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Understanding Esters, Active-Life and Half-Life

Eyayo · 2025-12-23T15:57:08Z

Steroid Half life's Anyone new to steroids may be wondering what this means, even some experienced steroid users may also be wondering what this means. So here in simple terms you can read and hopefully understand all about steroid half life's and what this term means. Basically every drug has a half life, steroids included. If for example, you were to inject 1000mg of testosterone cypionate once weekly, for 10 weeks, how would you know when you were "off"? Would you be "off" when you had finished your last dose? You would be able to calculate this from the half life of testosterone cypionate . The half life of testosterone cypionate is around 12 days. This means that 12 days from your last shot of 1000mg of testosterone cypionate (Time to start PCT ? You decide.), your blood levels of testosterone cypionate will contain 500mg of the steroid. Another 12 days from then, i.e. 24 days from last dose, your blood levels will contain 250mg of the steroid. This amount then keeps halving every 12 days. At 48 days (almost 2 months) from your last dose, your blood levels will still contain 67.5mg of testosterone cypionate. Therefore you can clearly see that when you finish your cycle , even though you are not putting any steroids into your body, you may think that you are now "off", however you still have, and will still have for some time after your last dose, "active" blood levels of the steroid. Therefore you can plan what to use, how long for, and how long off your cycle, based on these half life's. Below a list of half-life's of the most commonly used steroids, esters and ancillary compounds. Oral steroids Drug Active half-life Anadrol / Anapolan50 (oxymetholone) 8 to 9 hours Anavar (oxandrolone ) 9 hours Dianabol (methandrostenolone , methandienone) 4.5 to 6 hours Winstrol (stanozolol )(tablets or depot taken orally) 9 hours Depot steroids Drug Active half-life Deca -durabolin (Nandrolone decanate) 14 days Equipoise 14 days Finaject (trenbolone acetate) 3 days Primobolan (methenolone enanthate) 10.5 days Sustanon or Omnadren 15 to 18 days Testosterone Cypionate 12 days Testosterone Enanthate 10.5 days Testosterone Propionate 4.5 days Testosterone Suspension 1 day Winstrol (stanozolol) 1 day Steroid esters Drug Active half-life Formate 1.5 days Acetate 3 days Propionate 2 days Phenylpropionate 4.5 days Butyrate 6 days Valerate 7.5 days Hexanoate 9 days Caproate 9 days Isocaproate 9 days Heptanoate 10.5 days Enanthate 10.5 days Octanoate 12 days Cypionate 12 days Nonanoate 13.5 days Decanoate 15 days Undecanoate 16.5 days Ancillaries Drug Active half-life Arimidex 3 days Clenbuterol 1.5 days Clomid 5 days Cytadren 6 hours T3 10 hours Active Life versus Half Life The confusion comes from the 2 terms being used synonymously when they should not be. "Half-life is not a reference for the total time a drug will be found active in the body. It may take several half-lives before the drug is completely inactive." Half-life: The period of time required for the concentration or amount of drug in the body to be reduced to exactly one-half of a given concentration or amount. Example: The half-life of anavar is 9 hours+/- (9 hours after oral administration of 50 mg of anavar, 25mg is still present in the body). Active life: Refers to the period in which the amount of a drug in the body is enough that it will still produce the desired effects for which it was administered. Or conversely, inhibit natural recovery of normal bodily function. It is dose dependent. Example: The active life of 1,000mg of testosterone decanoate would be more than one month. At day 30 after injection, 250mg or more of this drug would still be present in the body. WHAT AN ESTER IS, AND HOW IT WORKS I'm sure that if you have taken an interest in anabolic steroids you have noticed the similarities on the labeling of many drugs. Let's look at testosterone for example. One can find compounds like testosterone cypionate, enanthate, propionate, heptylate; caproate, phenylpropionate, isocaproate, decanoate, acetate, the list goes on and on. In all such cases the parent hormone is testosterone, which had been modified by adding an ester (enanthate, propionate etc.) to its structure. The following question arises: What is the difference between the various esterified versions of testosterone in regards to their use in bodybuilding? An ester is a chain composed primarily of carbon and hydrogen atoms. This chain is typically attached to the parent steroid hormone at the 17th carbon position (beta orientation), although some compounds do carry esters at position 3 (for the purposes of this article it is not crucial to understand the exact position of the ester). Esterification of an injectable anabolic/androgenic steroid basically accomplishes one thing, it slows the release of the parent steroid from the site of injection. This happens because the ester will notably lower the water solubility of the steroid, and increase its lipid (fat) solubility. This will caus...

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25/12/2025 9:11 am

Given how close the two esters are, going from cyp to eth or vice versa shouldn't require any downtime, right?

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25/12/2025 9:34 am

Wow a lot of reading but great info.

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25/12/2025 10:02 am

Damn good read. Thanks

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25/12/2025 10:21 am

Great read man! Im just a little confused tho. I always thought Prop is good for guys that have gyno and water retention problems but you mentioned it has the highest potential next to suspension because it relases so fast. Did read this correct? And should I not use Prop if I want to lean up?

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25/12/2025 10:37 am

Awesome article. A ton of usefull info, acully clreared up quit a few bit of questions.

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25/12/2025 10:57 am

Damn good info gere

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25/12/2025 11:25 am

thanks

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25/12/2025 11:52 am

Good shit here.

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25/12/2025 2:37 pm

I have a feeling I'll be referring to this a lot.

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25/12/2025 2:55 pm

good read, thx!

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25/12/2025 3:21 pm

That was a good read

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