The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
Then, looking under the hood, I ended up in
the lower-range of "normal" for total testosterone in blood testing.
What was the problem?
POSSIBLE SHORT CIRCUITS
Testosterone is a molecule of many dependencies.
The hypothalamus releases gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), which tells the pituitary
(anterior pituitary) gland to release luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone
(FSH). LH then stimulates the Leydig cells in the testicles to produce--ta-da--testosterone.
It is a major but rampant mistake to treat low testosterone with external testosterone in the
form of a gel or injection12 without troubleshooting the upstream parts of the axis first.
It's also a mistake to think of low libido as strictly a low-testosterone problem.
In 2004, I experimented with a hormone and drug called human chorionic gonadotropin,
commonly known as "hCG," which e ectively acts as a form of luteinizing hormone. Injected