Could carao possibly affect SHBG?
I had already attributed the increased vascularity form carao to enhanced RBC and had assumed the same increased RBC might explain the improved endurance (like blood doping or EPO) but I still had never been able to explain the sexual sides. Simply stated, I always felt like I was on test when I used carao, but I wasn't getting any estrogenic sides. It just felt like good clean test.
This would be the effect of increased free testosterone. When testosterone becomes bonded to a carrier protein it becomes useless. You have to have free testosterone to have sexual interest, sexual function, and in the case of AAS improved strength and muscle mass. Free testosterone does not create more testosterone in the body (leading to estrogen.) It simply makes more testosterone available for use.
I am currently on 2,000mg test wk/100mg winstrol ED. I was taking 2,000mg test wk/400mg deca wk/50mg d-bol ED. For the first 8 weeks of this cycle I was also taking about one tablespoon of carao ED or EOD. About two to three weeks ago my carao supply began to dwindle... then I ran out.
I've got to back up here and give some background information: as I said earlier I am 43 years old. I am currently 6'4" and 240lbs. I have been juicing for almost 20 years, and by this time I know my body and cycles extremely well. I had plateued years ago in strength and size gains. I'd go up. I'd go down. But I would never really exceed the strength gains I had made in the past.
Until this year...
This year, about 3-4 weeks after finishing a fina/whinny/test cycle I noticed my strength going up to all time PR highs. These gains continued until I started my current cycle in mid-October and were continuing until about two weeks ago. Then I ran out of carao and at about the same time my gains stopped. (I've just ordered 4 more bottles... so I will have a clear picture in January if my gains kick back in. And YES, to the observant, I do very long cycles.)
My question now is:
Does carao affect SHBG and does this explain why and how I made some of the gains I experienced - most importantly does this explain why I continued to grow well on 2,000 mg of test when I had previously peaked out?
If carao affects SHBG this would explain why so many of us carao users have been walking around for the last many months like horn dogs ready to hump wood. The sexual enhancement aspects of carao are definite and noticable, maybe to the point of distraction. (But that is fun for some.) Its just very interesting to me that Nelson's theory might explain why I woke up this morning with a woody.
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