Derek (More Plates More Dates)

If you suddenly, you know, if you don't have morning wood anymore, like you got to look into it regardless if it's circulatory or hormone mediated, might be a combination of both.

Um, you no longer are able to hold muscle as easily or build muscle as easily.

You're losing strength in the gym.

Your recovery capacity is inhibited relative to what it was when you were younger.

Um,

Mood dysregulation, irritability, and these are all like really general vague symptoms.

And I would love to just say, oh, look at, you know, this exact thing will happen.

But in reality, it's often a constellation of things that comes as a vicious circle effect of the, you know, factors that led to that deterioration of testosterone to begin with.

Or if you were just, you know, never had reasonable testosterone to begin with, you would have probably not gone through puberty adequately to begin with.

So like the genetic factors, like some of these like more outlier cases become a bit more obvious because it's like you just never really like fully masculinized in adolescence.

You may have a higher voice, you know, a lot of those things are less relevant for the average person.

For the average person, it's going to be more of these general symptoms and it's warranted to get a test at that point and just see what's up.

So then that in combination with the test and things that we just talked about is kind of like where, you know, like pre-diabetic, you know, progressing towards, you know, pre-diabetes, insulin resistance.

A lot of this stuff is going to be ultimately determined by blood work, though, because a lot of people aren't going to be able to identify this autonomously, reliably.

So that's kind of where I'd point to the more vague stuff, like the quality of life.

Like, do you notice a blatant deterioration with no other factors changed?

Erection quality, you know, libido, vigor, muscle mass, strength, fat, body composition, stuff like that.

I have absolutely seen seven-year-olds with, you know, 900 total T's.

I would love to bang out an exhaustive list, but forgive me, I guarantee we'll miss something.

But like alcohol, you know, the direct toxicity effects of that does inhibit actual steroidogenesis