Enclomiphene is the drug that most men sitting in TRT clinic waiting rooms have never heard of and probably should have. It’s not a testosterone. It doesn’t shut down your natural production. It doesn’t crash your sperm count. It doesn’t commit you to a lifetime of weekly injections. What it does is poke the brain […]
Category Archives: Hormones-optimization
Eighteen months is long enough to do something genuine with male hormone optimization. It is also long enough to do it wrong in a way that compounds into a real problem. The men in this article did it right, but not because the path was straight. The biggest difference between an 18-month arc and a […]
Quick Review: Creatine Monohydrate and DHT Creatine monohydrate is the most well-studied supplement in sports science and one of the few in my protocol I’d call universally worth it. The DHT effect — which came from one widely-cited study and has been mostly misunderstood ever since — is real but modest, and the framing around […]
Boron’s primary mechanism is SHBG reduction and estradiol modulation – it frees up bound testosterone rather than raising total production. This distinction matters for who it works best for. My client Aaron had total T at 720 and felt terrible. Free T was 8.4 pg/mL. SHBG was 78. Boron plus magnesium glycinate dropped his SHBG […]
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 […]
Vitamin D3 is a steroid hormone precursor, not a vitamin. It acts on receptors in your Leydig cells, pituitary gland, and hypothalamus – every level of the testosterone production system has vitamin D receptor presence. Deficiency suppresses the whole axis. The optimal level is 50+ ng/mL on the 25-OH vitamin D test. Most reference ranges […]
Quick Verdict: Magnesium Form Comparison Magnesium oxide is the most common form in grocery store supplements and has roughly 4% bioavailability. Most of it goes through you without being absorbed. Magnesium glycinate absorbs well, doesn’t cause GI distress at therapeutic doses, and is the form I use with almost every client. Buy glycinate. Stop buying […]
Zinc raises testosterone when you’re deficient. When you’re not deficient, supplementing does nothing meaningful to your bloodwork and may suppress copper long-term if you run it at high doses continuously. The deficiency is more common than most men expect – nicotine products, high-phytate vegetarian diets, intense sweat output, and seed oil-heavy processed food diets all […]
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 […]
After 40, baseline GH production has declined by 15–20% from its peak. That doesn’t mean GH optimization is off the table — it means the training stimulus for it needs to be more precise, not more aggressive. Eccentric training and extended time under tension drive training-induced GH more reliably in men over 40 than maximal […]
The 6-12-25 Method is a tri-set protocol I have built around the principle that strength, hypertrophy, and metabolic stress each trigger different hormonal responses – and combining all three within a single working set produces a hormonal stimulus that pure strength work, pure hypertrophy work, or pure conditioning cannot match. Six reps of a heavy […]
The middle rep range in structured training — 10 to 15 reps with moderate load — is where lactate accumulates fastest. That’s not a coincidence. It’s where the GH stimulus lives. Commercial fitness programming almost never deliberately targets the lactate threshold for GH. Most programs are either too heavy (strength) or too light (pump work). […]
TL;DR: I ate 200 grams of protein daily for 90 days while keeping training, sleep, and everything else constant. IGF-1 went from 168 to 194 ng/mL. Total T climbed from 652 to 674 ng/dL. I added approximately 4.5 lbs of lean mass and lost about 2 lbs of fat simultaneously — eating at maintenance. The […]