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Fareston
(Toremifene citrate)
Fareston is yet another SERM, which means Fareston will display both estrogen antagonist / agonist properties in the body. This puts Fareston in the same category as Nolvadex and Clomid, the two most popular drugs in Farestons category. This is, however very different, and you'll soon see why.
Some scientists at a party were bored one day, so they hooked up some time-lapse video to breast cancer cell cultures treated with toremifene (the chemical in Fareston). Ok, the part about them being bored one day is made up, but they really did hook up time-lapse photography to breast cancer cell cultures treated with Fareston. Anyway, they observed this for 3 days, and Fareston caused approximately 60% of the cells to exhibit morphologic characteristics typical of cells undergoing apoptosis or programmed death. The significance of this to you and me is that this is roughly the same thing that would happen to your gyno if you were taking Fareston. Anyway, the number of mitoses gradually decreased to zero over only a 3- to 4-day period. So this stuff causes growth inhibition of estrogen-sensitive breast cancer cells by inducing some cells to die and by inhibiting other cells from entering mitosis (i.e. from replicating) (1). This stuff will KILL your gyno, from everything I've read (which also means that I've had to read into everything Ive read, if you kinda follow me). Now where was I? Oh yeah kill, that's right. This is certainly good news for someone who wants to get rid of gyno, but since Fareston also prevents the cells from replicating, it will stop gyno from progressing as well as kill existing gyno.
Also of note is that Fareston will reduce prolactin (2), and as you probably guessed, this may raise your Testosterone levels, since prolactin can not only cause lactation, but Fareston also has an inhibitory effect on your Test levels. The unfortunate part about this potentially exciting new compound is that Fareston will also raise sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), which will in turn lower circulating levels of testosterone in your body (3).
Perhaps this drug, if Fareston can be found, may be used successfully to treat existing gyno, or as an adjunct during a cycle, but certainly not for an effective post cycle therapy.
References:
1. Apoptosis in toremifene-induced growth inhibition of human breast cancer cells in vivo and in vitro.J Natl Cancer Inst. 1993 Sep 1;85(17):1412-8.
2. Hormonal effects of toremifene in breast cancer patients. J Steroid Biochem. 1990 Jun 22;36(3):243-7.
3. Influence of toremifene on the endocrine regulation in breast cancer patients. Eur J Cancer. 1994;30A(2):154-8.
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Fareston
(Toremifene citrate)
Fareston is yet another SERM, which means Fareston will display both estrogen antagonist / agonist properties in the body. This puts Fareston in the same category as Nolvadex and Clomid, the two most popular drugs in Farestons category. This is, however very different, and you'll soon see why.
Some scientists at a party were bored one day, so they hooked up some time-lapse video to breast cancer cell cultures treated with toremifene (the chemical in Fareston). Ok, the part about them being bored one day is made up, but they really did hook up time-lapse photography to breast cancer cell cultures treated with Fareston. Anyway, they observed this for 3 days, and Fareston caused approximately 60% of the cells to exhibit morphologic characteristics typical of cells undergoing apoptosis or programmed death. The significance of this to you and me is that this is roughly the same thing that would happen to your gyno if you were taking Fareston. Anyway, the number of mitoses gradually decreased to zero over only a 3- to 4-day period. So this stuff causes growth inhibition of estrogen-sensitive breast cancer cells by inducing some cells to die and by inhibiting other cells from entering mitosis (i.e. from replicating) (1). This stuff will KILL your gyno, from everything I've read (which also means that I've had to read into everything Ive read, if you kinda follow me). Now where was I? Oh yeah kill, that's right. This is certainly good news for someone who wants to get rid of gyno, but since Fareston also prevents the cells from replicating, it will stop gyno from progressing as well as kill existing gyno.
Also of note is that Fareston will reduce prolactin (2), and as you probably guessed, this may raise your Testosterone levels, since prolactin can not only cause lactation, but Fareston also has an inhibitory effect on your Test levels. The unfortunate part about this potentially exciting new compound is that Fareston will also raise sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), which will in turn lower circulating levels of testosterone in your body (3).
Perhaps this drug, if Fareston can be found, may be used successfully to treat existing gyno, or as an adjunct during a cycle, but certainly not for an effective post cycle therapy.
References:
1. Apoptosis in toremifene-induced growth inhibition of human breast cancer cells in vivo and in vitro.J Natl Cancer Inst. 1993 Sep 1;85(17):1412-8.
2. Hormonal effects of toremifene in breast cancer patients. J Steroid Biochem. 1990 Jun 22;36(3):243-7.
3. Influence of toremifene on the endocrine regulation in breast cancer patients. Eur J Cancer. 1994;30A(2):154-8.
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