Got my blood work done recently. Been feeling off lately even though I lift heavy. Do combat sports. Run in the sun. Do sprints. Eat red meat and healthy fats and carbs. Stay away from dyes, seed oils, and inflammation causes foods. Drink organic bone broth in the mornings. Eat duck fat with my red meat. Don't eat a lot of sweets.
And yet, my sex drive has plummeted. I have trouble sleeping (had for the last 15 years). Brain fog. Hard to pay attention. Can't breathe during my BJJ rolls.
And so my test levels are in the mid 300s. Bummer. I'm not jabbed. But could be all the microplastics. Or just too much screen time. Or breathing in chem trail air. Or just getting older in a hormone destroying world.
Before consulting about trt, wanted you guys opinion on TRT or natural testosterone boosting methods.
Thanks all.
Being older is a shit meme and lazy excuse. It's not knowing, not asking, and not exploring what any one person is capable of exceeding their own limits. Everyone is capable of being more, don't limit yourself to preconceived ideas of what contemporary conversations are.
The natural answer: more onions/garlic, more dietary cholesterol, anti-estrogenic diets, saturated fats, carb moderation, limit cortisol/stress, decent sleep, better mineral/vitamin nutrition, etc.
Onions and garlic as the single best and easiest availability to test. 1 whole onion per day for a week was the same feeling I got on 700+ mg of test per week. It's that good. Downside is prepping onions, as it can be a alot. Raw or cooked, just get it in.
Dietary cholesterol as it's the number one building block for test. Without dietary cholesterol, it's far far harder to build test. Even if you eat alot of onions, it doesn't matter if you're not getting in cholesterol.
Anti-estrogen diets include DIM, Diindolylmethane, : cabbages, broccoli, etc. Modern American diets include alot of estrogenic substances like soy, cooking oils (most fast food frying oils are soybean/canola)
Saturates fats to balance overall hormone profile, monosats, polysats, trans fats imbalance the hormone profile.
Carb moderation to avoid the high insulin spikes from too much carbs.
Sleep is obvious, but not exactly obvious. 6-8 is decent. Hormone balance and well being balance. Grumpiness from lack of sleep = less test.
Cortisol is the stress hormone. Higher stress, higher cortisol. Higher cortisol, less test production.
Vitamins and minerals to help test production or lower estrogen. Vit E lowers estrogen, zinc/Boron increases test. If taking Boron, take 1/4 tsp of borax (yes the laundry detergent, straight up) as it's far far cheaper and more efficient than Boron supplements. Boron helps to drop SHBG which in turns raises free flowing blood serum test, which raises impactfulness of test. Myriad of problems of high SHBG.
The real answer: just take TRT. I tried natty for years, and it ended up being more complicated, more time expensive, less efficient. It was more time trying to optimize than it was me actually trying to enjoy activities. Make sure you take a PCT, or anti estrogen with TRT.
Do you have any issues with hair thinning? I take pellets HRT and never had hair issues, but this last yr it has really thinned out up top and freaking me out
Contrary to popular belief, it could be a lack of DHT.
Contemporary belief has it that DHT leads to male pattern baldness, hair thinning, but there's counter studies that show that it's not the case. Tbh, I think it's a conspiracy to sway males from being high functioning with high DHT levels, leading to weaker feminine males with low DHT. See example from the post finasteride crowd where they shot their dht levels to the ground making them feel like shit.
Also, I think hair thinning/loss has to deal with parasites. I think it's demodex parasite. I had scaling in my hair awhile back, I did ivermectin pour on, cleared it and hair stopped falling out. Be super careful with ivermectin, too much can cause alot of die off symptoms. Permethrin shampoo works too.
Please explain: "Be super careful with ivermectin, too much can cause alot of die off symptoms." What is die off symptoms? I've done more than a triple dose for multiple days and the only thing I noticed was in vision and seeing light
I treat my thinning hair due to male pattern baldness with caffeine shampoo and rosemary oil on my scalp. it has made a big big difference. Some people suggest DMSO on your scalp too. I have tried that.
One thing I have heard of and haven't tried is olive oil and egg yolk.
I make sure I have enough zinc.
What is PCT?
We are already using natty so curious what was your dose when you were using it?
Great post; thanks
My bad. PCT is post cycle therapy, that's the lingo in the steroid world.
It's your prescription grade anti estrogens. They can be taken post cycle, or concurrently within the cycle. Both are different doses, both are different classes of anti estrogen. But under the same terminology umbrella of being called PCT