Be Your Own Doctor and Do It Well or Roll the Dice

[EyeDentist]

You make many excellent points (most of which I have made myself on this forum). And yet you have managed to draw the absolute wrong conclusion from them, IMO. It is not the men who receive TRT under a doctor’s care who are ‘rolling the dice,’ it is those acting as their own doctor. The notion that “there’s only one way to guarantee that you get the most from TRT and that’s to use your own self-learned knowledge to effectively manage your own protocol and bloodwork” is absolute folly. Someone seeking reliable self-education cannot get it from the forum:

Urologist Says Bioavailable T Means Not a Good Candidate for TRT

@EyeDentist Thanks. I agree with you. I am aware of the study evaluation criteria you laid out, the scientific method in general and epistemology, and have undergrad education in statistics. But, I am certain that I have nowhere close to your education and knowledge. I have been reflecting on the intersection of logical/scientific analysis and living. Living requires decision making. The problem is that in many (actually most) cases we have to make decisions in life when uncertainties exis…

Nor can they get it from the literature:

Urologist Says Bioavailable T Means Not a Good Candidate for TRT

OK, let’s talk about that. Because it’s one thing to ‘find a study’; it’s another thing entirely to interpret it properly. Note that by ‘interpret’ I don’t mean the bottom-line implication of the study itself–that is often straightforward, as in the study you refer to (not having read it, I’m assuming for the sake of argument your bottom-line impression of the results is accurate). Rather, what I’m talking about is: Evaluating the quality of the study. For example, was there anything about p…