Tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA) has changed the game when it comes to supporting your liver during a steroid cycle. This compound has been known in Chinese traditional medicine for hundreds of years to help treat some liver and gallbladder diseases. Today, it is one of the most widely used ingredients to help your liver deal with the stress of steroid use. We included a hefty 250mg of TUDCA in every serving of N2Guard, along with a complete liver matrix, to provide solid liver support to our steroid-using customers.
Adding TUDCA to N2Guard was a serious decision we had to make early into the product’s life. TUDCA is quite expensive as an ingredient, so adding it to the formula at this heavy dose means the production cost of N2Guard would go up significantly, causing us to raise prices for the end consumer. Although we knew increasing the price would affect sales, our goal was never to sell a lot of supplements but to make the best products possible, the type of product formulas we want to use ourselves. There is just no way we could have called N2Guard “the best cycle support product in the world” if it did not include a hefty dose of TUDCA. We needed TUDCA in the N2Guard formula to call this the #1 cycle support product in the world, so we added it.
How TUDCA protects against Steroid toxicity.
Steroid use can have significant effects on your liver health; even the injectable steroids that are touted to be safer on your body are going to hurt your liver to some degree. TUDCA is a bile acid derivative; it reduces endoplasmic reticulum stress and stabilizes cell membranes, both of which are disrupted by anabolic steroid use. TUDCA enhances bile flow and supports the body’s natural detoxification processes, preventing the accumulation of toxic metabolites in the liver. This protection reduces the risk of liver damage associated with oral steroids hepatotoxic. TUDCA is a necessity for athletes using methylated steroids.
The best way to use TUDCA for liver support is to take between 100mg and 250mg per day through your whole cycle and continue to take it for at least 30 days after your last steroid dosage. Guard contains 250mg of TUDCA along with several other liver support ingredients like Milk Thistle, Picroliv, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Curcumin, Astaxanthin, Selenium, Artichoke Extract, L-Carnitine and Quercetin, all of which have been known to help support live health. This is a full formula to help support your liver functions; this is why N2Guard is the #1 cycle support product featuring TUDCA, you just can’t go wrong with the extensive formula.
History of TUDCA
To many of you who don’t know the full story, it almost seems that this ingredient came out of nowhere and took over a huge portion of the liver-support market share quickly. The reality is that TUDCA has been known to scientists for decades; it just wasn’t widely available to the public because of its price and lack of availability. Since all TUDCA had to be extracted from bear bile, only a small amount of TUDCA was produced every year, making availability very limited.
Around the early 2000s, scientists figured out an efficient way of making synthetic TUDCA that worked just as well as the bear-bile version. Once there was a plentiful amount of this ingredient in the marketplace, supplement companies began adding it to their products. Consumers fell in love with this ingredient, and it became a favorite among steroid users, and here are today.
TUDCA Regenerates the Liver
The study, titled “Efficacy and safety of tauroursodeoxycholic acid in the treatment of liver cirrhosis,”* looks into how TUDCA works for people dealing with liver cirrhosis. In the trial, which was randomized and double-blind, 23 patients received either TUDCA or UDCA over a 6-month period. The results showed that both groups experienced significant improvements in liver enzyme levels (ALT, AST, ALP) and serum albumin levels, but TUDCA appeared to be slightly more effective. Interestingly, neither treatment seemed to impact liver fibrosis markers. Both medications were generally well-tolerated, with very few side effects reported.
N2Guard with Tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA) for Cycle Support
There are plenty of steroid cycle support products available today, but the original, created over 14 years ago for this exact purpose, is still N2Guard. Don’t be misled by the promises of newer companies—N2Guard has continued to evolve, with its ingredients updated to match the latest scientific advancements. It’s not just the perfect formula; it’s a formula that keeps improving year after year.
