[Heaven's Night]

Hey Lara, thank you for the welcome! Good to know about DHEA - I'm on a DHT blocker and pre-HRT so I feel like I could play with it a bit now and see what happens. The non-feminisation effects (anti-aging etc.) seem worth it on their own and I read somewhere from Lotus that it could up-regulate hormones for use on an aromatase-based programme, so seemed worth trying out.

Oh yeah I'm totally trying to gain weight at the moment! Mostly in service of putting on muscle below my waist but also to have those healthy reserves for HRT, and practice for putting on weight once it starts redistributing. It's always been super hard for me though - good problem to have I guess. Planning on getting some calipers to keep track of it and aim for somewhere in the female healthy range long-term.

You may want to look into MSM, Vitamin D3 and Calcium combination on the side of your HRT, its healthy, gives a nice boost to your boobs and is quite cheap and easy to get.

I'll check this out! Any good threads on it here?

DHEA can be a weird one as it has such a long list of possible effects. Its a bit problematic as its adaptogen, for me it obviously did not fit at all, something about it made me feel like my T is going sky high, skin problems, irritation, anger and so on. All the things that starting HRT fixed from me in the first place. Also if you're looking into boosting IGF-1(Insulin like growth factor, aids with breast development.), there are other methods on how to boost it. Anything that raises human growth hormone seems to indirectly kick IGF-1 higher also, this is part of what MSM does btw.

Weight cycling is a thing to look into and it seems that further your fat distribution changes, more effective weight cycles become, this on my part is theoretical, Melissa knows more about this. You're a hard gainer? That might become easier as you start HRT. For me weight has always been a two way road with both easy gain and loss, but along HRT, gaining has become super easy to the point where if I don't watch my eating, I would become a BBW rather quickly.

Lotus's thread has a whole bunch of stuff about MSM + D3 + Calcium combo. I take MSM as raw powder mised with water, D3 and Calcium as generic supplement pills. I've had this on since before I was on HRT and I highly recommend it for both health effects and aiding breast development.

Just out of curiosity, which DHT blocker are you on?