Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Interesting read, your overall argument while interesting is I'm assuming just a general rant against the idea of blast/cruising?

I only mention it now, and bring it up now in the forums because this may well one day be a path I take. Like anything else, I want to build some sort of information on the topic. The reason I am even to consider this is that eventually my goals may well take me into TRT waters one day.

As far as the conjecture referencing clearing receptor sites, I'd love to see some data on that. The fact remains that that is a blatant over simplification and one I'd argue might even be irrelevant when it comes to introducing exogenous androgens. Test upregulates AR expression, so you get more receptor sites in the muscle tissue - also increases the amount of receptor sites for Test to bind too. It's also been shown that AR expression is more likely to occur in the Yoke of males, and less in muscle tissue in the lower extremities, and yet despite this your lower body muscles will still see more growth when you are using AAS. So that then brings up a somewhat uncomfortable fact, that AAS act in other ways then just binding to AR's to increase MPS. Not stating here that you cannot suffer from diminishing returns from prolonged and large quantities of AAS, just saying that there is data out there to suggest that the body has ways of making use of increased amounts - and that our understanding of how to establish optimal dosing protocols can be flawed.

As far as giving your body rest periods, well that is a matter of protocol. On cycle, you are shutting down natty test production anyways, so cruising at TRT is no different then going back to natty test levels - with the exception that you control it. I'm not arguing for anything, just pointing that out.

All in all I think you make a valid point when you use the amputation analogy, there is no point in skipping ahead to a more drastic solution unnecessarily. I just feel in the long term it may well be more cost-efficient when you factor in cost of appropriate PCT ancillaries, testing, etc all to get Natty test production to pre-AAS levels. The idea that you can do that indefinitely is naive, as men surely in large numbers suffer from low-T, and often with no clear explanation how. Hence it may well happen to you while you are cycling and throw a fuck in all the careful planning and considerations you have made, you may even potentially blame your AAS use on low-T.

I can see clearly that to someone who is recreationally using AAS to just look better, or be bigger, or lift more in the gym, that blasting/cruising would be downright irresponsible and potentially dangerous. But then, so is using AAS in the first place to someone who fits into that category.

Stats in my bio are pretty recent. The idea behind the cruising is based on goals, I just don't see myself only doing a couple of cycles over the years, but plans or many. Long term consideration may well not only be cheaper to exogenously control Test levels from now on, but may way end up being unavoidable anyways.