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    Has anyone had success losing fat with T3/T4 therapy?

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    Weight Fluctuations TRT/HCG

    I was getting excited as my weight was going down and I was less puffy. But I've realized my weight is just so up and down day to day. Prior to TRT and HCG I was about 219 lbs, 16.5" arms. I worked out like a monster. With trt/hcg I went to 240. Strength went up drastically and my arms hit...
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    Nasal Congestion and Restricted Airway while on TRT

    Hello, Excel Males. TRT has been a blessing. I tested at 65 total T before getting on TRT and the cognitive benefits since starting have been amazing. I had brain fog since I was a teenager and delayed body hair growth and low energy, and now I'm finally feeling a bit more like a normal man...
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    Garcinia Cambogia: Liver injury linked to weight loss supplement mimics acute hepatitis with jaundice

    With obesity an ever-growing problem in the U.S., Garcinia cambogia, either alone or with green tea, has been promoted as yet another herbal/dietary supplement (HDS) for weight loss. Sporadic cases of liver failure from use of G. cambogia have been reported, but its role in liver injury has been...
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    Testosterone vs. Weight Loss Surgery

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    The Long Haul: Treating Men with Obesity with Testosterone

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    Rapid weight loss

    Weird. I stopped TRT 4/26/19. I weighed 281. Went on vacation and ate bbq, fried chicken, biscuits and gravy, etc and drank like a sailor. Came home on May 6, ate burgers and fries at the airport, got home and ate pizza for dinner. 5/7/ stated a protocol to get off trt. 3 units of hcg a day...
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    Thyroid... numbers and peculiar happening since starting low dose NDT...

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    What happen if we take a break from gym?

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    Fat Loss 'Hack'

    I have been playing around with intermittent fasting for a while now; eating in a controlled window helps me cut calories. On my non-lifting days, I was going as many as 24 hours without eating. But lately, I was finding it incredibly hard to be satiated. I'm on Ibutamoren, which may be...
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    Study Finds People Overeat Processed Foods

    About a year ago I gave a talk on healthy aging and one of the points I made was that you shouldn't eat processed foods, because they are engineered by food scientists to make you overeat them. Today I heard about a new study by the NIH that confirms it. A preprint of the study is available, but...
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    How Important Is Exercise For Weight Loss?

    If you’d asked me a decade ago what was the best method of weight loss, if I choose only exercise or diet, but not both, I would have said exercise all day. That is, increase exercise, lean body mass, and so forth, to create a caloric deficit vs reducing calories if I could only choose one...
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    Carnivore Diet

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    Can apple cider vinegar help with weight loss?

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    HRT and Weight Loss in Women: Videos

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    Article: Do images of your personalized future body help you lose weight?

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    Testosterone Therapy Increased Fat Loss During Low Calorie Diet in Obese Men with low T

    Effects of testosterone treatment on body fat and lean mass in obese men on a hypocaloric diet: a randomised controlled trial. Ng Tang Fui M, et al. BMC Med. 2016. Abstract BACKGROUND: Whether testosterone treatment has benefits on body composition over and above caloric restriction in men is...
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    Skipping breakfast may lead to weight gain in men

    Men who skipped breakfast four to six times per week experienced a mean increase in waist circumference that was 0.2 cm vs. men who ate breakfast every day; men who skipped breakfast every day had a mean increase of 0.21 cm vs. men who ate breakfast every day. Annual changes in the waist...
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    Going Beyond Paleo - Free 28 Page PDF

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    Five Weight Loss Drugs Effective at Achieving at Least 5% Weight Loss

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    Effects of long-term treatment with testosterone on weight and waist size

    Effects of long-term treatment with testosterone on weight and waist size in 411 hypogonadal men with obesity Classes I-III: Observational data from two registry studies Full Paper: http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/vaop/naam/pdf/ijo2015139a.pdf Background/Objectives Long-term...
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    unintentional weight loss/inability to gain weight

    so long story short, 21 year old male who's been on trt almost 10 months sustanon 125mg weekly split to 2 shots, hcg 250iux2 week. i've always been very skinny/skinnyfat guy but last couple years when all symptoms started (fatigue,general weakness, throbbing/pressure feeling in head, weird...
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    FDA Approved Prescription Diet Pills - 2015 Update

    2015 Prescription Diet Pills Xenical (orlistat). This prescription medication has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 1999. Xenical is a lipase inhibitor which means it works by blocking the absorption of fat. Dieters must follow a low fat diet or they...
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