PCT Defined

Post Cycle Therapy (PCT)

As I have posted for the past few weeks I have noticed a lack of knowledge in guys PCT. It concerns me because hands down PCT is the key element of success in any cycle that you choose. It is often overlooked in the schemes of engineering the perfect cycle. Yet, it’s the most crucial aspect of whether you have actually wasted your hard on money and time because it dictates the quality of your gain retention. Not only that, but your body’s return to a normal hormone level and your testicles kick starting back into normal function. Let’s break it down:

First, you must understand that the body seeks a natural well balanced state called homeostasis.

Whenever you take an external substance and introduce it to the body and it increase the amount dramatically over its homeostatic level, you body responds in reducing or shutting down its own natural production in an attempt to return to the lower levels it’s accustomed to.

Anabolic steroids or any other hormones especially do this. The result is your body’s important hormone levels drop significantly because of the reduced production. This results in low levels when the steroid stops being used. Leaving you in a hormone crisis so to speak. A lot of estrogen and not a whole lot of testosterone…NOT GOOD!!!!

This is where PCT or post cycle therapy comes in. It is a regimen used by individuals after completing a cycle of steroids to quickly restore your body’s hormones back to their normal levels. PCT is the most overlooked and most important aspect of complete, successful cycle.

Why is it so important? Because of this low period of test levels and high estrogen levels you can lose a decent amount of gains you worked so hard for.
And yes, after a period of time you body will return to normal on its own. Pending the fact that you did not use a major big boy properly like Tren and shut yourself down because you ran it with no test.

The fact is that period after your cycle and your body returning to normal and your levels are low; you can lose the decent gains by the same mechanism of action which produced the gains, working in reverse.

What to do? You must have SERMs to achieve this. Nolvadex and Clomid together is an absolute must in my honest opinion. The reason why is because they are classified the same BUT they act totally different in respects of what they do. Clomid blocks estrogen at the pituitary, tricking it and makes more luteinizing hormone and causes testicles to make more testosterone. Nolvadex stimulates the production of luteinizing hormone and the follicle stimulating hormone that initiates testosterone production and sperm production. So you can see right there they do totally different things to accomplish the same goal, making them BOTH necessary for PCT.

I now encourage the use of Aromasin 6.25mg EOD to be included in your PCT for the first 14 days and stopped based on the recent research that has now surfaced. It shows to be even more beneficial and you want to optimize your cycle gains and ease the possible PCT depression that can come from the hormone fluctuation.

Here’s a standard PCT:

Start PCT two weeks after last shot of test
Clomid 100/100/50/50
Nolvadex 40/40/20/20
Aromasin 6.25mg EOD for the 1st 14days of PCT and stop

That is the same PCT I will be using on my next cycle.
I hope that I educated the community better on this topic and help someone. Thanks for listening