Very true. I always found half-lives sort of weird, even in school. Say the half life was 7 days, for say Test Undecaonte. If you were injecting 1000mg every 7 days, lets say it gave you a serum level of 4000 at the peak, and 2000 at day 7. You continue this the whole cycle, with a gradual weekly fluctuation from 4000-2000ng/dl.
Now lets say you inject 500mg every 3.5 days. "theoretically speaking" wouldnt that mean that your levels, initially, would be 2000ng/dl (in this example). Now you inject 500mg 3.5 days later, to give your 1g a week. In those 3.5 days, your blood drops from 2000ng to 1500ng. You then inject 500mg more on the 3.5th day. Your levels now are at 3500k (2000ng because of that days injection, and 1500ng from the previous injection). Another 3.5 days go by. The first shot is now giving you a level of 1000ng, the 2nd shot, 1500ng, and that days shot, 2000ng. Now your level is at 4500. Another 3.5 days goes by. The first shot, 500ng, the second shot, 1000ng, the third shot, 1500ng, and the 4th shot, 2000ng. Now you're at 5000ng.
Wouldnt that make your serum levels go up each shot? There is no roller coaster, but instead a constant increase. Is that what we are going for with cycles?
Now lets say you just did 1g shot every week. Shot 1, 4000ng, day 7, 2000ng + 4000ng. day 14, 1000ng, + 2000ng, + 4000ng. After 2 weeks you're at 7000.
This is probably nothing like it actually works, as there are tons of factors that determine your test level, but I can kind of see now why people inject twice a week. There would never be a drop in serum levels, and they increase slower, whereas a weekly injection increases faster, but causes a drop each week.
Maybe this is why frontloading works.
I think this makes sense why testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) protocol is standard for every 2 weeks. Using the example above, and pretending testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) was 200mg every 2 weeks, giving a level of 800ng/dl then after two weeks you would have a level of 200ng/dl. after 4 weeks it would be 250, and so on. Very low levels that increase very slowly...but...horrible hormonal shifts.
I just probably wasted 15 minutes of my life for no reason.
Oh, and what makes no sense to me about all this, every chart ive seen on any pharmacy pamphlet from androgel or test cyp, and my doctor, says that your levels "peak" at the half life of the ester, and then drop the day following the time the body has metabolized the ester. This makes more sense to me, but what do i know lol. So basically he said a test cyp injection peaks at day 7, where you guys are saying it would be half of your normal serum level.
Fucking biochemistry.
