Testosterone Cycles are POINTLESS? | Better to stay Natural? | 300mg Testosterone Cycle Results!

Are Testosterone Cycles worth it when you are healthy and in your 20s? In this video, I look at a study comparing testosterone at 3.5mg/kg per week to placebo and ask the question: Are testosterone cycles worth it? Should you rather stay natty (natural)? What kind of muscle gains can you expect from a testosterone cycle? What are the side effects?
Dr. Nicholas Downey:
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[@calciumsulfate1374]

Most people who does a cycle properly tend to keep a lot more than 1 kg of muscle, people who does this on their own properly try to optimize everything they possible can, which I doubt the study participants did

[@Tijlcresens]

Great video but did they get a solid pct and HCG/HMG during cycle to prevent the test drop after the cycle? I know lots of guys who holded on to ±5kg after cycle of twelve weeks

[@dlloydy5356]

Great stuff Nick. Coming around here with your health advice! Upsetting the bro’s! Interesting…i guess many now may pursue the blasting & cruising route to maintain results however that’s a big commitment for someone in their 20’s to sign up to potentially for the rest of their lives.

[@dlloydy5356]

Not forgetting the regular health checks & blood work if genuinely committed to that lifestyle. Chronic illness at a relatively young age is no real aspiration. You never think it will happen to you until it happens to you!

[@Pavel-q1r8s]

Interesting! I wonder what the results would be if they did a PCT though? -Pavel

[@anthonyabrahams4499]

I was eating healthy , being in a surplus with quality protein and sleep everyday. My test was 283 at the age of 22 . Something like 300mg of test can definitely help by pushing total test into super physiological numbers like 1-2000 + . Also pairing something like proviron with a test only cycle will free up more test rather than test getting attached to Shgb . Eating healthy with test treatment will go along way . Just don’t skip the eating right part .

[@NicholasDowney]

Definitely agree if your levels are not optimal

[@zammonster6413]

I don't think freeing up test by crushing shbg with proviron gives any extra gains. Its bullshit that's parroted around forever.

[@nickps2251]

Eat more fat

[@gfffbktwscc]

Testosterone enanthate = Test (72%) & Enanthate (28%) So a 500 mg of test e weekly dosage would be 360 mg testosterone which you are saying wouldn't do much? How would someone get some serious results without too much of damage?

[@Pavel-q1r8s]

I don't have very much experience, but I can say that for me there's a significant difference between test only and test + something. After trying combinations with test, test alone feels somewhat weak... better than nothing of course though. -Pavel

[@Me-dl5ng]

So will PCT change that?

[@tededo]

I've been accused and judged for taking anabolic steroids all my life. I am 51 this month. No secret, I am not special, I just worked hard all my life since age 6 yo (S&C, long martial arts and combat sports journey)...With a , lucky, great genetic as far as looking good physically while being muscular. My only drawback to help your video is that in the world of combat sports, those who juice recover much faster, and maintain their strength and power for much longer than us Natty. In martial arts, natty ones, we rise, then peak, than slowly slow down. That being said, regardless of muscle mass increase or decrease, doesnt matter. The reason why lot of athletes are suspicious about me being natty, is they find hard to accept that I can boxe and wrestle with guys in their 20s and 30s. If those guys are hobbyist fighters, since I've been training for years, than yes I can follow them, no juice required. Why is it so hard to understand ?

[@harryjohnson370]

Yeeeeaaaaa right. Nobody admits to their peers were juicing. And your not fooling anybody by trying to convince us your not. What you doing watching videos on steroids then? Lol. Can't fool the ones that do the same stuff you.

[@jordixboy]

a cycle? probably yes not worth it, but blasting and cruising totally worth it. Be on TRT, and then do some cycles here and there, your trt dose will then be able to keep muscle mostly

[@Divyv520]

Hey Nicholas , really nice video! I was wondering if I could help you edit your videos and also make a highly engaging Thumbnail which will help your video to reach to a wider audience .

[@geuz186]

I always wondered how an oral only compares in supression and harm to the endocrine system of a male compared to a common TRT cycle. For someone interested in muscular retention and gain and wanting to delay/avoid suppression of the natural system, would the traditional method (pinning 500mg of test) or something like taking Anavar/Dbol solo for 6 weeks.

[@nickps2251]

U would be less suppressed on oral only

[@nickps2251]

Anavar a dbol are a perfect combo especially if ur not prone to anavar hairloss and are eating enough to grow

[@scottishpanda0]

Nic, I disagree. The reduction of gains post cycle is nornal. Surely the same thing happens following most if not all steroid cycles.. If the user stays on trt following this dose, the gains would remain or a proper PCT I imagine. There is evidence throughout the bodybuilding world since the 50s of this.

[@NicholasDowney]

Definitely agree, I just wanted to display a study with placebo displaying that it might be better to go natural. The Dbol only cycle participants in an old study demonstrated gains being kept but then there was another which refuted that. So it is quite a contested topic. But you're definitely right

[@zammonster6413]

@@NicholasDowney muscle tissue being kept or not has nothing to do with steroids under natural limit. If someone continues to train & eat properly, muscle tissue gains will be kept. If no training/crap diet, muscle is loss.

[@lacipeter6934]

⁠@@zammonster6413people should also consider that many people when they go off the also lose the mental drive to train hard. And some that say they are off are not really off.

[@antondeklerkdrtony3d412]

I agree 100% amazing vid thank you Doc. So for me when I stopped steroids I lost all my gainz my arms went from 51 to 40 but 8 month later I was back up to 48 ... so I was really happy to get my natty t back and get muscle and I stopped steroids when I was 35 and was clean for almost 2 years so natty gainz are permanent also best body builders I know had manny natty years behind them and they would cycle of and only cycle for shows...

[@andrewwright.]

they are not natty Gaines. stop kidding yourself

[@JoseHernandez-gz2um]

Great video as always

[@NicholasDowney]

Thank you

[@LucasDimoveo]

What about early 30s?

[@patrioticyank4940]

I've never injected anything into my body unless if my doctor here said other wise if needed or recommend i should for my own good people they can say all they want about test anabolics D ball i personally don't think it's healthy in the long run probably shortens your life span to.

[@iamthefiremanjj]

What’s causes anxiety on test cycles.

[@tehcod6157]

lol 1g test cycle says otherwise lol test is king

[@bryanutility9609]

That’s a lot 😂🎉

[@oswaldduff9262]

You should check out Vigorous Steve bud.

[@LKF-lz8do]

You lost a lot of weight. Is everything alright?

[@NicholasDowney]

Thanks for checking, I have lost quite a bit weight this year mainly due to work load. So I haven't been eating properly or training since the beginning of the year. But hopefully next year will be a bit more relaxed!

[@patrioticyank4940]

​@@NicholasDowneyTake it easy man it's just work i know it's probably not easy being a medical doctor im sure probably quite stressful at times and i always thought doctors eat healthy cause their doctors mine here in the U.S was always lecturing me about my unhealthy eating choices.😂

[@lacipeter6934]

The most permanent gains from testosterone are body hair gains😂

[@NicholasDowney]

Hahaha true

[@micahgill7272]

Interesting.

[@VsevolodPB]

Yes, Nick, cycle test-only sucks😢

[@nicklopez6698]

Ты уже и здесь

[@Neel_44]

Giving test to kids. Ok

[@paulshortall6734]

Any Irish in you ?

[@NicholasDowney]

My mother is. Haha, how did you pick that up?

[@truthreigns3465]

How and why does the video cut every few seconds ? You have to do that much editing or what? Just curious

[@NicholasDowney]

@@truthreigns3465 I stutter, so I poorly edited out those parts of the video. Getting a professional editor so that should improve