Who Has Been Using Testosterone Without, Supporting Medication, The Risk is Heart Risk, Atrophied or Sometimes Permanently Damaged?
Your physician needs to consider which side effects that you are most at-risk from when they are structuring your healthy and effective testosterone replacement program. For example, different people will experience different issues such as:
• Excessively high prostate-specific antigen levels, which are a potential indicator or prostate cancer
• High red blood counts (thick blood)
• Elevated cortisol levels
Therefore, having all available medical is critical if you are to experience a program that frees from negative side effects.
Any ailments you suffer from or at high risk of will also dictate the nutraceuticals and additional supplements that are incorporated into your injections protocol.
An example program is as follows (NOTE: that the exact drug and dose prescribed will depend on the specific information contained within each patient medical file, as well as the individual patient goals):
• Day 1. 50–250 mg of testosterone by injection
• Day 1 or 2: One estrogen blocker or inhibitor by mouth
• Day 3. One injection of a B-vitamin or amino acid
• Day 5. One estrogen blocker or inhibitor by mouth
• Day 6. One injection of a testosterone secretagogue (250–800 units)
• Day 7. One estrogen blocker or inhibitor by mouth (sometimes two estrogen blockers a week is enough, depending on the patient file)
• Day 7. One injection of a testosterone secretagogue (250–800 units)
This weekly cycle would normally continue for 6–9 months, before a break period in which the body is allowed to normalize and reactivate.
Remember that when you are artificially manipulating your testosterone levels, some other functions of the body stop operating since endogenous testosterone production is shut down because of the presence of high levels of the exogenous hormone.
The break period normally referred to as the post cycle therapy (PCT), consists of medications that are formulated to reactivate the dormant systems that were not being used while your testosterone therapy was being administered.
THE BASIC FUNCTIONS THAT NEED TO BE RE-ACTIVATED ARE:
• FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone; stimulates sperm production in the testes)
• LH (luteinizing hormone; stimulates testosterone production in the testes)
• Estrogen accumulation after extended periods of high testosterone levels
• Water retention, decreased libido, and other side effects associated with high estradiol levels from a past cycle of testosterone
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