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High estrogens / SHBG
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<blockquote data-quote="xqfq" data-source="post: 141862" data-attributes="member: 38167"><p>Was there a time in your life when you felt good and "on" in the ways you want to be feeling? You mentioned that you've had symptoms of low testosterone for a long time, so it may be worth thinking about how you felt before those symptoms started.</p><p></p><p>You seem very analytical and well researched. One downside to this is it makes it more likely for you to experience the placebo / nocebo effect, which can be quite strong. I'm not saying that's the case here, but it's something you should seriously consider.</p><p></p><p>For what it's worth, I experimented for a year with DHEA and pregnenolone before ultimately deciding on TRT. DHEA improved my mood, but it was a balancing act for me. It conferred mood benefits, but it had no benefits in the areas of energy / fatigue / muscle mass / exercise recovery. Interestingly, when my DHEA protocol was dialed in things felt a bit like this erowid report- "Every day felt like the first day of summer" (<a href="https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=10269" target="_blank">DHEA - Erowid Exp - 'Every Day Felt Like the First Day of Summer'</a>)</p><p></p><p>I found the usual dosages of DHEA to be excessive (25mg, 50mg/day, ..). Based on reading some of the studies, it looked like 2.5mg of DHEA twice a day was more than enough to bring my bottom-of-range DHEA-S level up to the top of range. I figured this out by looking at the dose-response relationship between DHEA-S and oral DHEA. You may want to try a much smaller dose of oral DHEA (this is what the studies are on), possibly somewhere around 2.5mg taken twice a day. The extra DHEA-S has to go somewhere, and in some cases I think it can go to undesirable hormone pathways.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xqfq, post: 141862, member: 38167"] Was there a time in your life when you felt good and "on" in the ways you want to be feeling? You mentioned that you've had symptoms of low testosterone for a long time, so it may be worth thinking about how you felt before those symptoms started. You seem very analytical and well researched. One downside to this is it makes it more likely for you to experience the placebo / nocebo effect, which can be quite strong. I'm not saying that's the case here, but it's something you should seriously consider. For what it's worth, I experimented for a year with DHEA and pregnenolone before ultimately deciding on TRT. DHEA improved my mood, but it was a balancing act for me. It conferred mood benefits, but it had no benefits in the areas of energy / fatigue / muscle mass / exercise recovery. Interestingly, when my DHEA protocol was dialed in things felt a bit like this erowid report- "Every day felt like the first day of summer" ([URL="https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=10269"]DHEA - Erowid Exp - 'Every Day Felt Like the First Day of Summer'[/URL]) I found the usual dosages of DHEA to be excessive (25mg, 50mg/day, ..). Based on reading some of the studies, it looked like 2.5mg of DHEA twice a day was more than enough to bring my bottom-of-range DHEA-S level up to the top of range. I figured this out by looking at the dose-response relationship between DHEA-S and oral DHEA. You may want to try a much smaller dose of oral DHEA (this is what the studies are on), possibly somewhere around 2.5mg taken twice a day. The extra DHEA-S has to go somewhere, and in some cases I think it can go to undesirable hormone pathways. [/QUOTE]
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