OldBoy

to ease stomach burden you can split your dosage up where you take half with a meal early in the day and the other half with a meal later in the day.

just an fyi – Tren itself , even though an injectible, seems to cause me more stomach gastritis and heartburn then any of the orals I take.
the reason being is some people respond to ‘toxicity’ in their body by their body producing more and more stomach acid.

taking Prevacid daily may help as well

a fixed variable is a very useful tool while dieting down.. having to manipulate your calories, your carbs, your cardio, etc.. all the damn time because your metabolism keeps fighting against you can be a pain. so even a 25mcg replacement dosage of T3 at least helps keep metabolic variables more fixed.

also your T4/t3 natty production is likely slightly suppressed from the tren run .

note – for recomp and bulking/hypertrophy I generally prefer T4 over T3

Originally Posted by  rubsd

What do you consider a low yet still effective dose for what we use these things for… i.e. body building

Luke Sandoe used only 20mg of Var for his Olympia prep.. it really depends on what your using it for and what your stacking it with.

I’m starting a con prep cycle here this week. my dosage of Var starting out will only be 20mg as well. though I’d generally run 40mg, but this time around I’m stacking it/rotating it with Winny and Anadrol . as a stand alone though, I think 40mg is plenty effective.
as an addition to TRT , 10-30mg is also fine

well lets say you normally would run 1000mg of test as your base for any cycle, and then you’d add your other compounds to that base to complete your stack. well instead of using all 1000mg of test, you can use a filler.. so say 400mg of test and 600mg of EQ, that gives you your 1000mg base. EQ works well for this being it is really nothing more then a ‘cleaner’ version of test (structurally its actually just injectible Dbol without the 17alk or estrogen conv).
whats the reason for running 400mg test and 600mg EQ rather then just simply 1000mg test as as base.. well the EQ fills in the gap of high dosage test without the excessive estrogen and DHT conversion. so you get much more mild side effects, mainly yielding just the anabolic benefits.

why does EQ make a great synergy drug? couple things
– its very similar to deca in its ability to promote collagen synthesis and synovial fluid retention in the joints, so it helps with joints on cycle (also why its used for race horses)
– it converts into an anti estrogenic enzyme . the longer you take EQ the more this enzyme builds up blunting estrogen and providing a slightly ‘drying’ effect to the physique.
– it doesn’t convert to DHT.. thus it can be ran at very high dosages to get the anabolic benefits without a ton of DHT sides

a couple of different ways to use EQ
– as part of your "trt" or your cruise. you can run it year round. again its just a ‘clean’ version of test essentially
– as a filler. to add a strong base to a stack without having to run high dosage test as that base.
– as an anabolic in a long 12-16 week cycle , ran at say 600-800mg per week
– as an anabolic during one phase of a phase cycling protocol or compound rotation protocol, ran at 1500-2000mg per week for 6 weeks
– added into any cycle at lower dosage to get joint support effects.

more can be said but thats the jist of it

on a side note – you mentioned dropping the EQ cause you were worried about it "thickening your blood" and causing lethargy . keep in mind that Deca is generally a lot more efficient at raising RBC and Hematocrit and "thickening blood" then EQ is . thats why Deca became a human grade medical drug (and EQ was dropped) to treat anemia . and even though EQ is a veterinary drug, even in veterinary medicine Deca is used over EQ in animals that are anemic.

so you dropped the wrong drug if that was your purpose.

but the good news here is that . so what.. high RBC and hematocrit is not going to make you lethargic (otherwise endurance athletes wouldn’t be driving their hematocrit levels up way higher then TrueMaxders ever get to). theres no problem with high RBC and Hemo as long as your blood platelet count is in normal range.

if you get lethargic on cycle, its because of water retention and increase blood volume from water and nutrient retention (not RBC)

I wouldn’t go out of my way to donate blood unless I knew my blood platelet count was high . don’t really care if RBC and hematocrit is high, thats supposed to happen when you take AAS , its what you want to happen