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Mountain Man, I see eye to eye with you on a lot of these things. You're fortunate that you have excellent health and are not tied to these damn drugs that so many older people "need" to take. I've always resisted taking anything, and IF I had to take it then I would take much smaller doses...

Hey Seagal, I'll look into the K2. I don't know exactly how the plaques were visualized, I had a battery of tests including CT scans, MRI and ultrasounds. Niacin always improved my blood lipids, quite dramatically. LDL (100 and under) and Tryglicerides went way down, HDL (55 and over) went up...

Mountain Man, what an interesting post! Yes, the thread has devolved, it was all in the title "Can an older man build muscle while taking statins". Are you taking statins, or are you just talking about an older man building muscle? Secondly, I'm pretty sure your idea of muscle and mass is...

I tuned into some of his vids, he's the one that suggests cutting out wheat and wheat products in order to avoid heart and stroke issues. Yes, he seems genuine and passionate about his argument. But this is the problem that I encountered many years ago when researching heart disease - namely...

Thanks for the link, I watched the vid with great interest. I'm in the Canadian health care system, I'm not sure of dealing with the Cleveland Heart Clinic, or in fact dealing with anything right now, my head is still working overtime. I remember when heart disease first reared it's ugly head...

Hi everyone, I'm a 68 year old on Testosterone Enanthate for one year, love the results on body composition. I've had heart issues in the past, with a successful bypass 13 years ago. I've always resisted statins, and have done well taking niacin the last 20+ years. I was doing really well...

Your PCP wasted your time with the 50 mg weekly protocol and I wouldn't take your lack of response to that as indicative of what TRT can do for you. I would get back on the 100 mg weekly, see how that treats you longer-term and adjust from there. I'm not sure why you would make that statement...

Of course you should discuss something like niacin use with your doctor. In my case, having used niacin for over two decades, I have never met a doctor that knew much about niacin; I have the distinct impression that they've all been schooled (brain-washed) in statin use and would prefer not to...

I started taking niacin around the age of 43, because it was determined that I had severe heart disease. All my blood lipids improved, and my Lp(a) came down. I went another 13 years before I got a bypass. I've remained reasonably well to this day, and I'll be 69 this year.

Yes, the form I take is "Vitamin B3, nicotinic acid"

"Is nicotinic acid better than vitamin b niacinimide?" Better for what? If you're talking about the effect on blood lipids, then no, niacinimide will not have the same positive effect as B3 niacin. You need the niacin that gives you the flush; the "no flush" niacins will do nothing for your...

The fact that testosterone levels are of secondary importance in ED mirrors my experience. I developed heart disease early at the age of 42 (I'm 68 now) and it always made sense to me that not only my heart but other areas of my body could also have compromised blood flow. Nitroglycerine for...

I'm 68 and started T a year ago with an endocrinologist, somebody who should know about Tth, but didn't. Things didn't work out until I started reading this board in earnest. I found the best for me was to educate myself on what to do and then hopefully find a doctor to prescribe the T for me...

"According to the article it lowers LDL cholesterol which we all know is false." Vince, perhaps this is a typo or an error in what you meant to say? Niacin dramatically lowered my LDL, better than a statin that I took prior to finding niacin. The reasoning that I would choose niacin again...

To me niacin is a godsend; I take therapeutic doses that typically range from 2500 to 3500mg per day. I take the real niacin, NOT the no-flush type, which doesn't work at all. I buy it at the vitamin store. I take the regular immediate release, not the timed release product. I got a flush...

I'm one of these layperson guys that does well on a smaller dose, probably around 70mg/week. That puts me in the Cataceous camp of thinking. One concern I've always had is that, acknowledging the ideal of 4-8 mg/day that young men produce and use, it seems likely to me that our pathway of T...

Thank you Ribeye, I very much appreciate your input and will be vigilant in all my actions.

I just came from the clinic. They never even mentioned my T use or anything about hemoglobin or hematocrit. They do think it was a TIA caused by a blood clot, but they can't tell me whether it was a newly formed clot, or if it was an existing piece of plaque that broke off and migrated to the...

Ribeye, you've either been there before, or you're a doctor; I remember at emerg that they did an EKG and a while later they did another one "with 12 leads". My last blood test in November showed higher hemoglobin of 181 and hematocrit at 51.0. Normally, perhaps, that wouldn't cause a blood...

Ha! I believe that! This falls under the category of "necessary life skills . . ."

Thanks Madman. What can be said, I guess the ball is in their court. They'll probably have me reduce my T dosage, which I'll do. Hopefully they won't ask me to discontinue use . . . I'm not going back to where I was pre TRT. I've also been using Niacin for 20+ years for cholesterol control...

Madman, thanks for the research and excellent reading selections. The Traverse trial is reassuring, but one thing I hadn't noticed before, is the following statement . . . "*The debate surrounding TRT and CVD risk thus far can be summarized as follows: current evidence suggests TRT does not...

Systemlord and Excelnelg; your points are well taken - there are many possibilities as to what happened and I'll try to see to it that the doctors keep an open mind. For the 5 year period before TRT my hematocrit ran .46-.49 and my hemoglobin was in the higher 160's. My last blood test about a...

I'm 68 and starting taking T enanthate about 9 months ago; I'm a good responder and do well on 77mg/wk, putting me at the high end of the T reference range. I very much like the effects; I've lost weight and gained some good muscle. Yesterday, while talking to my wife, I suddenly couldn't...

I take enanthate; 160mg would be way to high for me. I took 84mg/wk before cutting down to 77mg/wk. At 84mg/week my TT was 29.4 (normal 8.4 - 28.8) and my free T was 723 (170-475); I also had lipids that were negatively affected, as well as higher hemoglobin and hematocrit. As you can see...

Excellent suggestions, I'll try them all, thanks Madman!

Hey guys, I've been injecting T enanthate for 8 months now. The first five months were with Delatestryl, then when that was no longer available, I switched to the Hikma brand. Typically, before I start, I warm the bottle in my hand for a while, then I inject the full 1 ml syringe of air into...

Terrifying. Men, if you have your erect 5+ inches then forget about this sh*t. In my experience the vast majority of women care first about your being a decent human being and then a close second in your ability to earn money and provide for them. If you have a shred of ethical morality and a...

Niacin worked for me. My lp(a) was around 110 and niacin reduced it to 40-50; no it wasn't below the normal 30 level, but much better than 110. If interested read Parsons, Cholesterol Control Without Diet.

I was on it for almost 4 months, big waste of time. Went to injectible enanthate, never looked back.

If you go down the Heart Disease Rabbit Hole, it may be a long time before you come out, and chances are you won't emerge any smarter than when you went in. Books? I've read more than my share in the last 30 years on heart disease, and most made very good arguments that the layperson couldn't...