understanding time for effects

[ghostrider]

In searching the internet, I'm finding a lot of language about substances taking let's say 2 weeks to start showing effects. Given some products with let's say 6 to 9 hours half life, most of the substance is eliminated by the next day. So it doesn't seem like it's building up in the body. What is meant by taking 2 to 4 weeks to show the effect? Is it simply referring to the fact that we naturally have a hard time noticing day-to-day changes, and it is about 2 to 4 weeks when the change from day 1 will be more noticeable? Or are there other specific biological mechanisms that I should understand?

I'm not complaining about there being time; it's still dramatically short. I'm just trying to understand all of the process.

 

[KingoftheNorth14]

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[Durro NoHurtNoBigShirt]

The 2 to 4 weeks to see it start working is the body takes time, water retention is first. The body takes time with the anabolism to start working steroids are not magic. As you might know the wet compounds you’ll get more water retention the dry compounds you get less water retention. I think it was Milos in an interview he said and I agree that as soon as you inject any compound in the muscle, it hits the bloodstream right away. It’s absorbed through the capillaries so forth, but it also depends on the ester the short ester obviously is absorbed faster than the longer esters they take more time to dissolve/breakdown in the bloodstream.

Like EQ people say it takes weeks to see results or to start working with me within 3-4 days I already see my shoulders and traps getting in fuller but just takes time for the body to utilize these compounds and make them work through proper nutrition of course you gotta eat to get Big so that takes time the eating the digestion and adding a muscle.

Everybody reacts to steroids differently. We all have to experiment and see which ones our bodies agree with and don’t agree with some have more side effects than others. You just have to see what works for you.