One thing I am curious about is the effect of diet/training on testosterone levels. Is it possible a combination of deficit dieting and hitting the weights reasonable hard and consistently can lead to a significant deficiency showing up in tests?
From the minimal reading I've done in the past, it seems that an aggressive calorie deficit can lower test levels. So can being fat, which also increases estrogen. Exogenous testosterone will also increase estrogen but that can be easily dealt with if necessary. On a TRT dose, it may or may not be as people respond differently and, obviously, it is dose dependant as well.
That's cool, basically double what my last test showed.
And your rising as your getting older which is really remarkable..if you can hold steady as you age your doing a great job...if you rise as you age, over 35, a doc probably will think your taking something not necessarily test..but something...if your doing it naturally hats off to you because your not gonna experience that crash that everyone who is on something will at some point
I forgot to mention that I aged from 31 to 35 during that window, tested at the same time of day and same month of the year. I turn 36 in July so let's see where it goes from here. I was debating TRT because I was insanely tired and apathetic throughout the day, despite setting regular PRs, earlier this year hence the most recent test. After seeing those trends I decided to rule out other factors instead. I found that if I can go to bed early and wake up early I feel and function just fine. The fatigue kicks in like clockwork if I go to bed after 11 pm regardless of quantity of sleep. I've never experimented with anabolic steroids or testosterone supplementation. I'm not opposed to either I just don't see a place for it in my life. That will likely change with age of course. I am interested to seeing where this trend flattens out in years to come. I'm on track for more PRs going into this summer so let's see what happens next.
About the same age here, a little younger. I wanna avoid the TRT if possible because of potential side effects and I don't know how permanent they could end up being. But at the same time, my numbers for testosterone are pretty alarming right now. I don't know if it's because I've been deficit dieting or what. I haven't really had any tests for it done in a maintenance or surplus state. I started trying to eat maintenance again recently since my weight loss kinda flattened out after a 30 pound drop, and when I get another test done monday I'll have been eating maintenance or above for a few days. It'll be interesting to see if it has any pronounced effect.