What is Anadrol? What Does It Do? How Is It Used?
Effective Dose: 100mgs (optimal) Active Life: 16 hours Detection Time: up to 8 weeks
Anadrol was originally developed as a compound to aid individuals with anemia, and since then, it has been successfully used to help people suffering from many other diseases where weight loss is a concern. Therefore, it is clearly an effective agent for promoting weight gain, increasing appetite, gaining strength, and increasing red blood cell count. And, like most anabolic/androgenic steroids (AAS), it has disadvantages as well. Anadrol suppresses your body's natural production of hormones (testosterone, etc.), adversely affects your blood lipid profile, can cause fluid retention, is known to cause headaches, and is also highly toxic to the liver (indeed, it has the worst reputation for hepatotoxicity of all steroids). Paradoxically, although one of the benefits promoted by the original manufacturer (Syntex) is that it can be used to stimulate weight gain by increasing appetite, taking too much can actually suppress appetite! I believe that in order to gain a complete understanding of the effects on the body of Anadrol, we need to look at its advantages in contrast to its disadvantages. Anadrol is a compound derived from DHT, and a 17-alpha-alkylated steroid, meaning it has been altered at the seventeenth carbon position to survive oral ingestion. Most oral steroids are 17aa, and this helps them pass through your liver in a useful form.
What is an Anadrol cycle? How should I use it?
Well, this is actually one of the most interesting traits about Anadrol. You see, most steroids produce what we call a "dose-response curve," which is a fancy way of saying "the more you use, the more you gain." Anadrol is one of the few steroids where the dose-response curve flattens out very quickly. When you take 50mgs of Anadrol, you make some very substantial progress. When you take 100mgs of Anadrol, you gain even more. However, we have found that 100mgs/day is as effective for weight gain as 150 mg/day, but it produces fewer side effects and is less toxic. I believe the jump from 50mgs to 100mgs constitutes an acceptable place compared to cost benefit, but this is not the case as dosages exceed 100mgs. Now, let's look at how 50mgs and 100mgs of Oxymetholone strength actually affect each other:
Relative changes in strength are shown for groups receiving placebo (filled bars), 50 mg/day oxymetholone (open bars), and 100 mg/day oxymetholone (gray bars). Numbers above bars represent change from baseline value to week 12 for 1 repetition maximum strength tests. Error bars represent ± 1 SE of the mean. Significant difference versus placebo, significant difference versus placebo on Wilcoxon test. As you can see, in this study, doubling the dose of Anadrol almost doubled the strength gains of the test subjects. Now, when we look at changes in body composition from oxymetholone (table below) we can see that although