Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?
by atom-morgan on Friday April 10, 2015 @12:44PM
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> Also I started Testosterone Replacement Therapy.
I think this is a huge one especially for older men. I'm only 24 but I was recently tested just so I have a benchmark in my "prime" age going forward. I was curious as well.
For anyone interested in some further reading, HN recently had a thread about it on an article "Testosterone is the drug of the future" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8996003
Also I started Testosterone Replacement Therapy. This has been amazing! Whereas I had no energy after work and no interest in sex, it changed within a week after my testosterone went from 311 ng/dl to 1100 ng/dl. (And my wife was thrilled!) Furthermore because of the workout routine, I have gained 10 pounds of muscle and lost 5 pounds of fat - and have the DEXA scans to prove it. (This is after the first 3 years of P90X and having lost 45 pounds, so these gains in muscle and loss of fat was a bit of a pleasant surprise.) My strength is greater than it was in highschool. My energy level is higher, but not at the highschool level - but close.