[Lotus]

Thank you Lotus and Clara,
While there is endless material on line about the effects of low testosterone, I have not found any discussion of the effects of levels as low as I have. Have you?

I usually find references in TG forums, (I'm not a member of them, just for research) anyways one reference was from when an Endo doc had his TG patients T level down to female levels which he did quite well from what the op stated.

Now concerning your Total T, it only takes a 1 to 2% increase of Free T to make you feel better. For aging males we still produce enough Total T but it gets bound up by SHBG and albumin. And that's where SHBG seems to be stubborn and has an attitude to boot lol.

Albumin (which is a plasma protein) ties up 30 to 40% of the Total T, while 60 to 70% is tied up (bound) by SHBG, leaving only a 1 to 3% for FREE T, ya know the bio-active kind (useable).


So, I'll give someone else a chance to answer this and the rest of your questions, (sorry Annie) I'm intruding on Denitas thread. However I will ask this, what can you (we) do to effect the change and increase Free T, and yes let me point this out please, where does E come from (what's its precursor hormone?) not where it's produced.


Give me a shout if you get stuck!


Hugs!