Testosterone as an active hormone, it is a very important part of male physiology, testosterone takes part in a huge number of biochemical processes. There is an association between testosterone deficiency and insulin resistance, inflammation, lipid metabolism disorders in the body, metabolic syndrome and the risk of vascular complications. The lack of testosterone contributes to obesity, decreased bone density and anemia. Symptoms of testosterone deficiency can also include depression, decreased motivation, fatigue and reduced quality of life .

It is also important to say that testosterone can act on androgen receptors on its own, but most of it is converted into other hormones such as DHT and estradiol, which in turn have even more activity than the precursor hormone itself. Estradiol must be present in the body of a man in the proper amount to maintain certain functions. Symptoms of low estradiol are: osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, irritability, irascibility. Very often, with a decrease in estradiol below the reference values, athletes start to hurt joints and tendons in previously injured areas. A low level of estradiol is even more of a problem that its high level. Also, low estradiol is one of the reasons for the decrease in anabolism in muscle tissue, because it itself has anabolic properties. 

DHT is the second hormone that testosterone is converted into in the male body. DHT binds much more strongly to androgen receptors in tissues that testosterone, so that, despite the lower concentration, it has a more pronounced androgenic effect. The hormone regulates sexual behavior and erectility and has a pronounced effect on the central nervous system. DHT deficiency has a negative effect on sexual function, reducing libido, contributing to the growth of erectile and orgasmic dysfunction and generally impairing sexual activity.

The problem is when you use anabolic steroids, within a few weeks, testosterone production decreases and the amount of testosterone slowly drops to zero. From this follows a cascade of reactions, including a decrease in DHT, estradiol and other hormones, necessary for the body to function properly. If you don’t use testosterone on your cycle, you deprive yourself of a number of active substances, because not one anabolic steroid can completely replace all the functions of testosterone.

The solution is very simple, namely the use of testosterone in any cycle. Depending on the length of your cycle, you can use long esters like enanthate and cypionate or short ones like propionate.

What to do if I don’t want to do intermuscular oil injections

There is a number of people who do not use testosterone because they are afraid of intramuscular injections. Unfortunately, there are only two types of oral testosterone: testosterone undecanoate, which is very rare on the market, and methyltestosterone, which is toxic enough to take for a long time. In this case, there are two alternative options and both of them involve the use of subcutaneous injections.

Subcutaneous injections of testosterone

When using this option, you simply change the intramuscular injection needles to small 12 mm long insulin needles with which you will inject testosterone under the skin. Such injections are painless. We should immediately warn that this method is not used in official medicine, but there are many people who do just that.

The peculiarity of these injections is that you cannot use large amounts of oil at one time, you will have to divide your dosage into many injections. For the first time, it is worth choosing a small volume of oil solution - from 0.15 to 0.25 ml to make sure that your body tolerates subcutaneous injections well and the injection site is inflamed the next day.

If everything is fine, then you can try to increase the volume of the solution by 0.1 ml to a maximum of 0.5 ml (although most likely you will stop at 0.25-0.35 ml per injection). Usually, the dosage is divided into the required number of injections and injections are given every day. Of course, this can be used when your testosterone dosages are small - 125-250 mg, but if you decide to use a dosage of 500 mg or higher, then for sure it will cause you difficulties, because the number of injections will be too large and you will simply get tired of doing it.

Subcutaneous HCG injections

The second way to avoid intramuscular injections is to use HCG 2000-2500 IU per week, which will allow you to keep own testosterone level within reference values and avoid testosterone deficiency symptoms.

The form of application of HCG, although it is injectable, but the injections are made with a small insulin needle under the skin, which will not bring you any discomfort and stress. Such an injection is done very easily and does not require any special training other than following simple safety rules.

!!! We are ready to repeat this constantly: regardless of your goals - testosterone should be present in each cycle. You can't do cycles where there is no testosterone, otherwise you have a risk of getting a whole range of side effects and probably not getting any result.