Testosterone enanthate effectively treats hypogonadism and other conditions associated with androgen deficiency. This
anabolic steroid has also been studied for its potential as a male contraceptive drug.
Testosterone enanthate is an
anabolic steroid
indicated for intramuscular injection. The enanthate ester is long
acting, allowing testosterone level to be elevated for a couple of
weeks. As such, you don’t have to inject it often.
Testosterone
enanthate is popular among athletes and bodybuilders because promotes
protein synthesis leading to muscle hypertrophy and muscle hyperplasia,
the two different but equally important processes in muscle growth.
Muscle
hypertrophy is the increase in the size of the muscle cell and fiber.
There are several factors that affect this growth your genetics, age,
and diet regimen play important role in this growth process. Use of
steroids like testosterone enanthate likewise contributes to muscle
hypertrophy.
Muscle hypertrophy is of two types, namely sarcoplasmic hypertrophy and myofibrillar hypertrophy.
During
sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, you’ll experience an increase in the volume
of sarcoplasmic fluid in the muscle cell. The sarcoplasm fluid contains
all the necessary ingredients for muscle development and function. In
this type of muscle hypertrophy, you increase your muscle mass but not
your muscle strength.
Muscle hyperplasia, meanwhile, is the
development of new muscle cells and fibers. Your muscle undergoes
hyperplasia in two ways. First, it can be through fiber splitting. This
takes place when muscle fibers split into two or more smaller fibers.
Second, it can be through activation of satellite cells in response to
injury to muscle fiber. You ‘injure’ the fibers when you train. When
these satellite cells undergo mitosis, they form immature muscle cells.
These immature muscle cells can bind with existing fiber leading to a
muscle hypertrophy or they can also bind with one another to produce a
new fiber resulting to muscle hyperplasia.
Testosterone enanthate
also promotes nitrogen retention, another crucial mechanism in the
process of new muscle growth. Nitrogen has many important uses – it is
a component of many industrial technologies; however, as far as
bodybuilding is concerned, all you need to know about this chemical
element is that it is an essential part of proteins, the organic
chemicals involved in muscle building and repair.
Testosterone Enanthate
converts to both estrogen and dihydrotestosterone. Both of these
hormones may cause problems when they occur in abnormally high levels.
Estrogen buildup leads to edema as well as
gynecomastia.
Excessive estrogen also inhibits the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular
axis from producing hormones. Elevation of DHT, a hormone three to five
times more potent than testosterone results seborrhea, acne outbreaks,
and male pattern baldness.
It has a release time of 8-10 days
and is typically injected once a week for effective bodybuilding
feedback. The effective dosage is of testosterone enanthate is 500mg
per week.
You can stack testosterone enanthate with non-aromatizable compounds like
Primobolan. Don’t worry about not getting that much bulk from Primo as
testosterone provides all you that you’ll ever need in the mass department.
Side
effects that can be experienced with testosterone enanthate include
frequent and/or persistent erections in males. In females,
masculinizing symptoms can occur. Both genders can experience nausea,
changes in skin color, swelling of ankles.
