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Navigating testosterone replacement therapy and hormone health can be overwhelming. Conflicting information, outdated medical advice, and unqualified opinions flood the internet. ExcelMale.com was created to cut through the noise — providing a rigorously moderated space where men share real experiences, backed by clinical research and guided by genuine expertise.

Whether you're exploring TRT for the first time, optimizing your current protocol, managing side effects like elevated hematocrit or estradiol, or seeking to preserve fertility with HCG therapy, our community offers the knowledge and support you need. We discuss everything from injection frequency and bloodwork interpretation to lifestyle factors that affect testosterone levels.

"I founded ExcelMale after decades of personal experience with hormone optimization and seeing how difficult it was for men to find reliable, science-based information. Every man deserves access to knowledge that can transform his quality of life."

— Nelson Vergel, Founder & Author of Testosterone: A Man's Guide

Nelson Vergel has spent four decades turning personal health challenges into a mission that's helped thousands of men reclaim their vitality. Diagnosed with HIV in 1985 and then creating a testosterone-based program to reverse wasting syndrome for himself and his peers, he became a pioneer in understanding how hormones affect quality of life—and has been on TRT himself for over 30 years.

A chemical engineer by training, Nelson has served as a key opinion leader for pharmaceutical companies on clinical research strategy, trained clinicians on hormone optimization protocols, and authored definitive guides including Testosterone: A Man's Guide & Beyond Testosterone. He founded DiscountedLabs.com to make lab testing accessible and built ExcelMale.com into a community where men find and share evidence-based answers.

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TRT & Older Men: A Look at "The Testosterone Trials"

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The Testosterone Trials are set of multi-institutional, double blind, placebo-controlled studies aimed primarily at determining the efficacy of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) on sexual function, physical function, and vitality. Seven...

Citrulline: What is it? What's it used for? Does it help with NO? ED? Athletics?

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Citrulline was named for citrulline, or watermelon. It is converted by the kidneys to L-arginine and NO, or Nitric Oxide. Nitric Oxide is essential for the health of the artery. It feeds the inner lining of the artery, the intima. Diabetes...

What Every Man Should Know About HCG Use on TRT

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Nelson: Hi everybody, Nelson Vergel here, founder of ExcelMale.com and DiscountedLabs.com. We're very excited today. We're going to be covering a very hot topic, the use of HCG in men. We have a really good expert on the subject, Allison...

Teens & Bisphenol A: Diet Change Doesn't Limit Exposure

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Adolescents who created real-world diets attempting to avoid exposure to bisphenol A, or BPA, for 7 days experienced no change in urinary BPA levels and reported difficulty in avoiding the endocrine-disrupting chemical, according to findings...

Male Pelvic Pain: It's Not Always Prostatitis

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Urologists see it all the time. Pain in or near the scrotum, perineum, or penis, frequently made worse by urination or ejaculation. A diagnosis of prostatitis is made and antibiotics start. Followed by more antibiotics. Prostatitis has been...
Is the Cystatin-C Kidney Function Better than Creatinine for Muscular Men?
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Since the concentration of cystatin C in the blood will not change due to infection or inflammation and isn’t affected by body weight, drugs or diet - cystatin C level could be a more reliable indicator of kidney health than creatinine (2)...
IBD, Men and Sexual Issues: Emerging Data
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Women present with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) far more frequently than men. As such, a considerable literature on sexual issues in women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but relatively little attention has been paid to these aspects...
Boosting Female Sexual Interest: Current and Emerging Options
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Table of Contents Flibanserin After previous denial, in 2015, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved flibanserin (brand name Addyi) for the treatment of low sexual desire in premenopausal women. Flibanserin has mixed...
Most Affordable Basic Semen Analysis Now on DiscountedLabs.com
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Table of Contents Basic Semen Analysis Basic semen analysis is also known as a sperm count test. A semen analysis measures the viability and health of male sperm. Semen is the bodily fluid that contains sperm (and other sugars and proteins)...

Testosterone recovering after a prolactinoma

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About two years ago, when I was 37, I had a physical and asked for a testosterone test mainly because I knew my dad had problems when he was about my age (he died in 1994). It was 108 ng/dL (range 300-1000). I guess that should have set off alarm...
Weekly testosterone levels with one subcutaneous testosterone injection per week
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Table of Contents The study used 50 mg vs 100 mg testosterone enanthate per week subcutaneously with a 27 gauge 5/8" needle. Sex Med. 2015 Sep 17;3(4):269-79. doi: 10.1002/sm2.80. eCollection 2015 Dec. Pharmacokinetic Profile of Subcutaneous...
Treatments for Men who Fail to Benefit from ED Medications
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Table of Contents This is the best review I have seen on the subject. Abstract Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5-i) have become first-line therapy for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Most initial prescriptions for PDE5-i are...

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