Ep 64// Derek, More Plates More Dates: Testosterone, TRT/HRT, Hormone Optimization, and Blood Work
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
The Importance of Symptoms Over Scores
I know there's the huge discussion on like going up of symptom based versus what you receive from the lab. How much value do you put on symptoms versus scores? I don't think I could say for certain that symptoms are more important or less important. For example, if you have a 400 total testosterone, but you feel amazing, you have morning wood, good vitality, good stress resilience and everything else is functioning at top tilt. Perhaps at the receptor level, you only need so much testosterone to actually accomplish the same thing. Another guy needs 1000. So it doesn't necessarily mean that just because you're on the lower end of the reference range, that equals bad equals I need PRT
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