Hey @Ty Vincent — you've said most men find their plateau at a total testosterone somewhere in the 2000–2500 ng/dL range. Mine came back at 1764 on my last panel, so I've increased my dose. What should I be watching for to know I'm in the sweet spot? I read your post on dropping your own dose at 53. Fatigue, joint and muscle pain, general ill feeling, and then better energy and mobility once you came down. What I can't work out is how you told that apart from being too LOW, since you've said overdose tends to reproduce the same deficiency symptoms. You mentioned feeling that way for a year or more before acting. What finally made you read it as too much rather than too little? And at 45 rather than 53, would you read the same symptoms the same way?

I've been thinking about trying TRT ever since I heard all the problems it solves, however I am scared of the fertility side effects. I have watched lots of videos on the subject, including yours, and I've seen a lot of people online try TRT. I think the information I have seen is vague; "when you take test your balls turn off, but you can take HCG to turn your balls back on." I fear most TRT advocates and users online aren't backed enough by studies that are convincing to me. I have searched and searched for that china study you mention a lot in your videos and the only study I found was from 2003 which tested 300 men with a low dose of 500ng a month. I don't think that's the one you reference but it's the only one I could find. I haven't really seen any cases of 18 year olds or younger being on it long enough to definitively say if fertility is for sure not an issue long term. I plan to have kids when I'm 30. I don't want to be on TRT for 10 years and then find out I can't have kids. Thats very scary to me. i don't want to cycle on and off TRT to preserve my natural production. And I'd prefer not to take hcg weekly with the TRT (will if I have to i guess). If I could just have a clearer answer I will get on TRT in a heartbeat. I'm pretty healthy and have good habits, I'm active with sports, gym, and did well in high school. I just realized one Day that I have all the symptoms of low test; unmotivated, low energy, brain fog, hard to wake up, anxious all the time, moody. My parents always said that I'm just a teenager I'll grow out of it, it's just a phase. got tested and what do you know I have low test Side note: attached at the bottom is my lab from about a year ago (I was 17) I'm 18 now, though I reckon I feel the same low test symptoms. I'm getting retested soon. I convinced my dad to get on TRT through all the information on your website so thank you.

Hey @Ty Vincent I appreciate all the guidance you've been providing. I'm hoping you could offer some perspective on sleep. I go to bed around 8:00–8:30 p.m. aiming for 7–8 hours, and I wake almost every night at 2:00–3:00 a.m. and struggle to get back down. What's already covered, from your sleep guidance: - No artificial light in the bedroom at all, including taped-over device LEDs - No screens in the evening — no TV, no phone - No food within two hours of bed - No caffeine after noon - I've very calm before bed and fall asleep in mins The other piece is nighttime urination: I'm up 2–3 times, usually once around 10 p.m.–midnight and again at 2:00–3:00 a.m. I drink roughly 1–1.5 gallons of water a day and cut fluids off around 5:00 p.m. I'm curious how you'd think about this. Is the nocturia likely driving the sleep issue, or could something else be contributing to both? Appreciate your perspective.

Hey guys, I’ve been on test for about a year now. I’ve been feeling constantly lethargic and unmotivated no matter how much sleep I get. My E2 is 211pmol/L on 150mg of test a week. Do you think this could be too high and potentially contributing to how I’m feeling? What are your thoughts?

My current plan is to do live Q&A sessions two Sundays per month (every-other Sunday, so there should be one month {and in some years 2, since there are 52 full weeks in a year plus 1-2 extra days depending on the year and a roughly 18% chance of an extra Sunday in a given year} where there are three such Sundays - my brain made me clarify that, sorry) The next is planned for next weekend August 30th at 8am Hawaii time like last weekend. I'll tentatively keep it at that schedule until a number of people request they be held at other times. If you cannot attend live, feel free to send me questions to address during the session and a recording with those answers/discussions will be available afterward.