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Prohormones
Prohormones are the strongest and
most effective legal muscle building supplements available today.
It has long been known that testosterone is a key factor in muscular
development, and prohormones have become very popular due to their
ability to increase testosterone levels in the body. A person's
body goes through 5 steps to make testosterone: it starts
with cholesterol which is converted to pregnenolone, then DHEA, androstenedione, and then
finally testosterone. As an example, by supplementing your body
with DHEA, you are basically removing the first 2 steps
of the process.
Prohormones have been touted as "legal steroids" by many of the companies that manufacture and sell them. In fact, the chemical process isn't that much different: ultimately, the goal is to have more testosterone in your bloodstream. The only difference is how the body attains that elevated state. By taking prohormones, your body converts an influx of testosterone-like compounds into testosterone, which leads to the positive effects of increased testosterone levels. Steroids on the other hand are synthetic hormones that are either injected or taken in pill form. While steroids are actually the hormones that you want more of, it's far more dangerous for many reasons. From the health aspect, it's much better to let your body produce it's own testosterone than to flood it with synthetic hromones.
Because prohormones create an unnaturally
high level of testosterone in the blood, your body starts to produce
less of its own to counter the increase. If you're taking prohormones,
it's suggested that you don't use them for more than 6-8 weeks at
a time for risk of damaging your natural testosterone production
system. After a period of time equal to the amount that you take
the prohormones, your body's natural testosterone production should
be back to normal.
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