Worries about side effects anabolic steroids? Don't count on taurine ...

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Worries about side effects anabolic steroids? Don't count on taurine ...

If steroids users endanger their cardiovascular health, but nevertheless do not want to stop, they may be able to limit the damage by supplementing with taurine.
This is the conclusion reached by Romanian physiologists at Carol Davila University of Medicine and ******** in an animal study published in Medicina. Sounds good, but we are by no means convinced.

Study
The Romanians experimented with rats. A control group [C] was not given any medicine, another group received a weekly injection of nandrolone decanoate [A], yet another group was given taurine via drinking water [T], and a fourth group received injections of nandrolone decanoate and drinking water. with taurine [AT].
Results
During the three months that the experiment lasted, the concentration of the worse-than-bad triglycerides in the blood of the nandrolone group increased. An increased concentration of triglycerides promotes vascular diseases, among other things. Taurine supplementation, however, prevented the rise in triglyceride levels, the figure below shows.







Administration of nandrolone decanoate also reduced the concentration of 'good cholesterol' HDL. HDL protects the blood vessels. The figure above shows that taurine reduced the decrease in the HDL level.
In 2016, the Romanians published another animal study, conducted in exactly the same way, in the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. [Braz J Med Biol Res. 2016; 49 (6): e5116.] In that study, nandrolone decanoate raised the blood pressure of the test animals, but co-supplemented with taurine largely reduced that increase.




Conclusion


" In the light of the clear evidence regarding the proven safety of taurine administration in humans, our study raises the assumption that taurine could be useful in certain circumstances associating chronic high levels of circulating androgens, like endocrine disorders or anabolic steroids abuse in athletes ", Romanians write in the final paragraphs of their Medication publication.
Our hula
Romanians can tell us more. We, the ever nagging compilers of this free web magazine, are not convinced. Not so much because the results of animal studies are by no means always relevant for people, but also because the Romanians have used very remarkable doses.
If the rats had been human, they would not have received 200 milligrams of nandrolone decanoate a week. In the steroid environment of 2019, such a dose is almost homeopathic. Anabolics users use grammes of anabolica on a weekly basis .
Shorten if the dose was nandrolone decanoate from the Romanians, the dose of taurine to which they treated their rats would be exuberant. If the rats had been human, they would have used around 15 grams of taurine per day . In a can of Red Bull is one gram.
Right .
Source:
Medicina (Kaunas). 2019 Aug 27. 55 (9).
More:
1500 milligrams of taurine per day protects the testes of steroids users, animal study suggests (7-1-2015)