paid to say certain things. Also pros are genetic abnormalities, that's why they were able to become pro in the first place, so what they do is completely irrelevant for the average cycling gym guy.


What exactly is your concern? If your fear is ending up on TRT and don't want to take that risk then you shouldn't cycle. You can't really preconceive any hard set expectations because like you said in the same paragraph everybodies body is different.
I am trying to clarify if the decrease in testosterone resulting from steroids is caused by the drugs themselves or if it is a natural decline - there is limited research regarding whether they are correlated or steroids cause this. Also I am talking about lighter cycles such as test only or less harsh compounds for 12 weeks not staying on for extended periods with 19nors etc.

I am not worried about TRT if it is later on if I would need it anyways (I am turning 31). But definitely closer to 40

Basically trying to understand the relation since certain people say they recover fully, others say that they do one test cycle and it caused them to need TRT for life. There is really no clear reason for this from what I can tell and trying to figure out why. People just say "your HPTA hasn't recovered" but really they have no idea and are just saying what they heard. Trying to get more specific as to the reason if anyone knows.

I know its kind of convoluted and there might not be a clear answer out there but wanted to see if anyone knew! Thanks.