05-07-2011, 10:30 PM
This morning, I woke up feeling boobie greed. This means I unconsciously had already decided to commit to another three month ramp. I took the first tablespoon (1000 mg) of dried hops flowers an hour ago, and I'm already sleepy. It tasted as bitter as fifteen beers in one glass of milk!
Hops is a safe herb to start with, because it has no progestogenic or androgenic activity:
http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/85/...2.abstract
At a high dose (> 4000 mg), it also increases serum GH, but it decreases serum IGF-1 levels:
http://joe.endocrinology-journals.org/co...5.abstract
So I will ramp to 3000 mg in three days, and hold for a day.
Hops is a safe herb to start with, because it has no progestogenic or androgenic activity:
http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/85/...2.abstract
At a high dose (> 4000 mg), it also increases serum GH, but it decreases serum IGF-1 levels:
http://joe.endocrinology-journals.org/co...5.abstract
So I will ramp to 3000 mg in three days, and hold for a day.