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In some countries, yes. It isn't legal in the United States which is insane considering it is a bioidentical hormone. We need to get the transgender community fired up about that.

Yes - less excipients and slightly shorter ester are both moves in the right direction for most people.

I forgot an important one: oral testosterone raises DHT levels pretty dramatically in a similar fashion to cream.

No, I would fix your metabolic health first. See those sky high triglycerides? That tells me you have alot of room for improvement with your diet. Start there.

SERMs would probably work very well and increase testosterone AUC in this scenario.

Because most people run long acting injections at doses too high for Clomid / enclomiphene to work, which makes it a complete waste from an hpta suppression perspective. It's something that might work at 50 mg or less weekly, in a world where everyone runs 100 or more. If you use normal doses...

Legally, yes. There are also straight DHT topicals out there, which would be my preference if all you're trying to do is tune up an otherwise good protocol that lacks DHT: https://www.excelmale.com/threads/dht-cream-plus-testosterone-propionate-major-libido-boost.30965/post-287607

Yes it would, by making the troughs higher.

I don't know what is causing your abdominal pain, but I am certain it has nothing to do with a mismatch between your hemoglobin and testosterone. That might be your most hair-brained idea so far. If the pain becomes worse after you eat, it sounds like something gastrointestinal. If it...

LOL wtf. Sounds like more law-abiding citizens are about to be driven to use UGL sources for their legitimate medical needs. Fortunately, there are plenty of good ones.

Yes, your DHT is low relative to everything else and I have the same issue. Compared to my natural baseline, my DHT is relatively lower on TRT compared to my T and E2. In other words, I had a much higher DHT/E2 ratio and DHT/T ratio as a natural. Based on bloodwork I've seen, a very small...

Yes, actual DHT is what you want to experiment with. The DHT derivatives are far less androgenic than DHT and may compete with DHT for access to androgen receptors. I'm on a parallel journey with you, as far as the lack of libido, what you have tried and the results of those trials. What I have...

Steroid plotter is extremely wrong in its depiction of propionate levels. Your trough on ED prop should be slightly less than half your peak. Your trough on EOD would be something like 20% of your peak. In order to tolerate EOD prop injections, many guys would need higher doses than 40 mg, or...

That's a good idea, to see if there is actually some dht in there and to potentially get some value out of my purchase. I ordered the DMSO gel and will report back if it is able to improve the diktator cream efficacy. My wife is already on test enanthate injections so I wouldn't want to do any...

The most striking and certain benefit I can attribute to it is an improvement in orgasm quality. It may also improve libido. I think it has some effects on mood and cognition, but I'm not sure how to characterize them yet and whether they're good or bad. It's still early days. I'm using...

Bad news: this diktator cream is bunk. I used a pretty large amount last night and it didn't do a damn thing. I am very familiar with DHT feels between scrotal cream getting my DHT above 350 ng/dL and use of proviron. This diktator cream does absolutely nothing. You will recall earlier in...

Yes: eat meat! Alot of it!

Mine should be above that. I was at 1524 ng/dL back in March when I was taking 175 mg of test enanthate weekly (50 mg EOD). I'm currently taking the same dose weekly as propionate, which has more testosterone per milligram (25 mg ED). I'm also dabbling with hCG, which might add another 100-200...

You have not been at these low levels for long enough for their impact to be felt. Six months from now, if you have maintained a total T of 100 ng/dL and free T of 2 ng/dL, I strongly doubt you will still be reporting positive results in the gym. Remember this paper: Onset of effects of...

This is an interesting phenomenon with aging that comes as a relief to me. When I was in my 20's, I found older women (let's say 45+) gross, even if they were in relatively good shape. I wondered and worried how I was ever going to be able to remain attracted to a woman as we aged together...

I am not recommending that you increase your dose. I'm saying that if you want to keep all other variables the same, and gain more muscle as a result of testosterone, you will need to take more testosterone. It's just a factual statement, with no advice attached. Your dose of 132 mg weekly is...

Right. I'm reminded of Mike Israetel asking people who are stalled on their weight gain if they're eating enough calories, and they reply, "but I'm already eating 3500 calories," or 4000 calories, or whatever it is. The number might sound high already, but the answer is still the same: eat...

Even after I went to the trouble of making that fish oil meme pic to get the point across?

Some thoughts: High E2 is helpful, not harmful for anabolism. T/E2 ratio looks healthy. I don't think E2 is your problem. What is your SHBG / Free T? If your SHBG is high, your free T may not be as impressive as the 1468 ng/dL total suggests. What's your TRT protocol? What are you doing...

Did you stop the fish oil yet?

Maybe it metabolized quickly into other things like allopregnanolone?

+1 to everything Jerajera said here.

I understand now - you probably do need the solvent-free formula then. If I had to choose between feeling and performing my best while upsetting someone in the process, versus making other people happy while I feel like garbage, that's an easy decision for me.

Have you tried regular propionate? I wouldn't hold out for the Pharmacom propionate if UGL is going to be a big problem for you. Standard prop is a big improvement over long esters and probably works just as well for most people.

Try daily test propionate if you haven't yet. Ideal combination of "jacked up dopamine" during the day and lower levels at night that allow you to sleep.