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I think you are overdoing and over thinking everything. I know it because I've been there. I tried all the supplements possible at high dosages and I can tell you that you are taking an insane amount of them. 3000 mcg daily of B12 is really foolish. Just keep it simple for now, stop your...

I've found this table from a study and I'm attaching in this post. Basically it increases E2 a lot along T, same as Clomid. It doesn't increase DHT though, which means worse E2 : DHT ratio. So not an option for heavy aromatizers like me. It will make the symptoms even worse, due to lack of...

I put my 2 cents in that your E2 is high with 20mg daily plus HCG. All the people I've heard suffering from insomnia on TRT managed to solve the issue lowering their dose. I'm no exception to that. Problem is to find a balance between the amount of androgens you need to feel well without...

Thanks. I'll keep it in mind if TRT fails. Clomid was absolute hell for me and enclomiphene wasn't available at that time in Europe.

Do you need a prescription for it? Or only on the black market?

Weren't the trials on enclomiphene being stopped due to the FDA not approving it? Is it on the market?

Magnesium citrate has a poor absorption and a laxative effect. Fish oil is a big topic at the moment. Many people are concerned of the toxicity due to the oils becoming rancid. Google it. Ashwagandha has a stimulatory effect on many people, me included. What's your protocol at the moment? Lab...

Dude, I've seen your posts on T nation as well, and you're overdoing it on everything. You know there's too much for everything, water included? That doesn't exclude vitamins and minerals. Ever heard of zinc toxicity? Do you realise that all this amount of supplements need to go through the...

Unfortunately there's no one solution. Hair loss is a multi-factorial issue. Take a guy with hypothyroidism for example. If he doesn't address his thyroid, his hair loss will progress till the end of his life. But what dermatologists usually do is putting you on 1mg finasteride without even...

What's your hairloss status at the moment? Do you shed? What's your age?

Ah ok, sorry. I didn't get what you meant. The paradox is still there though. Some studies have shown regrowth of capital hairs with topical applications of testosterone, like the ones I've posted above. Sam thing on a study dated back 1988 (which I saw in the past) done on older men with...

I know that and it's obvious to everyone here in this forum. My question was different. How do you know that a higher free T means a higher DHT in the scalp? This would be the normal logical thinking, but, as we know, the actual concentration of androgens in tissues is sometimes unrelated to...

Where did you get this info from? If you do a quick search on the hair loss talk forum looking for high estradiol, there are people blood tests showing a free T level as low as 9 and a good amount of hair shedding, both resistant to finasteride and minoxidil. So I have hard time believing that...

You mean 90% of the dermatologist throughout the world and hairloss Internet articles are not saying DHT is the main cause of male pattern baldness? Isn't this myth allowing a shady pharmaceutical company as Merck to nuke men DHT and castrate them, while doing big profits in the meanwhile...

To add fuel on this discussion, I hope this will help people reconsidering the connection between androgens, DHT and hair loss: Error - Cookies Turned Off Quote from this study: No significant correlations were found between terminal hair development and absolute androgen levels; however, some...

Yeah, I've been reading Rob in the past months and he did a great job throughout 10 years of research, even if I don't agree with all he says. And he still underestimates the importance of androgens in men. But he has been able to regrow his hairs with lifestyle changes and scalp massages. It...

I've discussed it on the thread about hair loss I wrote last week. Castrated men after puberty still develop male pattern baldness, even in complete absence of androgens. Men castrated a before puberty don't, as you stated. The huge confusion about the DHT role in hair loss and prostate...

We are not talking about the effectiveness of a drug or not, and not about a symptom. Hair loss is not a symptom of something. The comparison with T injections doesn't fit, since injecting exogenous T affects a cascade of different hormones, including DHT and E2. Most of the TRT experienced...

Finally someone making some sense out of it.

Read the previous message, the range is there. Regarding why blocking DHT blocks hair loss, it has been discussed in the previous thread I've made where you replied as well. If DHT would have been the cause of hair loss, using finasteride or dutasteride should have regrown all the hairs in all...

It isn't called like that anymore since years, because serum androgens has been proven to be unrelated to baldness. The very founder of the term died knowing his claims were false. The name used these days is male pattern baldness. If what you are saying was true, that would have meant that bald...

I'm waiting for the day these claims will disappear from the Internet. Young men with higher DHT levels were shown to be immune to MPB, while their counterpart with higher E2 and an impaired T:E2 ratio were the ones suffering from it. Serum DHT and scalp tissue DHT are completely unrelated...

That's false. I've tested SHBG on the same protocol both at peak and through and there was a variation of 10 points, with peaks having the lower SHBG value. From what I've seen in these years, the more amount of T is in your body, the lower your SHBG will be. But that's purely anecdotal, and I...

What do you mean? Can you elaborate? It would be interesting to know your thoughts.

I've tried one of these devices and they just tangle your hairs if you have them a medium length.

There's not really big money you can do out of a device or scalp massage. And there's no exclusive you can get out of it. Think how much money they are doing with finasteride and minoxidil, that you need to buy over and over again for a lifetime.

Male to female transition shouldn't be ever considered in any case, we are all here because we know how bad is a lack of androgens in a man. The ideal scenario is to understand what's causing the inflammation in your specific case, but that could be a long process. So in the meanwhile the...

The whole point of the story is that men who changed from an unbalanced masculine hormonal profile to a balanced female hormonal profile experienced total or nearly total hair regrowth. Something that can't happen naturally in men, without the use of drugs. And most of all something that has...

This one: Growband But it's terribly overpriced.

I actually think he over did it with the bone remodeling theory. What's important is the anti-inflammatory property of DHT, which is not the cause of hair loss. It's also important to remark that Rob married Ray Peats view on excess estradiol inflammatory properties in men and its role in hair...

I've spent quite a bit of time in this forum trying to convince people DHT is not the cause of hair loss and that hair loss is a multi-factors problem. All the explanations to that have been written down in this long article that I encourage you to read before posting about TRT causing your...