You are definitely too young to be considering TRT unless your numbers are low. You have all the physiological advantages right now. Give yourself 20 more years.
The scale is the scale and does not place my numbers as high. Yes I am a high normal - but normal. I am high normal across the board in B-12, D and about any other measure.
Refuting tests and norm scales seems you are ignoring current medicine and are arbitrarily creating your own idea of high. Been on TRT going on 5-years. It has been a benefit.
You wrote: “Your body will start converting excess testosterone into estrogen to help compensate,” says McDevitt. “Estrogen is a proliferative hormone, meaning it likes to get cells to grow. Too much estrogen in a male body is not a good thing; it can cause erectile dysfunction, or low libido.”
My libido is excellent at 65 years. Blood Presseure normal (not counting after my rapamycine dose when it goes up for a bit)… and in blood tests - my estrogen too. Yes - that is normal… Which is why you get monitored when under treatment - including rapamycin monitoring. I am under a physcians care - a little less wild west for me. I am guessing most on here - unfortunately don’t take or do 1/3 of the testing that I do. Or, the frequency.
You wrote: “If you think about bodybuilders who are doping, they always have injuries and this is why,” says McDevitt. “It’s just too much.”
Different studies show that therapeutic doses of anabolic steroids have no effect on muscle strength and athletes’ performance, but the bodybuilders use 10 to 50 times of therapeutic doses.
So yes they are destroying themselves - we not comparing like doses - to like doses.
We found no evidence that testosterone increased short-term to medium-term cardiovascular risks in men with hypogonadism, but there is a paucity of data evaluating its long-term safety.
Here is an added caveat - just perhaps… any possible damage in blood, estrogen and B/P etc. – just thinking if so… the rapamycin is already counteracting and addressing and adjusting. I know from private messages
– many on here self prescribing rapamycin are on TRT too. And, won’t state it because of the attacking responses - that just a few people on here are willing to give ad nauseum. Many will take take unproven rapamycin with few human clinical trials - but reject TRT with decades of human use… and no significant issues. Gobsmacked.
