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Although you are only one anecdote, can you share your experience:
1. Do you think it helped get you back to where you were in your 20's?
>Yes. Once age + other factors hit a certain point you get to "use it or lose it" and its much easier to recover and bounce back into training if I'm not in a "low T" state. I was athletic before, I so definitely notice and feel -10 to 15 years. I do moderate TRT, not even high dose. But keeps me at "high normal" instead of "low, but acceptable"
2. Did it actually help get more strength, more muscle, less bodyfat than even before?
>Yes, but that's also due to time + experience training + cooking better as I got older - versus me living off the military/university base 'chow halls' + EAS Myoplex lol.
(every "this old man tried TRT and see what happened" makes it look like it works more than just replacement)
> It's called photoshop + models. It will help you return to 'former glory' and maybe exceed only through rigorous training and diet. TRT or PEDs are an aid... not a free lunch, work is still required.
3. Would you recommend it to people like me, who are in the low-normal medical range, but want to improve somehow?
>Sure, but get comprehensive bloodwork, know what is means (metabolic, CBC, liver/kidney, cholesterol, and other middle aged male markers). The bloodwork will let you know..
My waking levels are around 320-350, which has always been low for my age. Many hucksters, alternative medicine doctors with ulterior motives, or uninformed opinions say that, even though within the reference range, it is still so low for someone who was in his 20's (at the time), now later 30's.
> See for me, this is when I feel meh, OK "low normal" but rates of recovery, healing, and energy levels are not the same as 700-900 range free test level feeling like I have mojo.
Yet, many fail to understand that reference ranges were developed on millions of people, with billions of data points, to be able to discern "acceptable" versus "unacceptable" to prevent and real deficiencies.
>Yep, for example - I had an anti bodybuilding endocrinologist lady, who initially stuck me with 60mgs/week for a 6'2" ~200lbs male. Sure this is like "apocalypse minimum" dosing, if I have nothing but survival gear (with TRT in them). That 60mg/s week of Test Cyp works when Test is rare, for health reasons.
>But geez, I'm 42, trying run a business, family, and workout too - kind of need "mid-high" normal so I can function like I'm 25 years old again.. physically for as long as possible (not some old man dose for min "acceptable" non-sense). In otherwords, F*ck this slow decline, like I'm some rotting fruit theory. Just my two cents on my anti-male lady endocrinologist. Getting my TX urologist to titrate my dose up in a few months.
>One can take things like Nutriissa cycle support and just moderately high TRT and your bloodwork will be perfect, unless you have underlying issues...
I know many chiropractors, etc. claim pseudoscientific "functional medicine" should allow someone to be more optimal, not just in the reference range.
>Why is a chiropractor advising on this, do they prescribe TRT? LOL, I wound up here because a chiropractor gave my buddy Super DMZ 2.0 some years back... Should be urologist or endocrinologist... that is both "anti-harm" + "pro-workout", not some old lady with an anti-male, axe to grind like I had in CA before.
However, that speaks more to their ignorance or outright deliberate deception than actual real medicine?
"Your regular doctor will say you are acceptable, but do it my way with vitamins and you will be better than that"
>Yep, it's all lawyers + statistical risk avoidance. A blood-work knowledgable, health minded TRT clinic (there are more advanced ones) will do "hormone optimization" and not just juice you up... if you don't do the urologist route. Regular docs still think Test = controlled substance, they try this minimalist approach + vitamins which is fine for 'sedentary folks'.