Testosterone and Product Advice by Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale

Hi Dr. Di Pasquale, a few quick questions on your products if I may. First, what level of T and fT increases does this product produce?

Secondly, should it be cycled and does it need to be taken on an empty stomach? I eat 7-8 meals per day and usually have a protein shake before bed. An empty stomach is hard to come by on my caloric intake. But I want to maximize T, so what is the best method of intake?

I’m seeing an average increase of about 37% in bioavailable testosterone. At this time I’m not measuring either free or total in most cases since the bioavailable testosterone is a better measure of biological activity.

I usually recommend that the :: TestoBoost III :: and :: GHboost :: be taken with the :: Myosin Protein :: before bed – the trio make up my NitAbol. I’ve found that taken this way the absorption of the ingredients, and the subsequent metabolic/hormonal changes, are maximized.

TestoBoost and GHboost can also be taken before training and many people find it effective at this time.

The metabolic diet is exactly what I have been looking for (was a lucky thing I lost my copy of Serious Strength Training and bought the new addition). I had been using several of the principles from Atkins and had seen success when I cut the carbs and increased my fat consumption, but was unhappy that there was little or no focus in his book on the needs of athletes or bodybuilders. I like that I can take many of the same principles that I have seen work in Atkins and more precisely develop a nutritional plan that matches my workout plan, and that my diet focuses on promoting endogenous hormone development as well as fat oxidation. This is the next step I have been looking for.

I do have one question about the diet and testosterone. I have a number of friends who are taking topical testosterone (I think Androgel, by prescription), and go on and on about how its increasing their sex drive and improving the quality of their sex life. I have replied that my testicles work just fine on their own and I have no interest in seeing them atrophy (I didn’t when I got serious about powerlifting, and I’m not about to start now that I’m a 36-year old recreational bodybuilder). However, I should be able to experience all of the sexual benefits they report from sticking to the metabolic diet and supplements like nitabol, correct? Testosterone and comparative estrogen levels are what count, right? It makes sense from reading your book, but I didn’t see where you addressed it specifically. If so, I would like to promote the diet as a safer alternative to them.

I agree with you about not using Androgel, unless you’ve exhausted other methods of dealing with low testosterone levels, since it will decrease endogenous testosterone production and make the whole hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis refractory. In those who use Androgel, they’ll likely have to take it for life as they’ll be worse off as far as their natural endogenous levels of testosterone than before they started using it. As such, going of the Androgel leaves them in a temporary eunuchoid state with lower libido, lower energy, and other symptoms that will make them go back on the Androgel again and again.

The NitAbol is a synergistic product aimed at increasing endogenous levels and as such revving up the various axes that normally produce testosterone, GH and IGF-I. When you go off the NitAbol your system will likely go back to the way it was prior to using it, perhaps a tad better since you’ve activated so many natural pathways. In the clinical blood work that I’ve done on people using NitAbol I’ve found that their pre-NitAbol hormonal levels and the post NitAbol levels were pretty close with a non-significant (statistically) elevation seen after going off the NitAbol. While on the NitAbol there were increases in all three hormones with estrogen levels tending to stay about the same or minimally elevated.

One point about estrogen levels. Just because they’re elevated doesn’t mean there is an increased systemic effect from the elevated levels of estrogen. It’s common to have elevated endogenous levels of estrogens in people who are using estrogen antagonists since it’s not the level of estrogen that counts but the amount of estrogen that binds to the estrogen receptor. If you have higher levels of estrogen but less of the estrogen is active, then you essentially decrease the estrogen effects in the body.

I hope that this information helps.

:: Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale :: is one of the most influential voices on diet, performance and athletic training in the world. His innovative work in finding safe nutritional alternatives to anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs has won him praise from athletes, trainers and fitness experts around the globe. Dr. Di Pasquale was a world-class athlete for over 15 years, winning the World Championships in powerlifting in 1976 and world games in 1981.