14/05/2026
Although TRT can drastically improve someone’s quality of life, outside of specific medical circumstances it shouldn’t be the first lever you pull to increase hormone production.
There are a myriad of lifestyle/health factors that can really negatively impact natural hormone production.
If you are being driven into the ground with overtime at work, training with excessive amounts of training volume, under-fueling nutritionally, sleeping 4-5 hours a night, constantly fighting with the missus and inhaling beers every day/week.
You can get bloodwork after a period of redlining like above and have low testosterone relative to baseline.
So instead of accepting:
“oh, im nearly *insert age between 25-40* I need to get on TRT”.
Try sleeping more.
Try managing stress/recovery better
Train within your recovery capabilities.
Try consuming a high quality diet with heaps of plants, dietary fibre and adequate dietary fats (omega 3’s etc).
Try maintaining a healthy body composition
But if you just want to actually blast gear, that’s absolutely fine too.
Just don’t lie to yourself and others saying you’re on a therapeutic dose of testosterone. .
Shoutout to randy marsh.