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If you're just waking up then for seemingly no reason, that screams low blood sugar episode, so you might want to focus your research on that. Some people find that spoonful of honey before bed is helpful for that, although that is more of a band-aid that a fix, but it might help to confirm what...

Avoiding things which cause poor sleep such as blue light exposure in the evenings, stimulants, overtraining and excessive alcohol are the place to start. Low blood sugar episodes (which IIRC cause a cortisol spike) will also cause episodes of waking in the middle of the night and need to be...

Magnesium and CoQ10 can also help EF

I think the point is that supplementing T while maintaining some degree of natural production is likely possible. Figuring out a sustainable protocol will require more crowdsourcing, but I would want to at least try this route if I was starting down the TRT road again.

A few thoughts: Even small amounts if taken without the correct co-factors (K2, A and E) especially K2 could be "too much" but the problem is the lack of K2. An amount that puts your blood levels between 50-80 seems to be the optimal range from what I remember. When I'm not getting much sun, I...

Fluoride in the water supply could also be considered an Endocrine Disruptor given its damage to the thyroid. A table-top water filter is fairly cheap and seems like an essential health aid.

I too have stopped taking it consistently and only take it if I have a cold, which I almost never do. It's worth stepping back and considering the general guideline that it is best to wait about 5 years after a compound/drug is released before making a judgment on it's risk/reward. I think...

Hopefully he will give us an update no matter how it's going, however your negativity is not helpful. There is a lot we have to learn and overconfidence about what we may think does or does not work, especially for a given individual, is an obstacle for experimentation and learning.

It's referring to the chemicals which create things you've certainly heard of such as performance anxiety and sympathetic nervous system activation. I think one of the components of Trimix is an alpha-1? blocker which basically IIRC blocks the local action of norepinephrine, which creates the...

This sounds like the result of a change in Adrenergic tone, and if N is having and anti-anxiety affect, (or perhaps something like the uro-specific alpha blockers) that would explain a lot of the erection benefit. If you search on "ultimate adrenergic control of erections" you should find a...

This reminds me of a thread from maybe 6 months ago where someone got great results from injecting every three weeks IIRC. Just because we don't know exactly how it works doesn't mean there might not be something to this approach, so thanks to OP for posting his experience. This is what...

I am, but OP will likely have bloodwork much sooner. I have added some Clomid into my TRT and I will be interested to see what my LH is, but so far it seems to replace HCG very well. My main point here is that I wish I had started with a Clomid+ protocol before I started full TRT, and I think a...

40% is nowhere close to "shutdown" "All androgens or SARMS will shut you down, fast and in very small doses." The study you quoted in your first sentence directly contradicts this. Somewhat off topic, but 15mg for 5 days is IME an unnecessarily high dose to at least get a strength boost. I...

Several things...Have you tried a low dose of clomid (e..g 12mg every other day or 25mg twice per week)? That should not be suppressive at all and should boost your T, however it sounds like it is some metabolite of T that persists for several weeks or possibly some sort of receptor...

No, the risk/reward seems to be heavily slanted toward risk. The (very small) "benefits" may well be due to an anti-inflammatory affect that can be better-achieved in other ways such as low-dose intermittent aspirin and lowering insulin (among other things). For the studies reporting benefits...

Yes.

Try starting with the list in the thread below. Note that statins are well-known to not reduce CAC scores. https://www.excelmale.com/threads/20-heart-healthy-actions-with-better-risk-reward-than-statins.20688/

I was doing that based on Dr. Gundry's suggestion, however I recently saw something that said some of the beneficial compounds are released when they are cut, so in the last few days I have switched to cutting them up and swallowing them. I'm not sure which is best.

I'll let the people who use it here respond in detail (there are many threads covering it) but it is much stronger than viagra (sometimes dangerously so). The people who use it seem to love it but it can apparently be psychologically addictive so it is not the first thing to try. IMO it is best...

And right on cue, here is a post on Ferritin from Chris Masterjohn...

Hmmm...it seems like the new clear option (bimix/trimix) should be in the discussion here.

You may want to watch/listen to Morley Robbins who has written a lot on the Iron/fatigue issue. He has a book called CU-re your Fatigue. The book Dumping Iron is also informative. If Chris Masterjohn has had something to say on the issue, his views are always valuable. There is way more to...

A few ideas for you: - DHEA helps many of us - Vitamin C and Garlic can't hurt and seem to help. I take about 1.5 grams of vitamin C per day and swallow two garlic clove bits. Also, smoking drastically reduces the body's Vitamin C level and C is crucial for blood vessel health among other...

There is a study that apparently shows that higher is better cited (but unfortunately no link) near the end of this post below, however the post is worth a read for other reasons, the first of which is that the first thought that came to my mind is whether HDL is sometimes a marker for something...

I know some people get dark spots but I actually got white spots. I had only used it at a very low dose for a couple of weeks every few days. I am a big believer that sun exposure in general is important for good health so I like to have a bit of a tan to hopefully help protect my skin, but I...

No, for sexual function MT2 is supposedly much better. I prefer to avoid the tanning affects as I get very dark as it is and it gave me an unnatural tan with uneven spots on my skin which have never completely resolved, so I use MT2 in the winter and PT-141 in the summer, although PT-141 also...

This raises a good point which is that people who want to try this class of drug should probably start with MT2 unless they are required to be in the sun a lot, in which case it is too strong of a tanning agent and can produce skin issues which don't necessarily resolve. Of the people who have...

I'll be very interested in your symptom results since I also have very low e2. What symptoms are you having?

This should be interesting. Ostarine would be another option for formally available anabolics and it will be interesting to see how suppressive it is in this study.

Sardines are very healthy for a variety of reasons. That does not mean red meat is suddenly an issue.

I think the benefits of DHEA largely come from its metabolites, so personally I wouldn't rely on a blood test. It also occurred to me that many women report a libido boost from a low dose (like 3mg) of oxandrolone, but it can also cause crankyness, so that would be another item for a better...