Where Did My Testosterone Go? Happy Birthday, Me.

DHEA is the most abundant steroid hormone that your body makes(it is a precursor to testosterone). It goes down as we age. Get your DHEA levels checked and consult with your doctor about supplementation if that is indicated.

yes yes yes wrote:

they believe some herbs can boost testosterone levels and i've done them for about a year now including Ashwa Ghanda (sp?) and ginger. Some foods, too, like oysters in particular and seafood in general.

I talked to my doc about testosterone replacement therapy and the doc starting listing the side effects and i was quite sure that it wasn't anything i wanted to try.

For me, this is all age related stuff, to be expected.

The only other thing that probably is a big factor and hasn't been mentioned yet is quality sleep. Might as well throw in the low stress environment if you want to hit them all...

I did read about ashwagandha! I think I read that reduces stress & cortisol, & it may help with endurance, strength, &, of course, testosterone. I was surprised to find it at my grocery store too.

I also read that pomegranate juice could help too.

Preserve your semen by not wasting it recklessly . How often do you ejaculate? Ancient culture paid a lot of emphasis on the vitality of Sperm and also proper breathing (Breath exercises/Breath holdings)

It was mentioned in a previous post, but I will reiterate that the problem as I understand it is that once you do testosterone replacement therapy it is hard to ever get off of it. The reason is that if you start taking it, it suppresses your body's own production of testosterone. And then if you stop taking it, you have virtually no testosterone and then you feel like crap so you go back on it. I'd try everything under the sun besides testosterone replacement therapy and only use it as a last resort. Good luck.

UltraDude wrote:

It was mentioned in a previous post, but I will reiterate that the problem as I understand it is that once you do testosterone replacement therapy it is hard to ever get off of it. The reason is that if you start taking it, it suppresses your body's own production of testosterone. And then if you stop taking it, you have virtually no testosterone and then you feel like crap so you go back on it. I'd try everything under the sun besides testosterone replacement therapy and only use it as a last resort. Good luck.

When you stop taking testosterone you will start producing it again. It wont happen in a day so you will feel terrible for while depending on the person . The problem is going back to "Normal" means going back to low testosterone.

Absolutely don't go on testosterone unless its necessary but much of the stuff you read online about it is BS. Lots of guys have other problems and think it is their testosterone so they go on and the problems don't go away.

Internetsherlock wrote:

Preserve your semen by not wasting it recklessly . How often do you ejaculate? Ancient culture paid a lot of emphasis on the vitality of Sperm and also proper breathing (Breath exercises/Breath holdings)

Yeah, if you like to ejaculate, don't do that. It makes people miserable to do things they like to do. These people crack me up.

Also, if you go on TRT, you would have to quit racing, at least anywhere you're semi-competitive in your age group.

i am considering just hanging around with a different crowd, and namely, guys who are less macho than me. Then i won't feel so less, you know, less ____.

Anyone try this?

curiously striated wrote:

Also, if you go on TRT, you would have to quit racing, at least anywhere you're semi-competitive in your age group.

why u just get a TUE like Armstrong. After all he had testicular cancer so needed TRT afterwards (maybe he got cancer from doping in the first place). Was basically a passport for doping...

Sleep a lot more than you have been and you'll probably be a lot healthier. Naps are good but you can't always take them and you get much more benefit from going to be relatively early. You don't really catch up on the REM sleep when you sleep in, and then there are probably kids and pets waking you up after 7 or 8. This is where I should do better, as I'm past fifty now.

There's no excuse for cutting out the exercise and gaining weight. COVID or whatever, get out and exercise. Olli Hoare's doing three hours of exercise a day under quarantine in a hotel room in Sydney for two weeks. I doubt many of you have that kind of restriction. I managed 110-120 miles per week for 9 1/2 months this year, mostly under COVID, until I had the usual calf injury. I'm back over 100 miles the last couple weeks, so no excuse. From seeing masters and veterans runners in my group and others, I know that age is just a convenient excuse for not living right and exercising a lot. The symptoms you get that appear to be of age are probably due far more to not getting enough sleep and cutting out exercise. Or, at least, you can save most of what you had for decades if you sleep 8-10 hours a day and exercise an hour or more a day.

from going to bed relatively early.

I wanted to add that sleep has been shown to be a far better recovery aid than any other modality. See Christie Aschwanden's(?) book, "Good to Go," on recovery.

nicely said.

I very much agree and look at the workout program as basically pain in installments. You can either live your life as out of shape and feeling yuck all the time or you can knock out your workouts once or twice a day for a little while at a time and feel and look good. You choose. For me, i would rather bang out the workouts and be in control of it.

The sleep part, i have to work on,

Add fat and cholesterol to your diet. I did that and it helped a great deal, approximately doubling my T.

There was a thread, "OTS and Low testosterone" from last week. I would look into the mineral supps. First order would be to get the full blood panel. Regarding Vitamin D that can be a double edge if your popping all these high dose VitD and your levels go too high the diminished returns of fatigue, bone/back pain, blurred vision can set in.

I was last tested without supplementing at 54ng/ml doc said that was optimal, then in spring was at 51ng/ml. During summer I work outside but am covered up but then shirtless for the daily run.

Have you tried sleeping au natural? It has helped me....

49 Year Old Runner wrote:

I just turned 49 & it feels like a lightswitch happened & my testosterone has disappeared completely! Any suggestions to getting me back to normal?

Since the pandemic, my mileage has dropped from 50 miles a week to around 25. I thought of getting my mileage back-up to spend more time with hormone release through exercise.

I know weightlifting is supposed to help too. Of course, going to the gym is tough, near impossible these days.

I thought of taking a multivitamin to supplement my diet (which is pretty good).

Any other suggestions or help?

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/8-ways-to-boost-testosterone#7.-Take-Some-of-These-Natural-Testosterone-Boosters

Might not be low T. Go get your heart checked out. Could be failing.

Eunuch detected.

OP stop running mileage. Do sprints/light sprints instead, which boost T almost as much as lifting weights.

But if you don't want to get too bulky, do 200 meter sprints or 400 meter sprints instead of 60-100 meters.

Walk in between intervals. And the lighter your sprints, the more repeats you'll be able to do.

But the flat out high mileage running is hurting your T for sure.