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The stalling test
August 17 2008 at 10:23 PM Moon (Login -Moon-)
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This is a test to find out if the dose you have been taking is too high for you and you are stalled, and also to estimate what your optimal dose is.
First some general facts: While on a herbal NBE program, you can estimate how well it's working by how much growing signs you are experiencing - like pains, tingles, soreness and itching (it's not impossible to grow without experiencing any though, but it's less frequent). If you aren't having any signs, or particulary if you stopped having them, you might have stalled - overloaded your body with phytoestrogens which prevents growth.
Here is how you do the stalling test: You stop all herbs. If you then experience signs in the following days, you have been stalled - the later they appear, the more you have been stalled. The logic behind this is that after you stop, the concentration of phytoestrogens in your body starts dropping and if you have been stalled it eventually reaches your optimal concentration, at which you experience growing signs again.
Using the stalling test or doing it several times you can estimate what doses are optimal for you. Of course the information of how much growing signs you have while you take the herbs is just as useful. The optimal dose depends on the number of estrogen receptors in your body. You might also be able to estimate this number from your body type - small and curvy means more receptors and tall and skinny less. But, this is not a certain method, it's just my personal estimate and I don't have any sources to support it.
Bottom line - it is most recomended to do NBE with the smallest ammounts that still make you grow. More = bigger & faster is NOT true in NBE.
This message has been edited by -Moon- on Sep 5, 2008 7:54 AM
This message has been edited by -Moon- on Aug 17, 2008 10:28 PM
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SENIOR MEMBER Copyright - August 17 2008, 10:34 PM
The stalling test was devised by one of our oldest and most knowledgeable members, Wahaika.
August 17 2008 at 10:23 PM Moon (Login -Moon-)
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This is a test to find out if the dose you have been taking is too high for you and you are stalled, and also to estimate what your optimal dose is.
First some general facts: While on a herbal NBE program, you can estimate how well it's working by how much growing signs you are experiencing - like pains, tingles, soreness and itching (it's not impossible to grow without experiencing any though, but it's less frequent). If you aren't having any signs, or particulary if you stopped having them, you might have stalled - overloaded your body with phytoestrogens which prevents growth.
Here is how you do the stalling test: You stop all herbs. If you then experience signs in the following days, you have been stalled - the later they appear, the more you have been stalled. The logic behind this is that after you stop, the concentration of phytoestrogens in your body starts dropping and if you have been stalled it eventually reaches your optimal concentration, at which you experience growing signs again.
Using the stalling test or doing it several times you can estimate what doses are optimal for you. Of course the information of how much growing signs you have while you take the herbs is just as useful. The optimal dose depends on the number of estrogen receptors in your body. You might also be able to estimate this number from your body type - small and curvy means more receptors and tall and skinny less. But, this is not a certain method, it's just my personal estimate and I don't have any sources to support it.
Bottom line - it is most recomended to do NBE with the smallest ammounts that still make you grow. More = bigger & faster is NOT true in NBE.
This message has been edited by -Moon- on Sep 5, 2008 7:54 AM
This message has been edited by -Moon- on Aug 17, 2008 10:28 PM
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SENIOR MEMBER Copyright - August 17 2008, 10:34 PM
The stalling test was devised by one of our oldest and most knowledgeable members, Wahaika.