So i have been having hormonal problems, it started with high Prolactin which went down after i started using Vitamin B and E. My SHBG levels we’re on the low end the whole time.
Yesterday i decided to take another blood test to see if my SHBG is still there, but actually it went even lower, for the first time it went lower than the normal range and my Free Androgen Index is higher than the normal range.
What is the explanation for this?
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Information about me:
21 years old
Powerlifter
Around 20% bodyfat
Eat mostly clean, jumped on the vertical diet 2 months ago.
Evaluate your overall thyroid function by checking oral body temperatures as per the thyroid basics sticky. Thyroid hormone fT3 is what gets the job done and it regulates mitochondrial activity, the source of ATP which is the universal currency of cellular energy. This is part of the body’s temperature control loop. This can get messed up if you are iodine deficient. In many countries, you need to be using iodized salt. Other countries add iodine to dairy or bread.
KSman is simply a regular member on this site. Nothing more other than highly active.
I can be a bit abrupt in my replies and recommendations. I have a lot of ground to cover as this forum has become much more active in the last two years. I can’t follow threads that go deep over time. You need to respond to all of my points and requests as soon as possible before you fall off of my radar. The worse problems are guys who ignore issues re thyroid, body temperatures, history of iodized salt. Please do not piss people off saying that lab results are normal, we need lab number and ranges.
The value that you get out of this process and forum depends on your effort and performance. The bulk of your learning is reading/studying the suggested stickies.
Low SHBG can be the result of low thyroid hormone or Free T3, some percentage of the population don’t convert Free T4 → Free T3 effectively leaving you with chronically low Free T3. Many studies have linked lower circulating levels of SHBG to metabolic syndrome (obesity), type 2 diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Low SHBG has almost nothing at all to do with any of those things listed there plus metabolic syndrome is made non-medical garbage term for generally lazy people disease(s), like pre-diabetes or insulin resistance. There’a a thousand times MORE guys that can present with entirely benign low SHBG than you’ll ever find with any of those mostly made up and otherwise non-medical “conditions”.
Systemlord is dead on about Thyroid though the labs posted are incomplete and pretty well useless
