Well, I do see your point my bro. However, i will go as far as saying gear is the closesit thing to magic. For ex. take a guy who has never geared up in his life, then let him do a mild db ONLY cycle. Guarantee you he will gain weight and strength EVEN IF HE DOESN'T DO SHIT. That's magic in my eyes. See what mean? of course if same individual eats right, lifts right, etc, what will go down?
Anyway, what I wanted to touch with you was your thinking on gaining muscle tissue. You know that we are all born with x amount of muscle tissue. That's right, at birth we have the very same amount of muscle cells that we die with. Now all we can do is either blow those cells up, which give the appearance of more cells, or we can actually add cells. Hyperplasia being addition of cells and hypertrophy being blowing the cells up like a balloon.
Good luck achieving hyperplasia. Even with juice use. Now, when u get into growth hormone, igf-1, etc., then we are talking actually adding muscles cells. However, you have to be careful with this approach due to the fact not only do your muscle cells multiply, but every other cell in your body. Bones, heart, liver, whatever is a cell. So I don't mean to burst the bubble, but keep in mind u really aren't adding muscle cells anyway, unless u are really really down with your game. in other words, it is a bitch to gain actual muscle tissue beyond what u were born with. Does this make any sense my bro? Therefore, I would concentrate for now on figuring out how my own body works with diet, training, sleep, etc. Then add in the anabolics to enhance your natural born genetics, which will only be yielding a blown up version of the muscle cell. Again, if u are shooting for literal muscle tissue gain, good damn luck, bro! It's a bitch to achieve!