Hello everyone, please allow me to introduce myself.
I'm a male in my late 20's, who having discovered via a blood test in June that I had low levels of testosterone (and the symptoms to match), started to research diet and hormones and consequently discovered Ray's work.
My diet up until that test was a typical 'healthy diet', whole grain based, high fibre, very high pufa and low sat fat. I started adopting Peat principles in July (low pufa, fibre, more sugar etc) and started noticing several improvements. Strength came back, appearance changed for the better (far less water retention), more energy, morning wood for the first time in years, and many other small improvements.
I also suffered set backs, namely increased anxiety and lately very severe insomnia. I decided to get a blood test done to chart my progress and here are the results (ref.range in parenthesis)
DHEA S (.44 -13.4 umol/l)
June 2017 - 4.78
November 2017 - 6.22
FSH (1.5 -12.4 IU/L)
June - .757 (LOW)
Novermber - .626 (LOW)
LH (1.7-8.6 IU/L)
June - 2.39
November - 3.07
Total Testosterone (7.6 -31.4 nmol/l)
June - 15.51
November - 25.6
SHBG (16-55 nmol/l)
June - 57 (HIGH)
November - 64.2 (HIGH)
Free Androgen Index (24 - 104)
June - 27.04
November - 39.88
Estradiol - (0 -191.99 pmol/l)
November - 126
To sum up, Total Testosterone increased by 70%, Free T by 66%, however free T is still fairly low due to high SHBG. I'd be interested in what may be possible to lower SHBG to free up more T/DHT?
It's a point of interest that prior to having this second test done, I had almost no sleep for two weeks due to the aforementioned insomnia, so it's plausible that T levels could be even higher when well rested.
Many thanks!
I'm a male in my late 20's, who having discovered via a blood test in June that I had low levels of testosterone (and the symptoms to match), started to research diet and hormones and consequently discovered Ray's work.
My diet up until that test was a typical 'healthy diet', whole grain based, high fibre, very high pufa and low sat fat. I started adopting Peat principles in July (low pufa, fibre, more sugar etc) and started noticing several improvements. Strength came back, appearance changed for the better (far less water retention), more energy, morning wood for the first time in years, and many other small improvements.
I also suffered set backs, namely increased anxiety and lately very severe insomnia. I decided to get a blood test done to chart my progress and here are the results (ref.range in parenthesis)
DHEA S (.44 -13.4 umol/l)
June 2017 - 4.78
November 2017 - 6.22
FSH (1.5 -12.4 IU/L)
June - .757 (LOW)
Novermber - .626 (LOW)
LH (1.7-8.6 IU/L)
June - 2.39
November - 3.07
Total Testosterone (7.6 -31.4 nmol/l)
June - 15.51
November - 25.6
SHBG (16-55 nmol/l)
June - 57 (HIGH)
November - 64.2 (HIGH)
Free Androgen Index (24 - 104)
June - 27.04
November - 39.88
Estradiol - (0 -191.99 pmol/l)
November - 126
To sum up, Total Testosterone increased by 70%, Free T by 66%, however free T is still fairly low due to high SHBG. I'd be interested in what may be possible to lower SHBG to free up more T/DHT?
It's a point of interest that prior to having this second test done, I had almost no sleep for two weeks due to the aforementioned insomnia, so it's plausible that T levels could be even higher when well rested.
Many thanks!
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