low free test treatment

[DAAS]

SO my test levels are normal range mid 600's, but my free test is 8.9 and normal range starts at 9 and goes to 30ish if i remember.

Are there any medications for freeing testosterone ?

[DrewZ]

if your SHBG is high you can use Vitamin d3 to lower it and increase free test.
Do you have your SHBG numbers?

Here's what d3 did for me over 5 months @ 5000iu a day.

January 2014;
Testosterone , Serum 673 (Range 348-1197 ng/dL)
Testosterone,Free 13.53 (Range 5.00-21.00 ng/dL)
% Free Testosterone 2.01 (Range 1.50-4.20%)

May 2014;
Testosterone, Serum 862 (Range 348-1197 ng/dL)
Testosterone,Free 29.22 HIGH (Range 5.00-21.00 ng/dL)
% Free Testosterone 3.39 (Range 1.50-4.20%)

Yep, Free test was flagged as HIGH


Edited; I also take 300mg Magnesium & 50mg Zinc right before bed.
If you Google 'lower shbg' the first hit has a top 10 things list, good read.

[kelkel]

Good stuff Drew. Was there any change in your protocol other than D3 as your serum T took jumped almost 200 pts as well?
Here's something related to D as well. My BW from six months ago had my D in the low 80's while on 5K per day and tanning twice per week. Cold now so I stopped all tanning a couple months ago but obviously maintained the same D regimen. BW last week showed my D dropped to 47. Interesting to note the effect tanning had on my D level. Free T dropped about 4 pts.....

[DrewZ]

Good stuff Drew. Was there any change in your protocol other than D3 as your serum T took jumped almost 200 pts as well?
Here's something related to D as well. My BW from six months ago had my D in the low 80's while on 5K per day and tanning twice per week. Cold now so I stopped all tanning a couple months ago but obviously maintained the same D regimen. BW last week showed my D dropped to 47. Interesting to note the effect tanning had on my D level. Free T dropped about 4 pts.....

Just dug up what I had logged for changes, here they are:

Changes from then to now;
- 10lbs lighter(loss in BF/water)
- Consistently taking 5000iu's of D3 with a fatty meal every day
- Added Acidophilus upon waking
- Added Digestive Enzymes a few meals a day
- Added NAC 600mg before bed
- Creatine intake has been a little higher, 10g a day.
- Bumped up my Arginine and Citrulline dose a bit, take it religiously before workout. 2g Cit, 5g Arg
- Cut protein powder consumption down from 2-3 servings a day to half a serving a day. (more real food!)
- Last 3 weeks I've been giving myself a rest day after legs, sometimes after back, never used to do that.
- Replaced sublingual B12 with B12 shot EW for 3 weeks prior to new bloods

Also I just realized that I was taking ZMA during that period of time, not 50mg zinc/300mg mag (thats what I do now)

[kelkel]

That's good stuff Drew. When it comes to rest days, as I've gotten older I switched to eod training. Absolutely the best thing I've done. Always fresh for my workouts and no doubt it's helping me maintain mass.

[DrewZ]

^^Yes, I'm starting to think my body needs this too.
I am definitely guilty of over training in the past.
Problem is I don't know what to do with myself on a rest day and the next thing you know I'm at the gym. haha