31 Years Old
175cm, 5’9" Tall
30 - 32inch waist
78kg 171.6lb
- Have joe dirt, dirty sanchez facial hair
- androgenic hair all over legs but it is fine, fairly hairless upperbody, very small amount of androgenic hair around the sternum/inner chest
- Carry fat around love handles, lower abs. Glutes, groin and arms are also some of last places to lean out, need to get well past 8 pack to get seperation in delts and triceps.
- Not sure fat storage pattern has changed, but there is more of it, I would cut down to 78kg ripped to shreds, now I’m quite soft, something like I was 78kg 8% now more like 12%
Symptoms History
Somewhere in last 2 years my very high libido slowly started waning to the point I hadn’t noticed it was completely gone, I’d basically been doing a chore and acting to satisfy my girlfriend, literally NEVER think about sex at all, recently had a vacation on my own, not once did I have an erection or even think about it. Erections work I just have ZERO desire or interest, it is literally going to work to plow the misses.
Sharp contrast to my entire life, libido always very high, usually sex and if not masturbation 3x day pretty much every day was the norm, couldn’t make it past 3 days without something or would usually have a nocturnal emission, now is undeniable to myself something is very wrong
Looking back I cannot maintain the same lean mass, strength and body fat at this weight as I used to, its still ok, but it is a backslide
There may be subtle brain fog, zest for life or energy issues but not sure, its happened gradually where I may not notice
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Using no drugs, Rx or OTC whatsoever, no hairloss or prostate drugs ever, have had very very few drugs even OTC in my life, last time I even had a paracetemol or something like that was nearly 10 years ago, I just never take anything unless I have to, I have done 6 weeks of 40mg/day anavar(yeah stupid) followed by clomid about 4.5 years ago, seemed to recover fine still had a good 2.5 years or so of raging libido afterwards, no impediments in training/bodycomposition
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Diet varies over time but is ALWAYS almost completely whole foods, make everything myself from scratch except for eating out for lunch either once or sometimes twice a week where its anything goes,
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my usual maintenance is around 2700 calories that I’ll usually go over a little,
main carbs are tons of fruit mainly apples bananas grapes mandarins tons of blueberries and raspberries, bit of rice, always a big serving of beans or lentils everyday, sometimes bread,
main proteins are whey+casein, beans/lentils, tons of my own homemade yogurt(.5-
1L/day), some nuts everyday rotate between a few, macadamias often, 2 brazil nuts
everyday, not meat everyday but when I do its alot
Fats: Try to keep it at >90g a day as I seem to do better, all fats from above protein
sources, only oils I use are olive, macadamia and avocado, love butter and do that a bit
but usually save my dairy fat for the yogurt, lots of whole olives too, also lots of cacao
nibs, cocoa powder or 90% dark chocolate
I am aware of iodine and have exclusively used Iodized salt for years, usually 2 metric tea spoons(5ml?) a day minimum
Every meal has tonnes of veggies, start each day with heap of broccoli, kale, spinach, eat shit loads of garlic, 300g of onions and tomatoes a day minimum in my cooking, other staples I go through a lot of would be capsicums(all colours), red and green onions, carrots everyday, lots of butternut squash, lots of red cabbage, little bit of kimchi etc, lots of shit
I do actually eat that way all of the time and have done for years, I will eat any and all entrees mains desserts junk when I am out for a lunch though or theres a family/friend event on, so about 10% of my meals are whatever
I don’t skimp on calories either, though have done cuts over the years pushing calories low, never noticed much from them, last proper cut was about 8 months ago, got lean, but was below 75kg, literally the lightest I have been in years, so LBM must be down a little, libido was shot before I even started, and still is now, so there was no change throughout
Training
- Like to train 6 days/week atm but it is lower volume not super hard, spreading 3 days work out over six really cause I like the routine of doing it first thing in the morning every morning, do 10 sets max in about 30min and done, split is:
mon overheard press/chin up 5 sets x 8 reps each, then done thats it
tues barbell curl/tricep pushdown 5 x 8
weds front sq 5 x 5 - 8
thurs bench press/seal row 5 x 8
fri sometimes bent arm pullover/wrist roller 5 sets each sometimes nothing day off
sat deadlift 5 x 5
The intensity is not that high on these just getting the work in, I love training Ive hit things like 3xbw dead and other decent lifts and body comp in the past so I know somewhat what I’m doing, but things don’t really improve anymore so I’m often working hard but cruising maintaining
Do no formal cardio but ride around low intensity on my bike while running my dog most days, 30-60min, do all errands on bike with trailer or walk around alot
- Testes, no symptoms to report, maybe bit less plump than they use to be?.
- Morning wood not always there, when it is it’s a bit weaker, biggest thing I notice is if I do wake up with morning wood it does not stick around! it is like instantly deflating to where I don’t notice it was ever there, would use to be waking up with a very strong erection that would just stand around pretty much until it was taken care of
- Nocturnal wood I don’t notice
Lab results
Units Range
testosterone 20.2 nmol/L 6.0-28.0
SHBG 79 nmol/L 15-50
Free Test 231 pmol/L 200-600
FSH 3 IU/L 1-8
LH 2 IU/L 2-8
E2 108 pmol/L <150
Prolactin 140 mIU/L 45-375
TSH 1.32 mIU/L 0.50-5.00
desirable range
Cholesterol 4.5 mmol/L
HDL 2.5 mmol/L >1.0
LDL 1.9 mmol/L <2.5
Non-HDL 2.0 mmol/L <3.9
Triglyceride 0.3 mmol/L <2.0
LDL/HDL ratio 0.8
Chol/HDL 1.8
Glucose 5.1 mmol/L 3.0-5.4
So there we have it, I recently got blood tests suspecting low T mainly from my evaporating libido, but also adding a bit of low energy, brain fog, deteriorating bodycomp as pieces of the puzzle, and got this puzzle back
Test looks surprisingly good to me, e2 not too high either, tsh seems where I want it, I’ve never had a blood test for lipids so that was interesting, HDL is crazy, good to know the diet and lifestyle is good for that, glucose higher than would have liked/thought
But then the big ones, SHBG is crazy high and sure enough free T is almost below range! far below where it should be given my total T, perhaps this could account for my problems, but if so, how do I fix it?
Also total T is good, thats about 580 ng/dL I think, so my bodys been producing that, and yet my LH is damn near rock bottom? All seems weird and I have no idea what it all means or what could cause it
Tried to be thorough but it’s late, let me know if I’ve missed anything