finasteride/dutasteride and Bodybuilding

[RoyD]

So I've been considering doing a blood test lately because I have a small doubt that the dutasteride I've been taking for my hairloss is not upto the mark or outright fake. Since I was thinking on that track I also began considering natural ways of knowing how my body has behaved since starting on dutasteride more than a year back.

Tbh I have no idea where the loss of libido idea by going on anti DHT medication comes from. Now I'm not a scientist or doctor but if T isn't being converted to DHT in the body it leaves a lot of excess T. Now my libido since being on DHT has increased by leaps and bounds. Theoretically this should be a proper side effect of anti DHT drugs.

Coming to the body building part, T is gold for body builders. It's basically the stuff steroids are made of and are cherished by athletes and body builders. By this reasoning shouldn't taking finasteride/dutasteride help you make massive gains because of the increased T? I've also been consistently going to the gym during the period I've been taking dutasteride and even though I've gained strength steadily but I haven't really gained a lot of mass as I should. In honesty I see guys lifting less than me with worse form have a bigger body than me.

P.S. this is just my opinion so feel free to correct me, respectfully.

 

[NesHair]

Is your diet good ? 3k cals min per day, do you rest enough ? genetics ? how many times in a week do you go to the gym ?

 

[Ks921]

No, that's not how testosterone works. The increasing in test from inhibiting dht isn't nearly enough to notice an anabolic response in muscle tissue. When bodybuilders use exogenous testosterone its in quantities many time more than the amount the body can naturally produce.

and also there are many other factors that determine how quickly your muscles can grow from lifting than just testosterone levels.

 

[RoyD]

yeah well my diet isn't great and I know I don't get enough protein. But even then my strength increases steadily whereas my muscles don't. Anyways that's not really my main issue. I was just wondering if taking dutasteride can increase your T levels to where you have a sex drive in over gear and you build a lot of muscle.

I've heard people say that some steroids are so powerful it can make a couch potato stronger than a natural regular gym goer.

 

[Nadester]

Those leaps and bounds of high libido will go away and you will be back to normal. Plus with some hair too.

 

[capo_regime]

Hi al!

I'm in dutasteride + finasteride since 7 months and I'm feeling the same problem, it is becoming harder to gain muscle mass, However my strenght is improving. In the past I never had problems like this. Is it possible or not that these molecules difficult the gain of muscle mass?

 

[zzzzz]

the amount of test you get from taking steroids is dozens if not hundreds of times more than the miniscule amount you gain from taking dutasteride/finasteride. It's negligible

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Hi al!

I'm in dutasteride + finasteride since 7 months and I'm feeling the same problem, it is becoming harder to gain muscle mass, However my strenght is improving. In the past I never had problems like this. Is it possible or not that these molecules difficult the gain of muscle mass?

it wont have any noticeable changes in your ability to put on muscle