Women and Anabolic Steroids

Women Do Take Steroids Too
Many female athletes use anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs just as men do. However, although the science is the same, the approach to the usage and application of these drugs does differ. In order to minimise the side effects and dangers of anabolic steroid use by women there are only a limited number of the drugs listed that a woman would even want to consider. For example these are generally Primobolan, Proviron, Nolvadex, Nandrolones, Anavar, Winstrol, and synthetic Growth Hormone. It is important to note that even on the lowest dosages of any of these steroids, women can start to experience virilizing and masculinizing effects. Remember women do naturally produce testosterone but in nowhere near the quantities naturally produced by men. Women particularly have very low levels of male masculinizing hormones - androgens. So any dose of anabolic steroid introduced to a woman’s endocrine system is indeed a serious jolt.

Anabolics and Women
Anabolic steroids are synthetic derivatives of male hormones and can cause serious adverse reactions in some women. The most prudent approach to administering anabolic steroids to the female involves the use of low dosages of very low androgenic items. This means the female athlete is restricted to using the most anabolic of substances, as opposed to the massive mass gaining androgens abused incorrectly by too many males. Women obviously do not have to worry about the Gonadotrophic suppression (testicular shrinkage) that men do, nor do they usually encounter much of a problem with the hepatotoxicity (liver damage) of anabolic steroids. It is usually because women will be generally using, most often, low dosages of very clean items. As you are aware, it is the very strong and abused adrogenic items that tend to be the most toxic to the liver, and so by avoiding these items, women also avoid the liver stress that most men undergo.

Anti-Estrogens and Women
Women can however benefit from the use of estrogen antagonists. Dont forget the main female sex hormone is of course estrogen and this encourages and increases fat and water retention in the female athlete. Many women favour the use of popular anti-estrogen products such as Nolvadex and/or Proviron while trying to attain muscularity. Anabolic steroids have been extremely effective for many women athletes who use them to obtain size, strength and endurance. Since the virilizing effects women suffer from using anabolic steroids tend to be permanent, it is prudent to use caution at all times. One of the safer ways that has been noted that women use with anabolic steroids is to stack two low androgenic items for a period less than six weeks and then take several weeks off of the drugs before coming back to another four or five week cycle and then taking a good two months off of the drugs. To be honest this is reasonably good advice for the male to include in his cycle preparation too, while adding maybe a few mild androgens.

Following is an example of a cycle for women. With this pattern, women can watch for adverse reactions which usually occur in proportion to the duration of use by female. The use of Growth Hormone by women has proven to be extremely effective in some cases. Since GH is not an androgenic drug, it does not result in any virilizing effects for women. Growth Hormone greatly increases muscularity primarily by reducing body fat stores in the woman while leaving the lean muscle mass unaltered.

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