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AAS Basic Chemistry - The Big Three

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All anabolic/androgenic steroids are preparations containing one of the three natural steroid hormones, or their chemically altered derivatives:
  • Testosterone and its derivatives is our most powerful muscle-building hormone, and also exhibits strong androgenic activity due to its conversion to a more potent steroid (dihydrotestosterone) via 5-alpha reductase.
  • Dihydrotestosterone and its derivatives is the only steroid devoid of the possibility of aromatization and 5-alpha reduction. It was a very popular choice in the creation of synthetics that lack estrogenic activity and/or exhibit a more balanced androgenic to anabolic activity ratio.
  • Nandrolone and its derivatives are typically used when even lower androgenic action is desired, due to its weakening upon interaction with the 5-alpha reductase enzyme. Nandrolone also aromatizes much more slowly than testosterone.
Llewellyn, W. (2017). William Llewellyn’s Anabolics (11th ed.). Molecular Nutrition, LLC.
 
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