Redefining Enhancement: The Natty Plus Spectrum
The fitness industry is stuck in a false binary that’s holding everyone back. You’re either “natty” or you’re not. You’re either completely natural or you’ve crossed some imaginary line and become enhanced. This black-and-white thinking is not just intellectually lazy — it’s destroying results and creating unhealthy obsessions on both sides.
Connor Murphy and I have developed something that changes this entire conversation: the Natty Plus Protocol. This isn’t about finding loopholes or justifying borderline compounds. This is about creating a rational, health-focused framework that gets you the physique you want without the lifestyle sacrifices or health consequences that traditional approaches demand.
Connor’s results speak for themselves: doubled testosterone levels from 340 to 700 ng/dL in 11 days, 15x increase in growth hormone in a single blood test comparison, and 65 pounds gained over three years while maintaining health markers. He’s bigger than guys I know who’ve been blasting steroids for years, yet his natural hormone production remains intact.
The Spectrum: From 1 to 10
Here’s the reality nobody wants to acknowledge: naturalness exists on a spectrum, not in two rigid categories. I conceptualize it from 1 to 10, where 1 represents taking absolutely nothing and 10 represents something like trenbolone — highly unnatural and extremely anabolic.
The Natty Plus Protocol operates in the 3-5 range on this spectrum. These substances provide meaningful enhancement while maintaining the health and hormonal integrity that true natural athletes value.
Why the Binary Thinking Fails
Consider these examples that expose the logical inconsistencies in natural versus unnatural categorization:
- Vitamin D is an external hormone that boosts testosterone, but everyone considers it natural
- MK-677 increases natural growth hormone production, yet it’s labeled unnatural despite working through your body’s own systems
- Cannabis is banned by WADA despite being a natural plant
- Caffeine was prohibited by WADA before 2004 — were coffee drinkers unnatural then?
When you examine these contradictions, you realize that “natural” is largely arbitrary. The spectrum approach allows for nuanced decision-making based on actual health outcomes and practical benefits rather than attachment to labels.
The Four Core Rules
Every substance in the Natty Plus Protocol must satisfy four non-negotiable criteria:
1. Relatively Healthy
Unlike anabolic steroids that can cause severe health complications — liver damage, cardiovascular issues, hormonal crashes — Natty Plus compounds should improve or at least not compromise your overall health. We’re not trading longevity for muscle mass.
2. Non-Suppressive
Your natural hormone production remains intact. This is what separates Natty Plus from traditional steroid cycles. Connor’s bloodwork consistently shows normal to elevated LH and FSH levels, proving his natural testosterone production hasn’t been shut down.
3. No Dependence
You can cycle off these substances and return to baseline without crashes or withdrawal symptoms. There’s no need to commit to lifelong hormone replacement therapy or worry about accessing compounds while traveling.
4. Benefits Outweigh Risks
The enhancement provided should be significant enough that refusing to take the substance would be illogical given the minimal risks involved. If something is safe and effective, why wouldn’t you use it?
Connor Murphy’s Transformation: The Data
Numbers don’t lie. Connor’s transformation on the Natty Plus Protocol represents one of the most documented natural enhancement experiments ever conducted:
Hormonal Improvements
- Testosterone: 340 ng/dL → 700 ng/dL (doubled in 11 days)
- Growth Hormone: 15x increase in one blood test comparison
- LH/FSH: Remained in normal ranges, proving no suppression
Physical Transformation
- Starting Point: 157 pounds after a 40-day fast (6’3″ height)
- Current Weight: 222 pounds
- Total Gain: 65 pounds over three years
- Peak Comparison: Previously peaked at 205 pounds, now maintains 220+ year-round
These results were achieved without the obsessive-compulsive behaviors that typically define natural bodybuilding: no calorie counting, no food scales at restaurants, workouts in a basic apartment gym for 30 minutes, and the flexibility to have a social life.
The Problem with Traditional Natural Bodybuilding
The dirty secret of natural bodybuilding is that it often requires extremely unhealthy behaviors to achieve impressive results. I’ve watched countless natural athletes:
- Crash their testosterone levels through extreme cutting phases
- Develop obsessive-compulsive relationships with food and training
- Sacrifice social lives and mental health for marginal physical gains
- Suffer from the very hormone suppression they’re trying to avoid through excessive training and caloric restriction
Connor experienced this firsthand before developing the Natty Plus approach. He carried food scales to restaurants, couldn’t miss training sessions without anxiety, and lived in constant fear of losing his physique. That’s not health — that’s a different kind of dysfunction.
The Lifestyle Liberation
With the Natty Plus Protocol, Connor maintains his physique while living a balanced life:
- No calorie counting or macro tracking
- Flexible training schedule without obsessive consistency
- Social drinking occasionally without physique consequences
- Travel freedom without compound accessibility concerns
- Mental peace from not fearing hormonal crashes
The Natty Plus Supplement Framework
The protocol uses a strategic combination of compounds across the 1-5 spectrum. Here’s how we categorize and utilize them:
Level 1-2: Foundation Supplements
Creatine (1.25 rating): Five grams daily of this thoroughly researched compound. Found naturally in meat, creatine increases ATP production during intense exercise. The only reason it’s not a perfect 1 is the concentrated convenience factor — you’d need to eat pounds of beef to get equivalent amounts.
No tolerance buildup means you can use it indefinitely. Enhanced Labs provides the quality and purity that ensures consistent results.
Level 3-4: Natural Hormone Optimizers
Blue Ox Testosterone Booster: One of two testosterone boosters that contributed to Connor’s doubling of natural testosterone levels. This Enhanced Labs formula works through multiple pathways to optimize your body’s own hormone production without external hormone administration.
The cycling approach prevents tolerance and maintains effectiveness. Connor alternates between different testosterone support compounds to prevent adaptation.
Level 4-5: Advanced Natural Enhancement
This is where the Natty Plus Protocol gets interesting. Compounds like MK-677 that stimulate natural growth hormone release, or other substances available through Swiss Chems and NextChems that work with your body’s systems rather than replacing them.
The key distinction: these substances enhance natural processes rather than suppressing them. Your body continues producing its own hormones while these compounds optimize the process. This is a direct application of the Tony Huge Laws of Biochemistry Physics — using exogenous compounds to upregulate endogenous systems without negative feedback shutdown.
Why Everyone Should Adopt This Approach
The Natty Plus Philosophy represents the next evolution in enhancement thinking. Here’s why it makes sense for almost everyone:
For Natural Athletes
Stop limiting yourself with arbitrary restrictions. If a compound is healthy, non-suppressive, and effective, your attachment to a “natural” label is pure ego. You’re already living in an unnatural environment with unnatural stressors suppressing your hormones — why not counteract that intelligently?
For Enhanced Athletes
You don’t need to choose between health and results. The Natty Plus approach provides significant benefits without the health consequences or lifestyle restrictions of traditional steroid cycling. Many enhanced athletes could achieve their goals more sustainably through this framework.
For Practical People
Most people can’t dedicate their entire lives to bodybuilding. The Natty Plus Protocol allows you to maintain an impressive physique while pursuing career success, relationships, and other life priorities. You get 80% of the results with 20% of the lifestyle sacrifice.
The Bloodwork Proof
Throughout Connor’s experiment, we’ve conducted extensive bloodwork to document every aspect of this protocol. The results consistently show:
- Maintained or improved natural hormone production
- No suppression of LH or FSH
- Improved health markers across multiple panels
- No signs of liver stress or cardiovascular compromise
This data separates the Natty Plus Protocol from internet theories and bro-science. We have objective proof that these approaches work without the negative consequences of traditional enhancement.
Breaking Free from Black-and-White Thinking
The Natty Plus Philosophy extends beyond supplements into a more sophisticated way of approaching life decisions. Black-and-white thinking is a cognitive distortion that psychologists recognize as problematic. Reality operates in spectrums and gradients.
By adopting spectrum thinking in enhancement, you develop critical thinking skills that apply to business, relationships, and personal development. You learn to evaluate actual risks and benefits rather than following arbitrary rules or social pressures.
Interesting Perspectives
The Natty Plus framework challenges more than just fitness dogma. It intersects with broader philosophical and scientific debates. Some researchers argue that the very concept of “natural” is a moving target, shaped by technology and culture. The supplements considered “cutting-edge” today, like specific peptide blends or nootropics, may become the foundational “vitamins” of tomorrow. Furthermore, the protocol’s emphasis on non-suppression and system upregulation aligns with emerging longevity science, which prioritizes maintaining endogenous function over replacement. This positions Natty Plus not just as a bodybuilding strategy, but as a potential model for sustainable human enhancement across the lifespan, focusing on optimizing the body’s innate machinery rather than overriding it.
The Future of Enhancement
I believe everyone will eventually adopt some version of the Natty Plus approach. The combination of health consciousness and result optimization is too compelling to ignore. The current binary thinking will seem as outdated as pre-internet training information.
Young athletes won’t waste years with ineffective natural approaches or risk their health with unnecessary enhancement. They’ll use intelligence and quality compounds to achieve their goals efficiently and safely.
Practical Implementation Strategy
Start with the foundation and work up the spectrum based on your goals and comfort level:
Week 1-4: Establish the foundation with creatine and basic testosterone support. Monitor how your body responds and track baseline measurements.
Week 5-8: Add level 3-4 compounds based on your specific needs and bloodwork results. Connor’s approach of cycling different testosterone boosters prevents tolerance.
Week 9+: Consider level 5 compounds if your goals warrant it and your response to lower levels has been positive. Always maintain the four core rules as non-negotiables.
Use my code “PLUS” at Enhanced Labs, Swiss Chems, or NextChems for discounts on these compounds. Quality matters — underdosed or contaminated supplements won’t provide the results we’ve documented.
Citations & References
While the Natty Plus Protocol is built on applied experimentation and bloodwork, the principles of non-suppressive enhancement and spectrum-based categorization are informed by broader scientific understanding. The following references provide context for the biochemical and philosophical foundations discussed.
- Kreider, R. B., et al. (2017). International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand: safety and efficacy of creatine supplementation in exercise, sport, and medicine. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition.
- Pilz, S., et al. (2011). Effect of vitamin D supplementation on testosterone levels in men. Hormone and Metabolic Research.
- Chapman, I. M., et al. (1996). Stimulation of the growth hormone (GH)-insulin-like growth factor I axis by daily oral administration of a GH secretogogue (MK-677) in healthy elderly subjects. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
- Nieschlag, E., & Vorona, E. (2015). Mechanisms in endocrinology: Medical consequences of doping with anabolic androgenic steroids: effects on reproductive functions. European Journal of Endocrinology.
- Gharahdaghi, N., et al. (2021). The impact of caffeine ingestion on human testosterone and cortisol: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrition and Health.
- Bhasin, S., et al. (1996). The effects of supraphysiologic doses of testosterone on muscle size and strength in normal men. New England Journal of Medicine.
- Smith, G. I., et al. (2014). Testosterone and progesterone, but not estradiol, stimulate muscle protein synthesis in postmenopausal women. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
- Vingren, J. L., et al. (2010). The endocrine system in overtraining. In: Endocrine Aspects of Overtraining. Human Kinetics.
The Natty Plus Protocol isn’t about finding loopholes or justifying questionable compounds. It’s about creating a rational, health-focused approach to enhancement that delivers real results without the costs of traditional methods. Connor’s transformation proves this approach works, and his bloodwork proves it’s safe.
Stop limiting yourself with outdated binary thinking. Your physique goals don’t have to come at the expense of your health, lifestyle, or long-term well-being. The spectrum approach gives you the tools to optimize everything simultaneously — and there’s no logical reason not to use them.