Recently, Victor Black made a post on Instagram touting that “DHT as shown here is a most capable Anabolic Agent” and purportedly refuting my claim that DHT's effect in muscle is dramatically diminished by its breakdown there. However, if anything, the study perfectly supports my position. …
Today the first article I've written for MESO-Rx got published. It covers the anabolic to androgenic ratio and why I think it's worthless. One part of that is because of the experiments that are conducted to arrive at these ratios for various anabolic steroids. These are riddled with flaws. The other part is the concept of an anabolic to androgenic ratio itself. It's impossible for a single ratio to capture the differential responses of various tissues to anabolic steroids or the complexity of the androgenic response within a specific tissue, to be of value. …
Selective androgen receptor modulators, or SARMs for short, sound mythical. The ideal SARM has all the positive effects of anabolic steroids, while not having any of the downsides or side effects. In my second article for MESO-Rx I provide a primer on SARMs. …
On the 16th of December 2021, the Dutch Doping Authority and the Spaarne Gasthuis (hospital) organized the 10-year "Anabolenpoli" Symposium. (Anabolenpoli being an abbreviated form of outpatient clinic for anabolic steroid users.) I attended together with my friend Rob van Berkel. …
Earlier this year, somewhere in April, I wrote down the first words of what would become a 20-page review paper. I felt it would be a timely addition to the literature now all the data of the HAARLEM study were published; if only because there were no recent good-quality review papers available on androgen abuse and its side effects. …