#126

@RufusDawes Thanks for posting your regime, glad it’s pushing you in the desired direction. One question, why DHEA only once a week? I take 50mg daily along with 200mg DIM, so I’m curious as to your rationale for only once a week.

#127

If you look at my stack I take DHEA 4x per week, average dose and small dose. I had issues with mild BPH and Prostatitis the last few years so I didn’t want the DHEA to negatively impact my prostate, so I decided to be careful with how often I took it.

I started taking DIM on my DHEA days but it made me feel crappy, then I watched this video and I decided it was best for me to eliminate the DIM:

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#128

Oops, sorry I didn’t notice that I should have read it more carefully. Thanks for the video, I will give it a look.

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#129

My husband has had positive results from 25 mg Clomid taken 3 times per week for 10 weeks. His total and free testosterone rose from 268 and 31, respectively, to 362 and 58. However, he doesn’t feel any differently. His dosage was increased to 50 mg 3 times per week and he’ll retest again soon. If it’s not effective at improving his T levels and making him feel better, he’ll switch to T replacement.

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#130

He may want to switch to enclomiphine as it raises testosterone without the side effects of clomid

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#131

What are the best sources of enclomiphine in the U.S. and NYC area, in particular? I understand it’s not FDA approved so must be compounded, is that right? So his conventional urologist would not prescribe it. He’d need to find someone else.

#132

I would consider going with Enclomiphene over clovid.

According to a few weight lifting forums, the former has fewer side-effects than the latter.

We have a lot of discussion on Enclomiphene on this forum, please look it up.

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#134

Very interesting.

“Most of these positive beneficial effects were due to testosterone getting aromatized into estrogen. A reminder to lay off the aromatase inhibitors!”

What are the common aromatase inhibitors in food?

From Wikipedia:
The following natural products have been found to have inhibiting effects on aromatase.

  • Apigenin (celery)
  • Catechin (Tea, cacao, vinegar, blueberries)
  • Chalcones
  • Eriodictyol
  • Hesperetin (grapefruit, lemons)
  • Isoliquiritigenin (licorice)
  • Mangostin
  • Myosmine (tobacco, nuts)
  • Nicotine
  • Resveratrol
  • Vitamin E
  • Zinc
  • Many mushrooms
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#135

Personally, I’d stick with non-feminizing estrogen.

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#136

There’s a two sided war in the TRT world when it comes to estrogen. Some say you must keep it in range with the use of aromatase inhibitors like anastozole and aromasin, while others say you want all the estrogen that testosterone converts to and that aromatase inhibitors have negative effects you want to avoid.

I’m trying to figure out if the study says what the level of estradiol these men reached but can’t find it anywhere.

I don’t think the things you listed have strong enough aromatase inhibiting properties to move the needle all that much, personally.

@AmyK mind chiming in?

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#137

This talk has some great info about TRT;

Attia shares that he started HCG therapy 6 months before the recording

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#138

Great news. The FDA removed the black box warning on testosterone three days ago. Long overdue.

“Based on the results of TRAVERSE, the FDA issued new recommended changes to current labeling language for testosterone products. According to the FDA’s news release, these include adding the results of the TRAVERSE trial to all testosterone products; retaining “Limitation of Use” language for age-related hypogonadism; and removing language from the Boxed Warning related to a heightened risk of adverse cardiac outcomes for all testosterone”

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