“It’s just Anavar, isn’t it fine to take it without worrying too much?”
The moment these words leave your mouth, this friend has already completed the offering ritual, sacrificing his own liver to the gods.
17-alpha alkylation.
Shoveling oral steroids into your mouth without knowing the weight of these three words is like pulling the pin on a grenade and holding it to your chest.
Before we properly begin, let’s first go over the ones that don’t carry the 17-alpha alkylation label.
These guys are not the main force.
They are for special operations or backline support.
For example, Proviron.
A single role.
When a newbie starts their very first cycle and their SHBG levels skyrocket, binding up all the testosterone, its mission is to gently suppress that.
That’s it.
Bodybuilders who’ve been cruising for years?
Their SHBG crawls on the floor.
Why would those guys use Proviron?
There’s no reason to.
For your information, the statement that lower SHBG is unconditionally better is half true and half false.
There’s also something called the SHBG receptor complex.
This is another muscle synthesis pathway.
If you just smash SHBG unconditionally, you’re fighting with one arm tied behind your back.
Don’t mistakenly think that just because you got your SHBG down to a single digit with Proviron, your libido will explode.
Reality?
I’ve seen plenty of guys fall into the hell of impotence, not getting a single boner.
Why?
Because the balance was destroyed.
DHEA? Pregnenolone?
That’s the realm of HRT.
The moment you start pumping in testosterone from the outside, your adrenal glands declare a strike.
At that point, the production of DHEA and Pregnenolone also stops.
That’s why you supplement them.
They are for maintenance: cognitive function, well-being, maintaining libido balance.
Using them to build muscle?
That mindset itself means you’re already finished.
Aromasin?
It also has an oral steroid structure, but its role is different.
It’s a suicide squad that binds to aromatase and goes down with it.
It’s a shield that blocks estrogen conversion.
Aldactone?
It’s a diuretic that blocks aldosterone receptors and excretes sodium.
But the problem is, it also blocks androgen receptors.
Use it for more than 3 days?
The hardness and shape of your muscles completely fall apart.
This is for strategic, short-term use right before a stage, or around the time of taking a flight.
If you abuse this long-term?
That’s just stupid.
Now we enter the main event.
17-alpha alkylation.
How to handle this legion of hell.
1. Anavar (Oxandrolone)
It’s a cunning bastard that lightly scratches the liver and then flees to the kidneys.
That’s why liver values spike relatively less.
But the kidneys react differently.
Research papers? You’ll never see it there.
In the trenches?
Plenty of guys pissing blood on Anavar.
Blood tests? They come back fine.
But your body is screaming emergency.
Ignore that and keep going?
Your kidneys are done for.
Real Anavar makes your body feel tight, locked in, and squeezed even at just 25mg.
If you take over 50mg and feel nothing?
You paid money to swallow a fake, cut with Dianabol or flour.
Anavar is a detailing knife for women, or bodybuilders shredded below 8% body fat, for their final definition.
Using this in the off-season?
That’s just a waste of money.
2. Turinabol
The off-season version of Anavar.
It quietly adds muscle and strength without estrogen conversion.
The pump is weak, but it’s relatively free from water retention or blood pressure issues.
It’s the alternative chosen by novices who are scared of Dianabol’s side effects.
3. Dianabol (Dbol)
The tyrant of the off-season.
Take it and train, and it’s not a workout, it’s euphoria.
The pump?
This is true art.
But there’s a price.
Water retention from estrogen conversion, acne, and insane blood pressure spikes.
Your face turns red like it’s about to explode during squats?
That’s Dbol’s warning to your blood vessels.
If you can’t control it properly, don’t even touch it in the first place.
4. Anadrol
The most powerful mass builder in existence.
But it destroys your appetite.
After just 4 weeks, food won’t go down your throat.
Liver toxicity is a given, and it explosively increases red blood cell count, making your blood thick and sticky.
If you don’t want to run this, get a blood clot, suffer a brain hemorrhage and die, find a blood donation place first.
There’s also a strategy of using it for 2-3 days during carb loading right before a stage.
Use it just one more day?
Your body gets covered in water and your definition gets blurred.
That timing isn’t found by gut feeling.
It’s an area that must be calibrated with endlessly accumulated data.
5. Superdrol, Halotestin
These aren’t soldiers.
They are demons.
Superdrol spews out liver toxicity at least twice as potent as Anadrol in a short time.
Just 2 weeks of use and your liver is screaming.
Halotestin blocks cortisol receptors and is the ultimate weapon for protecting muscle even in a state of extreme dieting.
In return, it flips the aggression switch in your brain.
The number of guys who’ve torn joints or muscles training on this wouldn’t fit in a truck.
Fighting with your partner, yelling at your kids, destroying relationships – that’s just a bonus.
This is a drug that only bodybuilders with 100% control over themselves on stage can touch.
Novices, don’t even look at it.
The single iron rule of orals.
Is managing your liver and cholesterol.
Use TUDCA to clear the bile flow, and put a bulletproof vest on your liver cells with NAC.
Fiber is also essential.
It’s the janitor that flushes out the toxins your body creates through your shit.
Shoveling orals into your mouth without even doing these basics is an insane act of trying to defuse a bomb with the pin pulled.
The conclusion is simple.
Orals are for short distances.
Anyone trying to run a marathon with them will meet the finish line in a hospital bed.
Everything depends on dosage, duration, and timing.
Blood tests?
That’s your body’s logbook.
The moment you ignore it, hitting a reef and sinking happens in an instant.
A true master isn’t defined by which drugs they use,
But by knowing when to stop.
The only difference between those who dominate the system and those who are dragged around by the drugs lies right there.
