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How can one increase SHBG when it is too low?
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<blockquote data-quote="ERO" data-source="post: 20372" data-attributes="member: 1210"><p>Both desire and erection quality are lower on TRT than they were off, and they were low before - the loss of a previously strong libido and new ED is why I got tested and found out that I had low T. I also had low SHBG in that initial test before starting TRT. </p><p></p><p>I have gone both with and without HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) and I honestly can feel no difference between with and without, and it does not seem to restore my testicle size, either. I also used doctor prescribed HCG (human growth hormone) for 6 months (this was 3 years ago) at 2IU per day, five days a week with weekends off. While that raised my IGF-1 on paper, it did nothing for me besides wasting a ton of money.</p><p></p><p>The thing with SHBG is that all of the few studies that exist are in "normal" people with a "normal" response, so that is why it is assumed that guys with low SHBG always convert to E2 at a higher than normal rate (many do, but some, like me, do not) and that low SHBG means you are pre-diabetic or diabetic (My fasting glucose is in the mid 80s and I have my own meter so I have tested for months at a time) and my A1C is 5.4 - the cut-off for diabetes is 6.5.</p><p></p><p>There are guys with low SHBG that feel awesome on TRT, but for each one of them there are probably ten other guys with low SHBG that feel next to nothing from TRT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ERO, post: 20372, member: 1210"] Both desire and erection quality are lower on TRT than they were off, and they were low before - the loss of a previously strong libido and new ED is why I got tested and found out that I had low T. I also had low SHBG in that initial test before starting TRT. I have gone both with and without HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) and I honestly can feel no difference between with and without, and it does not seem to restore my testicle size, either. I also used doctor prescribed HCG (human growth hormone) for 6 months (this was 3 years ago) at 2IU per day, five days a week with weekends off. While that raised my IGF-1 on paper, it did nothing for me besides wasting a ton of money. The thing with SHBG is that all of the few studies that exist are in "normal" people with a "normal" response, so that is why it is assumed that guys with low SHBG always convert to E2 at a higher than normal rate (many do, but some, like me, do not) and that low SHBG means you are pre-diabetic or diabetic (My fasting glucose is in the mid 80s and I have my own meter so I have tested for months at a time) and my A1C is 5.4 - the cut-off for diabetes is 6.5. There are guys with low SHBG that feel awesome on TRT, but for each one of them there are probably ten other guys with low SHBG that feel next to nothing from TRT. [/QUOTE]
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