macrophage69alpha said:
I've seen a couple of complaints also. One guy just emailed me in fact, and said he got this from a dermal (nipple puffiness and itching), and Viratase (aromatase inhibitor) cleared it up for him. I'm confused actually.
Part of the reason for my earlier post was that after having recently to spoken to ((perhaps the primary)) a importer of PH.. given his comments that contamination levels have at times been very high.. and considerable amounts of raw material are/were in detention or had to be reprocessed.. was wondering if this was part of the reason for some of the sides experienced..including but not limited to gyno.
None of my materials ever had purity problems, but again, I did not jump on the first lots of material. None of the material now should have a problem though. And the only way gyno would be a problem is if a dermal was using older material that had a good amount of testosterone in it. I don't think was ever the case, as we are talking low level contamination, not large percentages of illegal steroid.
Pat may know how bad some of the earlier materials actually were.
- since no one actually knows what kind of binding 1-test has, regardless of whether it aromatizes, it could potentially cause gyno. it is not exactly well studied.. isn't there only one study from about 30 years ago??
As rare as it is, and as much as I hate to say it, macro has actually made a correct statement here (well, except for the one study 30 years ago comment). We know quite a bit about the anabolic and androgenic properties of 1-Test actually, however we don't have studies looking at estrogen receptor binding. We have no reason to look at the structure and think it is likely, however anything is possible so we can't exclude it. It would have to be a problem with people using high doses of 1-AD though (all the metabolites are the same), and that has been around for a while now. I'm not seeing too much feedback on that..
Interesting side note. Vida cites 2 references in his book for 1-androstenedione actually aromatizing to estrogen (to spite no known pathway for this to occur). The problem is the first is an old study showing 9% estrogen formation or so, the other is a latter, more detailed, study refuting the first. I don't think it is possible, but you never know if somehow that first study actually had it right....
But again, where are the high dose 1-AD users?
- Bill