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by Anthony Roberts Sildenafil (Viagra) is one of the most poplar popular drugs ever released. Most people remember it as the original medication used to combat erectile dysfunction. It’s not. Way before the days of the little blue pill there was Caverject; so named because it was administered...

Are Saturated Fats the Hero, Villain or Not Bad? For anyone who hasn’t been keeping up with all the posts here at Burn the Fat Blog, the team at Examine.com wrote our “most liked’ post ever a few months ago, in which they talked about the...

PUMBED ARTICLE Effect of clenbuterol on growth, nitrogen and energy balances and endocrine status in food-restricted sheep. Cardoso LA1, Taveira O. Abstract The aim of this study was to examine the effect of the beta2-adrenoceptor clenbuterol on food-restricted sheep. Clenbuterol was...

As far as American sports scientist Brad Schoenfeld can tell from the literature, bodybuilders and fitness fanatics make more progression by training their muscle groups twice a week than if they only train each muscle group once a week. Schoenfeld writes about this in a meta-study that has...

The Lowdown on Fasted Cardio Great for Fat loss or Not? Team MD One of the most popular bodybuilding strategies for accelerating fat loss is to perform aerobic exercise after an overnight fast. The strategy is based on acute research showing that low glycogen levels cause your body to shift...

Your Testosterone Estrogen Ratio Remember those chem lab days. Well, if you do, you may remember that sometimes the concentration of a solvent orchemical is more important than the absolute amount of the same. What I remember even more is getting kicked solidly inthe right buttock by my 8th...

Your Testosterone Estrogen Ratio Remember those chem lab days. Well, if you do, you may remember that sometimes the concentration of a solvent orchemical is more important than the absolute amount of the same. What I remember even more is getting kicked solidly inthe right buttock by my 8th...

Some erection drugs have anti-oestrogenic effect Erection drugs like Viagra/sildenafil or Cialis/tadalafil inhibit the enzyme PDE5, thus making erections easier. Andrologists at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' discovered that tadalafil at least also inhibits aromatase, the enzyme that...

Effects of different doses of testosterone on gonadotropins, 25-hydroxyvitamin D3, and blood lipids in healthy men Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Aims: To study the effect and time...

The Latest Study on Testosterone says it doesn’t work… by Anthony Roberts The Public Library of Science (PLOSOne.org) recently published a metastudy (a study that looks at other studies) titled: “Treatment of Men for “Low Testosterone”: A Systematic Review.” If you’re anything like me, you...

by Mike Arnold There has been considerable debate as to which of the 3rd generation aromatase inhibitors (anastrozole, exemestane, and letrozole) possesses the most ideal risk to benefit ratio; a question which has thus far been difficult to answer due to significant diversity in individual...

Written by Brad Schoenfeld, Ph.D., CSCS, FNSCA The Lowdown on Fasted Cardio Great for Fat loss or Not? One of the most popular bodybuilding strategies for accelerating fat loss is to perform aerobic exercise after an overnight fast. The strategy is based on acute research showing that low...

These days, there probably isn’t a BB’r alive that hasn’t heard of trenbolone. In today’s drug circles, it has attained nearly super-hero status as an anabolic agent. “Nectar of the gods”…“A steroid on steroids”…and “indispensable” are just some of the terms which have been used to describe this...

by Mike Arnold When the idea of Men’s Physique was first launched, there was a lot of uncertainty among the BB’ing and Fitness communities as to what this division would ultimately represent. With brand new judging criteria in place, it would take a few years to demonstrate consistency in its...

by Mike Arnold As with any performance enhancing drug, it is not what how much you take that matters, but how much your body can effectively use that determines the end result. Nowhere is this basic truth more evident than with insulin. While the more is better mentality may pay dividends with...

Steroid Corner - Side Effects of Aromatase InhibitorsMost bodybuilders who use anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) have used an aromatase inhibitor to prevent the otherwise inevitable estrogen excess that accompanies the use of supraphysiologic dosing of testosterone and other aromatizable AAS...

Why equipoise and Deca stack well together in a bodybuilding cycle! Boldenone Boldenone is similar to testosterone in anabolic action with only about 50% the aromatization rate (conversion to estrogens). It is only moderately androgenic yet provides a hardening effect commonly realized due...

Dianabol Explained by Mike Arnold Perhaps no other steroid has attained such a degree of notoriety, as has the famed Dianabol. Even today, over 50 years after its introduction to American athletes, and after the immergence of hundreds of other performance enhancing drugs, its use is still as...

Doping hunters stumble across a completely new anabolic steroid: 3-chloro-17-alpha-methyl-5-alpha-androstan-17-beta-ol Researchers at the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory have discovered a new designer steroid on the market. Capsules were confiscated by government authorities in Queensland...

Tears of sadness contain a chemical turn-off for men. Like animal tears, human tears may influence the behaviour of others by smell alone. In a pilot experiment Noam Sobel and colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, asked a group of men to sniff tears before filling...