Is appetite increase/decrease from sarms/steroids purely a placebo thing from knowing you're on a 'gaining phase' or is appetite purely regulated through your own hormones?
Is appetite increase/decrease from sarms/steroids purely a placebo thing from knowing you're on a 'gaining phase' or is appetite purely regulated through your own hormones?
Its real, increase in testosterone can increase appetite.
Stress on the liver from orals can decrease it.
It's real. Especially coupled with the higher training volume made possible by a cycle.
Testosterone is a strong correlate of ghrelin levels in men and postmenopausal women. - PubMed - NCBI
Test also appears to suppress leptin.
Inverse correlation between serum testosterone and leptin in men. - PubMed - NCBI
What drugs/sarms would be the main culprit for the increase, and the same question applies for a decrease?
If you search about MK677, it will say that it can "slightly" increase your appetite, but from what I have experienced, I was crazy hungry, but I guess it depends on the person.
For those of us who want to lose weight it seems like something that will decrease your leptin would be helpful. Also, I believe ghrelin is also related to hunger so it would make sense that surpressing those drives would be very helpful for individuals.