If you're using liquidex, you're still messing with hormone levels. You say you want to stay away from gear but IMO any hormone altering substance has teh ability to downregulate your natural production of crucial hormones. you are also at a crucial age to not be messing with that stuff... Personally, if I were going to mess with any hormones at all... even just estrogen, i'd go the whole 9 yards and get some real gains while at it... i.e. gear