LOL well i haven't hunted in many years so i don't think that's the culprit but my TT was 34, free T was 9. Pretty close to no help from my coin purse. With that said perhaps i have a different POV simply because im new to this hormone game and haven't been trained to think a certain way. The way i see it, me not being on test and being fairly unhealthy with my body comp, that will eventually take it's tole.
The best results i got were with IF, doing a 20/4 and that was so hard to do long term, i was a complete A hole from being hungry. Combine that with low EVERTHING in hormones and i may have lost a few lbs but i was miserable and cranky and still not lean. For me, bumping up my Test is far better an option, the only conversation here is how much to bump it and still call it TRT.
I say whatever allows me to enjoy life and be healthier than i would have been otherwise, that's good enough for me. Even if my bloods are good on 300g/w, might that have long term effects 40 years down the line that 100g wouldn't? Maybe, but NOBODY is doing everything they can in the healthiest way, it's a balance between happiness and healthiness.
So as long as a person isn't showing clear danger from a T dose, i don't see a reason to avoid it, regardless where that number lands. So far in several threads, there have been only one or two people who kept an open mind about a higher dose like mine, even though im not even close to my next bloodwork from this dose. It's just crazy that people on this kind of website are so quick to judge.
For me if it's a medical move done by a doctor, i call it TRT. The dose doesn't determine the word i use. But its just semantics anyway, i guess some people really really care about semantics bc look at the vitriol in these threads man.