ricey

found an intersting arcticle of a case study on Oxandrolone aka anavar.
my apologies if this has already been posted but i dont find the search fucntion very effective half of the time and ive seen a lot of stuff on oxandrolone but hadnt seen this one.
here is the link:
http://www.ergo-log.com/oxcycle.html

but f*ck it ill also copy and paste the article aswell.



Medical study: twelve weeks on oxandrolone

It’s not new, but nevertheless it’s interesting, this study done at the University of Southern California in 2004. The researchers gave thirty men over sixty a daily dose of 20 mg of oxandrolone for twelve weeks and observed what happened. After reading the study you might wonder whether giving androgens to people who don’t train is such a good idea.

Oxandrolone is perhaps the safest oral anabolic steroid ever to make its way on to the market. One of the reasons for this is because it doesn’t metabolise easily.

The researchers wanted to know whether you can use male hormones to counter the decline in muscle mass and power that sets in with aging. For their experiments they selected thirty healthy men over the age of sixty, and gave them the dose that doctors advise for ‘undesired weight loss due to unknown causes’. Twenty got oxandrolone, ten got a placebo. The researchers gave them a course of twelve weeks of taking the supplement, and examined the men again twelve weeks after the course had finished. The men did no weight training.

The muscle measurements of those who had taken oxandrolone grew considerably. The figure below shows the thigh muscle cross-sectional area.








As you can see, after twelve weeks the men had more muscle bulk. How much of this was left after the men had been clean for twelve weeks the researchers didn't measure, but going by the figure below it wasn't much. This figure shows the change in the lean body mass. Lean body mass also includes muscle mass.






Most of the lean body mass built up during the course of oxandrolone had disappeared after twelve weeks.

Oxandrolone has a similar effect on muscle power. Twelve weeks of oxandrolone increased the weight the men could shift on the leg press, the lat pulley, the leg extension and the chest press in the lab. But twelve weeks after stopping with the oxandrolone the extra strength had all but disappeared again.






The effects of oxandrolone on the fat mass were more lasting. The fat mass decreased considerably in the first twelve weeks, and the effect could still be seen twelve weeks later.






The course of oxandrolone did not pose health risks. The researchers monitored the men’s liver enzymes, cholesterol, LH and the prostate cancer marker PSA, but noticed nothing alarming. The concentration of PSA even fell a little as a result of the oxandrolone.

The men did not do weight training. Many chemical athletes notice that stopping with training after finishing a course of steroids results in loss of the muscle mass gained. Maybe the men would have benefited more from the oxandrolone if they had trained as well.

When steroids are taken, the body’s own production of testosterone declines. Therefore chemical athletes often use other substances to help boost their endogenous hormone production. This is referred to as post cycle therapy (PCT). The test subjects in this study did not do this either.


Ricey

ricey

seems to be tons of info and articles on the sight aswell

Smitch

Makes for interesting reading, would've been better to see results of younger guys that had stuck to a training program though.

ricey

i agree.although it does demonstrate that whatever peoples belief about the compound it can be very effective at adding lbm this study shows the results with no training and no diet change so it stands to reason what could be achived with a quality diet and training program

Smitch

They're selling some weird stuff too: http://www.teamanr.com/C9_T11_Muscle_Maker_s/24.htm

Smitch

I'm running an 8 week course of 50mg ED at the minute, i'll let you know how i get on.

ricey

lol i think ill stick to reading the articles and wont get to wrapped up in the 'wonderdrugs' they are plugging for now.

ricey

good man. ive ran a similar cycle to you not so long back but im interested to hear others experiences aswell. you should do a log mate i wish i had.

Smitch

Can't be bothered.

I'm a lazy fvcker like that. As long as i look better at the end of it that's all i care about.

dan the man

interesting