2 books you should read.

#1 The Primal Blueprint #2 The 4 hour body The amount of phytoestrogen in the typical American diet is killing T. If you couple heavy lifting exercises and a primal diet with casual exposure to women of childbearing years, your T will skyrocket. I have a sub-diet of my primal lifestyle just for T boost. lots of grass fed or wild game celery brasil nuts almonds niacine K3 D2 cod liver oil/ wild caught fish I also do heavy lifting. I just did a 5X5 set of 1.5X my body weight deadlifts and decline situps with 50# barbell on my chest. you First have to remove the things that are blocking your T. Then you need to eat things that boost your T. then you need to do things that cause T production. ------------------The study, published in a recent issue of Pschoneuroendocrinology, appears to confirm the existence of a chemical found on human skin that can change the mood and behavior of other people. And the chemical gains access to the brain through an organ previously believed to serve no function, according to the study's authors. This type of chemical, known as a pheromone, is known to be important in the animal kingdom and is responsible for many aspects of animal sexual behavior. The finding that these chemicals also work in humans may lead to new drugs and a new type of drug-delivery system. In the meantime, it has led to a new drug company. Human pheromones have been a subject of debate and research for decades. In order for a chemical to meet the definition of a pheromone, it not only has to have an effect on a person's nervous system, it must also alter their behavior. Pheromones are undetected by the people whom they affect. "We definitely found that human beings communicate with each other with pheromones, just like any terrestrial animal, and they do it through the same organ that all these terrestrial animals have, which is a vomeronasal organ [VNO], which all human beings have," David L. Berliner, MD, an author of the study, tells WebMD. Berliner, who is now president and CEO of Pherin Pharmaceuticals, says that when he was a professor of anatomy at the University of Utah, he took it for granted that the human VNO didn't perform any function. In humans, VNOs exist in small pits inside the nose, but they are very different from the parts of the nose that detect smells. -------------I know alot about this issue having sold in the market, personal relationships with urologists and endocrinologists the gold standard is frequent intramuscular injections (100mgs every week to 10 days)

transdermal administration via gels/patches is subject to various enzymantic reductions such as 5-alpha reductase to DHT docs who dont know anything recommend 1 monthly shot, and doctors who know a little more than nothing prescribe 2x monthly shots. that will subject one to "peaks and troughs"... i recommend supplementing with barleans fish oil vit D3 zinc picolinate -----------------There is a lot to go into on this one. Highlighted above are classic low T symptoms. They can be misdiagnosed as depression when in fact it is a hormonal imbalance.

1.) There is a huge range in what is considered "normal" for male T levels. there is also the difference between Total T and Free T. 300 -1,000 ng/dL is the "normal" range for Total T, but look at that spread! One third of the top level is still "normal". But that is not the whole story. Testosterone is carried around the blood stream and delivered to your cells by SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin). SHBG has to give the T up to become available to the cells. The normal range for this is 5-21 ng/dL. So...you could have a Total T of 900, but Free T of 6 and feel like crud. Likewise you could have a lower Total T and higher Free T and be ok. 2.) 100mg per month of Testosterone Cypionate or Ethanate is woefully inadequate for all but the smallest man. The presence of exogenous T will shut down your natural production, so you really can't augment your natural supply, you need to replace it. The average 200 lb man will need 100mg+/week to keep the T levels in the upper third of normal. 3.) Gels have higher conversion rate to dihydrotestosterone than does the injectable. The dihyro T is the hormone that is hard on your prostate (in some). 4.) Is there an symptom that might indicate the need to get tested? Yes, and it is a simple one. If you no longer awake pretty frequently with a morning erection, chances are you are running low on T. 5.) Who to see? In most areas, a Urologist would be my first suggestion. In bigger metro areas, you might find MD's that specialize in Age Management medicine. 6.) T replacement therapy is controversial in some circles. Many MDs are not well versed in it, don't believe in it, and refuse to acknowledge it. Medicare and INS rarely provide any benefits to cover it. -------------------------The consequences of the virtually unrestricted use of hormones, antibiotics, and other "modern" farming techniques are far-reaching indeed. One of the things I learned over 30 years ago, when my son was a toddler, was that plastics leach estrogenic compounds into foods and beverages. There was credible peer-reviewed research at that time showing that this was having a negative impact on sperm counts in young adult males. Average sperm counts in reproductive-age American males have been dropping

since the 1950's, and the consensus was that the major cause of this was/is introduction of estrogenic compounds in foods and beverages, in no small part due to use of plastic containers. My ex-wife and I stopped buying plastic bottles of food, beverages, etc, and went to all glass and metal. Foods are never cooked in plastic containers in the microwave. Almost all of our meat is wild venison shot by me or my son, and what little meat we buy comes from organic farms. Dunno if this has had an effect on my testosterone levels or not, but so far my T levels are highnormal, and I'm pushing 60. Of course, my age means I had the advantage of very few plastics and hormone-injected meats in my younger years. I strongly encourage anyone with young boys in their family to guard them from plastics, nonorganic meats and milk, and phytoestrogens like soy products. -----------------------------Haven't read the books, but this is the direction you should look hard at. Intense short-burst exercise will help you a lot, I don't care if you feel like doing it, just do it. No soy, no processed foods, cut all starches, eat meat(grass fed, non GH) and vegetables and you will be a new man in no time. Doc's don't have a good handle on endocrine issues IMO, too many things affect them. Other body systems have to be fixed before they will come online. With all the GH fed to slaughter animals and the GMO crops, we will see more and more problems of this nature. ----------------------------------http://24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/7401150/9

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