What’s your view on LEGAL testosterone boosters for gaining muscle, do they work?
I’ve been trying to gain muscle for ages and have made some improvement using protein shakes but was looking for something to get a bit bigger. I’ve seen a testosterone booster called LA Muscle ZMax Compound, has anyone tried it, does it work and are there any negative side effects?
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Answer by Mr. Angry
test boosters do raise ur testosterone levels, but they have never been shown to help with gaining muscle.
Just eat lots of protein rich foods and lift heavy weights, dont worry about supps, most r BS anyway
odds r either ur diet or routine needs work, or both
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most test boosters are herbal supplements that aren’t confirmed 100% to actually raise serum testosterone levels in the bloodstream. and when they do actually work all of the time, like Androstenedione (known usually as “Andro”), it gets banned by the FDA rather quickly for being a “steroid precursor”.
My advice: if you’re under the age of 40, stay away from these supplements. Any benefits they do provide are usually in older men who are testosterone deficient…they’re very expensive and usually not worth the money for younger people. Chances are, you have more than enough natural testosterone to gain muscle…as a previous answerer said, just try to eat 1.5 grams of protein for every pound of your lean body mass (so find your weight and your bodyfat percentage, determine how much of your weight is fat tissue, then subtract that from your weight…multiply that final number by 1.5 and you get a very good guide on an optimal protein amount to eat every day). Just eat healthy, avoid junk foods, lift heavy weights and you’ll see increases in no time.
Natural (aka natty or herbal) test boosters do work and have been shown to raise the free testosterone levels through a variety of methods. There are a number of randomized double blind independent lab tests out there that confirm them.
Depending on the ingredients, the will either raise your total test levels, act as a competitive or suicide inhibitor for estrogen, block cortisol production, or block aromase (the conversion of test to estrogen.)
Also, non-injected pro-hormones are NOT banned by the FDA and the DEA has no ruling on them. They are legal for sale. They aren’t all approved by the FDA, but those are two different things.
Do they work – yes.
Side effects – generally once you start boosting your test levels you body attempts to reestablish hormones equilibrium by raising estrogen and cortisol levels. So if your booster isn’t comprehensive then you might get mild side effects there.
Higher levels of test over a long period will cause the pituitary to reduce its output of LH which will cause HPTA shutdown which will reduce your test output. This is why you don’t use test boosters all the time and generally only cycle them on for 3-6 weeks.