Exogenous testosterone supplementation induces potentially permanent primary hypogonadism in patients that don't already have it. It can also eventually more or less completely atrophy the testes. Those effects can be partially counteracted by additional drugs, cycling, and so on, but those approaches have their own problems.
Some doctors want to go straight to testosterone supplementation, but I would insist on first eliminating secondary hypogonadism as a cause of low serum testosterone. See a good urologist or endocrinologist who will work with you to figure out root cause to the extent possible. There are treatments for secondary hypogonadism that will restore testosterone to very high levels in individuals with healthy testes.
I hope that statement is a joke and just reference to that insane Alex Jones clip. But if it's not, no amount of estrogenic compounds will turn you gay. Otherwise MTF folks would be universally straight after taking hormone therapy.
[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/frogs-rev...
It's probably just as much of a concern for females as for males. The idea of "estrogen" as "the female hormone" is a significant oversimplification.
Turns out running 8 miles every day and not eating over 100g of protein and not having enough fat KILLS your hormones because you're always in a catabolic state.
Now I only lift heavy, fixed my macros, get better sleep, focus on muscle mass, and DON'T need TRT. My natural T levels tripled in only 2 years.
Some biased ideas of "healthy" are not optimal.
How do you manage to keep 100g of protein daily?
What is fixing macros?
How do you know you were in catabolic state, were you constantly loosing weight?
mind sharing what kind of shots?
The science is a long way from having conclusive evidence either way, but there is a reasonable basis to think that it might have an impact, which should urge caution. If we found a new material that looked a lot like asbestos under a microscope, you'd presumably limit your exposure to it until proven safe?
Anyway if I recall correctly that research suggests that higher prenantal T exposure increases likelihood of homosexuality, the opposite of what stereotypes might suggest
Lunch is a can of cooked chicken breast, 2 cups of fat free Greek yogurt , and a small salad with olive oil and vinegar.
Dinner is typically whatever my wife decides to make. She's Greek so a lot of Greek and Mediterranean food. Salads at every meal.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8360789/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6402915/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652...
When on TRT, the naturally produced stuff is for all intents and purposes useless because you will be shooting up plenty that any extra will probably aromatise into estrogen anyway.
Guys (and maybe girls), get a full blood panel done that shows you the exact numbers of lipid, testosterone , and estrogen in your body.
I got panels done and was blown away by how low my T levels were (talking less than 250 ng/dl, full blown hypogonadism). My lipid panels show I had high ldl cholesterol and my blood pressure was high.
Worse yet, I work out 5 times a week, run, and eat a very healthy diet. I have a very healthy weight.
I've started taking 100ml shots split out twice a week. Over the past 6 weeks my pre and post blood works are startling.
LDL dropped considerably. My blood pressure dropped and is nowich safer.
It's death by a thousand cuts with all of these chemicals out there that turn friggin frogs gay poisoning us.
(Alex Jones ref btw)