Androgen replacement therapy

Yeah.

And it's like, while I do totally understand the benefits of TRT and, you know, HRT and having proper medical oversight, et cetera, like some of the justifications for like DECA and Winstrel and stuff that is clearly only included to enhance your image to like in your 40s, there's nothing ancestral or conducive to longevity about adding in Winstrel.

Like, let's be fucking honest.

So, when he said it didn't help, it's just like, well, what was the desired outcome of it to begin with?

again.

So something you brought up, which we were kind of interested in, right? So at some point, I'm assuming, and you can tell us what happened, you've looked at TRT.

And one of the things that came up when you were looking at TRT was was this bizarre issue of where you lived versus if you lived a little bit closer to the state line, as you said in your show notes, making it easier for you to get a prescription.

So talk about first thinking about CLT and then this particular state line issue in regards to getting a prescription.

Yeah.

I was in my late 40s and I was still in really good condition.

And I was like.

when I turned 50, I'm going to go to the TRT clinic and go ahead and get on TRT.

i mean this is not a direct study based on what we've discussed on testosterone but i came across an interesting piece of maybe adjacent research uh it was an integrated analysis of over 1500 men exposed to androgen-based male contraceptive regimens and they found that actually the recovery to a sperm concentration of 20 you know million per mil occurred in approximately 67% by six months, 90% by 12 months, 96% of men by 16 months, and then eventually all the men had returned to at least that normal sperm count by around 24 months in those trial populations.

And I think, you know, it's worth noting that obviously these were controlled male contraceptive studies, you know, generally involving healthy men, not necessarily people who have taken TRT and anabolic steroid for years, but maybe that is some sort of proxy that can warn recovery, you know, that it can take months, if not years of recovery, if you're abusing steroids or taking it inappropriately.

Yeah, and we're increasingly finding there's an interesting divergence so that if you particularly take what we would all call steroids, roids, with very, very strong high doses, there's a concern that it could in some cases take...

Most men will recover within 12 months, but in some, there's a possibility that it could take years.

But if you take it excessively, it's likely to worsen your health.

Now, we spoke before about the risks of diabetes.

short, medium, and maybe even long-term infertility by inappropriately using TRT and testosterone and these other hormones.

Now, I don't know why, but I often see this strong correlation between, or sometimes men interchangeably assuming that testosterone equals sperm health and sperm health equals testosterone.

also what matters to the patient, right? Some patients, even as an example, Jim, they go on ADT, right? And then you go for several years and say, this is horrible.

So you know what? I'm actually going to do TRT.

I'm going to do testosterone replacement therapy.

And that's not that off, by the way, even with the current science.

Then it became more off than on until 40, and I've been consistently in the gym and the kitchen since.

I'm now almost 44 and on TRT only, 100 milligrams a week.

I was...

You know what happens when you have a really long message and

I would ask, I'd tell the guy this video, take a video.

of your where we can see your breathing because I would love to assess it based on a video but I would say do it from the front and I would say also do it a little bit from the side because we may need the side profile to see what your stomach even if you have a belt on your gut and your rib cage will see something in there and be able to give you I think better feedback than just trying to wonder what does it look like what is this rep tempo things like that

yeah well I use test sip because that's what my TRT clinic prescribes.

In a bodybuilding context, when we implement other test esters in Y, siponate, anethate, proponate, undecanoate, suspension, sustenon.

And so I actually have a good story about that, because for me, I'll try to answer your question more directly, but I want to share this first.

When I started taking TRT.

Actually, I didn't have many of the issues.

I was okay in the gym.

I mean, not uncommon, but it's more rare for a guy to be on testosterone now, I would say, than not.

I think that will invert.

You know, I think most guys over 40 will be on some form of TRT or anabolic in the next 10 or 20 years.

I'd buy that.

And it seems like

specifically with women, because I mean, we've heard about like for guys like TRT for a long time.

That's been around for at least, you know, I mean, you and I have been, you know, as long as we've been, you know, having TRT pitched at us for probably 15 years.

And 15 at least.

Yeah.

I'm not going to go and take anabolics.

I take a baseline of TRT at 75, your testosterone does start to decline.

And one of the reasons is because it's such a small molecular structure compared to folistatin itself, or even compared to the molecular antibodies that other companies try to do.

So its penetration is much better, and it's turned out to be a very effective myostatin inhibitor.

Well, that's interesting because we're going to be talking about endocrine solutions and hormones right now.

And this is probably one of the hottest topics out there these days from TRT to pellets to injections to GLP-1s and all these different things that people are so into now.

It wasn't that long ago that people were actually like totally against hormones.

So what we want to do is we want people to get the maximum results possible.