Why would one need to go through the trouble of formulating a transdermal when perhaps a simple tablet would do?
Well, the advantages of transdermal drug delivery systems speak for themselves and include avoidance of side effects, avoidance of the gastrointestinal tract and hepatic first-pass biotransformation and metabolism, control of absorption, availability of multiple skin sites to avoid local irritation and toxicity, and improved compliance. The result is a wider range of therapeutic options for physicians to use in optimizing their patients care. The main type of transdermal that a bodybuilder would be interested in is one that contains prohormones. These help raise your testosterone naturally without any known negative side effects. Are you getting your money’s worth when you buy prohormones in a capsule or tablet? Maybe not! Whenever you take a prohormone in tablet or capsule form, it goes rather directly to your liver. That’s where up to 95% of the active prohormones get “de-activated.” In other words, rendered useless. You pay for 100% of the prohormone. You only get about 5%. Still, e
