Oral Steroid Stacks: What They Do and What They Cost

Oral Steroid Stacks: What They Do and What They Cost

An oral steroid stack means running two or more oral anabolic-androgenic steroids in the same cycle. It does produce a more aggressive anabolic environment - and it also roughly doubles the hepatic load, because nearly every oral AAS is C-17 alpha-alkylated specifically to survive the liver.

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