acne during cycle

[josh_323i]

has anyone heard of taking a sulfa antibiotic during test cycle to combat acne?

[jipped genes]

sulfa is old, if i remember it is very weak and could weaken your immune system if taken for an extended period of time like all antibiotics. stick with the tried and true or see a doc.

[josh_323i]

the tried and true would be?

[MacGyver]

tetracycline, minocin

[josh_323i]

isn't tetracycline just an antibiotic too like sulfa

[Drenten]

Originally posted by Crankin'steiN
I should also tell you that tetra, as well as other anti-biotics, are anti-anabolic, so they will hinder the effectiveness of your AS....

Antibiotics are not anti-anabolic in any way.

[josh_323i]

I read that they can hinder protein synthesis....if that's what you mean by anti-anabolic??

[Drenten]

Originally posted by josh_323i
I read that they can hinder protein synthesis....if that's what you mean by anti-anabolic??

Antibiotics hinder protein synthesis in bacteria, but not in skeletal muscle. People hear that they inhibit protein synthesis and assume that that means muscle growth; it does not.

Taken from the Biology Teaching Organisation:

Why are there so few clinically useful antibiotics?

Several hundreds of compounds with antibiotic activity have been isolated from microorganisms over the years, but only a few of them are clinically useful. The reason for this is that only compounds with selective toxicity can be used clinically - they must be highly effective against a microorganism but have minimal toxicity to humans. In practice, this is expressed in terms of the therapeutic index - the ratio of the toxic dose to the therapeutic dose. The larger the index, the better is its therapeutic value.

Most of the antibacterial agents act on bacterial wall synthesis or protein synthesis. Peptidoglycan is one of the major wall targets because it is found only in bacteria. Some of the other compounds target bacterial protein synthesis, because bacterial ribosomes (termed 70S ribosomes) are different from the ribosomes (80S) of humans and other eukaryotic organisms.