I have OCD. A lot of the times I have stress, overthink stuff, mental fatigue, exhaustion mentally, cant think straight and a bunch of other things… mentally, but physically most of the time im okey. now I have experienced a lot of low T in labs, but then one lab increased by a lot. I was in the 100-200 ish and saw it at around 500 sometime of free T. my cortisol is a bit higher than what it’s in range.
im male 30, 6’1 and 153.
I try lifting heavy weights and wonder if thats the cause.
my hands gets dry easily and cracks.
Lack of emotions as well and interest in to do things, lack of energy as well.
endocrinologist probably didnt know how to solve the situation.
I went from not throwing much sperm to throw sperm more beard as well faster, but idk what cause the t increase.
can heavy lifting 3 days a week might lower the t?
no replacement here. trying to find natty way is this the forum?
Cortisol is a Testosterone killer. So is lack of sleep and poor nutrition. These are the leading causes of low T, in that order.
The solution is to reduce stress, get proper sleep and nutrition. If you don’t want to go to TRT, then these are your biggest solutions by far, and your endo would agree.
Yes, but probably not enough to be a leading cause. It can be a contributing factor, but it falls behind stress, sleep, and nutrition in order of importance.
1 Like
The trouble with T-testing is that its SUPER variable depending on when you have the test.
153lbs and 6’1 is Very skinny. Are you also super lean? Or super skinny fat?
body composition can effect t-levels too, as can stress. Stress from lack of sleep, good diet etc as suggested above.
There is a small subset of men in the population that will show a false low-T reading if not testing in a fasting state. Testosterone fluctuates day to day, so what looks like an increase or decrease is just a natural daily fluctuation.
Hormones don’t follow a linear pattern.
If you want to go more in depth into labs, make sure you post labs including reference ranges and method of testing, especially for the Free T.
Can we get some units and ranges here? For context. Also, all labs taken in the morning, roughly same conditions?