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This replicates my experience. I had relief and low body fat before HRT, but after about 5 months I started to gain fat mass.Can not agree with you... I shed muscles and gain fat a lot with 3 months 12.5mg CPA + 1mg E2, then over 1 month 100mg Bicalutamide mono...
So that’s what over 4 months AA/E2 can do to your body composition...
Last half year was VERY stressful for me too. Im not going to the gym anymore so I think it had a lot of impact too...
On bicalutamide without estradiol, I was embossed. Since Bicalutamide does not lower T, it did not change my body composition.
Decreased testosterone reduces your BMR, slows down your metabolism, and causes you to store fat - this is the reason why obesity is more common in older men, and also the reason why eunuchs had a higher percentage of body fat. It is also the reason why women have a higher percentage of body fat than men, this is natural.
This effect will not occur if you use Bicalutamide without E or a small amount of E that will not reduce your T to female levels, thus maintaining the anabolic and fat burning effect of testosterone. Anabolic steroids work on the same principle, helping to reduce fat mass.
Effect of testosterone on metabolic rate and body composition in normal men and men with muscular dystrophy - PubMed
We have examined the effect of testosterone enanthate injections (3 mg/kg.week, im) on the basal metabolic rate (BMR) estimated by indirect calorimetry and on lean body mass (LBM) estimated by 40K counting in four normal men and nine men with muscular dystrophy. Testosterone treatment increased...
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Resting metabolic rate is lower in women than in men - PubMed
This study examined gender differences in resting metabolic rate (RMR) across a broad age spectrum after controlling for differences in body composition and aerobic fitness. Three hundred twenty-eight healthy men (17-80 yr) and 194 women (18-81 yr) volunteers were characterized for RMR, body...
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