effects of D-aspartic acid on women?

[pebble]

A lot of the guys in the gym have positive things to say about D-aspartic acid.
Is it only for guys? Or does it have positive effects for a female also?

[shankuan]

I am interested in knowing this as well.

[sassy69]

I've never looked at this stuff personally - my general opinion of any 'test booster' is that they definitely have some affect, but they come w/ what looks to be aromatization as well - i.e. you bloat up and develop acne driven by the additional estrogen resulting from the additional test.

The only time you won't experience this is w/ those products that also have an araomtase inhibitor in them - e.g. Havoc or Epistane.

Here's an interview about it on Superhuman Radio from about a year ago: http://www.superhumanradio.com/components/com_podcast/media/mp3s/SHR_Show_488-PP-Edit.mp3

[RVRose]

What if you take an aromatase inhibitor while you are on birth control? I've read stuff about taking birth control pills to offset the aromatase inhibitors, but I havent found any info on how much they offset each other and if the birth control pills will become completely ineffective for preventing pregnancy.

[sassy69]

What if you take an aromatase inhibitor while you are on birth control? I've read stuff about taking birth control pills to offset the aromatase inhibitors, but I havent found any info on how much they offset each other and if the birth control pills will become completely ineffective for preventing pregnancy.

To clarify - you are referring to AI's such as Aromasin or Arimidex, correct, and not Nolvadex? The AIs are operating specifically on the conversion of testosterone to estrogen. In a women, there's a small about amount of natural aromatization going on from adrenal androgens, and from any aromatizing AAS cycle she might be using. Nolvadex would be operating on the ovarian-originating estrogen process. But it doesn't sort of chemically negate it as much as it just "stops" the process by faking out the receptors and essentialyl disconnecting the process to a certain degee.

You won't find any documentation on the interaction of nolvadex and birth control- primarily because the operational scenario for nolvadex use is in post-menopausal breast cancer patients where they would have no need for birth control.

The only discussion I've ever seen of Birth Control and 'estrogen blockers' suggests to stay on your BC to get the 'anti-baby effect', but the end result of trying to use something that reduces estrogen effects (e.g. water retention, etc.) while also using something that regulates estrogen, seems to be just reduced effectiveness in reducing the estrogen sides. If you ask your OB/GYN about running Nolvadex, you may get the answer "Why not just drop your birth control?". They won't have a great answer for this question either, again, because it is not an expected scenario to be dealing w/ in a medical environment. Unless a doctor is well-versed in the female endocrine & reproductive systems and also well-versed in the chemistry of sports, they aren't going to have a complete view of why you'd even be doing something like this.

[RVRose]

Thanks

[retroshaper]

I asked this question to Patrick Arnold and he stated that DAA would increase ovulation in women. So probably not the effect you're looking for.

[sassy69]

I asked this question to Patrick Arnold and he stated that DAA would increase ovulation in women. So probably not the effect you're looking for.

That's sort of what I got from some of the research I did as well - it boosts test, but everything else too.

[Andrew732]

Research shows it does NOT boost testosterone in women like it does with men. Whether it increases ovulation is another thing since it does increase prolactin, vasopressin, etc among others.

[classic34]

DAA increases production of testosterone/it's precursors in the testes. A woman's ovaries are similar to testes but they are basically surrounded by a sack full of aromatase...so DAA would increase estrogen production in women, not testosterone.