Reported Characteristics
Active-Life: 8-12 hours

Drug Class: Anabolic/Androgenic Steroid (Oral)

Average Reported Dosage: Men 20-50mg daily Women 10-15mg daily

Acne: Only when administered in high dosages

Water Retention: Rare

High Blood Pressure: Rare

Liver Toxic: Yes, c17-alfa-alkylated steroid.

Aromatization: No

DHT conversion: low

Decreases HPTA function: No

Oxandrolone has been manufactured to prevent osteoporosis in women and to treat stunted growth for children. Its low androgenic quality prevents any virilization for women in current dosages up to 15 mg daily.

This AAS strongly stimulates the synthesis of phosphocreatine and thus ATP in the muscle cells. All AAS have this effect but Oxandrolone even more. A rapid increase in strength, hardness in muscle is hence easily obtained with little weight gain.

As already mentioned, Oxandrolone leads to a strong strength gain. This is achieved without gaining body weight and without the watery aspect of themuscles due to aromatization. Indeed, Oxandrolone does not aromatize in any dosage.

This characteristic doesn’t lead to the typical watery appearance as with many steroids since estrogen “programs” the body to store water. If you have a correct diet, the muscles will definitely have a hard and ripped aspect.

Moreover Oxandrolone does not suppress natural testosterone production. Therefore some post-cycle HPTA regeneration protocols can include this product. The result will lead to a prominent lean mass achievement.

Although Oxandrolone dosn’t develop the muscle mass by itself, it can definitely improve the anabolic effect of many other mass building steroids.

Oxandrolone stacks well with mass steroids such as testosterone or with high anabolic  steroids such as Equipoise or Nandrolones. Excellent results have been reported by stacking daily 20 mg/d of Oxandrolone with 200 to 400 mg of Deca weekly.

Another example of good stack combines 200 mg Deca weekly, 500 mg Testosterone enanthate, and 25 mg Oxandrolone/day. In this way, you combine the anabolic effect of Deca Durabolin, the strength improvement of Oxandrolone and the aggressiveness given by the Testosterone enanthate to carry on your workout and improve post training regeneration.

A very hard appearance can be achieved when stacked with Oxandrolone and Halotestin if an estrogen receptor antagonist (like Novaldex) is utilized as well.

An interesting note: Oxandrolone has been reported to often suppress the athlete’s appetite, cause some nausea and vomiting when the tablets are taken with meals, diarrhea.