Insulin-Like Growth Factor Recombinant 3

IGF1 stands for insulin like growth factor. It mimics insulin in the human body and also at the same time makes the muscles more sensitive to insulin's effects. It is a growth factor and is the most potent one in the human body at that. IGF causes muscle cell hyperplasia, which is an actual splitting and forming of new muscle cells. This was thought to only be possible during puberty. IGF is much more potent at this effect than growth hormone is, in fact almost all of the effects you see from growth hormone come from the increased amount of IGF that your liver produces when the GH is destroyed. So it would be very easy to say that IGF is a much more potent and cheaper alternative to GH use, although GH is more effective for fat loss than IGF due to some other effects that it causes such as metabolism increase and the ability to effectively use more insulin, T3, and anabolic steroids.

Another advantage that IGF has over GH is that it has much more of an affinity to attach to muscle cells instead of bone and organ cells. Growth hormone has been know to cause a lot of organ enlargement and bone elongation since it attaches to all types of receptor cells. IGF is much more likely to go where we want it, our muscle cells. IGF-1 attaches to myogenic stem cells which are only located in muscle and connective tissues. These myogenic stem cells are responsible for the production of myoblast cells which in turn are responsible for the buildup and repair of connective tissues (ligaments, tendons, cartilage, and joints to a certain extent).

So from this you can see that IGF-1 is great for increasing the strength of tendons and also for helping to heal existing injuries while at the same time helping to prevent them. IGF-1 is also responsible for increased protein synthesis and amino acid synthesis.

IGF does not have to be used along with anabolic steroids, GH, insulin, or thyroid hormones to be effective. It causes muscle growth on its own. In fact some people prefer to use it during their breaks from steroid cycles since IGF has no effect on natural test production. It could effectively be used along with HCG, clomid, and PGF2a for a hell of an off cycle stack which would allow your body to return to normal and still allow you to grow!! On its own IGF will give an increase of around 2 lbs. of new solid lean muscle tissue every two weeks, and is also is know for its ability to strip off body fat and GREATLY increase vascularity, body fat decreases of 5-8% over a 50 day cycle are not uncommon. But, of course you will be much happier with the results if you use the IGF along with anabolic steroids, testosterone, and insulin.

The use of steroids along with the IGF allow you to quickly mature and strengthen the new muscle tissue that the IGF has formed, and may also speed the process of hyperplasia. If you need any help setting up a great stack to
use along with the IGF just let me know and I can help you out. I speak with lots of top bodybuilders and guru's so I am very knowledgeable.

The dosage issue for IGF is where the most controversy lies. Dosages used by competitive athletes most commonly range anywhere between 60mcg/day to 100+mcg/day. The trick is finding the dosage that works best for YOU. For most the best results appear when you reach a dosage of 80mcg/day, while some do
receive good results from only 40mcg/day. I personally feel the best results begin to be noticed at a dosage of 100mcg/day. I personally am using 150mcg/day during my current cycle.

Also I should let you know that the form of IGF is the Long R3 analog. It has been chemically altered and has a longer half-life than regular IGF, which only lasts about 10 minutes in the human body once injected. The Long R3 IGF-1 has a half-life of 6-10 hours, so you will only need to inject once or twice per day. The best time to inject is after lifting and in the morning, so it would be best to use half the dosage in the morning and the other half after lifting. This will take maximal advantage of IGF's insulin
mimicking effects.

Pyramiding and Tapering Oral Anabolic Steroids During a Steroid Cycle

How to time the use of oral anabolic steroids within the weeks of a steroid cycle? Is it necessary to pyramid up and down or taper their use?


Usually the principal use of oral anabolic steroids within a cycle is to add to the total effect of the stack. In the simplest instance, make every week of oral use the same, unless you encounter new information during the steroid cycle. There’s no reason to pyramid up, taper down, or “diamond.”

However, there can be other reasons to change dose of orals.

One factor is that oral anabolic steroids will preferably be used for only 6 weeks at a time. Alkylated steroids have liver toxicity, and nearly all orals are alkylated. When use of orals is limited to 6 weeks and cycle length is greater than this, then obviously some weeks will employ orals while others will not.

In many cases, the best weeks to choose for orals are the final weeks. One reason is that the later weeks of the cycle are more in need of a boost than are the earliest weeks, as the body needs less help to make gains in the earlier weeks.

Another advantage of using orals at the end of a cycle is that past the last injection, levels of injected steroid are dropping and are of reduced effectiveness. Orals can really boost the effectiveness of this period.

But in other instances, the earlier weeks can have the greater need for a boost. A common case is where the user wishes to bulk in the earlier weeks and cut in the final weeks. Here, I’d use orals in the first weeks, or principally in the first weeks. Some orals might be saved for the end of the cycle: for example 5 weeks’ worth could be used at the beginning, and 1 week’s worth at the end.

A final reason for changing oral dosing during the steroid cycle can be if you encounter new information as the cycle progresses. For example, perhaps you’d have liked to use 50 mg/day of Dianabol, but you had concern about side effects and so decided on 25 mg/day. After a week or two with the lower dose, your new personal experience might relieve that concern. So, you might decide to increase the dose. This would be entirely reasonable, as would the reverse situation.

Injury During an Anabolic Steroid Cycle

What to do when an injury occurs during an anabolic steroid cycle?

However, being smart – picking the right times to tough it out and the right times to act strategically – also goes along with achievement.

This should be considered: The wait time until your next cycle should be proportional to the length of your last period of use. For simplicity, here we’ll allow the same number of weeks “off” as “on.” This is moderately aggressive steroid cycling. You might choose a different proportion; if so, you can plug in your own proportion. The principle applies no matter the proportion.

With an equal number of weeks “off” as “on,” if you complete the 14 week cycle, then you’d wait another 14 weeks after that before starting your next steroid cycle. That would then be 23 weeks from now, as you’d have another 9 weeks left in this cycle. And those 9 weeks will be of at best impaired effectiveness.

So that’s 23 weeks before being able to really forge ahead.

In contrast, if you strategically end this cycle now, in only 5 weeks from now you can be doing a fully effective cycle.

You’d have that cycle finished well before you’d otherwise have been able to start a second cycle. You’ll be way ahead.

Anabolic steroids in and of themselves don’t cause great muscle gain. They enable getting much more out of your training and nutrition. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know: training is the principal real cause of results.

Anabolic steroids allow more and harder training and allow getting more results from training. Where training is compromised by injury, anabolic steroids are limited in what they can do for you.

If cycling steroids – using them in some weeks of the year but not others – by far the most efficient practice is to use them in weeks when able to train properly.

This doesn’t mean abandoning a cycle because of minor problems, but when training really will be comprised, usually it’s best to cut a cycle short. This gives better long term results because it enables getting to the next cycle more quickly, and gets the most out of each week of use.