Quote: (06-22-2017 03:02 PM)RioNomad Wrote:
How would you say you feel now? Has the TRT made a significant difference in your life?
I feel 100% more like myself and 100% less like the passive aggressive shell I had found myself locked inside of. More energy, better focus, and a hair trigger for nonsense and stupidity.
Quote: (06-25-2017 04:57 PM)birthday cat Wrote:
Could you tell us more about your protocol? What test do you use? What size needles? Where do you inject? IM or SubQ?
I haven't heard much about DIM, I3C and Resveratrol. What do you suggest? Is there a source of information where I could learn more?
I've already shared more info about my protocol than I usually care to. More details than that tend to be read and taken as a step-by-step guide and I'd much rather guys here do their homework than try to emulate something myself or anyone else has done.
That said, there is enough detail in what I have mentioned that if you do a couple google searches you could easily find and piece together a fairly precise example which would answer all of the questions you asked.
As for DIM, I3C, Resveratrol, CDG, and other estrogen balancing/eliminating supplements, there are a couple threads that exist already on the forum that get into those details. Just search for recent threads started by Roosh. Outside of the forum, they could also just as easily be researched on google.
I'll share my experience, but I won't detail my protocol. It's your body, you gotta do your own homework and build your own protocol. It's the only way you'll know what works. For most of us here, it's been a process of trial and error, and it's not something that can be copied and pasted from person to person. This is why, if you read enough experiences of men who have been on it for years, that a great deal of them went on to tailor their protocol to their own life. The doctors who are prescribing this stuff, expecially the docs that don't specialize in it, are trying to apply a one size fits all dosing protocol to something they don't even fully understand, when the results, across the board, clearly show that the one size does not fit all.
The FIRST three steps I would suggest to anyone considering TRT (or even AAS for performance purposes):
1. Bloodwork
For obvious reasons, you absolutely must know where your hormone/vitamin/mineral levels sit before you can start to consider ways and means of altering them.
2. Food AND fitness journal for 1-2 weeks, 1 week at least
This is simple. Garbage in/garbage out. If you are over 30 and eat trash and get little to no exercise, your already working with a suboptimal levels. Sometimes fixing these is more than enough to get yourself back within range without resorting to exogenous hormones.
3. An honest assessment of work/home/leisure activities and lifestyle
If your work and/or homelife is overly stressful, this will absolutely play hell with your hormones via cortisol, stress eating, blood sugar, etc.
After you've taken those three things into account and adjusted them as much as you can and your levels still are not in a range where you feel, look, and act better, then its time to have your blood checked again and start looking into whether pinning is the right next course of action. If it is, then it's time to start doing more homework.
As for what levels are proper, it largely boils down to what feels right. Last checked, I was sitting at just over 1000TT and 33E2. That seems to be my sweet spot. For other people, some here that I know personally, their sweet spot is much lower than that. Again, it's trial, error, and lots of tracking and record keeping. If you're doing it right, Microsoft Excel will become one of your best friends.
Do your homework, fellas. It's the only way you'll learn.