LH levels during TRT and HCG

[jkeith]

How long does it typically take for LH levels to bottom out while on TRT and discontinuing HCG.

 

[Nelson Vergel]

LH is zero when your TRT dose is right. Complete suppression of LH means that you are truly "replacing testosterone".

It should happen quickly with TRT and/or HCG.

 

[jkeith]

So LH would be zero even if someone was running hcg and TRT?

 

[Nelson Vergel]

Yes. HCG does not "measure" as LH eventhough it is a LH mimicker (I know, confusing!). It behaves like LH by stimulating testicular Leydig cells but its chemical structure is not like LH at all. HCG increases testosterone and estradiol which tend to decrease LH and FSH via a negative feed back loop.




LH molecule:



HCG molecule

 

[Vince Carter]

Bought two weeks for LH to go to zero. HCG isn't relevant to LH, it's once to start to administer any Testosterone it'll quickly go to zero.