Hey @Ty Vincent I appreciate all the guidance you've been providing. I'm hoping you could offer some perspective on sleep. I go to bed around 8:00–8:30 p.m. aiming for 7–8 hours, and I wake almost every night at 2:00–3:00 a.m. and struggle to get back down. What's already covered, from your sleep guidance: - No artificial light in the bedroom at all, including taped-over device LEDs - No screens in the evening — no TV, no phone - No food within two hours of bed - No caffeine after noon - I've very calm before bed and fall asleep in mins The other piece is nighttime urination: I'm up 2–3 times, usually once around 10 p.m.–midnight and again at 2:00–3:00 a.m. I drink roughly 1–1.5 gallons of water a day and cut fluids off around 5:00 p.m. I'm curious how you'd think about this. Is the nocturia likely driving the sleep issue, or could something else be contributing to both? Appreciate your perspective.

Hey @Ty Vincent — just watched your osteoarthritis video, curious how it applies to mine. Left hip OA since 2015 after years of heavy lifting (competitive powerlifting). MRI shows cartilage thinning, a small labral tear, and CAM impingement (a bony bump grinding the joint every time the hip rotates in). Right hip is perfectly normal. HLA-B27 negative, hs-CRP under 1. So mine looks mechanical, and it's only one hip. Two questions: 1. If the damage is driven by that bump, does desensitizing to collagen still help, or does the immune side only matter when it started things? 2. Osteophytes have been there since 2019. Am I past the window for rebuilding cartilage?

Forgive me if I’m not supposed to post this. But I been trying to find a trusted source to purchase some peptides for research. Anyone have trusted sources?

Hey @Ty Vincent — you've said most men find their plateau at a total testosterone somewhere in the 2000–2500 ng/dL range. Mine came back at 1764 on my last panel, so I've increased my dose. What should I be watching for to know I'm in the sweet spot? I read your post on dropping your own dose at 53. Fatigue, joint and muscle pain, general ill feeling, and then better energy and mobility once you came down. What I can't work out is how you told that apart from being too LOW, since you've said overdose tends to reproduce the same deficiency symptoms. You mentioned feeling that way for a year or more before acting. What finally made you read it as too much rather than too little? And at 45 rather than 53, would you read the same symptoms the same way?

I've been thinking about trying TRT ever since I heard all the problems it solves, however I am scared of the fertility side effects. I have watched lots of videos on the subject, including yours, and I've seen a lot of people online try TRT. I think the information I have seen is vague; "when you take test your balls turn off, but you can take HCG to turn your balls back on." I fear most TRT advocates and users online aren't backed enough by studies that are convincing to me. I have searched and searched for that china study you mention a lot in your videos and the only study I found was from 2003 which tested 300 men with a low dose of 500ng a month. I don't think that's the one you reference but it's the only one I could find. I haven't really seen any cases of 18 year olds or younger being on it long enough to definitively say if fertility is for sure not an issue long term. I plan to have kids when I'm 30. I don't want to be on TRT for 10 years and then find out I can't have kids. Thats very scary to me. i don't want to cycle on and off TRT to preserve my natural production. And I'd prefer not to take hcg weekly with the TRT (will if I have to i guess). If I could just have a clearer answer I will get on TRT in a heartbeat. I'm pretty healthy and have good habits, I'm active with sports, gym, and did well in high school. I just realized one Day that I have all the symptoms of low test; unmotivated, low energy, brain fog, hard to wake up, anxious all the time, moody. My parents always said that I'm just a teenager I'll grow out of it, it's just a phase. got tested and what do you know I have low test Side note: attached at the bottom is my lab from about a year ago (I was 17) I'm 18 now, though I reckon I feel the same low test symptoms. I'm getting retested soon. I convinced my dad to get on TRT through all the information on your website so thank you.