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Recovering Natural Testosterone After TRT – Your Approach?
Hi Anthony and Skool family, I'd really appreciate your thoughts on my situation. I've been on TRT for a year. Before TRT my total testosterone was around 10 nmol/L, but I was also around 140 kg. Since then I've lost almost 20 kg (currently 115.9 kg) using Retatrutide, training and lifestyle changes. I recently saw an endocrinologist. He examined me and said my testes are normal size (20 mL and 25 mL), believes my original testosterone may have been suppressed by obesity, and thinks I have a good chance of recovering naturally now that I've lost the weight. His recommendation is to stop TRT completely, cold Turkey, monitor LH/FSH/testosterone over the coming months and allow my HPT axis to restart naturally. The problem is I've already been struggling with fatigue and low motivation even while on TRT. The idea of feeling significantly worse for another 3–6 months plus really concerns me. My goal is NOT fertility. My goal is to restart my natural testosterone production as efficiently as possible, minimise the low-testosterone "crash", preserve muscle and training performance, and avoid unnecessary lifelong TRT if my body can recover on its own. I've read your thoughts on HPT axis recovery, kisspeptin, mitochondrial health and redox optimisation. If this were your case, would you: allow natural recovery with no intervention, use a medically supervised transition strategy (e.g. hCG, clomiphene), consider kisspeptin, or focus purely on optimising sleep, training, nutrition and mitochondrial health while waiting for the axis to recover? More importantly, what objective markers would you monitor and at what time points to know whether recovery is progressing as expected versus needing intervention? Thanks for everything you share.
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