Methandienone (methandrostenolone) is an anabolic steroid, used in training athletes of many sports. Initially, in addition to medicine, the steroid was used in severe athletics and bodybuilding. Golden era bodybuilders like Arnold Schwarzenegger and his contemporaries used methandienone along with Nandrolone and imported into the USA by Arnold Schwarzenegger, new to that time, Primobolan. Formerly a very famous hormonal drug used in the fifties to treat:
- delayed puberty in men;
- stunting (dwarfism);
- protein-energy deficiency;
- dystrophy;
- lack of normal physiological development;
- severe injuries;
- complex fractures;
- severe postoperative conditions;
- use in rehabilitation after severe infectious diseases;
- burns;
- reduced effects of radiation therapy.
- Action of methandienone
- Useful properties of methandienone
- Side effects
- How to take methandienone and taking courses
- An example of mass-collection courses of methandienone in complex and solo:
- After a course of methandienone (PCT) therapy
Action of methandienone
The drug acts at the cellular level, activates the cellular apparatus, which in turn leads to increased synthesis of DNA, RNA, ATP, as well as proteins and tissue respiration patterns. Improves oxidative processes. The drug has a strong effect on all anabolic processes in the body and suppresses catabolic. Methandienone positively changes the nitrogen balance, which favorably affects the health and mood of the athlete. The drug reduces the amount of subcutaneous fat, however, the effect on adipose tissue methandienone renders depending predisposition to the fullness of the athlete. It is commonly believed that the drug has low androgenic activity, and only high doses of methandienone can cause severe side effects.
Useful properties of methandienone
The hormonal drug has made a breakthrough in pharmacology and is widely was used in medicine, and athletes actively used it to achieving high athletic performance. Beneficial features hormone drug methandienone for sports application:
- rapid growth of muscle mass (the strength of the effect depends on dosage and high protein diet);
- a positive increase in all metabolic processes;
- improving nitrogen balance;
- decrease in catabolic effects;
- increases appetite;
- bone strengthening;
- slight fat burning;
- has a slight androgenic effect of 50% of testosterone
- pumping;
- increased sexual activity.
Side effects
From taking a hormonal drug, the following may occur side effects:
- the conversion of metabolites of the substance to methyl estradiol, which is 30% aggressively attacks estrogen receptors. The most serious ailment from increased estradiol is gynecomastia (a benign tumor mammary glands);
- toxicity to the liver. Like other oral preparations of this profile, methanedienone has a methyl group 17a. This group prevents the destruction of dianabol, but has on the body athlete severe toxicity;
- with prolonged use reduces bile patency;
- fluid retention;
- increase in blood pressure;
- testicular atrophy;
- acne
- heartburn;
- hair loss is possible (a side effect is very rare in people predisposed to alopecia);
- masculinization in women.
How to take methandienone and taking courses
Like all steroids, methandienone as an anabolic means to achieve athletic performance should use adult athletes. The drug is consumed in ten minutes before meals. The daily dose is divided into three doses. For use in In sports, the dosage is greatly overestimated and starts at 30 mg per day. It is important to know that the effect of the drug is very short and equal to 5-6 hours, so the medication should start as quickly as possible after sleep, and the last daily dose should be taken no later than six o’clock in the evening. In this case, the athlete will minimize effect on the production of testosterone.
In those years, far and dark for bodybuilding, during the USSR, when methandrostenolone was freely sold in pharmacies in banks for 500 and 1000 tablets, no one else knew about steroid courses for recruitment muscle mass. Some dinosaurs weightlifters and bodybuilders talked about how they ate handfuls of small white pills, throwing them in rice porridge, and they took the drug on for eight months without a break, smooth increase and dosage reduction. But today sports pharmacology has stepped so far that with the competent use of such means as methandienone, an athlete can reduce side effects to zero.
An example of mass-collection courses of methandienone in complex and solo:
- Course for beginner athletes
30 mg of methanedienone per day, the daily protein intake should not be below 3 grams per 1 kg of athlete’s weight.
| Methandienone / | 1st week | 2nd week | 3rd week | 4th week | 5th week | 6th week |
| Morning | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / |
| Day | 10 mg since Thursday / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg until Tuesday inclusively / |
| Evening | 10 mg from Wednesday / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg until Thursday inclusively / |
- The course of methandienone 40 mg per day and Primobolan 400 mg per a week.
| Methandienone / Primobolan | 1st week | 2nd week | 3rd week | 4th week | 5th week | 6th week | 7th week | 8th week |
| Morning | 10 mg from Thursday / 400 mg in Mon. | 10 mg / 400 mg in bp | 20 mg from Tuesday / 400 mg Mon | 20 mg / 400 mg in bp | 20 mg / 400 mg in bp | 20 mg until Friday inclusive / 400 mg in Mon. | 10 mg / 400 mg in bp | 10 mg until tue incl. / 400 mg per week |
| day | 10 mg since Thursday / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg until tue incl. / |
| evening | 10 mg from Wednesday / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg / | 10 mg until Thursday incl. / |
After a course of methandienone (PCT) therapy
With prolonged use of the drug (more than 8 weeks) should to conduct PCT. Two weeks after discontinuation of mentandienone should start taking Proviron in a dosage of 25 mg per day. To support and recovery of the liver is enough taking methianine in a dosage of 500 mg 3 times a day.