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Recently another new scientific study resulted in a lot of new articles on the world wide web. I wrote about muscle memory before (Muscle memory fact or fiction //www.napsgear.net/jm_blog_news.php?id=34 ). The way we look is due to a many different reasons. First of all being our genetic body type.

If you read the diverse articles (including mine //juicedmuscle.com/jmblog/content/whats-your-body-type ) about it you know that some body types can more easily gain muscle than others. Still everyone can become a bodybuilder.

We as members of a bodybuilding discussionboard are mostly health conscious we pay attention to our body, we train, maintain  and nourish our body. And we mostly have a bigger acceptance of muscle on the human body, both male and female, then the average population. Still the last few decades the average public accepts the muscular people more than in the days of Arnold. Bodybuilding and especially Fitness went from an obscure subculture to broadly accepted , as I wrote in previous posts on body-image cq muscle dismorphia, movies, moeviestars, music-stars esp. the HipHop  accepted bodybuilding an juicing as part of their life-style.

On almost every website devoted on physical training you can find a section on female physical beauty and lots of male members like to watch and comment T&A (tits and ass). Controversial are the pictures of female bodybuilders. For those females the question how much is too much is even more relevant than for a male bodybuilder. Also because their genitals get bigger and become more pronounced through the use of androgens. Some men like it most of them don’t.

But what do women and girls think of us? How much muscle do they like? As I wrote previously, we have a bigger muscle acceptance and are “used” to muscular people in the gym. Most of us like to work-out and grow bigger not only the get respect from our friends and others but also because we want our body to be attractive to the girls. From experience I know that a bodybuilding physique leads to ooh’s and eewk’s.

This article  is mostly about masculinization. Some people think that a women that takes a certain dose of the male sex hormone testosterone slowly turns into a male.  Some even like the muscle. Hell its bodybuilding. But other feel that they are too deprived, they lost their feminine looks. On this pic you can see that the woman has lost some of her hair and that her hairline suffers from male pattern hair loss (androgenetic alopecia)

Its obvious that the use, or should we say in this case abuse, of anabolic androgenic steroids with the diuretics and the diet robbed her from breasttissue. Most female bodybuilders in that situation take breastimplants, and the american ones mostly buy BIIIG ones!!

It sometimes looks like a male wearing artificial tits, a wig and bikini. This is an opinion, my opinion. I'm very interested in your opinion. I merged a few articles from the net and changed it as you know I often do. I will post some pictures of contest-ready female bodybuilders that look great. Again my personal preference.

     Objectives: Testosterone has a spectrum of effects on the male organism. This review attempts to determine, from published studies, the time-course of the effects induced by testosterone replacement therapy from their first manifestation until maximum effects are attained. 

Design: Literature data of testosterone replacement

Results: Effects on sexual interest appear after 3 weeks plateauing at 6 weeks, with no further increments expected beyond. Changes in erections/ejaculations may require up to 6 months. Effects on quality of life manifest within 3-4 weeks, but maximum benefits take longer. Effects on depressive mood become detectable after 3-6 weeks with a maximum after 18-30 weeks. Effects on erythropoiesis are evident at 3 months, peaking at 9-12 months. Prostate specific antigen and volume rise, marginally, plateauing at 12 months; further increase should be related to aging rather than therapy. Effects on lipids appear after 4 weeks, maximal after 6-12 months. Insulin sensitivity may improve within few days, but effects on glycemic control become evident only after 3-12 months. Changes in fat mass, lean body mass and muscle strength occur within 12-16 weeks, stabilize at 6-12 months, but can marginally continue over years. Effects on inflammation occur within 3 to 12 weeks. Effects on bone are detectable already after 6 months while continuing at least for 3 years.

Conclusion: the time-course of the spectrum of effects of testosterone shows considerable variation, probably related to pharmacodynamics of the testosterone preparation. Genomic and non-genomic effects, androgen receptor polymorphism and intracellular steroid metabolism further contribute to such diversity.

Licenses and contracting.

Years ago when the counterfeit and fake steroids started to ruin the industry. We made the buyers aware of that fact and we started to teach the members via  the messageboards to check the available information on the product and the boxes and leaflets.

What is a license, lets take Sustanon from Organon in the Netherlands as an example. Sustanon is a brand name for a combination of four different estrifications of testosterone. It was meant as a medicine for men with low endogenous (made by their own body) testosterone . Thus mostly older men. These men had to come to their doctor for frequent injections. Not really convenient for both. Thats why scientist started to prolong the effect from testosterone by adding an estrification. Because HRT (hormone replacement therapy) aimed on a balanced bloodserum value without to much peaks, they made that mix of different esters. It was a big succes througout the world and many countries wanted to use this drug for its male population. The brandname Sustanon, Sostanon and Sustenon where used in different countries. Contracters made this product cheaper locally. Bodybuilders know the mythical names like Karachi Sustanon (made by Abbot laboratories) and NILE Sustanon from Egypt. They made the exact formulation and quality that the original company(called license holder) used as standard and They where also allowed to use the brandname.