Test Base Transdermal = more potent androgel? Yuck!

[LoveSnatches]

I'm a little confused on this part - the reason most of the people here don't use androgel is because it's extremely high affinity for binding to sbhg and aromatization.

Wouldn't the test base transdermal do the same stuff?

 

[ballslee]

no.....androgel tries to make your levels in the normal to high normal range which is like when you were in high school.
so it does not have enough testosterone per dose to do anything for muscle building purposes.

that said, the test base transdermal has a higher dosage and would be possible to maintain super physiological levels with it. you could do this with androgel you just might need the way more of the dosage then you are supposed to take.

i don't know about the shbg thing or aromatization aspects....but basically androgel is like taking 100 or lower mg of test per week (trt dose) and test base could get to dosages of about 500 if you wanted to

 

[MidwestBeast]

no.....androgel tries to make your levels in the normal to high normal range which is like when you were in high school.
so it does not have enough testosterone per dose to do anything for muscle building purposes.

that said, the test base transdermal has a higher dosage and would be possible to maintain super physiological levels with it. you could do this with androgel you just might need the way more of the dosage then you are supposed to take.

i don't know about the shbg thing or aromatization aspects....but basically androgel is like taking 100 or lower mg of test per week (trt dose) and test base could get to dosages of about 500 if you wanted to

Good post.

Yeah, the Androgel comparison is valid in the sense that they're both being applied transdermally, but the end result will be very different.

 

[RickRock13]

Pretty much as already stated, the concentrations in Androgel vs the Transdermal test would be very very different and give very different results

 

[LoveSnatches]

Yeah of course the concentrations are different.

But no one is addressing the real reason androgel doesn't work - it's not the dosage.

It converts to estrogen at a much higher rate than using IM ROA. Test transdermal also binds to SBHG much higher as well.

There has to be a caveat to the transdermal's that we aren't mentioning or haven't figured out yet.

 

[mich29]

the carrier is the key.