TheBeard saw these results, but it seems he doesn’t think it’s possible.
p.7 of this thread :
(average result from 3 different saliva tests taken 30mn from each other at 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, last testosterone dose taken 24h before, nothing eaten for the last 15h, and just a small glass water taken to help salivating)
Your results actually make perfect sense, and do not contradict @TheBeard claims of no change in blood tests. In other words, it has already been documented that sometimes supplementing with steroids does not raise blood levels the slightest bit while causing saliva levels to skyrocket. So, the rise in saliva levels is a good indication that oral T is absorbed and distributed well as there is no way saliva levels can get that high without an exogenous supply. Unfortunately, saliva levels are indicative of local accumulation in salivary glands but do not correlate well with other tissues/organs so cannot be used to gauge whole-body distribution. However, it is pretty reliable test whether something taken orally absorbs well and gets systemically distributed. Studies with progesterone have documented extensively this discrepancy between serum and saliva levels after supplementation and it seems to apply to all steroids. Interestingly enough, the proposed explanation for this discrepancy is the same as the one given by Peat when describing his Progest-E product - i.e. he said the progesterone from Progest-E is carried by the red blood cells and that ensures good tissue distribution. Serum tests would not catch the steroid carried by the red blood cells but saliva and capillary blood tests would catch it. So, if somebody can find a lab that can do T tests from a finger prick bloodspot, that would be great. Those results should mimic the very high levels in saliva tests.
Pharmacokinetics of progesterone - Wikipedia
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As far as the serum levels, like I said in an earlier post, it often takes months to see difference when using the low(er), physiological doses. For immediate change, much higher doses are needed, as demonstrated by the Jatenzo studies - i.e. base-equivalent of 150mg T taken twice daily. Even then, serum levels peaked about 2 hours later, and returned to baseline about 12 hours later. So, if @TheBeard does blood tests, I would recomend taking that hefty dosage and then doing the blood draw no later than 3 hours later.