Low SHBG - how much Testosterone?

Are you taking any supplements?

I would try and raise your HDL. maybe eat 1/2 dozen eggs a day for few weeks and see if that works??

Are you eating carbs? the low shbg is usually a diabetes marker but your a1c is okay. You might want to test fasting insulin to see if that’s high. Perhaps your glucose control is good it just takes too much insulin to maintain. idk.

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Your Testo does indeed suck. btw

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I had a periode where I was eating 12 eggs a day, but for the last 3 months, I eat 4 a day.
Protein powder each day, but not more then what’s recommended.
Vitamin A, D, C, Zink and Magnesium.
About 500g of vegetables, 200g brown rice, 200g white beans, 200 g chicken breast meat and some other healthy stuff - I live healthy.

It seems that way. Good you’re getting an A/D mix. I do the same, and a bit of K too.

How much zinc are you taking?

I ask because higher amounts might increase an intestinal binding protein that lowers copper absorption. The effect kicks in > 50 mg /day after a few weeks. Easy enough to remedy with a zinc/copper supplement or by eating beef liver for copper. I don’t think copper deficiency is associated with low hdl though.

I think manganese is actually associated with low hdl, and that’s the other mineral that zinc supposedly interacts with. Zn, Cu, and Mn are all in the Superoxide Dismutase antioxidant system. I’ve heard stories of zinc supplementers lowering manganese but I haven’t seen very good evidence for it.

So, if you’ve been getting crazy zinc amounts, you might try 10 mg/day of manganese. Vegetarians can eat 20 mg/day. On amazon, you can see people taking 50 mg/day and they say they feel fine.

I’ve got nothing really, so I’m throwing that out there. Probably a nothingburger.

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Be careful with the hgh too. I’ve used it before and probably will again when I’m older but I’ll keep my doses much lower. Like 1 iu a few times a week. I don’t think it causes cancer but it can make you insulin resistant which is a huge underappreciated health issue for the population at large imo.

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Ask them what is the average testosterone for someone your age and you’ll see the deer in headlights, managed healthcare doctors defer to the reference ranges to determine normal status, there is zero critical thought, most are goddamn robots.

They had to confirm with their colleagues, because they do not know themselves.

Their own words betray them.

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Before bed, I take 1000mg Calcium, 400mg Magnesium and 15mg Zink - been doing that for 1 year.

Regarding HGH, I’m not sure yet. Maybe for the best if I waited 2 month after the body got used to the T injections. If so, then what you wrote - 1 iu 2 times a week.

Would blood test every 2 month be enough after starting on testosterone?

You can’t take those all together, not that dose anyway. They compete for absorption by means of the same transport path, They need to be taken at least 3 hours apart.

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But they are in one pill :man_shrugging:

I’ll write and ask, but guess the bitc* just come up with a random explanation which I can’t use - I need facts :thinking:

Your doctor is putting on a show and is a pretender of medical knowledge, in reality he doesn’t know jacksh*t. He doesn’t want to be found out a fraud.

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Then you made an unwise purchase. They’re in one pill because people don’t know any better and they’ll buy it that way. Minerals all enter the body via the same limited transport. Calcium, Iron, Zinc, Copper and Magnesium. Small doses are okay together, big doses mean you only get the one that your body prefers or can process quicker (It will bind up the transport receptors first). They all absorb better in the presence of citric acid as well, which is why citrate version work better for most people and taking them with lemon water instead of regular water helps.

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I’ll buy new ones tomorrow :point_up:

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Sad but true :expressionless:
When I got the energy for it, I’ll give her feedback…

those are good amounts. What hardartery says seems to be the case, for zinc especially.

Jarrows has a zinc balance zinc/copper. You could add that at another time and keep using the one you have for awhile, since you’ll absorb 1/2 that anyways. Consider it 7.5 mg and take a separate zinc a few days a week.

I try to get an extra 10 mg zinc on average.

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What I’ll do :+1:

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I had hyperparathyroid hyperplasia, I know way too much about being hypercalcemic and hypocalcemic now, and what it does to you.

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In my understanding so far, keeping a close eye to Estrogen level, is pretty important regarding TRT.
May be a stupid question, but 15mg Testosterone; Cypionate, Enanthate or Propionate, how many ml is that?

That would depend on the strength of Test.

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Cypionate and enanthate are usually 200mg per mL (0.075mL for 15mg). Proprionate is often found with 100mg per mL (0.15mL for 15mg).

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