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Does that matter?

I don't know for sure.

But either way, you can maintain your fertility metrics to the literal baseline if you had an adequate adjunct

It's just very cost prohibitive.

Like the cost of recombinant FSH is insane and HCG in itself is expensive.

And then you're stacking that on top of your testosterone that you're using.

It's not necessarily an affordable thing for everyone.

So a lot of guys just let their testes atrophy because that's what they can afford to do.

And they want to still get the symptom relief.

And then once it comes time to have a kid, they have a bit of a more intensive protocol ahead of them to restore recovery.

organ size and functionality which is uh more intensive of a process than if you just sustained like i'm sure like you could speak to like it's easier to keep stuff where it is than it is to try and like regain health so if you've literally atrophied an organ into like you know a fraction of its functionality trying to like bring it back from the it's not it's not dead but it's like very compromised um it's likely not going to restore to like full functionality

And the road to getting there will require more aggressive intervention.

You'll still probably get back to fertile, but like it might not be as good of a health of the sperm for all we know.

It might not be the same capacity to produce the same volume.

Who knows?

So all that to say, yeah, you should expect your fertility to go down the toilet and you should expect that you have an adjunct protocol in place if you want to sustain it, if you're on testosterone and you want to sustain the fertility.

But it's possible to sustain it.

A lot of people thought until like relatively recently that if you're on testosterone, you just couldn't.

And you're going to be infertile for sure.

And it's unfortunate because there's a lot of guys, especially bodybuilders, who underwent severe atrophy and then had like more difficult roads to recovery because of just bad information.