Can proviron be used as an anticatabolic while dieting?

[Sigmund Roid]

Proviron is a strong androgen indeed but that goes mainly for the brain receptors (hence the libido boost) however at muscle level it's binding properties are pretty pathetic, it's anticatabolic properties are comparable to a prohormone's... as a matter of fact it converts to a something-diol before reaching the muscle.

1alfa-methylandrostanediol....

Question:
Is the reason that proviron does not inhibit the HTPA that proviron gets converted in the pituitary/hypothalamus to the almost inactive compound 1alfa-methylandrostanediol, while it remains in the active form in other parts of the brain to be responsible for libido increase?

BTW, DHT inhibits the HTPA.

 

[norr]

Good question Sigmund, I would also like to know how comes it doesn't inhibit HPTA while it seems to be active also at testicular level not just the brain. It is actually prescribed in the treatment of oligozoospermia (your lazy ass sperm cells won't swim) - Proviron is proven to increase sperm motility thus improving the chances for impregnation... maybe that's the answer for all those "I got my girl pregnant while on cycle" threads.

 

[Author L. Rea]

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