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Zinc is natural aromatase inhibitor and can decrease estrogen. I recall some members taking a lot of zinc and their estrogen was undetectable. DIM can shifts estrogen metabolism. You have the wrong ideas in your head about estrogen. By trying to balance estrogen better you have created an...

High estrogen would decrease fat storage, low estrogen would increase fat storage and redistribute it to the thighs, hips, and chest. Maybe some DHEA would increase your estrogen a bit. Are you taking any medications or supplements?

Donating blood only decreases hemoglobin and hematocrit for 2 to 3 weeks anyways and it’s right back to being elevated. There’s no mystery here. Get off this marry go round and change your dose.

This was never meant to be a therapeutic dose, it was meant to prevent Ricketts. This is where the 2000 IU vitamin D per day comes from. 10,000 IU per day is a therapeutic dose. You can absorb 60,000 IU in just a couple of hours in the sunlight. You may need some vitamin K.

Are we talking about priapism?

With your HCT at 43% I don’t think you’re going to have a problems with HCT even on IM injections. Your SHBG will go down though. You could always go oral testosterone route, Jatenzo or Kyzatrex.

Yes, vitamin D has a big impact on sperm parameters. Vitamin D deficient men have significantly lower total mobility, sperm quality, motility and progressive sperm motility. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with male infertility.

Nope, high estrogen doesn’t lead to gyno, an imbalance of testosterone, estrogen, DHT and prolactin triggers gyno. Gyno is more common in men with low testosterone, not high testosterone. Study show that some men on TRT with estrogen below 42.5 have lower libido and ED because their...

It’s normal for estrogen to be higher on injections. Why is high estrogen a problem?

What is your vitamin D level?

I mentioned the oral testosterone due to your comment about your red blood cell count. Oral testosterone doesn’t affect red blood cells to the same degree as injections. As far as maintaining between 800-900 total testosterone on injections, I wish you luck because total testosterone can change...

You’re going to drive yourself crazy trying to target a specific lab value on injections. Get another hobby or switch to oral testosterone, which has extremely consistent absorption in the intestines.

You didn’t stay the same. Biology is constantly changing all the time. I did notice extremely consistent results on oral testosterone which shows intestinal absorption is more consistent overtime.

When I was on TRT, I hematocrit of 57%. My endocrinologist freaked out and ordered monthly phlebotomies. After a little more than a year, the hematologist at the infusion center who reviews everyone’s blood pressure readings, hemoglobin and hematocrit for the infusion center contacted my...

Biotin supplements will give erroneously high false hormone values in lab testing if not using the LS/MS and equilibrium dialysis method. As far as the elevated estrogen while on injectable testosterone, it’s quite common and is preferred, otherwise your testosterone to estrogen ratios will be...

Some people don’t develop PFS until after they taper off the medicine. There’s a protocol for coming off, which is very high dose testosterone, injectables and creams to boost DHT very high.

This may be a sign it’s time to get another doctor. I sense trouble ahead.

You’re making an assumption that there will be pain long-term without any proof. This is unfounded fear.

I keep hearing vegans tell me that the plant based diet is the optimal diet. Imagine trying a diet like this 10,000 years ago with no supplements in existence.

High testosterone is relative to the person we are talking about, if you have a high sensitivity to the hormone, then your set-point to testosterone is different than that of someone else. Enter the realm of AR CAG repeats, lower the number the higher the sensitivity, the higher the number, the...

So ignore what your body is telling you and base everything off a lab test? Let me put it another way, the goal of treatment is about making the lab number look good and instead of how you feel? Do you agree with this statement?

If you’re worried about erythrocytosis, get on oral testosterone, Jatenzo or Kyzatrex.

Using steroids at this young of an age, likely led to your issues, as the male endocrine reproductive system is not fully developed at a young age of 18. It’s perfectly normal for your natural hormone levels to be highest in the early morning hours and decline later in the day. As far as your...

Things got overly complicated too quickly, splitting your dose up twice weekly would’ve been more reasonable. It never ceases to amaze me how many times endo’s fail at something as simple as treating a man with low testosterone.

I prefer oral testosterone over gel and injectables.

You have to look at it in a simpler way. Fiber carries nutrients and amino acids and so does meat only meat does it better. There’s nothing that vegetables have that meat doesn’t and in fact, meat is more nutrient dense than any vegetable on earth. I’ve heard some members say that you need...

Thanks for the link to the YouTube video @FunkOdyssey. Too bad my video isn’t on YouTube. There’s this young woman at work that has terrible facial acne. I’ve been meaning to tell her what might be causing it, fiber. I hear so many stories of women going on the carnivore diet and their lifelong...

The key things people say about the carnivore diet is you get nutritional deficiencies. Theoretically a carnivore diet theoretically does provide all essential nutrients. You can’t say that of any plant food. There’s not a plant food on earth that provides all essential nutrients. Animal foods...

I’m not buying what you’re selling. Not when the carnivore diet has been shown to have reverse 98% of disease in participants. The positive stories keep coming in, personal hand accounts. The Harvard study.

A diet with lower inflammatory in mind would be the carnivore diet which can reverse chronic disease.

It’s possible that you have an aromatase insufficiency, lacking enough enzymes needed to convert testosterone to estrogen. Before when you had a natural hormone production, your testicles were making estrogen as well as from aromatase. Now you’re just getting it from one source. It’s HCG or...