ITRC: Methyl-D

The market for pro-hormones and pro-steroids is growing at a record pace, with new and improved compounds making their way to the market every day. One innovation recently discovered by Bruce Kneller is going to make just about every other pro-steroid obsolete. Yeah, I know you've heard it before, but this time Kneller has dropped an incredible bomb on the supplement world.

What is Kneller's discovery? It's a close chemical cousin of both trenbolone and methyltrienolone called 17a-methyl-17b-hydroxyestra-4,9(10)dien-3-one. Kneller had the foresight to realize people wouldn't be able to remember that name, so he trademarked Methyldienolone. I made it even easier to remember by giving it the name Methyl-D. So just how does it compare to trenbolone and methyltrienolone? Trenbolone is a 19-nor steroid like nandrolone. Its chemical name is actually 17b-hydroxyestra-4,9,11-trien-3-one. What's important to note here is that trenbolone is a triene molecule'meaning it has three double bonds each at carbons 4, 9 and 11.

Methyltrienolone is also known as methyltrenbolone. Essentially, methyltrienolone is the carbon 17a methyl homolog of trenbolone.

Methyltrienolone is the most potent steroid ever created'so potent that drug companies never bothered to release it, as the average user would need only micrograms to see a profound anabolic effect. You can sometimes find methyltrienolone made by some underground labs on the black market. Usually it's found in 25-microgram capsules, and the few top-level professional bodybuilders who have access to the stuff swear it's 'the difference maker.' In fact, the godfather of steroidal chemistry, Julius Vida, remarks in his book Androgens and Anabolic Agents that methyltrienolone is 12,000 to 30,000 times more anabolic than methyltestosterone.

How does all that fit in with Methyl-D? Methyl-D and methyltrienolone are very similar, as their names imply. While methyltrienolone is a triene like trenbolone, Methyl-D is a diene, meaning it has only two double bonds instead of three, occurring at carbons 4 and 9. So the only difference between Methyl-D and methyltrienolone is the double bond at carbon 11.

Like methyltrienolone, Methyl-D is a very powerful substance'easily the most powerful pro-steroid ever sold. In fact, a typical user only needs a meager one to three milligrams per day in order to see an amazing effect. The few beta testers who've tried this unique and powerful supplement have all said that Methyl-D feels a lot like a cross between Winstrol (stanozolol) and Parabolan (trenbolone).

Ideally, all pro-steroids, steroids and pro-hormones would not have any androgenic effect at all; however, nobody's been able to come up with something steroidal that's anabolic and not androgenic. That's why the anabolic-to-androgenic ratio was established'to demonstrate how good or useful a particular pro-steroid, steroid or pro-hormone is. The higher the ratio, the better it is because the higher the ratio, the less likely you're going to see masculinizing side effects. Testosterone is the standard here and has a ratio of 1 to 1. Methyl-D has a ratio of about 8 to 1, which means it's eight times more anabolic than androgenic. That puts Methyl-D somewhere between oral Turinabol (17a-methyl-6-chlorotestosterone), which has an anabolic-to-androgenic ratio of about 3, and just slightly under that of Anavar (oxandrolone) which has an anabolic-to-androgenic ratio of about 13.

Essentially, that means that the dose of Methyl-D needed to cause a certain amount of muscle growth will have one-eighth the masculinizing effect that testosterone does. In small doses, then, Methyl-D is probably quite safe even for female bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts as well as male ones. Compare that to 1-testosterone, clearly the most popular pro-steroid today, which has an anabolic-to-androgenic ratio between 2 and 3, and Deca-Durabolin (nandrolone decanoate), a steroid long popular with women athletes, which has an anabolic-to-androgenic ratio of around 6. Methyl-D is 200 percent less androgenic than the current super pro-steroid, methyl-1-testosterone, while being about 110 percent as anabolic.

Methyl-D is obviously an ultrapotent compound (about 1,000 times more powerful than methyltestosterone'yes, 1,000 times more potent). If used in a correct dosage (like one to three milligrams per day), it will yield fantastic, body-changing results with minimal androgenic side effects. Clearly, Methyl-D reigns supreme in the pro-steroid race, having handily knocked methyl-1-testosterone off the throne as king of the pro-steroids. That's why my company, Gaspari Nutrition, has decided to license the name and use of this compound. Milligram for milligram, it's the most effective muscle builder ever seen in the supplement market, and it's safer than a lot of other pro-steroids out there with regard to virilizing side effects.

Watch out: Methyl-D is a methylated steroid like Anavar or Winstrol, and there can be some minor liver toxicity if you stay on it too long. Currently, we suggest people use it for no more than 20 to 30 days without taking a 30- to 40-day break between cycles.

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