TRT strategy for making sure I get at least 100mg ea week?

[Alpin]

I am new to this forum but have been fighting hormones for years. Read around this place and other forums for long enough and you start to see those same guys come in later with E2 problems, thick blood, ED, gyno, etc, etc. While I don't care what anyone else does, it also can't be forgotten or ignored that more than half the guys in here, and else where, use their TRT prescriptions as legal performance enhancement and push well past where their bodies ever produced naturally. Again, I couldn't care less that they do it, but keep it in mind when you see them injecting large doses every week and feeling better.

What impacts does adex have on brain functions?

Its very easy to think... well... I am already on test cyp, why not make the best of it and go for near top of the range values. The reality is that it is not needed in most cases. I read an article once about Dr Mark Gordon, Mr TRT to the celebs in California (generally considered one of the best in the world), and how he starts his guys at like 60mg and rarely goes much higher. Anyway... sometimes less is more.

Hell, just this weekend in a chat with my Dr, he was talking about new ADEX findings and how he doesn't like its impact on brain function... and subsequently trying to push his TRT clients (which is alot) to lower T doses that don't require an AI.

-Jim

What impacts does adex have on brain function?

 

[Alpin]

Keep in mind that most guys take way less than what a female cancer patient would take, 1 mg EOD is a very hefty dose. Most guys on TRT will use 0.125-0.25 mg EOD-E3D.
Most men are not knocking Estrogen down to zero.
Still though, we don't know the long term effects. If I knock my estradiol too low I feel vertigo type symptoms, dry joints, dry skin.

 

[Alpin]

To add to this, a good doc will give you a little room to play around with dosages as long as you stay within the normal range. Then you can try things out and see what feels best.

Also, remember that being at the higher end of the normal range often means you have to take an Aromatase Inhibitor. AI's do affect your kidneys and liver. And they are an adex cost and someing else to remember to take. There are advantages to running your T a little lower and not needed additional medications. Many guys can't tell the difference between TT of 600 and 900.

600 TT is really not a bad level. I was running it and felt fine.
Bio Avail. T was in high end of normal as well. Estradiol was exactly 43 pg/ml though.
Keep in mind I was using HCG too in protocol.

 

[SJC]

What impacts does adex have on brain function?

I'm interested in the effects too. Time to hit up google

 

[Alpin]

I am new to this forurm but have been fighting hormones for years. Read around this place and other forums for long enough and you start to see those same guys come in later with E2 problems, thick blood, ED, gyno, etc, etc. While I don't care what anyone else does, it also can't be forgotten or ignored that more than half the guys in here, and else where, use their TRT prescriptions as legal performance enhancement and push well past where their bodies ever produced naturally. Again, I couldn't care less that they do it, but keep it in mind when you see them injecting large doses every week and feeling better.

Its very easy to think... well... I am already on test cyp, why not make the best of it and go for near top of the range values. The reality is that it is not needed in most cases. I read an article once about Dr Mark Gordon, Mr TRT to the celebs in California (generally considered one of the best in the world), and how he starts his guys at like 60mg and rarely goes much higher. Anyway... sometimes less is more.

Hell, just this weekend in a chat with my Dr, he was talking about new ADEX findings and how he doesn't like its impact on brain function... and subsequently trying to push his TRT clients (which is alot) to lower T doses that don't require an AI.

-Jim

Don't believe what ever you read on web pages.
Not many people are at 60 mg/week of T
Doses like that are gonna give you what????
Maybe 400 TT as a peak?
It will probably keep quite a few guys with hypo symptoms.

 

[Jimstigator]

What impacts does adex have on brain function?

Honestly, not sure! Don't want to spout bro science when I don't have details. I would like to believe he means in cases where men use adex and don't monitor E2, depriving the brain of estrogen? Again, I didn't get into the details. I pay too much money per hour with him to focus on anything for too long. Sorry man, I guess just take the comment for what it is.

To the don't believe everything you read on the internet jab... I always find it ironic to read that comment pointed towards me on an internet forum.

-Jim