The vaping concerns me, obviously. Glad to hear you quit. Scary stuff. If I am you, I would get a thorough evaluation from a cardiologist. I hope it would include a stress echocardiogram. At least, give you some piece of mind. Good luck.
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So is your new handle a tribute to a famous T practitioner? Or is there some other significance to it?
No, gimme back equel. My irl name is Rob thats why
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Thatās hilarious. Complete coincidence then. Your favorite TOT provider seems to go by RobRoy sometimes over at ExcelMale (maybe one of a few handles?).
I quit the vape as well. It is easy to go from using it about as much as you would use a cigarette or cigar to using it all day every day. It is for that reason that I donāt know for sure if it is for sure a good recommendation for a smoker? It is still probably better, but something else is probably better than the vape.
That being said, you may have gotten used to lower E2 while you were on the vape. Nicotine seems to have effects on E2 levels. I wonder if that had anything to do with it?
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Available findings summarized above highlight the possibility that several of the known effects of nicotine, most prominently effects on sexual and depression-like behavior and induction of hot flashes, may be mediated or modulated by changes in aromatase activity (Table 1) in an age- and sex-dependent manner. It is noteworthy that these effects of nicotine are more prominent in periods such as prenatal development, adolescence and the perimenopausal period, which are associated with relatively abrupt changes in estrogen synthesis (a prenatal peak in brain aromatase in males, a peripubertal increase in ovarian production in girls and a perimenopausal decrease in oarain production in adult women). Such a profile is to be expected from a partial rather than complete inhibition of aromatase activity exerted by nictoine and similar compounds which act as competitive inhibitors of aromatase with low to moderate affinity (Barbieri et al., 1986; Biegon et al., 2010a). Thus, we have shown that nicotine doses producing plasma levels comparable with those found in smokers are capable of a significant but partial (ā¼50%) inhibition of aromatase. Obviously, more research is indicated to substantiate and better understand the effects of aromatase inhibition on brain function in this context. However, the notion that aromatase inhibition by nicotine and other tobacco alkaloids is an alternative/additional mechanism for the effects of cigarette smoking on human behavior, provides a mechanistic explanation to observed sex differences in smoking and a possible source of new treatment and prevention approaches for the initiation, physiological and psychological consequences, and for the cessation of smoking.
Yup vaping is worse imo, at least in my case in the convenience sense. I canāt smoke cigs all day and just anywhere, but you can practically just lay down all day in bed and vape very comfortably. I had casual smoking phases here and there with cigs, but I never truly got addicted to nicotine until I started vaping.
You are obviously not very intelligent and extremely biased.
Talk to the Mirror Short man, talk to the mirror
Dude I been lurking for years on here and all you do is attack people and then self project with calling everyone else biased, you throw hissy fits when people simply ask you questions and to back up what you are saying.
Get a load of Mr non bias moral authority In this thread for example everyone.
Weak. I attack people 
. God you guys are so emotional and soft.
I never tried to be rude. I just used words to explain my frustration with your lack of logic when it comes to discussing this.
Like I said before. You donāt look at factual and obvious info. You choose info based on your own experience.
If only there accountability for posts like this, when itās clear you donāt do as you preach, and are full of it never presenting anything significant to back yourself up. You hate being questioned, let alone opposed.
You also do things like bring up gyno or HCT when addressing me and I never even mentioned the 2 to begin with lol.
Also how dare people go with their personal experience if thatās what personally works for them lolā¦.
Try to look out for the poor chap with increased plasma viscosity and fibrinogen levels. Why would you heap more risk on him and give blanket advice that elevated Hct is hatmless? Take a read.
This is all literally the same day within the same hour, or 2? This guy seriously needs some help.
Your projections is off the chart and literally everyone can see it clearly but you. This might be an effect of too high e2 as i see THE exact same thing with women.
All the People from that group are the same. U Can smell Them a Mile away with their Way of ādebatingā.
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You dont read the literature, information ive posted, nor research and connect the dots to understand the logic behind whats being said. Ive posted articles on scientists finding that aromotase im the brain causes libido. i posted logic that E obviously causes most of the benefits we want when compared to the benfits of DHT. Free t is mostly converted to E and Dht, has very little effect compared to dHT/E. With that simple understanding, you can realize what im saying.
I mentioned examples of e2 Symptoms.
I spoke about the benefits of E2 and why you should avoid an AI at all costs. Why does that cause so many problems for people? Cant you just aknowledge that the literature shows this is true?
Just because you take an AI doesnt mean you cannot agree with me. In the end why would you disagree? What exactly are you disagreeing with? That you dont need an AI? Did I say that? I said, you would avoid AI at all costs and look for a different solution. AI is the worst solution when compared to the potential conundrum caused by using an AI.
What ?
Whoever that other guy is that jumped in and started calling people short, ugly and what have you is a very disturbed person. Amazes me that people get so riled up when someone mentions these topics. There is something seriously wrong if people cannot control themsleves on this topic. its disturbing to realize that there are people in the world who get this ugly towards other people on a topic that they disagree with.
You got some narcissistic sadistic issues dude.
Maybe some of this flavoringā¦
Unsure.