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30.08.2008

Porcupine anabolic

An ordinary anabolic steroid is a close chemical relative of testosterone. After attaching itself to the androgen receptor, all the processes that chemical bodybuilders so love kick into action: muscles grow bigger and get stronger, stamina builds up, aggression and sex drive increase.

Anabolics are made up of strands of molecules. Chemists have always concentrated on the head and tail, manipulating these to make them stronger or to reduce the less desirable characteristics.

Not long ago however chemists discovered that it's not only the head and tail of anabolic steroids that you can tinker with, but also the bit in the middle. That's how you get "porcupine anabolics".

Spiny anabolic steroids are generally incredibly strong. THG, the invisible hormone in the Balco affair, was a porcupine anabolic. Dimethandrolone [above] is another.

The term "porcupine anabolic" was thought up by a researcher at Organon. Outside Organon and the regular Ergo-Log readers, this is not a familiar term.