Thanks for taking that way I intended. I get it brother and believe me, before I started taking measures to get myself balanced, I almost lost my entire life, including one of my sons and my marriage. I get that frustration for sure and I get your passion. I feel the same way and I don’t have half the knowledge that you have.
This is a GREAT point, and if I could offer one more thing to this conversation, it would be that men lead by example. We often outwardly project frustration as dominance, and yes that’s part of being a man…
But the true marker of a man is not knowing when to assert dominance, but rather, knowing when NOT to.
Since pregnenolone is the precursor to dhea and progesterone, why not start pregnenolone therapy and let the body figure out how much dhea and progesterone it needs? Then take dhea s labs and see what it did.
Most men tolerate DHEA quite well. The problem is that pregnenolone is hit-or-miss with a lot of guys. I always advise to start with DHEA first as it tends to make most men feel better. Once you’ve got everything dialed in you can then experiment with pregnenolone. you want to add one thing at a time and then give it several weeks to make an assessment.
Any way you can link me to some reliable studies on the E2 and HCG so I can at least have something to back me up when I tey to get my doctor on the same page …?
I have a question for you. Have you ever had your PTH levels checked? How about Vit D? I am asking for a specific reason. Youe Calcium is 10.1 in the first set of labs, 10.0 in the second. That is actually quite high for an adult male past the age of 20. I know it is “in range”, but that range is actually even more useless than the Total T range.
I’m thinking, and it’s an outside shot, that you might have hyperparathyroidism. Your endo will blow you off with a 10.1, but more than one calcium reading in the 10’s is at least curious. The older you get, the lower that number gets. So, to explain it, PTH is a hormone produced by the parathyroid glands, which are behind your thyroid. The gold standard for diagnosis is to measure PTH and calcium on the same blood draw. They cannot both be high. PTH has a half life of 5 minutes. It adjusts your calcium levels. So if your calcium is at the high end, your PTH should be at the low end, and vice-versa.
If you have that, it’s almost always a benign tumour on one of the glands. The only treatment is surgery, and doctors know less about it than they do about TRT. There’s a good website parathyroid.com . It will make you feel like crap pretty much all of the time, and then it kills you. It ruins the kidneys, hardens your arteries (and lots of soft tissue), causes osteoporosis and then you have a heart attack.
So, it’s super rare, but you calcium is high.
So what’s up ? Have any concrete evidence on the testosterone / estrogen ratio? Or that being higher than normal range in both is healthy . All I can find EVERYWHERE is that estrogen levels should be between 20 and 30 …
@mrz123 I’ve got about 60 people over at my place right now. Big party. Did you see the video I posted by Dr Neal Rouzier? I strongly suggest you watch it. That was a turning point for me and he shows all the studies. All the docs in our group were trained by him. Take the time and watch this. It is the best video about TRT you can possibly find on the Internet.
I did watch it . I’m a little hung up on the part around 22 minutes where he says “ 20-25 y/o males have normal E2 ranges of 75-100” I can’t find that to be true anywhere I look …
If you look at bro science forums, then yes, you won’t find it. Come check out our Facebook group and ask the docs yourself. None of them use an AI anymore. They used to. Now they know better.
I don’t have Facebook nor do ever want to have Facebook. Is there a way to follow and contribute to this group that doesn’t depend on social media based interaction, like maybe a forum similar to this one?