Arimidex is a type II Aromatase Inhibitor, which is sometimes also called AI. It is medically used for the breast cancer treatment in post-menopausal women. Used both in adjuvant therapy (i.e. following surgery) and in metastatic breast cancer treatment, Anastrozole helps in decreasing the amount of estrogens.
Hence, Arimidex is often used by the AAS users often use the drug to prevent excessive estrogenic side effects. It is widely used by bodybuilders and other anabolic steroid users to prevent gynecomastia and edema, which is caused due to use of injectable testosterones and androgens that have the ability to convert into estrogen.
Arimidexs chemical name is Anastrozole. Its chemical formula is C17H19N5. The drug usually comes in 1MG tabs or in liquid form. It is available under the trade names Arimidex .25 mg tabs (International Pharmaceuticals) and Arimidex 1mg tabs (British Dragon).
Arimidex-Liquidex suppresses the aromatase enzyme that is responsible for converting testosterone and other androgens into estrogen. It blocks the conversion of testosterone into estrogen which can cause a watery looks of muscles and development of breast tissue in...