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Testosterone Replacement, Low T, HCG, & Beyond
Blood Test Discussion
1st follow up set of labs.... please comment
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<blockquote data-quote="Gman86" data-source="post: 130699" data-attributes="member: 15043"><p>So what you should do seems pretty obvious, in my opinion. If you’re feeling pretty good, and just feel irritable after your shots, just lower your dose like you planned. Dropping it to 150 would probably be a good idea. You can most likely go as low as 140 and still have you free T hovering around the top of the range, based on your last lab results. Either way, definitely don’t touch an ai yet. That’s only for when you can’t lower your dose any longer. But clearly you have room in that department based off of your free T level at trough. You can also lower your dose slightly, and switch to EOD injections. That should help manage E2 and possibly HCT a tiny bit. Probably not too much though considering your already on a twice per week injection frequency. </p><p></p><p>The other thing is your DHEA. Why DHEA is treated as a hormone that isn’t as important to worry about as say testosterone, I will never know. All hormones are extremely important. Look up what DHEA does. You will never feel optimized with your DHEA at the bottom of the barrel. So even though I agree with others that it’s not the best idea to change multiple variables at once, you really have to get your DHEA level optimized if you ever want to feel your best. But start very low with the dose. No need to start at 25mg. It doesn’t shut down your natural production of DHEA, it just adds onto it. There’s studies showing effective doses are way smaller than what we are used to hearing. Doses as small as 5mg per day. Ray peat, a doctor that has a very popular health forum, personally takes I think like 5mg or less per day with good success. With the lower doses you avoid a lot of the side effects, like increased estrogen and insomnia. I’m not saying 25-50mg doesn’t work for some men, it clearly does. But just no need to start there. Start very low, and work your way up if needed. Here’s a really good video on DHEA, as well as a few other hormones. </p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]sXkxViFxk9A[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>Also, don’t eat less eggs. Your cholesterol looks pretty much perfect! Your LDL is a little high, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. LDL is very important and has a bunch of positive benefits. And your level isn’t even that high, definitely nothing to be worried about, that I can promise you. Cardiovascular disease has very little to do with cholesterol anyways. More to do with inflammation, plaque build up, decreased nitric oxide production, blood being too sticky, decreased elasticity of the blood vessels, weakening of the blood vessels and mineral deficiencies causing heart irregularities. Eat those eggs! Lol</p><p></p><p>And your HCT isn’t too bad. Don’t have to worry that much until you reach around 53-55. But go get a plebotomy if you want. They’re healthy for you. Men should be getting them once or twice a year anyways, to stay healthy. Don’t worry too much about it lowering your iron. I’ve been learning a lot about the misconceptions of iron, and it’s really been blowing my mind. Very interesting stuff. I’ll link a fb video of a great doctor named Morley Robbins that knows his stuff on iron, and so much more. Hopefully the link works. Iron is beneficial, don’t get me wrong. Everything in the body has a purpose, but it seems that we don’t want as much hanging around as most people think. </p><p>[MEDIA=facebook]10156842436392937[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gman86, post: 130699, member: 15043"] So what you should do seems pretty obvious, in my opinion. If you’re feeling pretty good, and just feel irritable after your shots, just lower your dose like you planned. Dropping it to 150 would probably be a good idea. You can most likely go as low as 140 and still have you free T hovering around the top of the range, based on your last lab results. Either way, definitely don’t touch an ai yet. That’s only for when you can’t lower your dose any longer. But clearly you have room in that department based off of your free T level at trough. You can also lower your dose slightly, and switch to EOD injections. That should help manage E2 and possibly HCT a tiny bit. Probably not too much though considering your already on a twice per week injection frequency. The other thing is your DHEA. Why DHEA is treated as a hormone that isn’t as important to worry about as say testosterone, I will never know. All hormones are extremely important. Look up what DHEA does. You will never feel optimized with your DHEA at the bottom of the barrel. So even though I agree with others that it’s not the best idea to change multiple variables at once, you really have to get your DHEA level optimized if you ever want to feel your best. But start very low with the dose. No need to start at 25mg. It doesn’t shut down your natural production of DHEA, it just adds onto it. There’s studies showing effective doses are way smaller than what we are used to hearing. Doses as small as 5mg per day. Ray peat, a doctor that has a very popular health forum, personally takes I think like 5mg or less per day with good success. With the lower doses you avoid a lot of the side effects, like increased estrogen and insomnia. I’m not saying 25-50mg doesn’t work for some men, it clearly does. But just no need to start there. Start very low, and work your way up if needed. Here’s a really good video on DHEA, as well as a few other hormones. [MEDIA=youtube]sXkxViFxk9A[/MEDIA] Also, don’t eat less eggs. Your cholesterol looks pretty much perfect! Your LDL is a little high, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. LDL is very important and has a bunch of positive benefits. And your level isn’t even that high, definitely nothing to be worried about, that I can promise you. Cardiovascular disease has very little to do with cholesterol anyways. More to do with inflammation, plaque build up, decreased nitric oxide production, blood being too sticky, decreased elasticity of the blood vessels, weakening of the blood vessels and mineral deficiencies causing heart irregularities. Eat those eggs! Lol And your HCT isn’t too bad. Don’t have to worry that much until you reach around 53-55. But go get a plebotomy if you want. They’re healthy for you. Men should be getting them once or twice a year anyways, to stay healthy. Don’t worry too much about it lowering your iron. I’ve been learning a lot about the misconceptions of iron, and it’s really been blowing my mind. Very interesting stuff. I’ll link a fb video of a great doctor named Morley Robbins that knows his stuff on iron, and so much more. Hopefully the link works. Iron is beneficial, don’t get me wrong. Everything in the body has a purpose, but it seems that we don’t want as much hanging around as most people think. [MEDIA=facebook]10156842436392937[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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