Systemlord
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I’ve made the decision to come off TRT and restore my natural hormone production and reverse my diabetes. I’ve identified my problems on TRT and they are as follows, Testosterone suppresses hepcidin, which is a peptide hormone that regulates iron absorption. When hepcidin is suppressed more iron is available for the body to use.
When I was on injections, I felt my absolute best shortly before running into iron deficiency and the same holds true on Jatenzo.
This is precisely my problem, every time I eat something with iron in it, I feel the symptoms of excess iron. Ribeye steaks, cause the symptoms to come out the most, chicken to a lesser extent and shrimp to an even lesser extent due to the lower iron content. The symptoms are as followed, headaches, nausea, muscle aches, and pains, dehydration, joint problems and significant spiking glucose simply eating a steak or any meat only meal.
My plan is already in play, my testicles are already starting to ache since stopping Jatenzo 5 days ago. I’ve feel perfectly fine ever since stopping, and as always, I feel even better once my HPTA is back up and running. There’s no guest work involved here because each time I feel it come back online, it feels similar to starting TRT.
I had a gradual decline stopping TRT in 2019, I had really good directions for the first month, strangely supplemented iron for only the first month and stopped, and the next seven months, lost the erections. My decline was very gradual and this tells me I don’t need very high testosterone or maybe not even midrange to feel good.
I want to try to maintain that and improve it from there. I thought about peptide injections to increase my natural production. I’m currently taking creatine, no vitamin D or vitamin C or iron supplements.
My endocrinologist strongly advised me not to stop my TRT. Now I want to do it even more.
I would appreciate any suggestions, supplements, or otherwise, that might help me in my journey to recover my natural hormone state and reverse, and possibly cure my diabetes.
Perhaps a partially fasted state during the day eating only dinner, a steak and maybe healthy carbs. I also wanted to ask would I be able to work out on a diet such as this in the morning having not eating anything?
When I was on injections, I felt my absolute best shortly before running into iron deficiency and the same holds true on Jatenzo.
This is precisely my problem, every time I eat something with iron in it, I feel the symptoms of excess iron. Ribeye steaks, cause the symptoms to come out the most, chicken to a lesser extent and shrimp to an even lesser extent due to the lower iron content. The symptoms are as followed, headaches, nausea, muscle aches, and pains, dehydration, joint problems and significant spiking glucose simply eating a steak or any meat only meal.
My plan is already in play, my testicles are already starting to ache since stopping Jatenzo 5 days ago. I’ve feel perfectly fine ever since stopping, and as always, I feel even better once my HPTA is back up and running. There’s no guest work involved here because each time I feel it come back online, it feels similar to starting TRT.
I had a gradual decline stopping TRT in 2019, I had really good directions for the first month, strangely supplemented iron for only the first month and stopped, and the next seven months, lost the erections. My decline was very gradual and this tells me I don’t need very high testosterone or maybe not even midrange to feel good.
I want to try to maintain that and improve it from there. I thought about peptide injections to increase my natural production. I’m currently taking creatine, no vitamin D or vitamin C or iron supplements.
My endocrinologist strongly advised me not to stop my TRT. Now I want to do it even more.
I would appreciate any suggestions, supplements, or otherwise, that might help me in my journey to recover my natural hormone state and reverse, and possibly cure my diabetes.
Perhaps a partially fasted state during the day eating only dinner, a steak and maybe healthy carbs. I also wanted to ask would I be able to work out on a diet such as this in the morning having not eating anything?
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