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Nolvadex: Body
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The claim that Nolvadex reduces gains should not be taken too seriously. The fact is that any number of bodybuilders have made excellent gains while using Nolvadex. The belief that it reduces gains seems to stem from the fact that the scientific literature reports a slight reduction in IGF-1 (individuals using anabolic steroids were not studied though) from use of Nolvadex. Thus, Dan Duchaine reported that it reduces IGF-1 and therefore reduces gains. However, if this effect exists at all, it must be very minor, due to the excellent gains that many have made, and from the fact that no one has noticed any such thing from Clomid, which has the same activity profile.
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A rarely observed but welcome characteristic of Nolvadex is that it has a direct influence on the hypothalamus and ... by an in-creased release of gonadotropine, it stimulates the testosterone pro-duction in the testes. This does not result in a tremendous but still a measurable increase of the body's own testosterone. This effect, however, is not sufficient to significantly increase the testosterone production reduced by anabolic/androgenic steroids.
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Nolvadex has been shown to behave as estrogens in skeletal muscles (5). This is a very good thing for every athlete except bodybuilders. You see, estrogens protect muscle cells from the training-induced damages (5-6). It means that one can train more without damaging his muscles. Recovery will ... be much faster. But for bodybuilders, the training-induced damages are a key ingredient to trigger growth.
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Nolvadex works by binding to the estrogen receptors in the body, preventing estrogen from binding to these sites. Hence, why Nolvadex is referred to ... as an "estrogen blocker" or by it's more medical term: SERM (Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator).
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Several bodybuilders like to use Nolvadex at the end of a steroid cycle since it increases the body s own testosterone production which will be discussed in more detail in the following-to counteract the side effects caused by the estrogens. These can occur after the discontinuance of steroids when the androgen level in relationship to the estrogen concentration is too low and estrogen becomes the dominant hormone. A very rare but all the more serious problem of Nolvadex is that, in some cases it does not lower the estrogen level but can increase it.
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