moggy chicken log
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https://doi.org/10.1042/cs0600457
found the study referencing the study suggesting tren reduces both muscle synthesis as well as breakdown but reduces breakdown more ∴ it is anabolic to muscle
also says something about glucocorticoids
but main part of study says muscle put on with dianabol is different than normal muscle (i think) in that it is more contractile tissue and less water but im lazily reading it rn
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@sunsunsun Great find sushi
I think it was reffering to this study
It used a HED of 70mg a week for an 80kg man, which is a very low dose. They measured protein synthesis by measuring the concentration of RNA in muscle, which usually increases during AAS administration, but fell during trenbolone treatment. The tren rats had less amino acids in their muscle, indicating less muscle breakdown and more nitrogen per kg of bodyweights and normal organ sizes (actually less as a percent of bodyweight) it's interesting. to see its' unique effects
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unfortunately it looks like if you want to lose fat not super slowly, you need to endure some FAO
https://substack.com/home/post/p-189515524
the trick is, though, to limit FAO to short periods like at night or between meals during the day in order to not rely on cortisol and instead just stored glycogen and fat
this seems to be working for me super well
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@alfredoolivas do you think the phopshate deficient muscle that dbol puts on in that study is basically meaning that while gaining lean massthat ca:p ratio being lower is actually ok? on some bodybuilder diets phosphate can be 7.5g per day and i dont know if it is ok to have calcium come up even near that high.
i guess the only way to know is to do blood work to see serum levels
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@sunsunsun possible that dianabol, 17a estradiol or 17a methyl 1 testosterone or any of it's metabolites are diuretics... authors say it could be pottasium counteracting the phosphorus
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Week 2: Down from 81kg to 79.5kg
Did my first hill climb. I don't even know how long it took but it was a hard climb. at least 15 minutes. felt like 30.
Gonna see how I recover. Durian Rider says hill climbs are the best exercise to lose fat, and I believe it kinda, because as soon as I got home after biking 40km including the hill climb, I felt really hot when I are dried mangoes. -
@alfredoolivas be careful, because once again hard exercise depletes glycogen -> low blood sugar -> high cortisol, or you do anaerobic oxidation which lactic acidmaxxes your cells
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@engineer Yeah I consumed 300g of sugar during my ride, and took aspirin and vitamin E.
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@alfredoolivas yeah, but now you're supplying all the energy you need to complete the hill climb. Once you get back home what is your metabolism doing now? Your glycogen is still full or marginally depleted and now you're doing the same thing as before when you weren't biking up that hill. So the net energy gain/loss is a wash. Plus you're not burning much more energy passively because cardio doesn't build muscle very well.
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@engineer Practice always beats theory, let's see how this goes. 1.5kg lost in two weeks is pretty good...
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@alfredoolivas weight on its own means absolute bumpkus, what you want instead is a body fat % or waist measurement
https://x.com/BerbarianWizard/status/2038909593217040435
"BTW, the most reliable and accessible way to track fat loss is your waist measurement.
Body weight fluctuates constantly due to changes in water retention, glycogen levels, digestion, minerals balance, and stress, which can easily mask real fat loss.
You can be losing fat while the scale stays the same or even increases, especially during recomposition, where you lose fat and gain muscle at the same time (muscle is denser than fat).
Your waist measurement reflects actual fat loss much more directly."
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@alfredoolivas I've read and re-read this study and fed it to Claude and I've come to the conclusion that it is strongly suggesting a potential dietary phosphate deficiency in phases of rapid muscle growth with anabolics, therefore the Ca:P ratio during bodybuilding where lots of lean mass is put on quickly, doesn't have to be 1:1, ∴ 'high' phosphate diet is actually ok and still peaty in this context because the phosphate is needed to incorporate into weight gain otherwise we get 'abnormal' phosphate deficient muscle and intracellular fluid.
The study is implying (we don't know for sure because phosphate wasn't measured, only a deficiency of it inferred via measurement of total body nitrogen and potassium, and even then not differentiated between these things in tissue vs. intercellular fluid) that the weight gained (either or both lean tissue and intercellular fluid) is phosphate deficient, which one is it lean tissue or fluid, I don't think they know, but in any case the weight gained is lacking in phosphate.
I think overall this means that there is some type of gains (strength or looks or both) left on the table for the typical steroid user with a relative phosphate deficient diet.
