TL;DR: Six months of Tongkat ali cycling (5 days on, 2 days off) at 200mg daily of a Physta-standardized extract. Total T went from 658 to 718 ng/dL. Free T: 18.2 to 22.1 pg/mL. SHBG dropped from 38 to 31 nmol/L. LH increased from 4.8 to 6.1 mIU/mL. Morning cortisol dropped modestly. The gains are […]
Author Archives: Jason Reeves
My SHBG was 58 nmol/L. My total testosterone was 484 ng/dL. My calculated free testosterone was 10.4 pg/mL – technically inside the reference range, but barely, and nowhere near where I needed it to feel like myself. I’d had D3 and magnesium dialed in for over a year. I was sleeping well. I was training […]
Everyone talks about getting eight hours of sleep. Nobody talks about what’s happening inside those eight hours. I wore an Oura ring and got IGF-1 blood draws every eight weeks for six months straight. What I found changed how I think about sleep, aging, and growth hormone permanently. TL;DR: My deep sleep minutes predicted my […]
My IGF-1 went from 224 to 248 ng/mL over 30 days of structured sauna and cold plunge protocol. My Oura HRV average improved from 58ms to 67ms. My deep sleep minutes, which I’ve been tracking obsessively since my first article, ticked from 102 to 108. Is that a lot? No, not compared to my first […]