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0:09Speaker 0What's up, my friends? Welcome back to the Peptide of the Week Podcast.
0:13Speaker 0I'm your host, JD Denham, and I got my buddy across the way, William T. Haas.
0:19Speaker 0What's up, my man?
0:21Speaker 0It's good, man. It's good. Like, this is
0:24Speaker 0gonna be a good podcast, man. It's something I know you and I like to talk about. We've been doing it a long time, just kind
0:31Speaker 0of before we started recording, we were just trying to figure out what should we talk about. There's so much.
0:36Speaker 0So for those of you, just to let you know, to be clear, we are not doctors, we don't pretend to be doctors. We're just 2 dudes that have been doing supplements and trying different things for a very long time since we've helped a lot of people with these types of things as well. So just for fun, we're not doctors, so you should know that.
0:53Speaker 0But today we're going to take little bit different
0:56Speaker 0of approach on this. I know it's Peptide of the Week podcast, but we also talk about other supplements that are important as in testosterone
1:05Speaker 0replacement.
1:06Speaker 0We are huge fans of that, if you didn't already know that. And we're going to throw an HCG
1:11Speaker 0into the mix just because it goes well with testosterone replacement.
1:15Speaker 0So,
1:16Speaker 0we're going to take a little bit of a different approach. We're going to put the peptides on hold for this
1:21Speaker 0episode and talk a little bit about testosterone
1:24Speaker 0replacement therapy. So Will, I'm going to throw it over to you. In your opinion,
1:30Speaker 0why should any man take it in their specific age? What would you say? Why should somebody that's not on testosterone,
1:38Speaker 0why would they be on it? Why should they look into it? Okay.
1:42Speaker 1Well,
1:44Speaker 1I guess there's a lot of reasons.
1:47Speaker 1Testosterone is basically what makes a man a man.
1:51Speaker 1There is
1:53Speaker 1a ton of reasons that- Sorry, I'm having a little technical difficulties.
1:57Speaker 1There's a ton of reasons that a person should
2:00Speaker 1be on it.
2:05Speaker 1If you have low testosterone,
2:07Speaker 1you're going to have a whole lot less energy. Your sex drive
2:11Speaker 1is gonna be depleted. Right? You're
2:14Speaker 1gonna
2:15Speaker 1not be able to build muscle. You're gonna grow you're gonna be able accumulate
2:19Speaker 1fat and not be able to burn it off. Period.
2:23Speaker 1Your brain, you won't be able to sleep as well. You'll have a little more anxiety. Right? It'll affect your mood. You will not be as happy. Like, we actually
2:32Speaker 1right. All of our neurotransmitters
2:34Speaker 1in our brain
2:35Speaker 1health comes from testosterone.
2:38Speaker 1It's not just our sex. It is a sex hormone, but
2:43Speaker 1it can change your life if you're deficient. Ask a lot of people who are extremely deficient in how this has saved
2:50Speaker 1their lives.
2:52Speaker 1You'll hear
2:53Speaker 1from them
2:54Speaker 1a lot how this has just completely changed their lives. Literally. I suppose
2:59Speaker 1I wouldn't
3:01Speaker 1you know, there's a different there's a age. I so so for talking about this, it's important just to note, you know, us men,
3:08Speaker 1we have a lot of natural testosterone, and we have a little bit of estrogen, kind of opposite for women.
3:14Speaker 1Right? So
3:16Speaker 1our body likes this ratio.
3:19Speaker 1As we get older, our natural test output just decreases.
3:24Speaker 1They say, I don't know, and it's kind of subjective, but 35 years old,
3:28Speaker 140, we really start to see a decline.
3:32Speaker 1But
3:33Speaker 1our body doesn't like to do anything redundant.
3:35Speaker 1Okay? So if you are giving yourself actual testosterone,
3:39Speaker 1your body and your nuts are going to say, look how much I got now.
3:43Speaker 1Let's say factory down there. Let's slow down on our creation.
3:49Speaker 1Natural output, if you do testosterone,
3:52Speaker 1your natural output is gonna slow down because your body thinks you have this much. It doesn't wanna keep creating a whole bunch if you already have a whole bunch. Again, it doesn't want to do anything redundant.
4:00Speaker 1So if you're young and you are have a healthy testosterone level,
4:05Speaker 1I would suggest you don't do any testosterone because all it's going to do is
4:10Speaker 1kill your natural test.
4:12Speaker 1Now,
4:13Speaker 1in my experience,
4:15Speaker 1I think that there are a ton of horror stories out there. Man, my experience is telling me a lot that these horror stories aren't as true. Like, men bounce back a whole lot better than,
4:24Speaker 1I guess, is generally thought out there.
4:27Speaker 1As far as if you've done it, you know, I see people
4:32Speaker 1bouncing back and kind of re after they stop you know, when they get off the testosterone, they'll, their natural test will build back up. Now, there are horror stories out there that are true. Right? There has been a person that has injected testosterone once, and they have never ever created
4:48Speaker 1tests ever again in their lifetime. Right? That's 1 obvious
4:52Speaker 1extreme, right? I have friends who have
4:56Speaker 1ran testosterone for 20 years and still get their spouses pregnant
5:00Speaker 1with a little bit of help with HCG and then clomiphene. But
5:04Speaker 1it all depends on, yes, each individual person's kind of biology.
5:10Speaker 0Yeah, as always, everybody's
5:12Speaker 0going to be a little bit different.
5:14Speaker 0I'll tell a little story about what led me onto this whole track of testosterone replacement. Anybody that has followed any of my channels knows I got sober at 33,
5:24Speaker 0I've always been into health and fitness and exercise and all that.
5:28Speaker 0And when I got sober, I dove headfirst into it. I just was just, know, eating right, working out, lifting weights, all the above, right? And
5:36Speaker 0right around 38 is a give or take, I started getting really chunky and just,
5:42Speaker 0you know, for me at least, and the worst part was I felt like absolute crap, man. I thought something was wrong with me. I literally was starting to think, Man, I must have done something with my drug abuse and all that stuff. I started to think there was something wrong with me. And true story there, I was listening to a Joe Rogan podcast and he was talking to 1 of his comedian
6:02Speaker 0buddies about testosterone replacement,
6:05Speaker 0saying, Dude, you gotta get on testosterone.
6:06Speaker 0It'll change your life, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, Wow, I never even thought that. You know what I mean? So lo and behold, I went in and got my testosterone and just my hormones checked, I was around 300.
6:19Speaker 0So,
6:20Speaker 0that answered my question. Was like, Wow. Okay. So, I got on testosterone replacement,
6:25Speaker 0give or take, probably about 39, give or take. And 1 of those stories, man, it changed my life. It literally makes you feel like a man again. You feel your cloudy headedness goes, your sex drive obviously increases, but that's not even the best part. Your vigor comes back.
6:43Speaker 0Just have energy. Again, like Will said,
6:46Speaker 0if you're low testosterone, you're going to have an uphill climb trying to lose weight, especially if you're 40.
6:53Speaker 0If you're 40 and you have low testosterone,
6:56Speaker 01, you probably feel like absolute crap like I just told you. That is not how we're supposed to live, gentlemen. It is not how we're supposed to live. It is an easy fix.
7:08Speaker 0Go get your testosterone or go get your hormones checked, man. Just at least know where you're at. Chances are you are going to have low testosterone.
7:16Speaker 0Why? It's just common today, man, especially with the food we eat and just some of the toxins in the air. Let's just be honest, I won't go in left field, I'll spare you, but our testosterone
7:27Speaker 0levels are plummeting
7:29Speaker 0and that is what it is. I had a fitness channel, so I had a very eye opening experience with this. I worked with a lot of men,
7:38Speaker 0hundreds at this point.
7:40Speaker 0I would say men over 40 was who I worked with, so it was men like me. Most
7:47Speaker 0of them, I would say probably 60% were already on testosterone. So a lot of them already were ahead of the curve with that, but the ones that weren't, this is a true story. I would have them get their blood work tested, done,
7:59Speaker 0and 9 out of 10 of them were 300 or if not a lot lower. And that
8:05Speaker 0is a huge, huge problem.
8:08Speaker 0It's just not how you are supposed to be.
8:11Speaker 0So, that was my experience on testosterone replacement.
8:15Speaker 1And, you're right. I mean, you do not have to live like that, guys. No, you do not. It's an easy fix. Yeah. And it's for reference, I guess this is a lot of people are going to their doctors, right? So generally as
8:29Speaker 1a teenager, men
8:32Speaker 118 to 25 or so, our testosterone, like nanograms per deciliter on
8:37Speaker 1a blood test should be around 1000 nanograms
8:41Speaker 1deciliter,
8:42Speaker 1maybe 1,200.
8:43Speaker 1Okay? So that's like optimal high.
8:47Speaker 1Low, low, low is,
8:50Speaker 1you know, less than 200 or 300. I know these HMOs
8:54Speaker 1have
8:55Speaker 1their doctors, they're like prescribing, like, they're not allowed to prescribe anything unless you're like below 2 50 or something like that. And at 2 50, you're miserable. You haven't had an erection in a month. You
9:05Speaker 1barely wanna get out of bed. Of course. It's also note to note,
9:10Speaker 1your total testosterone is not really the most important part. Right? You should be getting a total testosterone
9:17Speaker 1check and a free testosterone
9:20Speaker 1reading because that's what matters, really. Your free testosterone is the only stuff that you can actually use that can bind to your receptors and
9:28Speaker 1and will actually work in your body. So
9:32Speaker 1that is generally, I try to keep mine about 800, 900 to 1000. I'm not saying that's right or wrong. I know doctors that that's their goal for patients.
9:44Speaker 1I know some people try to keep it, you know, doctors will try to keep it lower. There is a scale. You can find a scale on the internet somewhere that says, at a
9:54Speaker 1certain age, this is where your testosterone probably should be.
9:58Speaker 1But yeah, dude, just in our in today's
10:02Speaker 1world, all the unhealthy stuff that we eat,
10:05Speaker 1stressors, right? I also have been sober for 5 years or so, and drugs and alcohol just destroy, especially opiates, destroy
10:12Speaker 1your natural testosterone output.
10:15Speaker 1And it's tough to get back, and it's tough it's like a domino effect, dude. The more and people
10:21Speaker 1the less testosterone you have, the more estrogen you have, the more fat you have, and then the harder it is to get your testosterone
10:26Speaker 1up, right? And the harder it is to get your fat down. And so it just that divide just keeps growing. I
10:32Speaker 1suppose here is important things to know when you create when you inject testosterone.
10:37Speaker 1Our body, like I said before, we have this ratio.
10:41Speaker 1Body has this much test, this much estrogen.
10:43Speaker 1Our body likes that ratio. So when you increase your testosterone,
10:46Speaker 1your body, it aromatizes
10:48Speaker 1and converts
10:51Speaker 1some of this testosterone to estrogen. This increase of estrogen is all bad.
10:57Speaker 1There's no reason a man should have any higher estrogen than you have. Now, you need to have a little bit.
11:02Speaker 1That is very important
11:04Speaker 1for your cardiovascular ability and your sex drive. But
11:07Speaker 1you need to make sure that you manage that estrogen.
11:11Speaker 1Free symptoms, right? Sensitive nipples, which means gyno is happening,
11:16Speaker 1excess water retention or just general acne, even a lot of your shoulders and back. There's no reason to have that, folks.
11:24Speaker 1If you have that, you need to start taking an estrogen blocker.
11:29Speaker 1And that's an easy, easy fix, right? And when left unchecked, it can get bad. And that's where a lot of these horror stories come from. So, it's just out of ignorance.
11:38Speaker 1So do yourselves a favor.
11:40Speaker 1They're not bad. I see people on the internet bragging about, Oh, I've never, know, bodybuilder. I've never taken an estrogen blocker. Bullshit. I
11:48Speaker 1don't know. I mean, I've worked with thousands of- Liar. Never seen anybody running over 500 megas of tests, like, not need an estrogen blocker. Oh, man. No way. DBAW.
11:58Speaker 1Yeah. So just like, I don't know, don't believe in the hype. Do but everybody's body is different,
12:03Speaker 1and you need to do what's necessary
12:05Speaker 1to have no side effects,
12:07Speaker 1no estrogenic side effects,
12:10Speaker 1but still feel good and be having enough testosterone.
12:13Speaker 0Yeah. So if you're new to testosterone replacement, are you thinking about it?
12:18Speaker 0Just know these things take time. I would advise you to dig into this and study it. We've been doing it for a long time and
12:26Speaker 0it didn't come overnight.
12:27Speaker 0There's a lot of trial and error that comes along with it because we've said it so many times, but it takes
12:35Speaker 0a while for us to find our sweet spot. I've said it numerous times, my sweet spot is around the 900 mark,
12:41Speaker 0as Will just said, generally speaking, testosterone around a 25 give or take, roughly, it seems to be when I'm running the best.
12:49Speaker 0But as I said in the last podcast, the Q and A, you know, I am
12:53Speaker 0my testosterone converted to estrogen from right away. I was highly, highly gynocholamosia.
12:59Speaker 0I've
13:01Speaker 0worked around that for years and I just had to take time to figure out that sweet spot. I mean, ask Will. I mean, we work together on it because we've been buddies a long time
13:10Speaker 0around it forever.
13:12Speaker 0It took a long time. So, for those of you that are like me, some of you,
13:17Speaker 0that testosterone's
13:19Speaker 0gonna convert right away to estrogen
13:21Speaker 0and you need to figure it out. You need to have like
13:24Speaker 0a Rimadex or something like that
13:26Speaker 0in handy because you're injecting hormones obviously into you and you're going to change your body and that's just what's going to happen.
13:33Speaker 0So it takes time to
13:36Speaker 0get the hormones.
13:37Speaker 0You inject hormones, you got to kind of get them into that sweet spot And that's going to take time, man. It's just the way it is.
13:44Speaker 0But once you find that sweet spot, I'm 48 years old, I'm in the best shape of my life, and I've been in great shape since
13:52Speaker 0high school.
13:53Speaker 0It is, And I've never felt better. Stax Drive is still running strong.
14:00Speaker 0So you can do that too, man. You are not supposed to feel like shit. You are not supposed to feel like shit, gentlemen. You just got to get your hormones in line. If you're overweight, if you feel sluggish and you can't, you have no vigor, you're cloudy headed, most likely have low testosterone,
14:15Speaker 0so you need to go get your blood work and check it out. Know what I mean? And you're not going to be able to lose that weight unless
14:20Speaker 0you get your hormones fixed.
14:22Speaker 0That's upfront. Get your hormones fixed, period.
14:26Speaker 1And like, some people, hey, you just might be like J. D. We're like, you just can't do more than 200 mg
14:32Speaker 1a week.
14:34Speaker 1You just can't be like, your estrogen is just too crazy, and that is what it is, man. No matter how many estrogen blockers you take, it won't
14:41Speaker 1kill off enough estrogen.
14:43Speaker 1Whatever.
14:45Speaker 1Still find it works. Mostly, indeed, less is more. Less is more, less is more. Most people are just blasting way too much. And I mean, I still there's a limit of how much you can I mean, the testosterone has to connect to your androgen receptors, right? They're only so big. They're only so much testosterone can actually grab on. And so,
15:04Speaker 1I don't know. That number is debatable,
15:06Speaker 1but
15:07Speaker 1I don't see any, I don't know, maybe 607 hundred milligrams maximum weekly
15:12Speaker 1can a person actually receive? And that's a and that's really high-tech. That's a lot. People do a lot more than that. But yes.
15:21Speaker 0So I think we wanted to talk about different esters. And- Yeah. Let's talk about some esters. I was gonna say that. Let's you loved you're you're good at that. Let's break down the esters for people. Sure. So, guys, every you'll see testosterone come in different
15:35Speaker 1forms and different numbers. So there's like
15:38Speaker 1the main ones you're going see is testosterone propionate,
15:41Speaker 1test prop, and usually is dosed at 100 mg/ml.
15:45Speaker 1So all of these, it will say, you know, the drug testosterone,
15:49Speaker 1then the ester that it is wrapped in, which is essentially the delivery system which determines how fast or slow
15:56Speaker 1it is being released in your bloodstream for you to use. Think of it as just like a
16:00Speaker 1long acting or a fast acting pill, okay?
16:05Speaker 1And
16:06Speaker 1then there will always be the scientists have figured out long ago, right, that
16:11Speaker 1certain ester a person's
16:13Speaker 1muscle can only handle a certain amount of testosterone in a certain ester. So test propionate,
16:19Speaker 1well, let's just start from the test. Acetate
16:22Speaker 1is like 24 hours in you, out of you. And this is their active
16:26Speaker 10.5 life. So there's still a little bit lingering in you, but you're not really feeling it.
16:31Speaker 1And then there's test propionate, which is more popular. It's 24 to 48 hours, in you and out of you. Then phenylpropionate,
16:38Speaker 1which is 3 to 4 days. Okay? These are all up for debate too, but these are just general numbers. You ask 30
16:46Speaker 1people, you're gonna get, I don't know, 10 different answers.
16:50Speaker 1And then isocaproate,
16:52Speaker 1which is like 4 to 5 days.
16:55Speaker 1Then you have your test endothate and test siponate. Test siponate is generally what every doctor in The United States prescribes.
17:01Speaker 1Test what every doctor in the rest of the world prescribes.
17:06Speaker 1Testenantate endothate is usually the beginning,
17:09Speaker 1the beginner
17:10Speaker 1ester for a lot of bodybuilders or just recreational users.
17:14Speaker 1If they're, I guess, testcipionate, I would say about
17:18Speaker 15 to 6 days. Test Enanthate is 6 to 7 days.
17:24Speaker 1That's how
17:25Speaker 1Yeah, that's those active 0.5 lives. And then we have
17:29Speaker 1decanoate.
17:30Speaker 1Let's see. Yeah. Decanoate,
17:32Speaker 17 to 10 days. And then undecanoate,
17:36Speaker 1which is about 20 days. Those are less You're not really gonna see those much,
17:42Speaker 1but the main ones you're gonna see is test prop, test antithate,
17:46Speaker 1and test siponate.
17:47Speaker 1Okay?
17:48Speaker 1Think of this, guys. Like, it's all the same drug. There isn't some people who say, Well, I heard this 1 doesn't aromatize. Bullshit. They all it's the same damn drug. The only difference is how fast it gets in you and then how fast it gets out of you. Now,
18:02Speaker 1the faster esters are always going to be dosed lower. So a test propped is going to be dosed at 100 mg/ml
18:09Speaker 1because
18:10Speaker 1our body naturally filters out
18:13Speaker 1a lot of this, a lot of the drug that gets put in us, okay?
18:17Speaker 1But if it's that fast getting out into you, our body does not have time to filter anything out, and you're getting about 100%
18:24Speaker 1of that drug.
18:26Speaker 1It may hurt a little bit more, too. Faster esters tend to hurt more and blends because you're putting in 2 different, 3 different esters.
18:34Speaker 1Tescipionate
18:35Speaker 1and test Eninthate,
18:36Speaker 1generally doctors test SIPs 200
18:39Speaker 1mgs per milliliter.
18:41Speaker 1I prefer it at 2 50. Teseninthate
18:44Speaker 1is usually more like 300, but ranges from 200 to 300.
18:49Speaker 1Those are go your body since it's taking 6 days to get in you, your body is filtering a lot of that out. So, really, you're probably getting only about 60%
18:58Speaker 1of it. So
19:00Speaker 1it actually equals basically a bottle of test propionate. So, people say, Well, shit, testcipionate, I get twice as much.
19:07Speaker 1Why wouldn't I do that over test prop? Sorry, guys. They equal about the same thing. Same thing with, you know, Mastron E versus Mastron P. Trend A is Trend E. You will always see the long ester is dosed about twice as high as the fast ester. But guess what? In the end,
19:23Speaker 1when it all boils down, you're getting about the same exact amount of the actual drug. Now, the longer the ester, okay, it's going to compound on itself. Now, even though, for example, siponate,
19:36Speaker 1you should say, Hey, a lot of doctors say, Just do it once a week, right? Hey, it's in you for 6 days, okay? But if you look at a graph, right, it's in you, and then it is slowly dissipating,
19:45Speaker 1right? And then at the end of those 6 days, then we do it again. That's not good. We do not
19:51Speaker 1want peaks or valleys in your hormones because everything is predicated on another thing,
19:56Speaker 1and it's going to change a whole bunch of different hormones down the line, and that's not good news for you. So even though it's in you for 6, 7 days, I would still do that testiopianate,
20:05Speaker 1testi twice a week. So we want these little peaks and valleys. Now, it will start to compound
20:11Speaker 1on themselves.
20:12Speaker 1So after about a month, your testosterone levels will be higher than, let's say, you did test propionate
20:18Speaker 1for a month, which is in you, out of you, in you, out of you.
20:22Speaker 1Cool. That'll be higher. You'll get a little bit better results, right? But guess what? Guess what lingers also is any side effects, right? The estrogen buildup will build up more and more and more as you get down the road, as opposed to a fast ester in you, out of you,
20:37Speaker 1less side effects generally.
20:39Speaker 1But still, it's the same damn drug. It's still trying to produce the same things.
20:45Speaker 1And hopefully
20:46Speaker 1that helps out. There are blends. My personal favorite is sustenone,
20:51Speaker 1which comes from sustained
20:53Speaker 1release, and it's usually a blend of test prop, phenol prop, isocaproate,
20:58Speaker 1and
20:59Speaker 1Decanoate.
21:01Speaker 1So you get,
21:03Speaker 1right now, immediately, 24 hours, 2 to 3 days, then hits you, 4 to 5 days, then hits you, and then 7 to 10 days.
21:10Speaker 1So I don't know. I like it because it stays in me, you know, with the longer ester,
21:15Speaker 1but I also kind of get a little bit of a a rush when I do it.
21:20Speaker 1But those fast esters, you better be doing them at least 3 days a week,
21:24Speaker 1if not every day,
21:26Speaker 1whereas the slower, longer esters, twice a week, but I wouldn't do them once a week. The only reason doctors say once a week is because people don't like stabbing themselves with needle, no doubt. Nobody does. But it's an easier sell if you only have to convince somebody to do it once a week. Right.
21:41Speaker 0I don't think it's as effective. You do it once a week though. Yeah, I knew I've changed it. I've gone to Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I
21:48Speaker 0go all over the board. It's of contingent upon
21:52Speaker 0how much I'm sick of pinning.
21:54Speaker 0Know, if you're starting to if you're doing pinning Monday, Wednesday, Friday, which I have changed now, currently doing,
22:00Speaker 0because this is a better way to do it, but I'll do that for a while until I just get so tired of pinning Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and then I'll just go to once a week. But, know, for somebody, if you're like me that is gyno
22:11Speaker 0prone,
22:12Speaker 0it is a little bit better to spread it out because you're not getting any big blasts in 1 day.
22:17Speaker 0At least my experience with it, you got a little bit less throughout the week. You're doing a little bit less of it. So that will help for people that are gynoprone like me.
22:25Speaker 0I do notice a difference when I do it once a week. I did that for a long time just because I was just sick of pinning so much, so I just would do it every Monday, keep it simple.
22:33Speaker 0We've also talked about
22:35Speaker 0injection sites. For
22:37Speaker 0me, I've done it also everywhere. My doctor that
22:42Speaker 0I don't get that type of, I don't get my testosterone from the pharmacy anymore because it's seed oils. But anyways, when I used to go to the doctor for that, he suggested
22:51Speaker 0SubQ,
22:52Speaker 0which I had never heard. And then I went home and researched it, and there's good proof that it works well, you know, I mean, but I'll be honest with you, did it for a little, I don't even know, maybe did it for like a week.
23:03Speaker 0Ejecting oil into your stomach sucks, so I will never do it again. But some people like to do that. I've done it mainly, I think, in my top part of my buttocks.
23:13Speaker 0I did that for years. Now I'm kind of tired of that, so I've been pinning back part of my shoulder with a small little shoulder pin. Anybody that follows my channels, I just dropped a video on that today
23:24Speaker 0on my Instagram.
23:26Speaker 0So you want to move it around,
23:29Speaker 0something I talked about, because I was getting so many dams about PIP,
23:33Speaker 0which is if you inject oil into
23:37Speaker 0your butt or your shoulder or something, get like a welt or like a sore spot.
23:40Speaker 0It happens to the best of us. It's
23:43Speaker 0almost unavoidable.
23:44Speaker 01 of the best ways to avoid it is
23:48Speaker 0when you pull out your testosterone
23:51Speaker 0into the vial, you wanna run it under warm water. I'll leave it in the sink for a minute or 2 and forget about it and then come back and inject it. Honestly, since I've been doing that, I don't ever really get PIP.
24:02Speaker 0But if you don't do that, you probably will. It's part of the game. What do you think about PIP? I think that so it all depends. Just
24:11Speaker 1randomly, you can just happen to hit a nerve
24:15Speaker 1or a different blood vessel.
24:17Speaker 1Just put it in some weird spot and all of a sudden, 1 day you got PIP and it's just like pain at
24:24Speaker 1the point of injection now,
24:27Speaker 1pain is the injection point.
24:28Speaker 1There's that. There's also like if you Like I said, we have figured out what
24:34Speaker 1dosing
24:35Speaker 1is acceptable
24:36Speaker 1for different esters.
24:38Speaker 1Usually, a big reason people get PIP is their stuff is dosed too high for the ester. So if somebody were to do test E350,
24:46Speaker 1right,
24:47Speaker 1that's going to make it hurt really bad. Just too densely
24:53Speaker 1packed with testosterone.
24:54Speaker 1Don't do it. That's why they make them blends, right? That's why if you test 400,
24:59Speaker 1it's usually it's not going to be 1 ester of 400. It's going be 200 of sip, 200 mg of test E because that's really all we can
25:07Speaker 1take without it hurting really bad. Another
25:10Speaker 1problem is people don't put it too deep enough
25:13Speaker 1They
25:14Speaker 1you're gonna you might get a welt or red spot. People don't realize it needs to get deep in your muscle. I'm just pointing at my shoulder because that burched, but right? Glut.
25:22Speaker 1Glut, the biggest most people mistake people make is not going deep enough.
25:27Speaker 1That oil needs to get deep in you.
25:30Speaker 1And, yeah,
25:31Speaker 1dude, I when I do my injection, do it. I just kind of put my knuckle in whatever in the muscle and just and rub it in. Right? Goal is to and then go be active. You know? Do not just inject and then lay down and do nothing. Think about it. You're injecting this foreign oil into your body, right? You got to, like, get it dispersed in you, into your blood and move it. So,
25:51Speaker 1I'm always going to inject, rub it in and go to the gym. My blood, you know, my heart starts pumping, blood starts pumping, and that stuff just gets dispersed throughout my body.
26:02Speaker 1You know, another thing I know that you had you used a pellet for a while. Like, here's another method. I'm starting to see a lot of, like, older women doing testosterone
26:10Speaker 1pellets.
26:11Speaker 1When I say older, maybe like 45.
26:16Speaker 0Even- The place when I went to get that, because I didn't, I was just not wanting to pin all the time. I'd read about it and I'm like, all right. So I went to, and my buddy had suggested that he was doing it and he loved it. And
26:26Speaker 0so I went to this place, this doctor, and it was mainly for women, know, it's just a replacement for women.
26:32Speaker 0But anyways, I got the pellets and I did it for a bit. My body, for some reason, would have rejected and tried to push them out. He said, It's very, very uncommon.
26:40Speaker 0Of course, that was me. So that was a pain in the ass. The injection site would literally cut
26:45Speaker 0you up and then stitch it.
26:48Speaker 0But those little pellets would try to get out for whatever reason for me. So I stopped doing that. I didn't want to deal with that. But there's a lot of good luck with that. If you're somebody that doesn't want to inject, you go to a doctor,
26:57Speaker 0it takes literally 5 minutes. You are implanted with pellets and they slowly release into your body. If you're an active person,
27:05Speaker 0it will use those up quicker.
27:08Speaker 0So that's good. I've done that. You have creams.
27:11Speaker 0I wouldn't recommend it.
27:13Speaker 0A lot of doctors start there. I personally think that you should never do that. My
27:18Speaker 1opinion. Yeah. I mean, they'll work they'll work, but not not very well at all. Right?
27:23Speaker 1Mean, I think that's more like I think that's a good idea maybe for women, right, who
27:29Speaker 1who just cannot take as much testosterone as a man. But for a man, it's really gonna not do much.
27:35Speaker 1Probably the pellet too is like, cool, it's implanted and now you're stuck. There's no adjusting.
27:40Speaker 1Like we said, every person- You're in you. Is different. Like, there's no way to go increase or decrease the dose.
27:47Speaker 1They're just stuck with what it is.
27:50Speaker 1So, yeah, the creams, I mean, there's
27:53Speaker 1natural
27:54Speaker 1test boosters that you see everywhere that GNC or wherever sell.
28:00Speaker 1Those are just made naturally, in my opinion. I mean, those will never ever ever take you to, like, a super physiological
28:07Speaker 1level. K? They'll they'll work
28:09Speaker 1for I mean, they'll work okay
28:12Speaker 1for an older man who's
28:15Speaker 1who's levels are really low.
28:18Speaker 1That will yeah, cool. It'll bump him up a little bit, but it's never gonna take you kinda past where your natural threshold should be for your weight. Waste of money? Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think that,
28:30Speaker 0yes, I think that there's- are other ways, man. There are other ways do
28:35Speaker 0it. I mean, there's natural ways. I mean, diet's huge. If you're overweight, that's gonna affect you for sure. I mean, even like as woo woo as this sounds, walking outside with your feet on the ground because of energy, I've read stuff about that, whether you believe it or not, I've just read that.
28:51Speaker 0High fat diet helps, exercise, lifting heavy weights, those are things that can naturally increase your testosterone. Now, if you are at a like 300, will it get you to 900?
29:02Speaker 0Probably not.
29:04Speaker 0Again, in my opinion, if you're 40 and you have low testosterone,
29:08Speaker 0just get on testosterone, man. Like, dude, I don't know why you're fighting it. Now, I'll tell you this,
29:13Speaker 01 of the questions that I get almost daily through my DMs are, Can you come off of it? I was told you can't. Once you start on testosterone replacement, you can't. And that's not true. I know tons of men that have been on testosterone replacement
29:26Speaker 0for years that come off because their brides want to get pregnant and that's the way that they go about it.
29:33Speaker 0They choose for
29:34Speaker 0him coming off.
29:36Speaker 0You have to take certain things to help
29:39Speaker 0re light your balls and work it again.
29:43Speaker 0But you can, so I don't know where that big myth Now, if you've been on testosterone replacement for 20 years, that probably
29:49Speaker 0won't,
29:50Speaker 0you know, probably contingent upon how long that you're on testosterone.
29:54Speaker 1But again, everybody's a science project. It's going to be different. I mean, I think it comes from like, look, dude, if you're on the longer you're on, okay, and the higher dose that you are on,
30:05Speaker 1yeah, there's again, there is a little bit there's a letdown when you stop. Right? Because this is now telling your body to slow its natural production down. So
30:14Speaker 1when you just stop giving it to yourself,
30:17Speaker 1you're not gonna feel as good.
30:20Speaker 1I don't know- Well, you're like, Shit. What do Kind mean? You're like,
30:23Speaker 1of like withdrawal symptoms,
30:25Speaker 1basically. There's
30:27Speaker 1But there are drugs to take, HCG and then clomiphene, that really work. There's what we do, like, for a post cycle. Okay. A post cycle would be pretty much the same thing as if you're on long term TRT. You wanna get off? Cool, but do some things to help you not feel that lull, that drop down let down period.
30:45Speaker 1But you can come off. Great.
30:48Speaker 1The sex drive might be effective for a week if you do HCG and clomiphene correct. We'll get you right back get you back up. You may not be as, you know, as great as when you were on it. Okay? That's the whole point of why would you be on it if you could not do it naturally. But you
31:03Speaker 1can come off of it. I know tons of people do. And that and then and at that point, it's actually even more important to lift heavy and keep eating correctly.
31:12Speaker 1Well, I understand, but it's hard because you just have Yeah. So the natural things that you can do lifting heavy. Right? Well, I guess here's the think of us back when we were in let's say 300 years ago, 400 years ago, our testosterone levels not that they were doing blood tests then, but
31:28Speaker 1they're
31:29Speaker 1we had such higher testosterone. Okay? Not because there wasn't so many processed foods, etcetera, but also we're just lazy and and
31:37Speaker 1fat nowadays. Right? Shit's done for us. When we were out there and we had to
31:41Speaker 1take a shower in freezing ass stream and we had to go chase animals down and kill them with our bare hands,
31:48Speaker 1we had to have sex in cold weather, right, in your little, like, hut, men were virile and had good natural testosterone. Okay? Yeah. Now that life's all comfortable and cushy,
31:58Speaker 1we don't. So the more you can simulate that
32:01Speaker 1by fasting, lifting heavy, cold plunges,
32:05Speaker 1heat,
32:07Speaker 1the better
32:08Speaker 1and stronger and more resilient you're going to be
32:11Speaker 1and the higher test.
32:13Speaker 0Yeah. So another thing that a lot of doctors will prescribe
32:17Speaker 0and, what I personally choose to do is we'll talk about HCG into the mix where,
32:23Speaker 02 reasons I think somebody should run the HCG with testosterone
32:28Speaker 0replacement is 1, it will help your balls from shrinking because as Will said, when you are injecting
32:34Speaker 0testosterone,
32:35Speaker 0it tells your balls, I don't need to do this anymore, so I'm good. So they start stop working probably,
32:41Speaker 0and if you do it long enough, they will start to shrink because they turned off.
32:45Speaker 0So HCG will stop that, it will help that. So that's 1 of the reasons I recommend it.
32:50Speaker 0Secondly, for any man like myself that is on testosterone replacement and trying to stay fertile and kind of keep that fertility,
33:00Speaker 0running it at higher doses,
33:02Speaker 0I've talked about it numerous times, but I've gotten my bride pregnant twice while staying on testosterone.
33:08Speaker 0Many think you cannot do it. I've done it twice. And Will and I have worked with numerous of our buddies and many other people to help them while staying Whether
33:18Speaker 0you choose to do that or not,
33:20Speaker 0can, it can be done. PEG is a great help. Now you want to run higher doses and my opinion, we might have a different opinion,
33:28Speaker 0anywhere
33:29Speaker 0500
33:32Speaker 0IUs 3 times a week to 1000
33:35Speaker 0IUs a week. Like if you want to get the job done a little bit quicker, in my opinion, I would say go to 1000. Now, that's contingent upon pocketbook because you
33:45Speaker 0got to pay for that and it's not cheap. HCG is what it is,
33:50Speaker 0But that's what I've done. I'd probably do about 7 50 myself when I've tried to get my wife pregnant when I'm running it. It took me a good 9 months, both times to run it consistently.
33:59Speaker 0Now, do I run HCG
34:03Speaker 0like the testosterone in perpetuity? I do not. I generally speaking run it
34:07Speaker 0give or take about 2 months
34:10Speaker 0to keep my fertility, and then I kind of take a month, maybe 2 off, and then I run it again for 2 months. When I'm trying to have a baby, which we've been talking about it, if we really decide that's the role, I will
34:22Speaker 0be on it for a good 9 months at higher doses. I run about 500 IUs Monday, Wednesday, Friday when I'm on it. Agreed. Got anything on
34:32Speaker 1I think that there is a difference in my, you know, that between an actual like post cycle
34:40Speaker 1and taking
34:41Speaker 1it for TRT
34:42Speaker 1dose or fertility.
34:44Speaker 1And I believe that the TRT
34:47Speaker 1dose, HCG and fertility should be about the same
34:51Speaker 1range. I think 3 times a week.
34:53Speaker 1Honestly, the more the better, right? I guess the more the better. If you could do 1000 IUs 3 times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, good for you. And I would do about 25 mg of Enclomiphene
35:04Speaker 1daily as well
35:06Speaker 1for fertility, and I would run that
35:10Speaker 1concurrent until the
35:11Speaker 1baby's born, until
35:13Speaker 1your wife's pregnant at least. Yes. You'll have a better, faster chance if you come off of the testosterone. But hell, I mean, I'm 9 for 9 of my friends wanting to get their rights pregnant,
35:23Speaker 1and I'd say that most of them didn't even come off testosterone.
35:27Speaker 1And it'd probably take a little bit longer.
35:29Speaker 1Now for
35:31Speaker 1and you're right, I guess. So TRT, if you're on long term TRT, I agree. I would do I wouldn't run it every single week, you know, for 10 years.
35:40Speaker 1I would go
35:42Speaker 1I would do about thousand
35:44Speaker 1IUs
35:45Speaker 13 times a week for
35:48Speaker 13 weeks and then give it a 2 week break and then do that again. Okay? Like 3 weeks, 2 weeks off. 3 weeks, 2 weeks off. If
35:56Speaker 1you're
35:59Speaker 1getting off of TRT or just getting off of a cycle, okay, same basic principle. This is still a
36:06Speaker 1PCT,
36:07Speaker 1a post cycle therapy.
36:09Speaker 1I would do
36:11Speaker 11000 mg
36:12Speaker 1daily or 1000 IUs daily
36:15Speaker 1for 10 days,
36:18Speaker 1maybe even to 20 days. And then for your Enclomiphene,
36:23Speaker 1would be taking Generally, Enclomiphene comes at 12.5 mg pills. I would say week 1, 3 pills a day. Week 2, 2 pills a day.
36:31Speaker 1Week 3 and 4, 1 pill a day.
36:35Speaker 1And
36:36Speaker 1that should be enough, right, to so if you're coming off completely off, right,
36:41Speaker 1you do those
36:43Speaker 1and you should feel pretty damn good. Shouldn't have much let down, and you should keep about 95%
36:48Speaker 1of all of those gains that
36:50Speaker 1you worked for. If you don't do that, you will lose
36:54Speaker 1a lot of the gains, right? Because if your testosterone just dips,
36:59Speaker 1your cortisol is going to scream to the top. Your muscle is just going to disintegrate
37:03Speaker 1off of you,
37:04Speaker 1and you will lose everything you tried for. Another thing is also when coming off completely,
37:09Speaker 1you ought to wait 10 days or so before you really start the HCG or the enclomiphene because the point is
37:16Speaker 1you need to let that testosterone get out of you before your nuts are even willing to listen to something to wake them up. So get it out until the nut's like, All right, dude, I need some help. And then you give them the Time to work. Yeah.
37:46Speaker 1Feel them again. It's hard to explain, but it's just what happens. You just start to feel alive again.
37:52Speaker 1True story. People ask me about like, Hey, should I take the HCG throughout my cycle? No, that answer 1 is no, because you're giving yourself so much tests and other things that
38:02Speaker 1your nuts are not listening. They're not being willing to wake up. No matter how much you do, they're not gonna they're not gonna change. Now, I also say, Hey, people doing 16 week cycle, right, in the last, like, 3 weeks,
38:12Speaker 1they'll tell me, Hey, I just don't feel nearly as good as when I started. Well, well, basically, because your natural production has just shut
38:21Speaker 1down. Right? It's down to the floor, so you not only you have no natural production, but you're still giving yourself a lot.
38:28Speaker 1I would say that if there is an acceptable time to run HCG while on cycle, it needs to be in the last 0.25,
38:35Speaker 1then I wouldn't be opposed to running running maybe a 10000 IU bottle
38:40Speaker 1and then coming off, waiting 10 days, and then running a proper post cycle after.
38:47Speaker 1Yeah, dude. I don't know, man. A good sense of health is like, generally, man, you should be having erections when you wake up in the morning.
38:54Speaker 1That's what- Remember we did that when you were a kid? Yes.
38:57Speaker 1So if you're not feeling that,
39:00Speaker 1there's you're not optimal.
39:02Speaker 1That's just a good I kind of judge my overall health too by down there.
39:07Speaker 0That's true. I mean, that's reading your body, man. So if like you're not, so that's telling your body. I mean, again, think it's easier. Anybody that's not on testosterone in their 40s,
39:17Speaker 0you feel like shit, you're tired, cloudy headed, you don't have vigor, you don't have sex drive, it's easy math. If you have fat around your nipple and area, that's estrogen,
39:26Speaker 0or it be. It could be high estrogen, again, like you said. I mean, these are things that your body just can
39:32Speaker 0be fixed. It'll take a little while. But
39:35Speaker 0man, you are not supposed to live at 300 testosterone.
39:39Speaker 0Dude, go fix it. I don't know why anybody would ever
39:43Speaker 0worry about testosterone.
39:45Speaker 0I would worry about having 300 testosterone. That's a problem in itself, dude.
39:49Speaker 1Huge problem. I mean and, you know, people say, hey. Well, shoot. Then you you gotta Depression.
39:54Speaker 1You know, you gotta do something the rest of your life. I wanna do it. Well, okay. Cool. I don't know. Personally, it's worth it for me. That's fine. I plan to do this as until I'm an old man. Yeah.
40:06Speaker 0Oh, well.
40:08Speaker 0Yeah. Things in life- I like feeling good. I like being able to get and stay in shape. Like, for example, remember how easy it was to stay in shape at 30? You're basically putting like the amount of testosterone that's in your body at 30. Remember how easy it was to lose weight at 30 and like stay in shape? Well, you can have that. It's easy. So the reason you can't because your testosterone levels plummeted and your hormones are off. So you can get back there very easily, gentlemen. And if you're going to tell me, well, it's going to kill me 5 it's going to take 5 years off my life. Oh, well, I didn't want those last 5 years anyway.
40:39Speaker 0Dude, bro,
40:41Speaker 1I'd
40:42Speaker 1rather live
40:43Speaker 1great
40:45Speaker 1while I'm here.
40:47Speaker 0Right. So I don't know, man. I think we covered a lot. I mean, we could probably talk about this particular subject forever, but I know the
40:53Speaker 0DMs that are flying through have been inundated with testosterone questions and PIP and stuff, so we wanted to kind of take a hard left away from the peptides for 1
41:01Speaker 0episode to talk about testosterone replacement, because getting back to peptides, very simply, they are amazing, we love them, they are enhancing your body in all forms contingent upon what peptide you take, but your hormones have to be optimized 1st
41:16Speaker 0and then they work
41:18Speaker 0amazingly.
41:18Speaker 0You are low to 300 testosterone run peptides, they'll probably work a little bit, but not like they can.
41:25Speaker 0Right.
41:26Speaker 1100%. And we could go on for days. I mean, we could talk a lot longer if,
41:31Speaker 0I don't know, some pointed questions about more side effects and different drugs that combat certain side effects, etcetera, etcetera. Maybe we'll talk about that. Maybe you'll get some- We'll get some questions on the Q and A probably from this episode, which we welcome them, man. And again, we don't pretend to know all the answers to all of it. We've just been doing it for, as you can tell, a long time and a lot of trial and error on ourselves. Like I said, with my gynecomastia,
41:53Speaker 0it's taken me a long time to get that under wraps. I was heavily You know what mean? So it took years,
41:58Speaker 0literally years to get it really to where I don't even really take an AI anymore, believe it or not.
42:03Speaker 0And that's really huge for me, but it takes a long time to kind of understand your body, man. Yes. And, you know, we're talking about
42:11Speaker 1we're talking about this. Everybody, you're your own person. You do what you do is what we've is what we choose to do. The 1 thing that and I am happy to talk about this because I have heard too many times people come up to me and go, Will, you've, like, saved my life. I can't believe
42:26Speaker 1oh, I cannot believe that I was living and prepared to live the rest of my life like that. Right? It's been amazing. Hey, don't tell anybody that I'm taking this. Okay? It's like, You fucking
42:35Speaker 1asshole, man. You're going to tell me something just saved your life, but just don't let anybody else know so
42:42Speaker 1they can't get it. So I don't know. I just wish the stigma
42:46Speaker 1wasn't
42:47Speaker 1yes.
42:48Speaker 0That's getting a little better, man. But you wanna have a good time, look through my DMs, man. This guy's on testosterone replacement.
42:53Speaker 0So did I deny it? I mean, look it through my post, man. It's all over it.
42:58Speaker 0Like, Yeah.
42:59Speaker 0Is that an attack or is that a culpa, man? I don't know. That's because I'm being smart. You should too.
43:07Speaker 0I don't know, yeah, we
43:09Speaker 0can go on more, but hopefully this is helpful. Yeah, you know, this is just to kind of let everybody know, you know, the podcast is growing, so we want to kind of move some things around, I think, to what's going to be helpful for the podcast to grow.
43:20Speaker 0And just in itself, I think it's going be a better flow. So what we're going to be doing
43:24Speaker 0is dropping
43:26Speaker 0the podcast
43:27Speaker 0now on Monday,
43:29Speaker 0and we will be doing the Q and A on Thursday, dropping it on Thursday. So that will be starting next week, and I think that's gonna be a better flow.
43:39Speaker 0So I'll be good with my social media channels on putting the link out there for the Q and A. I'll even actually probably post that today just for fun.
43:47Speaker 0And that's what the new protocol is gonna be. I'm assuming there's gonna be a lot of questions from this episode leading into the Q and A, but like I said, we welcome it, man. We love this stuff.
43:56Speaker 0Yes, sir. You got anything else, big dog? I think that's it, man. That's all I got. All right, guys. We will catch you on the next round. Take care. Good night.