@SpicyPeater It’s fine lol, I think Peat said 1mg K2 per 325mg aspirin is a good amount, also glycine from gelatin powder/ gelatinous bone broth is good when taking aspirin. If you’re doing both of those aspirin is extremely safe. Even if you aren’t, aspirin is still very safe to take

I had heard a few drops on the testicles was good for boosting T... is this advisable?

I'd imagine that it all depends on what's causing/caused the back pain to begin with. Are you able to provide any detail? Location of pain, injury type, cause of pain e.g. lifting etc etc

@Hugh I have tried topical application as well on the scalp and wrists without much effect

This thread might be helpful

@Sippy said in Melasma: Does anyone have experience with melasma? Is it always caused by estrogen and low thyroid? Should it go away once estrogen is lowered and thyroid is working well? Can topical progesterone make it worse? I developed some on my upper lip over the past couple years and can't seem to find much solid info on it. Using topical Niacinamide daily, supplementing thyroid and have lowered estrogen. Has anyone used topical melatonin? I had it Pretty badly Maybe for a year or two, when I was at my sickest alongside of periocular dermatitis as well Oh And milia. Can I pinpoint to what caused it? No, because I had high prolactin, high cortisol, high estrogen, and low progesterone at the time I was also under nourished with very low blood sugar But I did want to say that it completely resolved on its own with no supplements, and no allopathic interventions And it’s never come back

How many calories are you eating and do you hit all micros? Do you have any symptoms of gut dysfunction, food sensitivities etc?

@jens I drink so much liquid so I figured this could help me improve my metabolism. Luckily, a lot of the bleeding in the stool has stopped. Not all of it though, it has gone down I'd say 80%. I think the sodium bicarbonate I took helped accelerate healing

@izkrov Yeah that's Ray's take on it. It's important to understand the TRT community has very different views, and actually isn't that compatible with ours. We do "patch work" here to mix some of the ideas in the TRT community with bioenergetics. Standard TRT protocol is usually something like 120 up to 250 a week. Typically test cypionate. 4mgs won't raise blood levels which is what the TRT is purposed for. Of course this can cause issues. For one, test cypionate is a longer acting ester. Your levels won't mimic the diurnal rhythm. I don't think we've yet fully understood the implications of this. Most of the "bros" seems to think this is good, because longer esters mean more stabilized androgens at a higher level. But this could have serious adverse effects too. Like being at an increased risk of hyperestrogenicity, clots, stroke, and the like. It will have a prolonged suppression on the HPTA as well, lowering fertility (unless you take hCG, which has it's own set of risks) and eventually upstream hormones like P5, P4, and DHEA.

Pyrucet, aspirin, or vitamin E would all be good choices by lowering adrenaline and free fatty acids. Salt, calcium, and progesterone play facilitative roles as well. Optimizing thyroid and carbon dioxide will increase glucose oxidation. CO2 baths, cynoplus, vitamin B1, and serotonin antagonists. They all accomplish very similar things via different mechanisms. Optimize your androgens. To keep your androgens naturally high you need good thyroid function, vitamin D3, vitamin A, zinc, magnesium. Keep heavy metals chelated.

It might be worth reading about heavy metals, these can cause gut issues, not the case for everyone but just worth exploring. Look at our citrus pectin thread for how to do a 'poor mans' heavy metal test.

@the-MOUSE fwiw the doctor prescribed me cefixime trihydrate 400mg / day and azihromycin dihydrate 1000mg/day feels so shitty, it's making me so bloated and giving me a headache

Also just like to mention that I did do antibiotics as well and the acne came back worse after doing them and it messed up my digestion for a good while. I’d not recommend messing with your gut so heavily as people tend to do here unless you get the proper nutrition to make up for all the gut producing vitamins like B’s and K.

Sorry for your misfortune. You're not alone though, many dudes get gyno when the androgens start kicking in during high-school. I knew a couple I went to school with that were pretty much the same. Not sure how I escaped it, I was a fat ass kid. After the hormones kicked in on me I lost some weight, so I guess I didn't have the genetics for it. Unfortunately weight isn't the only thing I lost. RIP my hair line, lol. If I were you, I'd probably try a more gentle approach in the beginning. Like eating a bunch of cooked button mushrooms, and/or taking something like grape seed extract. Aromatase inhibitors can be rough. Hell I'm 30 and I won't even fuck with them. Anastrozole and letrozole can cause inflammation and autoimmune conditions. Exemestane is a suicidal AI, and can be pretty unforgiving if you take too much of it. There's some good OTC AI's you might could try. I love Inhibit-E. It's not that clean though, they put silicon and titanium dioxide in it. But it's the only one that I've found lowers E2 just enough without actually crashing it. Iron Legion's Virtus is very strong, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you're like on a TRT cycle or something. I've also herd good things about Black Lion Research's Letrone. Never tried it myself though. It has green tea extract in it, which made me shy away from it because that inhibits DHT. I've also heard some people getting good results with Sustain Alpha, but that has resveratrol in it, which is questionable to say the least. Because of all this, I still think Inhibit-E is the best OTC AI. It's got some naughty fillers in it, but none of it's actives are really suspect.