Posts made by Mulloch94

It's okay, probably the closest DHT analogue to what DHT will actually provide, but there's still some degree of difference. The benefits I notice was increase thermogenesis and emotional resilience. It could also relax me well, but this can quickly turn into a negative if you over do it. Androsterone, to me anyways, was powerfully GABAnergic. It rivals progesterone in this regard in terms of it's effects. To much andro will make me crash.

Another - I guess you could say benefit - was I actually noticed it's pheromonal effects working for me, quite well in fact. I don't do half-bad with getting dates under normal circumstances, but I started noticing an inordinary (or I guess "extraordinary" is a better word) amount of female attention when I was dosing this stuff topically. It wasn't in my head either, I know what my going success rate is under ordinary circumstances, and this was different.

One of these women I met while I was serving jury duty was damn near in a trance sitting beside me. I'm not joking, I actually started to worry she was staring me down because I had something on my face lol. I was wiping my mouth in case I had food or something on it. After we got out of there I struck up a conversation with her and got her number. Maybe she was just naturally into me, who knows. But that occurred during a time when I was using the product daily. Coincidence maybe, but you never know. And she wasn't the only one I noticed similar type effects from. If you want to add to your "game" then I would at least give it a shot. Worst thing it could do is simply not work.

"It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'." - Robert Anton Wilson

@ShiftGear low-fat dairy is one of the better ways to cut down on the fat calories. Leaner cuts of meat too. Instead of that 85/15 hamburger opt for the 93/7 hamburger. When you do need to use fat, for like cooking or something, use coconut oil as it's less likely to disturb glucose oxidation with all the MCTs in it. I've personally noticed even if I eat a slightly higher amount of fat it doesn't bother my weight if it's coconut oil. I'm someone who historically been able to put on weight really easily if I'm not strict about my nutrition too.

You should also get your thyroid checked to rule out any secondary androgen deficiencies due to hypothyroidism. If your prolactin is high, and you don't have hypothyroidism, then ruling out a pituitary tumor would be a good idea as well.

@Cerbrosyn said in How to cope with not having optimal development:

Thanks for the info. It'll be hard to come by DHT in my country but I'll try, what do you think of progesterone for masculinization?

Probably not the first alternative I'd resort to. P4 can be anti-androgenic, and if males want to take a larger dose of it then using some sort of androgen with it would probably be best to offset it's effects.

If you can't get DHT, then I think the best alternative would be using the Pansterone + Kuinone combination. That's Pregnenolone (P5) + Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) + Menaquinone-4 (K2). This is probably one of the best legally available androgenic stacks. Lots of males have reported beneficial effects from it.

@dan-saintdominic That's interesting. 800mgs was the "sweet spot" dose that raised T in the human athletes I was thinking of here. It seems like aspirin's effects on steroids is definitely a U shaped curve. With dosages right under 1 gram being the best.

@sexpresso69 Oh wow, that is kinda high. I royally fucked up how I was converting that then. For some reason I got like 140mgs lmao.

@sexpresso69 Not really sure. I didn't read the whole thing, it's 88 pages. First thing I like to do with mice studies is finding out what the HED of the dosages are, just to make sure they're not taking some insanely large dose. If I did the conversion right I don't think either 5mg/kg or 25mg/kg is that large. Maybe someone else can elaborate on it.

There was a study done in humans showing athletes increased their T on aspirin. I also recall a randomized controlled trial done in women, showing the aspirin group had statistically significant reductions in estradiol compared to the placebo. So perhaps in the grand scheme of things a mice study doesn't mean much.

Regardless my personal opinion is not to rely on aspirin as a aromatase inhibitor or T booster. 80-325mgs daily would be good for general anti-cancer protection. Those are safe dosages that can be done indefinitely. The really high dosages are for people who already have diagnosed cancer.

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@ShiftGear said in Cravings - cheese and fat intake:

Could there be a nutritional explanation behind this?

Most likely not. It's a sensory thing, we recognize fat is delicious. It's easily the most addictive macronutrient. When I was doing keto many years ago, my most favorite food to eat was frying up fatty chunks off a steak or chuck. I actually got a local farmer to sell me a bag of pure fat for "rendering." I didn't care about rendering it, I wanted to fry it up. Just pure fat in the skillet and seared. I could eat a whole plate of that shit. I suppose there's an evolutionary reason for this, fat being the most calorically dense macro, it would've been essential to our survival.

@C-Mex said in Mercola radically revises health advice based on Ray Peat's research:

He makes reference both Ray Peat and Georgi in the following article:
https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/basic-tips-for-optimal-health

He had to "radically revise" what any freshman biochem student could tell you about beta oxidation...simply marvelous people took health advice from that idiot. These are the types of dense people in the keto crowd folks.

@PissBoy Sydney Sweeney is hot, one of my favorites.

So far today. I also had 1/2 teaspoon of powdered eggshell, but I can't add it to chronometer because it's not available (not mine anyways). My dinner isn't on there yet, but it will probably be another beef patty with veggies and Mexican coke with gelatin.

It could be the fact eating ONLY mac and cheese is profoundly unhealthy. Even when we eat so called "clean" diets our food sources are still subjected to the environmental pollutants in the general vicinity where it was grown or raised. Making your diet completely based on processed food only makes this worse. His diet is high in fat and starch, and something like mac is very easy to overeat. That's a recipe for obesity.

@aeblyve Yes very effective for me, I'm sure if you research it you'll find more testimonies as well. I'm not aware of any bad side effects ever reported from it. The worse that can happen is it simply isn't effective. She might cough up congestion at the beginning of the treatment, but that is normal as things clear up. It's more of a "holistic" thing, so you won't exactly find much scientific research on it. But it was first discovered in the 19th century when people realized salt miners had exquisite lung health. Unlike other miners, who developed respiratory issues.

@Santosh Interesting about mast, thanks for your input. DHT improves my emotional and sexual state provided I don't take too much of it. The GABAgeric effects make me lethargic if I get too much. Androsterone is worse about this than DHT in my opinion. I guess since Mast is more powerful I would venture to guess you can arrive at the lethargic state more quickly.

Normal trandermal T does work the best for me as well, but I do notice the excessive estrogenic effects if I continually use it for much longer than a few days. I don't like many of the pharma aromatase inhibitors (autoimmune risks) so I've been using Inhibit-E to control the side effects. It works, but I hate how dirty it is. They put fucking silicon dioxide in it. Currently searching for suitable replacements.

A word of caution about tren, the nandrolones will agonize 5-ht4 receptors, so it's probably best to take something like lysine or chamomile extract to help deter some of the cardiovascular implications.

@aeblyve Have you looked into halotherapy? Salt nebulizers, or salt inhalers, will dramatically increase disinfecting the pulmonary system. That will help avoid the worst aspects about the disease. Once that shit gets settled in the chest it can become lethal, so you want to avoid lung infections as much as possible.

There's two different types of halotherapy. The "wet" kind like nebulizing, and the "dry" kind just breathing in microscopic salt particles from an inhaler. I prefer the dry kind, but it's worth experimenting with.

@CO3 Right, but that's not killing the virus, only reducing the symptoms. Also charcoal might be a better solution for that, unless you have a lot of antibiotics on hand. I don't like using my stash unless I absolutely have no other choice.

@Kilgore Haidut's leydig cells are likely responding very well, so lowering prolactin and increasing dopamine paves the way for outstanding GnRH firing, which raised his testosterone dramatically.

@Kilgore What I mean by "primary" is the low testosterone is not from insufficient stimulation of the leydig cells. When the issues are related to some sort of imbalance in the HPTA then natural solutions can probably fix it. When the leydig cells are simply not responsive to high GnRH and LH outputs, then trt will likely be your only solution...unless theoretically you could lower oxidative stress and inflammation to the point the leydig cells become responsive again. But that certainly won't work for everyone, or even most.