I remember years ago when I was on pellets my Dr. said that I might have to come in early for pellet replacement if I was really active or worked out a lot.
Is this true from anyone’s experience? If someone took 100mg a week and was sedentary would their trough level of blood testosterone be different than if, on the same dosage, they worked out heavy?
Is your doctor suggesting that an active person ‘burns’ more testosterone than an inactive person, just like they burn more calories for energy than an inactive person does?
Did your doctor explain the mechanism by which this phenomena could take place? Or was his primary concern to sell more pellets?
Yes…very similar to calories. Like I’d be at lower blood testosterone level if I worked out and would need to come back for pellet re-insertion earlier than if I was sedentary.
I don’t think it was an attempt to sell more pellets because they went by Total Testosterone blood tests and wanted to see numbers between 1000-1200 before re-insertion.
Don’t know if there’s any truth to this.
Probably not in the way he’s thinking.
More activity means more blood flow, means greater uptake of the deposited testosterone into the blood stream.
Is it a huge difference? Don’t know. From my experience with injections and being very active in the gym and being very inactive in the gym, there was no change to hormone levels.
Thanks that’s helpful. I think she meant something like the testosterone is used up repairing muscle after a set of squats or something.
The reason I bring it up is that I’m a high responder. 160mg once a week will put me around 1100 on Day 7. But I’m pretty lazy about working out so I was wondering if my Day 7 trough would be lower if I spent the week working out. Hope that makes sense.
Purely going by statistics, somewhere in the world exists the world’s worst doctor. I think you may have found her.
Might want to address this. Think of hormones as software running in the background.
Why? Especially if on TRT?
After shutting down natural production wouldn’t the body become a closed system reliant on exogenous test? And if so, is it not in limited supply? And doesn’t training essentially pull free test out of circulation to work its muscle protein synthesis magic?
I remember reading studies about athletes having low test in labs for this reason. They’re not hypogonadal, but utilize the testosterone they do have to a greater degree:
Yes, I understand what you’re saying, and what she’s saying. No, it is not correct. Testosterone floats around and attaches to the AR (eventually, or is converted) no matter what you’re doing with your day. Sit all day, that’s not going to stop testosterone from finding the AR. Workout a lot, also not going to alter testosterone from finding the AR and having an effect.
Testosterone does not build or repair muscle. It SIGNALS other processes that can have those actions.
Yes, but it’s a limited supply even for naturals, the “re-fill” cycle is just different: daily vs weekly (for example). The supply is limited either way.
That doesn’t change how testosterone works tho. Athletes tend to have low hormone levels when tested during events because they overtrain and undereat (generally) to get to those events. They are not utilizing their hormones to a greater degree, they are just beating themselves up and lowering production as a result.