My SHBG was 72 nmol/L. I had run enough bloodwork at that point to know that was high – significantly high – and that it was almost certainly the reason my free testosterone was low despite total T that looked reasonable. What I could not figure out was why. I wasn’t restricting calories. I wasn’t […]
Author Archives: David Nakashima
My TSH was 2.8. My doctor looked at the number, said “that’s normal,” and moved on. He wasn’t wrong about the reference range. He was wrong about what the number meant for my testosterone, my energy, and the six years of slow decline I’d been chalking up to just being in my mid-40s. TL;DR: A […]