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Being fat causes low T levels? This is a common meme amongst health care professional and many online forums. I don't think there is a lot of truth to this. Not completely false, just really exaggerated. Instead, I believe low T causes decreased energy and weight gain. After going on TRT I...

Just interesting. I ran out of my testosterone undecanoate that I typically use. The place in India I had been ordering it from must have had some sort of legal problem,they are still around but changed the name (slightly) but their email was the same. So I contacted them via email, and...

No idea what is / was going on. Maybe in a mild form this has happened before, but this was getting very serious. I was bent over like an old man; the pain would wake me up. Even more serious, it seemed to have affected my mental state. As in, I would get a lot of anxiety. There were...

Recently, I got new blood test, I included Oxidized LDL My number was 21 ng/ml range 10-170. I believe lower is better, wondering why there is lower limit of 10? But more confusing, and this happens often, comparing this number with studies. These studies tend to use different conventions...

I don't see any mention of this supplement on excelmale. From what I read, this supp seems promising. Though maybe it can interfere with sleep, so I am taking it "carefully". Not sure what that really means, but I won't take any other supps for a a time to see if this has any kind of...

My sleep was really getting bad, up every 90 min, virtually nothing worked. In desperation, I stopped all supplements. So in a month, I was sleeping better. Not perfect, but at least I don't get up all the time. Side effects: It appears I bleed more when cut or do an injection, I feel a...

I recently did a blood test which included total T, I was surprised that my total T was 868 ng/dl. This was 12 weeks after injecting testosterone undecanoate. Typically I would have expected around 600 ng/dl. A few days later, I discovered I was seriously dehydrated. So I wondered, was...

Effects of Fortetropin on the Rate of Muscle Protein Synthesis in Older Men and Women: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32598445/ Conclusions: The overall magnitude of the difference in muscle protein FSR of Fortetropin from placebo was 18%, with multiple gene ontologies affected. This is the...

This is about two somewhat different but related subjects. Basically, perceptions Vs reality. First, estrogen and body fat. Low testosterone often causes weight gain and lower estrogen. Many people believe body fat is a big causes of higher level of aromatization of testosterone to...

Here is an interesting side effect I got after the Moderna covid vaccine. I post this because I can't see any reports of this side effect. I took a a finger stick lipid test 2 days after the shot, the results were very unusual. I have a 30 year history of cholesterol tests. My total...

I don't think this has ever been discussed, but it might be important for those of us that often wake up from sleep. Oral contraceptive contain estrogen and progestin, (progestin is an analog of progesterone) which have been shown to increase the elimination half life of caffeine from 5-6 hours...

Increased Endogenous Estrogen Synthesis Leads to the Sequential Induction of Prostatic Inflammation (Prostatitis) and Prostatic Pre-Malignancy Stuart J. Ellem,* Hong Wang,* Matti Poutanen,† and Gail P. Risbridger* Prostatitis causes substantial morbidity to men, through associated urinary...

HCG Beta Subunit, Quantitative (Cancer) Blood Test This test is used as a tumor marker for certain cancers. It is used to evaluate and monitor male individuals with testicular tumors. This test is also used to determine the presence of hCG in individuals with gestational trophoblastic disease...

I was off 3 months, that is the longest I can remember NOT going to the gym in the last 15 years. I have done cardio, bike riding, walking, yard work. Gym allowed NO masks during workout, pleasant surprise, pool, showers, spa, lockers still closed, which I expected was going to be the case...

What Minnesota’s Protests Are Revealing About Covid-19 Spread After George Floyd’s killing, experts warned that demonstrations could set off new waves of infections. But early teN THE WEEKS since George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officers outside a grocery store at 38th Street and...

Rare, super coronavirus antibodies likely to yield vaccine, say Stanford, UCSF experts By Peter Fimrite Updated 11:24 am PDT, Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Dr. Katharina Roeltgen cleans COVID-19 antibody tests at the Stanford Clinical Virology Lab in Palo Alto. The lab is conducting antibody tests...

This is cheap and seems very promising to prevent death among those that require oxygen/ventilator, IE, a severe case of covid-19. Steroid dexamethasone reduces deaths among patients with severe COVID-19 - trial shows 11 hrs ago Steroid dexamethasone reduces deaths among patients with...

The science behind testosterone and COVID-19 May 28, 2020 A new study led by David Goldstein, PhD, director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Xinchen Wang, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the institute, informed the idea to treat COVID-19...

The world needs Covid-19 vaccines. It may also be overestimating their power. By HELEN BRANSWELL @HelenBranswellMAY 22, 2020 With a little luck and a lot of science, the world might in the not-too-distant future get vaccines against Covid-19. But those vaccines won’t necessarily prevent all...

What if immunity to covid-19 doesn’t last? (Some scientists find the question too dark to contemplate. ) Starting in the fall of 2016 and continuing into 2018, researchers at Columbia University in Manhattan began collecting nasal swabs from 191 children, teachers, and emergency workers...

Currently I am taking 25 mg of dhea a day, this has resulted in my dhea-s levels increasing from 103 to 598 ug/dl (30.9 - 295.6 range). I measured dhea-s after about 8 weeks. The half-life of dhea-s is ~22 hours. Some questions? Is the level of DHEA-s in serum likely to stay about the same...

I often have a few surprises in my blood test results. Today's surprise was estradiol. I attached the last couple of blood test results, one from 1-7-2020 and one from 11/15/2019. Today, the surprise was pretty low E2 levels of 8.9 pg/mpwith a Total T of 650. (I tend to do blood test just...

I have had total T levels of 500, 1000 and 1500 at different times on TRT. My free T has ranged over a similar range. I have never seen it discussed, but do you get more muscle growth with each level of higher total T assuming of that if you double total T you also double free T. Double is...

Natural testosterone can be affected by many things, alcohol, lack of sleep, supplements, time of day you test, etc. BUT when you are on TRT, does anything work to lower your total testosterone? What I see addressed is what lowers natural production of testosterone, but does any of those...

The Long Haul: Treating Men with Obesity with Testosterone BY DEREK BAGLEY JUN 2019 A study presented at ENDO 2019 shows that long-term testosterone therapy in men with obesity and hypogonadism can actually contribute to prolonged weight loss without an added risk for mortality or major...

Inflammation; often talked about, but seldom measured. Inflammation is key to many problems, but I seldom see people here either measure C-reactive protein (CRP) or talk about CRP. (Most of us would need to use the High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (HS-CRP) test unless we have an autoimmune...

I was looking at tests that are beyond the one's typically needed for TRT. I already get the the typical TRT tests that are recommended by Defy and most doctors. I do tend to have trouble staying asleep and in keeping my LDL chol low, but I am looking for health wellness in test in general...

Raynaud's (ray-NOHZ) disease causes some areas of your body — such as your fingers and toes — to feel numb and cold in response to cold temperatures or stress. In Raynaud's disease, smaller arteries that supply blood to your skin narrow, limiting blood circulation to affected areas (vasospasm)...

I was kicking around the idea of signing up for a martial arts class, but I am not sure what discipline would be most suitable for seniors. I am in reasonable good health, no joint or tendon issues, and I am 66. I am looking for self-defense, a good workout and the discipline that a course...

There is a lot of positive info about the benefits of HCG, but I don’t think it’s all positive. IMO higher levels of HCG/LH can contribute to higher PSA levels and BPH, at least in some percentage of men. But as I note, I am not firm in this opinion. One has to also realize it’s not natural...

CoQ10 for the skin, I may try this product. Amazon sells Advanced Clinicals CoQ10 Wrinkle Defense Cream w/Peptides, and Defy Medical sells CoQ10 in bio-peptide base cream, 30g. So not sure about which product is best. CoQ10 is part of the skin and also declines with age.after 40. I don’t...