whereismyOJ said:Thank you everyone for your responses! Would RP's Progest-E work for him? I've been taking it, so I'll always have plenty on hand. If so, what should be his dose? Also, I keep reading conflicting side effects of when a man takes either progesterone or pregnenolone. Any thoughts on that?
With regards to his T2. He was Dx in his early 20's. When he first saw his endo, which was about a year ago, they did blood work. I don't know what test is performed to see how much the pancreas is producing, but they almost Dx him as T1, but I suppose that test proved otherwise and they kept him as a T2.
I've only read the symptoms of acute hypoglycemia, we've never experienced them.
This is all so very confusing for me...the whole T2D. I've read RP's articles on sugar and diabetes. We are implementing supplements and eating more fruit. We don't drink coffee for religious reasons, so I've always felt stumped when it comes to that aspect of following RP's advice.
We started on IdeaLabs Estroban, (vits. K,A,D, & E), glycine, mag. glyciate, B1, B3, taurine and I just got in the mail today, Life Extension Vit. E. I read another post from haidut about high doses of Vit. E helping with testosterone and lowering PUFA's, etc.
I don't know exactly how much SFA he eats. We only use butter and coconut oil and occasionally olive oil for cooking. I will make some mineral broth to boost mag.
I think my posts said that high doses vitamin E lower estrogen, but I am not sure where I said that it increases testosterone. The study I posted some time ago on the estrogen said that vitamin E has progesterone-like activity, so it will lower estrogen but in high doses it may also lower testosterone.
So, I would try a smaller dose first - 300mg (~400 IU) was shown to reduce prolactin in men and should not have much of an effect on testosterone.
Ray also wrote that nettle root is an aromatase inhibitor, so you can try that as well.