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Anabolic Steroid Safe Use - When to start using Juicing (Part 2) 

So when can I begin? And why? I would recommend around 21. As a teenager, a high level of testosterone is naturally present, which cause sporadic growth spurts in males. During this time period the body as a whole has not completely matured including bones, muscle tissue and internal body organs.
The administration of steroids and other hormones at an early age can cause havoc in a body that is still at a development stage. Primarily the major problem would be the premature sealing of the epiphyseal bone closure process, which consequently does not allow your body to grow to the extent that your genetics would allow it to. Tests are available which show whether your growth plates have sealed or not, but it is normally safe to say that at 21, natural growth has stopped.
At puberty, antigonadotropic effects of steroids are much more potent. People know that adult hpta (hormone axis) recovers but no one knows what happens with teenagers. What if you have permanently lower testosterone levels for life as a result of taking exogenous sources at 15 when your hpta is not in full swing yet? Obviously you don't have as much testosterone at 15 as you will naturally have at 21.
When I started training at 15 some of my friends went on steroids almost immediately. I firstly decided to opt for the natural route as like most newbies I knew nothing about steroids other than the media portrayed horror stories. I researched all I could about training and tried virtually every natural supplement that was out at the time. As I got older at 18 I got talking to some serious bodybuilders at my local gym.
So they told me about the basics which encouraged me to find out more. If I was going to take steroids then there was no doubt in my mind that I wanted to do it safely. And as you do, I bought a few muscle mags with articles on steroids and I also talked about it with my father who is a Clinical Biochemist, in order to get an unbiased opinion.
I decided that the wise move would be to wait until I reached 21 in order to maximize my bone growth potential and at the same time avoiding any other irreversible damage. I was just under 6 ft at the time and it was hard too watch younger kids gaining muscle without hardly any effort at all, but I knew they were already juicing.
There was me, working what I thought was 10 times harder than anyone else (and I probably was). I was determined to get big but thought more in the long term than right there and then. I knew I would have my time, when I was ready. I just kept my head down, trained hard and spent the next three years doing as much research as I could. I went out and read many books including Mick's Layman's Guides as well as The Anabolic Reference Guide and the couple of books out by the late Dan Duchaine. Coming soon Part 3

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