Aczech said:
It's said that ZMA taken before bed can increase test levels by 30%. Even if this is true, it's only studied for natural athletes with naturally occuring test in the body. If one was on AAS, and the body wasn't producing test, would the ZMA do nothing or actually help the body pump a little test?
ZMA is a zinc supplement. People with low zinc concentrations could have a lesser test concentration as a result. In these people, augmentinc zinc could restore that balance, and 'heighten test concentrations with 30%', going perhaps from 20% of natural production to 50% of normal production. The idea was that augmenting zinc even further, could heighten testosterone even further, even with people with no defficiencies. Sadly, that's not the case. Victor Conte, the man behind many undetectable designer drugs, popularized this supplement in a clever way. Athletes like Bonds and Marion Jones got undetectable designer steroids, and in turn advertised a worthless supplement, offering them new records and an excuse for making them, and Conte a way to cash in on his designer drugs.
Off course he payed for a mock study to make up some scientific 'proof'. This study was done by Lorrie Brilla in 1999, either with forged data, or with people on his undetectable designer drugs. It was also published in the Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise in 1999. Now why would a respectable institute like that publish such a mock study? The truth is, they never did, the supplement industry is lying when they say they did. Still, that lie turned Balco's profit on his unsuccesfull supplement from 75000$ a year to about 1.8 million $ a year since 1999. Plenty of other studies have proven zinc to be ineffective. 'because they didn't use the right type of zinc', according to Conte.
A BB has no need for a zinc overdose, and it is actually harmfull,
destroying red blood cells , increase risk of
prostate cancer among other things. If you like zinc, you might want to wear a zinc ring or bracelet, it will release plenty more zinc in your bloodstream. Doesn't sound healthy? Neither is ZMA.
To answer your question, supposing ZMA would actually work, it will be no good during a cycle, since your own test production is too suppressed to function, and besides your zinc levels are already at a normal level. Just my 2 cents.