Hey Guys. I recently got some bloodwork with some bad hormonal results, and I’m trying to come up with the best course of action now. I’ll Try to keep things to bullet points for ease of reading. I’m 38yo, 200#, lift heavy 4x a week and do 3 conditioning sessions a week following Jason Brown Coaching (love it btw). I started an aggressive cut in January and lost 10lbs, but my energy, libido, and erectile performance started to falter. Instead of taking a diet break (since I was getting great reults) I tried some Arimiplex recommended by a friend. I only took about 3 days of it, but just still felt so awful and after realizing it had a PH in it, I stopped it. Fast forward 10 days, and I ordered the Power Project Panel from Marek Health. I had routine annual bloodwork from the previous May 2022, and also a hormonal panel from January on my birthday before I started through Lets Get Checked. All of the metabolic, CBC, organ function numbers look fine, but the hormones are bad.
Power Panel:
LH 3.5 (RR 1.7-8.6)
FSH 2.0 (RR 1.5-12.4)
DHEA 128 (102-416)
Total T 543 (down from 645)
Free T 7.7 (down from 11.2)
Estradiol <5 (Down from 21)
T/E2 Ratio 10.86 (Up from 3.07)
Supplements Used:
Preworkout with GABA and Dynamine in it
Rez-V
Flameout
Ashwagandha 1500mg
Metabolic Drive
I stopped the Ashwagandha and PW, I feel like they dampened me too much between the effects on Seratonin and GABA. Felt similarly dull to when I took SSRI years ago and hated it.
My initial thoughts on a way out of this hole through supplementation (I’d lke to postpone TRT as long as possible)
DHEA
then possibly adding in Fadogia & Tongkat for the FSH and LH benefits.
Anyone with some advice or experience with this I would be greatful. Thanks guys.