Posted by JW on 2nd Jul 2014
PCT - Post Cycle Therapy Basics
When taking a supplement which provides a synthetic hormone or interrupts the body’s own natural levels it is essential that attention is paid at the end of a cycle to ensure that natural hormones are restored to normal as fast as possible.
Nearly any designer steroid (DS) of this nature will impact if not shut down the user’s own testosterone as the body when provided with an alternative hormonal source ceases to see the need to produce this anymore. The issue with this reaction is that once the cycle is over you are left with no or low natural testosterone and no artificial and this can have a variety of effects ranging from losing muscle mass and gaining weight to psychological and mood related problems. Now purely restoring natural testosterone is not the only problem, unfortunately the body also balances this hormone closely with the amount of oestrogen in the system too and when all of a sudden it panics into working super hard to boost test it also assumes a need for doing the same for oestrogen and you become flooded with this also. It is this hormone which will be mainly responsible for fat gain post cycle and for males the dreaded man boobs associated to the medical condition gynecomastia.
For these reasons it is essential that an AI (Anti Aromatase) product is used to control the level of oestrogen and prevent this unwanted surplus. Some users may also opt to stack this with a natural testosterone booster to help stimulate the body’s response to being void of natural test that bit faster. Check out our PCT section to find the best of each category.