Recent content by Big_Alan

I'd have to search back at the slides from the trials to see metabolism timing and peak-trough variances. Your blood test timing likely caught the peak serum concentration.

54 HCT is an arbitrary cutoff, no science behind it. My hemotologist isn't concerned and won't consider doing anything until it's over 60. Here is a good video on the topic:

Well if you have a blood disorder causing high ferritin, you could donate blood to reduce HCT. That is normally a bad idea because it crashes ferritin significantly, but in your unique case, it could be a temporary lower for HCT (it will go back up though sometimes in weeks or a month) and...

I mean that sperm and fertility isn't important to me. anymore.

I'm guessing you feel like crap from low T with only 50mg/week (7mg daily)? I hear a lot of men's wellness doctors like Dr Jordan Grant, Dr Nichols and Dr Andrew Winge say symptoms from high E2 is extremely rare and almost always caused by something else. And estradiol is not even worth testing...

Awesome! I'm really looking forward to hearing the results.

@madman What do you think about this protocol assuming pre-TRT TT was under 200ng/dL? 1) Frequent injections of a longer ester like Test Cypionate, using just enough to get constant baseline levels of around 500-600ng/dL. 2) Kyzatrex 200 or 400mg BID Wouldn't that mitigate the super-low trough...

I use Empower's HRT cream (scrotum), but it's the only one I've ever used so I cannot compare. It goes on perfect for me, vanishes quickly.

I've been on testosterone cypionate (160-180mg/week) for a year and HCG 350iu every other day. Felt pretty good. Estrogen Ultra Sensitive serum levels were mid 70s, felt good. Recently have been doing one pump scrotal cream in HRT base (200mg) in the morning and 75mg/week testosterone cypionate...

I wonder if Natesto would be perfect if you were also on a low dose of long ester Testosterone, like Cypionate or Undecanoate? Maybe 100mg/week test cyp to get serum levels steady at around 500, then layer in the Natesto 2-3x/day. Sounds like the troughs are the problem and this would solve it...

What do you think about a protocol of low-dose testosterone injections AND Kyzatrex (my goal is lowering hematocrit)? By layering in low dose injectable testosterone, your testosterone peaks and troughs would be higher, maybe targeting 200 ng/dL higher. A protocol could be injecting 50mg/week of...

Same, I followed it to a T and wrote every thing to do and not to do. I re-read the Vorck protocol like 10 times trying to find nuggets I missed. I diligently avoided all the no-no (vitamin D, tanning, meds/supplements, iron-containing foods, etc.). After 12 days, my ferritin increased by 1, but...

Maybe I missed it, but is there a standard blood test that measures WBV? I found this at Quest, is this what the studies use? Quest Diagnostics: Test Directory

Take that Cortex Lab dude with a grain of salt. He has said some really wrong things in the past, and if you watch his podcast with VigorousSteve you realize he is a compete amateur in his knowledge. He tries to carve out a nootropic niche and sells private label products, and maybe he knows...

Here is another video explaining that even mid-high 50s hematocrit is no concern, if caused by secondary erythrocytosis. Meaning, if TRT (or high altitude, etc) is causing high Hematocrit and not some associated platelet disfunction, there is ZERO evidence to date that you are at higher risk of...