thanks for the info brother i have been on HRT for about 4 years now i will have to get my estogen levels checked. what should i get checked estrodial
e2 total estrogen?
A fair number of middle-aged men have low testosterone and middle-to-high estrogen ... obesity and metabolic syndrome are often present in this situation.
This is textbook situation for TRT, but test usually pushes the estrogen even higher initially. This is one reason a-dex is used so often in TRT even when the target TT is modest.
OTOH, HRT in a young guy with hypogonadism secondary to AAS use may be different and not require AI. Case-by-case situation based on E2 and how the person feels.
I would say you make a good case here for some people who already have an estrogen problem or are boarderline because they have a problem like obesity etc. I do think though for the majority of the guys on here that are fit, that they probably wont have estrogen issues on a HRT dose, but the doc always needs to keep a watch for it.
Agreed.
and just for the record i have been lifting since i was 15 years old and will be 46 in 2 months. never been obese in my life. in the past 11 years i have been diagnosed with hypothyroidism (hashimoto's disease) and andropause or low test levels. of those 30 years of lifting i have been natural for 28 years only started using AAS at the age of 44.
ok guys had the tests run the numbers are total test 854 E2 (estrodial) 34 within normal range according to lab but high according to HRT target? i must admit though that i had been sneaking some aromasin in the last month every know and then. so those E2 numbers were with som a-sin slipped in.