dhea

My doc suggested 25 mg DHEA at night for sleep. Last night I gave it a shot and slept pretty good. This morning I felt pretty groggy and all day long I have felt drowsy/down/flat/depressed. Is this due to the cortisol suppression from DHEA? I’m thinking maybe I’ll cut the dose down to 10 mg...

Just gonna leave this here . Answered so many questions that I’ve had as a man on HRT and how , if all, it affected pregnenolone and DHEA levels .

I am attempting a restart after a long and thoughtful discussion with my doc. I was advised to take pregnenolone and DHEA during the restart but I was under the impression that this would be suppressive to my HPTA? I always assumed supplementing those two were fine if on TRT, but suppressive if...

Guys question about DHEA. I'm currently taking 25 mg a day for the last 3 months, and it's only brought up my DHEA from 173 to 247. Not much at all. So the doc has decided I should try 75 mg a day. Do you think this dosage will be too high? As in high conversion to estrogen too? I've read around...

I forgot again and couldn't find searching if DHEA / Pregnenolone cream should be taken before morning before drawing blood. DHEA/Pregnenolone cream is mainly for thyroid performance (Reverse T3 on blood work) Last time I confirmed with Dr. Saya that DHEA/Pregnenolone cream should be taken on...

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I started a 15mg Slow Released DHEA from Empower, about 5 days ago and wow! good mental and physical energy, my strength increased, my skin look better I think, and I feel more relaxed calm and sociable. I had such a great outcome from Pregnenolone and now DHEA, they both seem to have a profound...

DHEA: Does It Have Non-Hormonal Benefit? Monica Mollica explores that topic via Brinkzone and it's a very interesting read: DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is most known for being a pro-hormone which in the body gets converted to testosterone and estrogen. It is a long held view that DHEA...

angry and aggressive. So I've never liked DHEA, used to use A LOT of it not knowing any better, pre-TRT because I knew I was having some manner of "problem". I'd take too much >50mg-100mg/D and and just be angry, aggressive, hot tempered, it was bad. But FF years later to now and despite this...

Hello all, I hope this sunday finds all of you doing well. I began having problems with my libido about 3 months ago. Cialis worked for me well since 2012 and now it's just not doing much at all, sometimes it gives a boost if I lay off it for a week or 2 but then it goes right back to nearly...

So for starters I apologize if this on the wrong forum. Secondly I looked up info on this and couldn’t really find anything. So my doctor told me to add 1000mg of calcium d glucarate daily to my routine. Well 2 days after taking it my nipples got real tender. I stopped for a week and it went...

If you've ever wondered if the information that you provide to newbies ever does any good, the answer is yes. Because of the information I read from the experienced members on this site, as well as several of Nelson's interviews with TRT doctors as well as published clinical studies, I had an...

For those on HCG monotherapy, I have heard Dr Crisler discuss how he adds DHEA to the protocol for those men. I have also read albeit more on the bro science side that Vit D is also needed for HCG to work. I dont doubt Dr Crislers advice so I will supplement DHEA, but what aspect of Vit D would...

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If I have natural DHEA-S levels at the top end of the range, sometimes slightly over, is it physiologically impossible for my pregnenolone levels to be low? DHEA can only be made from pregnenolone, correct? So in order for my DHEA to be high, I must have good levels of pregnenolone, right? What...

last time i got mine measured my DHEA was 2.72ug/ml no range was given. Is this considered high or is it normal, I take 80mg Test a week in 2 shots.

So after a long month of struggling with my erectile dysfunction I was able to be intimate with my wife for a whole session tonight )not saying that to boast there is a reason for me stating this) over the past month I have done tons of labs and research on here as well. People have been helpful...

I think the answer could be possibly no, as replacing Thyroid hormone would stop the Thyroid gland producing the T4/T3 so supplementing with DHEA while of Thyroid should not effect levels correct?

Dr Saya first advised me to take it for my insomnia. 25mg every night. It seemed to make my insomnia worse and give me heart palpitations so I stopped after a week. However I noticed a huge increase in libido and also an increase in my facial hair. This week I started taking it again to address...

Blood pressure If it’s not one thing, it’s another, but this does seem to be some sort of side effect related in one way or another to TRT. Recently, my BP rose suddenly, like one week it was 120/76 or lower, the next week it was 132/92 measured in a clinic. Not sure if it rose in 1 day or...

Just wondering if taking DHEA shuts off your endogenous production of DHEA, or if it just adds to your current DHEA level.

Hello everyone. Recently, I have been trying to figure out why despite taking 200 mg/ml test in 1 ML dosages split twice a week, I still feel like shit a lot of times. On top of regular psychological issues, Im trying to figure out what I could be doing to get to the fabled golden zone that...

I am curious who invented whole need for dhea on trt.. it's an adrenal androgen and most of dhea if not all we get from adrenal glands.. are we shutting down adrenal gland on trt as well?? I got f*cked badly taking those dhea supps was dialed in feeling great before them now can't get into that...

What hormones are considered to be in the pathway? I see flow charts, but in the end there have to result in actual hormones. I know these hormones. Are there any I am missing that are important and part of the pathway? Are we assuming there are mystery hormones that are part of the pathway...

We know some reference ranges on blood test are adjusted for age, but I don’t know which ones are and which aren’t. This is important because it tells us if we are over or under range, creates flags on blood tests, may concern patients or doctors. Recently Dr. X contributed the fact that...

Hey all, I'm 36 yo and wasn't experiencing a lot of other typical low T symptoms, but my libido had totally disappeared, so I got checked out at an anti aging clinic (I live in Belgium so that seems to be the only place around here anyone will take low T seriously) and tested at 296ng/dl. I...

I wonder if anybody doesn't take dhea and preg while on trt despite being low on labs?

I've been reading lots of information out there on "backfilling pathways" and how supplementing Pregnenolone and DHEA is good in order to supply some of the missing components that TRT will suppress. I am still weighing my options but its looking like HCG may be cost prohibitive at least at this...

i like how dhea feels but am looking to minimize e2 conversion, so I got some 25mg sublingual to try. tried both swanson and life extension and each did not dissolve even over 30 minutes. does anyone use a sublingual dhea that dissolves readily?

At this point I am just curious, but since we all believe estrogen is important, what does one do if your level is too low? i have a feeling if i lose weight, stop taking dhea, my estradiol will move down to 12 ug/dl or so or maybe even lower. Right now I am 5.4 and 165 lbs, so at least 30...

Dr. Saya just put me on Test Cyp + HCG and Pregnenolone/DHEA cream (my first consultation). But I forgot to ask him during the consultation if I should start Test / HCG first to feel it out, symptoms wise, before introducing another variable (pregnenolone cream - for low noon cortisol...