Murks T levels (|) - Test results came back at 300

[Murk]

People keep saying I have low T and tbh I feel it myself hence getting checked. So after the massive failure last time (gave 5 vials of blood, got full check up, but no sex hormones), I went yesterday and gave another 2 vials of blood and checked "T, Free T, E2 (estradiol), Prolactin, SHBG" and one other (forgot).

Rather than wait until Monday to post this thread I'm doing it now because us ladies with low T like drama and attention xx.

I'm guessing low T, I'm expecting to find out I have a vagina and post-menopausal tbh. I've done lots of research the past 2 months, but I will update this thread and ask for help on how to raise my pathetic T levels.

 

[EyeBRollin]

How often do you guys recommend testing for T level?

 

[Stanley]

How often do you guys recommend testing for T level?

I do it every few months after having some health issues over the summer and trying to get back to baseline which I have. You can grab home kits online and at local brick mortar stores. My juiced up bodybuilding friends check it monthly.

I'm guessing low T, I'm expecting to find out I have a vagina and post-menopausal tbh. I've done lots of research the past 2 months, but I will update this thread and ask for help on how to raise my pathetic T levels.

If you're not going the TRT route a go to a tried and true 'Test' stack is
-Tongkat Ali 10%
-Magnesium
-Vitamin D
-Zinc

And if you're really going for it these too
-cistanche
-Boron glycinate
-Horny Goat Weed

 

[BackInTheGame78]

How often do you guys recommend testing for T level?

Probably at least once a year after age 35. Every 6 months would be ideal.

Every year, get a full hormone panel done(male and female).

Then at the 6 months mark you could just get a male hormone panel done.

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

How often do you guys recommend testing for T level?

I'm no expert, but hormones fluctate a lot and one single test won't be accurate. Seems like getting tested every month is the way to go to have a better average and be able to track how lifestyle/environmental changes affect everything.

I do it every few months after having some health issues over the summer and trying to get back to baseline which I have. You can grab home kits online and at local brick mortar stores. My juiced up bodybuilding friends check it monthly.




If you're not going the TRT route a go to a tried and true 'Test' stack is
-Tongkat Ali 10%
-Magnesium
-Vitamin D
-Zinc

And if you're really going for it these too
-cistanche
-Boron glycinate
-Horny Goat Weed

I would also include Fadogia Agrestis. My total T went from 550 to 1200 ng/dl in the span of a couple months which I attribute mainly to that.

Tongkat, Cistanche, Boron, Ashwagandha, are also promising (not horny goat weed though) but at that point you're spending so much $$ I don't see why you wouldn't just take low doses of T.

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

Yes they would, that's a snapshot of how are at the moment. Those test should be done the next day in the morning after the day before being fed with healthy food and a good night sleep of 7 hours, that's the snapshot of that moment. Then the next week they do the same, so its an average of two test.



How old are were you? Height and weight when that change happened?

Cause unless you were an obese mofo, eating junk food all day, no training, no sleeping and at 22 years, that's impossible to go from 550 to 1200 in a span of months.

That was only last year, I'm early 30s. No major changes in lifestyle. I can show you the bloodwork, I had another test about 3 weeks after the first and it was at 900 something, then went to the 1200 amount in another few weeks. So it's possible my initial 550 result was unusually low, I know I did the test in the evening, so maybe that skewed it.

 

[Murk]

Here we go, could someone decipher this for us and let me know if I have a vagina or not?



At a glance my estradiol is low and Albinum high, I tried to work out my free T on the website they provide but didn’t really understand and it looks low. I knew it.

edit: FYI I'm 6'2 (188cm) and 188lb (85kg) according to a body scan I'm 17.5% BF but carry most on my trunk as my arms and legs were like 14/15% BF I don't think they are accurate I'm prob fatter than that (not for long). I eat Keto and work out 6x per week, sometimes 5x. I think my T will go up just by consistent training and dieting to 13-10% bf

I think my low T and hormones is due to previous heavy alcohol, drug and tobacco use, high stress/cortisol and poor sleep due to owning a business and working crazy hours, coupled with limited sunlight exposure/vit D due to working inside all day. It was found that just 15-20 minutes spent outdoors can increase testosterone levels by up to 120% and Vit D is apparently a steroid hormone needed for T. Maybe it's since lockdown/starting my business I get no sunlight why my T is so low?

I think just being more healthy and reducing stress, getting out for my walks in the day, building muscle and losing fat, could boost it to high levels but I'll take these results to my doctor to talk through my options and get some advice.

Any advice from you men on here is very much welcome.

 

[Murk]

I think I suggested before to you that you should make sure your E2 test is E2 sensitive or ultrasensitive. They're the same thing. A standard E2 test is useless for men.

I got it for free (hospital hook up) so kinda limited on what I could check off, between this and the first blood test I’ve pretty much asked for everything I could get, I assume a sensitive e2 test has to be done privately/expensive?

I’m getting another test done with my doctor in about a month (maybe 6-7 weeks) so I can cross reference and see if there’s any improvement. I kinda slacked with diet and training over christmas, New Years and leading up to my birthday (when I done this test). So hoping I can improve in the next 6-7 weeks as I am back in militant mode.

 

[Murk]

You test there says 10.4 nmol/L which is equal to 299 ng/dL of the unit I was measured in my lab. My test was at 387 ng/dL, which is higher than yours and I was put on TRT, cause I had the symptoms of low T.

Your estradiol is not that low, men need some estrogen, not a lot but high, around the mid 20s.

In conclusion yes, you're turning into a woman, get to a clinic and get on some Trt

What about my prolactin and SHGB?

What were your low T symptoms?

I don’t really like needles it’s bad enough drawing blood, will the trt be needles in my arm every week and are there side effects? I’m very big on natural lifestyle I take no supplements other than occasional protein shake.

 

[Deranged]

What about my prolactin and SHGB?

What were your low T symptoms?

I don’t really like needles it’s bad enough drawing blood, will the trt be needles in my arm every week and are there side effects? I’m very big on natural lifestyle I take no supplements other than occasional protein shake.

Look, the pain of this needle is so small compared to what you can handle in life man. You're just getting in your head about it. If it's that big of a deal you can try the alternatives like creams or that injectable tab that lasts a month or so. Nothing will be as effective and consistent as injection.
Testosterone is a man's life blood. To have an abundance of it again (like when you were 16) will be game changing.

edit. they will be in your Azz not your arm haha

 

[Murk]

Look, the pain of this needle is so small compared to what you can handle in life man. You're just getting in your head about it. If it's that big of a deal you can try the alternatives like creams or that injectable tab that lasts a month or so. Nothing will be as effective and consistent as injection.
Testosterone is a man's life blood. To have an abundance of it again (like when you were 16) will be game changing.

edit. they will be in your Azz not your arm haha

Oh I'll take a shot in my azz any day, I'm just sick of needles in my veins. What are the side effects? Will I have to be on it forever?

I'm really keen on raising it myself and being a strong healthy man, I think my low T is due to my old lifestyle.

 

[Deranged]

Oh I'll take a shot in my azz any day, I'm just sick of needles in my veins. What are the side effects? Will I have to be on it forever?

I'm really keen on raising it myself and being a strong healthy man, I think my low T is due to my old lifestyle.

If you work with a doc and get bloods done regularly to ensure your hormones are properly balanced ie. before the sides kick in, then there should be none. The biggest side from TRT is usually elevated estrogen levels. Look up the symptoms of low and high E. If it gets too high you'll be emotional and may start developing breast tissue, bytch tits. Big surprise here right? Too many woman hormones, start to become one.

Yes, you'll be on it perpetually until you decide you're either too old to care any more cause you're in your 70's and you've had enough young azz or if you want to have a kid it's recommended you come off to conceive. No hard and fast rules here though. Plenty of guys have impregnated women while on TRT or full cycles.

Yeah to try and raise it naturally is always a great call. I don't want to deter you from that but it seems in the modern age it's an uphill battle and I can't quite put my finger on why. It just doesn't produce the results it should, almost like our modern genetics are damaged. Or something exogenous is preventing results. The way I see it, we have the advantage of modern intervention- in this case understanding hormones and having the ability to attain them exogenously- an option our ancestors did not have.

 

[Deranged]

Actually if he doesn't carry too much fat on his delts, he can hit there with a 1/2" insulin pin. Hardly noticeable.



I think you need to research it a little more... You don't inject any hormones into your veins. They're into the muscle so the esters have time to cleave, releasing at a steady rate into your system.

Haha fat on delts, a blessing from the gods!

We can get very nuanced about getting the hormones in the body via injection.

From my research, daily sub-cutaneous injections are proving to be the most stable for estrogen fluctuations. Some guys taking 250mg /week (which is a baby cycle) without a aromatize inhibitor to control the E levels. You could never blast that much intra muccular 1x a week without your E2 getting completely out of wack.

 

[Deranged]

I don't know.... Research vs actual accounts can vary... From what I've seen, many(majority) of people that inject hormones via sub-cutaneous route develop welts, and abscess easier. IM injections have been done for decades, you'll see there are less reports of adverse reactions at the injection sites.

Yes, this is a possible side effect of daily sub-q injections. These fat deposits or lipomas can get absorbed back into the body over time. Unless you're single digit body fat no one will see or notice them. Abscesses and cysts are pretty rare and avoidable if you're practicing safe injection habits. You can basically inject anywhere on the body going sub-q, so alternating sites is not an issue like with IM you're stuck with quads(not recommended, so many nerves and vascularity, even though this seems to be the most popular site), glutes and delts.

 

[Murk]

I think you need to research it a little more... You don't inject any hormones into your veins. They're into the muscle so the esters have time to cleave, releasing at a steady rate into your system.

I've done 0 research on TRT because I never planned on using it, I never thought my T levels would be so low (I don't think they are) and I know just by training hard and eating right with no drink/drugs/more sunlight I will get a boost and double it (that's my goal).

If you work with a doc and get bloods done regularly to ensure your hormones are properly balanced ie. before the sides kick in, then there should be none. The biggest side from TRT is usually elevated estrogen levels. Look up the symptoms of low and high E. If it gets too high you'll be emotional and may start developing breast tissue, bytch tits. Big surprise here right? Too many woman hormones, start to become one.

Yes, you'll be on it perpetually until you decide you're either too old to care any more cause you're in your 70's and you've had enough young azz or if you want to have a kid it's recommended you come off to conceive. No hard and fast rules here though. Plenty of guys have impregnated women while on TRT or full cycles.

Yeah to try and raise it naturally is always a great call. I don't want to deter you from that but it seems in the modern age it's an uphill battle and I can't quite put my finger on why. It just doesn't produce the results it should, almost like our modern genetics are damaged. Or something exogenous is preventing results. The way I see it, we have the advantage of modern intervention- in this case understanding hormones and having the ability to attain them exogenously- an option our ancestors did not have.

Ok great insight, thanks. I live near a hospital and know plenty of people who work there so I can roll in and get whatever I need done for free. Getting the results just takes a while because it's all off the books. However, the idea of TRT without trying to raise T naturally first seems very extreme. I figured my T was low (hence testing it), and I believe I can naturally change that.

I believe we are being attacked from all angles, food, water, air, media, lifestyle, medication, work, stress. I plan to eradicate as much as I can and see if this experiment can work.

I'll get my blood checked every 8 weeks moving forward and if it's not improving by Summer/Autumn I will then consider TRT.

What do you guys consider healthy/beneficial T level ranges?

 

[Deranged]

I believe we are being attacked from all angles, food, water, air, media, lifestyle, medication, work, stress. I plan to eradicate as much as I can and see if this experiment can work.


What do you guys consider healthy/beneficial T level ranges?

I agree. If you want to boost naturally, your going to have to min/max that shvt. All or nothing. Put in a year effort minimum. Go all out, add cold showers, semen retention if it helps you, sleep in a faraday cage, 9hrs sleep minimum, go all out man.

Or just poke yourself daily/once a week.

Too hard to answer. Everyone is different. Some guys do just fine low T and never even know. Some guys are miserable unless they are at the absolute upper natural limit.

 

[Murk]

I agree. If you want to boost naturally, your going to have to min/max that shvt. All or nothing. Put in a year effort minimum. Go all out, add cold showers, semen retention if it helps you, sleep in a faraday cage, 9hrs sleep minimum, go all out man.

Or just poke yourself daily/once a week.

Too hard to answer. Everyone is different. Some guys do just fine low T and never even know. Some guys are miserable unless they are at the absolute upper natural limit.

Yeah I'm thinking of cold showers daily (starting off warm to wash then cold at the end) got talking to one guy in the sauna at the weekend who kept going on about the Ice man Wim Hof.

I converted my blood results and this is what it's giving me;

Free Testerstorone: 0.21 nmol/L = 2.02 %
Bioavailable Testosterone: 5.92 nmol/L = 56.8 %
FAI: 40

My SHBG is 26 (10-57 range) and lower is a good thing as it free's up more T.

My Albumin is high 52 (35-50 range) which I think is also causing the low T. "Albumin binds to and transports hormones, including testosterone. When bound to albumin, testosterone is not as available for the body to use as when it is free, thus albumin inhibits the function of testosterone."

From my research this evening, my results are the low end of a healthy range.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

What about my prolactin and SHGB?

What were your low T symptoms?

I don’t really like needles it’s bad enough drawing blood, will the trt be needles in my arm every week and are there side effects? I’m very big on natural lifestyle I take no supplements other than occasional protein shake.

TRT doesn't go in your arm. If you are doing injections into the muscle it's usually in your upper hip/butt area. If you are doing subQ, you can do it on the abdomen/quad area right beneath the hip where you can pinch skin and get an easy skinfold to use. I'd strongly suggest to do SubQ...it's at least as good as intra-muscular injections and some newer studies claim it's better. Plus it's far easier to do yourself.

Testosterone is natural, it's literally the hormone your body produces.

 

[Murk]

You test there says 10.4 nmol/L which is equal to 299 ng/dL of the unit I was measured in my lab. My test was at 387 ng/dL, which is higher than yours and I was put on TRT, cause I had the symptoms of low T.

Mine is 300.04 ng/dL

Maybe it's due to stress/high cortisol.

Good for having goals, but you're not going to double it. Keep posting your results with your lifestyle changes.

I will be glad to prove you wrong. My first goal is 12% bodyfat as that is optimal T range so no point even stressing about T until I get to 12%

I’m curious, did you guys on TRT get down to 12% bf before injecting yourself?

I will incorporate everything else (cold showers, diet, vit d/zinc/magnesium/ginger, excise, 8+ hours sleep while working down to 12% bf. I’m going to also get sunlight every day and try to reduce stress. Oh and maintain my reduction in alcohol, drugs, tobacco.

My goal is 600 (currently 300). I will post my blood results in here and hopefully give someone inspiration to boost T naturally.

Testosterone Week: How I Doubled My Testosterone Levels Naturally and You Can Too

How I increased my testosterone naturally in just 90 days.

www.artofmanliness.com

This guy doubled his T naturally in 90 days, starting from (383 ng/dL and free T 7.2) to (778 ng/dL and free T 14.4 pg/mL). He tripled it after 120 days to a total T of 826.9 ng/dL. And you don't think I can get from 300 to 600? I’m going to be doing this all year/forever. I might even quintuple it. In a few years, your TRT injections may consist solely of my blood that I will be shipping out globally once I become the highest T man in living history. But seriously, you can boost it massively naturally without going straight to TRT or other supplements, especially if you're over 12% BF and haven't tried the natural route for 4 months. The fact you think I can't double it means you probably jumped the gun getting TRT in the first place. You probably could boost your own T naturally.

 

[EyeBRollin]

I would try the natural route before messing with trt. Start with diet, sleep, and exercise. Get off that damn Keto. I can tell you that is not god for T.