Question-202(HCG)-01 How should HCG be used in bodybuilding? Is Tamoxifen an alternative?

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Bodybuilders use HCG to help reverse the problem of low or no natural testosterone production due to the effect of many steroids in significantly reducing or even completely shutting down normal hormone function while you’re taking the substances. During a bodybuilding steroid cycle bodybuilders will use HCG at low doses to help maintain the function and size of the testicles.

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Bodybuilders also use HCG for post cycle therapy and usually as a kick starting substance at the start of PCT which is then later followed up with SERM drugs(Tamoxifen or Clomifene), with the overall goal of getting the body to start producing testosterone naturally again so you can avoid the distressing effects of low testosterone, including the loss of any muscle gains made during a steroid cycle.

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HCG is very different from both SERMs(Tamoxifen or Clomifene).

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SERMs are medications that have been designed to block specific estrogen receptors, or restore your suppressed testosterone levels back to mormal. HCG on the other hand is a naturally occurring hormone produced in women once they fall pregnant.

HCG does not target estrogen in any way, but instead is able to directly help stimulate testosterone in men because it works in a very similar way to luteinizing hormone.

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SERMs are mainly used to treat breast cancer in women and bodybuilders take them for avoiding side effects from steroids use. HCG is used medically to treat low testosterone and infertility in men, as well as fertility problems in women. Both of substances are therefore available with a prescription. While both SERMs are available as different products with slightly differing chemical structures and effects between them, HCG is a single hormone with no variation between products.

HCG is available in injection form only, while SERM drugs are oral tablets that need to be taken more regularly than the once or twice weekly injections that HCG is normally administered by.

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HCG is not intended to replace SERMs at any point during or after a steroid cycle. Instead it is can be a very useful addition but one that needs to be used carefully and with knowledge of both how to dose it properly and what it can and can’t do both in benefits and side effects. Over-use of HCG can have the opposite of your intended effect: instead of improving or restoring your testosterone you could find yourself back in a low testosterone state.