[FONT=wf_segoe-ui_normal]If you take some time to do some research on HCG, you will find that it does more harm then good. Read this: http://www.evolutionary.org/hcg-dangers-exposed/[/FONT]
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[FONT=wf_segoe-ui_normal]HCG will increase LH and FSH, yes, but it will also increase estrogen levels and it's suppressive of natural testosterone production. The problem with HCG is that when you stop using it, your natural testosterone production is suppressed and you get an estrogen rebound to boot. That is why so many users experience gyno after HCG use. [/FONT]
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[FONT=wf_segoe-ui_normal]I personally would use a good natural testosterone booster like HCGenerate from n2bm.com. You will get the same LH and FSH increase, with no natural testosterone suppression or estrogen rebound. [/FONT]
No offense, but the majority of this doesn't make any sense and actually contradicts a lot of things.
First, about the article. There are definetly some solid facts in there, but the article is obviosuly just one giant slander piece against HCG to promote something else. I get it, but lets be real.
One of the biggest misconceptions that gets pushed is the desensitization that can occur. Like the article says.. "HCG that is used for too long or in high enough doses will inhibit your own testosterone production due to the negative feedback via the pituitary gland and hypothalamus." This is true, but I am sorry.. 500iu weekly for a few months does not fall into the criteria of "high enough dosage" and "used for too long". So if someone chooses to run a moderate dosage from the beginning of their cycle, there will be no issue. Now if someone is pumping thousands of IU's weekly at a time, for long periods.. like Rich Piana suggests when you come off. You are more than likely to run into this issue. I think that is why most people don't suggest or follow a protocol like this.
HCG does not necasarrily increase LH and FSH, and you can find a lot of bloodwork that supports that.. what it does is mimic what it does. It simply just tricks your body into producing testosterone. Using it on cycle is supposed to theorectically keep our testes from being completely shut down, so transitioning into PCT is smoother. Not a lot of actual medical studies for this, but to me.. it makes a lot of sense.
Next is the part that makes no sense.. I'm going to quote it sentence by sentence.
"HCG will increase LH and FSH, yes, but it will also increase estrogen levels and it's suppressive of natural testosterone production"
-Typically when someone is taking HCG, in the sense that we are talking about it, they are using it in correlection with other hormones. Those hormones are already suppressing our natural test production, so why on earth would we care if the HCG is suppressing too? Logically, that is ass backwards and makes no sense. The entire purpose of using HCG is to increase our natural test production, or at least keep it going, and using it correctly does exactly this. As far as the estrogen levels.. 500iu weekly is going to have very little effect on the amount of aromatization that occurs, and the majority of people that cycle are concious of their estrogen levels and run an AI.. problem solved.
"That is why so many users experience gyno after HCG use"
- Not true.. going to try to keep this short. The majority of post PCT gyno/estrogen rebound is caused by the cluster fuck of drugs we throw in our body trying to get it to restabilize, then not coming off them properly. HCG may have a little to do with this, but it's not the one to blame. Typical PCT protocol is to run a serm, clomid or nolva, for about a month or so. When we do this, we are tricking our bodies into thinking there is no estrogen in our system, so our bodies respond by producing Test. Call it the negative feedback loop, whatever you want.. but all the serms do is trick the HPTA into starting the process of producing Test. So we've gone from mega high Test/hormone levels, to a sudden drop off, now back to a sudden increase in a short period of time, Now our bodies are like wtf is going on and are all sorts of out of wack. Meanwhile, we are producing Test at a good rate because of the serms, typically to a greater extent then what it would do naturally, which is going to lead to more aromatization. We are now taking nothing that actually lowers our estrogen levels.. but are taking something that blocks the effects of them. Don't have any side effects, so we assume everything is kosher. So when PCT is done and we come off the serms, while our bodies are trying to restabilize, all this extra estrogen that has been floating around starts to appear and starts causing problems. To fix this, run a goddamn AI through cycle and PCT.
That's it.