No number chasing or treating the lab form. 90 percent by symptoms and complaints. Labs are to detect gross deficiencies and excesses. So, I agree with you.
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Clean up your diet dude. TRT is not magic, it works best if you get the other areas of your life in order. My free T is lower than yours (or was right before I started TRT a few weeks ago) but my cholesterol numbers are pristine due to my nutrition and exercise habits. Get to a healthy weight ASAP and try get off of the AI. More and more doctors are coming out against it, especially for starting protocols. Need to see how your body responds to solely T before adding a bunch of other factors in
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Thanks and sorry I didn’t mean that it was jsut for woman or it’s like chemo. I was drawing a comparison to show how strong the medicine is.
I thought it was created in the first place for woman. Later they figure out it could be used for gyno an etc.
Thanks and obviously your able to grasp this with more understanding than I can. It’s nice to see open mindedness with a goal of simply understanding what our hormones are all about.
@episodic I enjoy reading your posts. Keep them coming.
The one earlier about estradiol and BPH is interesting… I’ve had bouts of BPH while on TRT. First time was when I moved from 50mg e3.5 days to 60mg e3.5 days… I couldn’t pee. I moved to 34mg EOD shortly after, and after a bit, the severe sides subsided and I could pee again.
I’m currently on test only at 40mg EOD and symptoms are better, but I still have issues from time to time. Last E2 reading was 25.6… So I wonder what’s been going on.
Either way, keep the posts coming.
Hi Brando,
What is the problem with elevated cholesterol? Particularly as it’s not a risk factor for heart disease.
Blood lipids can cause atherosclerosis primarily via oxidative stress, inflammation and autoimmune dysfunction. Interestingly, they are not statistically associated with cardiovascular disease as a risk factor.
The gov’t generally the last ones to get anything right, removed cholesterol restrictions from the American diet this year. I couldn’t believe it when they got that right.
Good for them! Dietary cholesterol definitely does not increase blood cholesterol. I eat 21 eggs a week.