Khem's Q&A and suggestion thread.

[Khem]

I just started a new, lucrative job with heavy hours. I still want to add to the community, as well as expand my horizons and spur future discussion, research etc.. I can't say I will write X articles a week, or answer Y posts every day, but as I get to it and feel like it I will write and respond about things you guys would like to learn about.. In a few weeks I'll have a better smart phone with faster internet and will have down time to answer to any posts that come up as I'm inbetween duties or running errands. So please help me spend my time in an entertaining manner!! Articles/information containing threads will be written as time and temper permits.

I have made some small posts on a few topics and I have received a lot of good feedback and reputation, so it seems you guys well appreciate it. I like medicine, It's something I can get wrapped up researching and studying over. I definitely spend more time on it than I should but for me it's quite fun. I generally have a direction for most things, to at least give guidance for further research.

What I want from you folks, since it seems like you guys care when you get responses etc;

-Give me any suggestions for an article topic you might be interested in reading, or something you want to learn more about..
-Post any general questions, etc you might have here..

This doesn't even have to be all steroid/bodybuilding related, I am by no means a huge guy so perhaps don't expect perfect diet suggestions. I can point you in the right direction for gear and what my theories, thoughts are for the science side of planning... If I don't know something I will say, If I feel like I can give you plenty of science based information and general direction for further research, I will. Feel free to ask me completely off topic questions, the only rule is I will not get too personal for identification purposes, not that I particularly care who knows me..

[terps32]

I'm a huge health nut and promote symptoms and signs of anything to unbalanced hormone levels to why blood work is so important before during and after cycles. Anything regarding this would be outstanding Brother.

[rmkicks]

Nice thread Khem.

[ironmako]

I'm a huge health nut and promote symptoms and signs of anything to unbalanced hormone levels to why blood work is so important before during and after cycles. Anything regarding this would be outstanding Brother.

I'm interested in this as well. For me the bellwether on hormone balance seems to be hair shedding. I've been on test cycles and not lost anything and then get off or get an interruption (work travel) and start shedding like crazy when T levels should be crashing. This doesn't make sense from the DHT/5-alpha reductase school of thought since higher test should equal higher DHT should equal aggravating MPB.

Good thread Khem, and thx!

[Khem]

Terps, you'd like to read about blood work importance or something related to normalizing your hormones?

Actually ironmako, what you have to realize is that your body hates to be imbalanced. Think about it, for example, when you're in PCT, we know taking something to crush estrogen is beneficial.. why is that? What happens is your body decides, oh crap we have no estrogen, and tries to kick start more testosterone so that it can aromatize. Homeostasis is powerful.. You can see it in depression pills, they lose effectiveness and you CRASH hard after coming of.. You can see it in drug use the exact same way.. You see it in testosterone, you inject testosterone and your body decides you have too much and shuts down.

We know what happens is your body creates DHT in a low testosterone environment. Its an effort to compensate for the low test, DHT is a very powerful sexual development hormone, and your body wants SOMETHING. Its a double edged sword, if you take too much testosterone your levels will elevate, but if you're too low they will elevate to a great extent.

Hopefully this gives you a bit of an understanding of whats going on, didn't think it was worth a huge amount of detail, nor do I think I know enough about it to write a lot.

[Khem]

To the top!

[Khem]

I've been getting a lot of private messages asking for things and help, you guys all should really be posting here so that what you need can help anyone else who might want to know.

[Khem]

Maybe I need to get this moved to anabolic section..

[rmkicks]

Maybe I need to get this moved to anabolic section..

How about Anabolic Discussion?

[Khem]

Yeah I don't think the general discussion I posted it in is getting views. It would fit better there, from the questions im getting.