For the EMF article you just put out. You say 2-3 mg of epitalon oral for the dosage. But for pinealon there is no dosage instructions. What would you recommend. Thanks a bunch for putting that all together, I have some changes to finish making.
This is a different than usual sort of question... how do you find friends who are on your wavelength? I've picked up lots of friends over the years, love them all for different reasons, but none of them really connect with the parts of myself that are growing -- the spiritual, the physical, the entrepreneurial.
I feel like I'm out on an island here trying to better myself. It's a real bummer to think friendship and growth are pulling me in opposite directions and not focused together in one. Any advice?
You can't expect people to follow your unique path. You can still appreciate them for how they are, but new friends are needed. Sounds like you really just need to get active on X and maybe find some private online communities too. Other than that, go to spiritual places/events/libraries, martial arts/gyms, and whatever other places that genuinely excite you. Just follow your genuine excitement and the people aligned with your vibration will be there too.
What's the cycle for? Surely you arent planning to build muscle from a neurosteroid? That's way too much andro. You're gonna have a bad time. That's the equivalent of running a few hundred mg per week of dht except without any 3b-diol to balance it out. We'd expect a rebound similar to that of ending a Xanax bender when coming off. May or may not be suppressive, but hoping you rethink this.
Just overall masculinization - mostly for the mental benefits, would not expect extraordinary physiological effects. What would you recommend then? I am still keen on trying it so maybe would it be a good idea for less frequent/smaller eod doses?
top5 supplements/peptides for general longetivity,want to put my 78year old father on some protocol,he is in good general health,but want him to live as long as possible
Recently been swimming at the beach for cardio and feels amazing. Bought a snorkel and use that so I can just put my head down and go to work.
Any concern with having my mouth on and breathing through a plastic snorkel for an extended period of time? It’s been so enjoyable, don’t wanna stop but idk if plastic in the mouth is good for that long?
The main issue isn’t the plastic leaching in minutes of use – most snorkels are food-grade silicone or hard plastics designed for mouth contact. The bigger concerns are jaw tension from clenching, low-grade CO2 buildup if the snorkel is long, and possible microplastic exposure if it’s a cheap, soft PVC mouthpiece. If you’re using it for cardio sessions and rinsing after, risk is low. If you want to be extra safe, swap to a snorkel with a medical-grade silicone mouthpiece and keep sessions under an hour at a time.
My mother's sense of smell was heavily damaged from Covid, to the point where most of the few things she can smell (eg, chocolate, vanilla, onions) cause her physical, wincing pain not unlike nails on a chalkboard. The doctors say its unclear whether the damage is to her olfactory nerve directly or to a center in brain, but she otherwise seems to be perfectly healthy, and this is the only side-issue she's kept from Covid all those years ago. Is there anything that might help her? BPC? It would have to be oral, unfortunately. Thank you! :)
That’s parosmia from post-viral olfactory nerve injury – the system is mis-wiring smells into pain signals. Oral BPC-157 is worth trying since it crosses into the gut-brain axis and has shown neuroregenerative effects. Paired with ALCAR, ALA, magnesium chloride, and zinc it can support olfactory bulb repair. Daily morning sunlight and olfactory “training” (repeatedly smelling essential oils like rose, clove, lemon, eucalyptus) are the non-negotiable rehab inputs – they retrain the nerve-brain loop. Recovery is slow but possible if you give both biochemical support and repeated stimulus.
Reverse T3 that high (29 ng/dl) usually means your body is shunting T4 into the “brake pedal” pathway instead of active T3. Selenium and iodine help, but they’re not the bottleneck here. The real drivers are circadian mismatch, chronic stress/adrenal output, and mitochondrial redox. Blue light/nnEMF on the thyroid directly pushes rT3, while AM sunlight and cold exposure push T4→T3 via brown fat. Low basal temps and adrenal strain also block conversion. Fix the environment first (sunrise, grounding, red/IR at night, cold plunges), then layer in cofactors like magnesium chloride, zinc, iron, and tyrosine. If that still fails, NDT or micro-dosed T3 support can bypass the bottleneck, but unless the light environment is fixed you’ll just keep making rT3.
Been on trt level doses (120mg/week) for the past 6 months and have noticed the equivalent of what i would say as acne but on my scalp (nothing on my face, body etc) . Is this for excess sebum production? Anything that can reduce this since i feel a bunch of pimples on my scalp
Scalp breakouts on TRT are really folliculitis, not classic acne. Weekly shots cause hormone peaks and troughs that spike E2 and DHT locally, and since the scalp has high 5AR density, follicles get inflamed and clogged. The solution isn’t suppressing sebum but stabilizing hormones: keep (T+D)/E2 above 350 and switch to daily or EOD injections depending on ester. Once the ratios are steady and the swings calm down, the folliculitis usually clears. Face/body may be spared because scalp 5AR density is way higher. Solutions: wash less often with harsh shampoos (they strip, rebound sebum harder), use ketoconazole 2% a couple times a week (anti-androgenic/antifungal), magnesium chloride rinse or zinc pyrithione to calm sebaceous glands.
I know you’re a strong advocate for DHT, there are many folks who seem to think that DHT is largely useless after puberty. I haven’t been convinced by either side. How do I know who to trust? Is there ever a situation where 5 AR inhibitors are advisable?
We hope you don't trust anyone and only come to conclusions based on your own research and experience. The “DHT is useless after puberty” line is one of the biggest lies in modern endocrinology. DHT doesn’t just build genitals in adolescence, it’s a lifelong paracrine hormone driving CNS function, muscle fiber type, penile sensitivity, fertility, fat distribution, bone density, pheromone output, and stress resilience. That’s why low DHT men look, act, and feel off. 5AR inhibitors are never advisable unless you’re deliberately trying to feminize yourself. They don’t “save your hair” long term, they just wreck androgen balance, crash neurosteroid production, and leave men depressed, infertile, and chemically castrated. They make no sense when all when you zoom out to first principles. The conditions 5AR inhibitors are prescribed for are rooted in mitochondrial dysfunction, where ROS ends up upregulating 5AR and NADPH is being depleted as a cofactor for DHT synthesis so DHT can act as a signal to recruit the immune system for wound healing and regeneration. Blocking that signal isn't fixing the root cause.
My last three lab results have shown consistently elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) levels outside the normal range, with the lowest at 3 mg/L and the highest around 7 mg/L.
My lifestyle seems relatively healthy - I get 5,000-8,000 steps daily, get sunlight exposure twice a day, and maintain a relatively clean diet. There's no family history of heart issues, and I recently saw a cardiologist who confirmed my EKG/ECG results were normal.
I'm currently on testosterone replacement therapy (120mg/week) and HCG (500 IU three times per week). I also use GHK-Cu and BPC-157 peptides as needed.
Given that my other lab markers were within normal range, should I be concerned about these consistently elevated hsCRP levels? Where should I start investigating potential causes?
Some men see hsCRP drift up on certain ester carriers or from hematocrit thickening blood. Check HCT, ferritin, fibrinogen, homocysteine.
2. Gut / Oral Sources:
Silent gut dysbiosis, SIBO, or gum disease are classic hidden drivers of elevated hsCRP. Stool test + dental evaluation worth doing.
3. Environmental Inputs:
Mold, mycotoxins, metals, EMF stress, chronic low-grade infections (Lyme, EBV reactivation). These often present as “mystery” inflammation with clean standard labs.
4. Lifestyle Blind Spots:
Even with clean diet + sunlight, persistent sleep disruption, alcohol, plastics, or industrial seed oils can keep hsCRP high.
5. Autoimmunity / Immune Activation:
hsCRP can sit elevated long before obvious autoimmune disease manifests. ANA, thyroid antibodies, or cytokine panel could reveal early signs.
Where to start:
Run fibrinogen, ferritin, homocysteine, ESR, IL-6 alongside hsCRP.
Stool + oral health check.
Rule out sleep apnea if recovery feels off.
Audit environment for mold/heavy metals.
Bottom line: hsCRP at 3–7 isn’t emergency-level, but it means there’s a root inflammatory driver that TRT/lifestyle hasn’t fixed yet. Better to track it down now than let it smolder.
Want me to sketch a flowchart-style investigation order (labs > environment > gut > hidden infections) so it’s easier to triage?
I've had success in improving my time blindness, procrastination, and exec dysfunction by clarifying goals and sitting down to schedule/plan out each miniscule step needed to accomplish them. Use calendar/tasks & try to adhere as best you can while improving over time. Checking off a task will give you a hit of dopamine & create a positive feedback loop (as long as your task isn't cheap-dopamine).
Knowing what you need to do before you sit down to do it will allow you to hyperfocus & get shit done quickly. To start off, assume you'll be slower than you want & give yourself slightly more time than you think you'd need. Then titrate down once you get an idea of how quickly you can do certain types of tasks (and progressively 'overload' yourself by lowering your time allocated by 5 min, 10 min, etc. until you really can't get things done any quicker w/o delegating).
On the supps side, I've seen benefits from ND saffron, Lion's mane, L-Theanine, & L-Tyrosine, among others (but those are the biggest needle-movers I've noticed).
How much muscle, if any, would someone who is enhanced lose if they did a complete 7 day fast to reset after a couple weeks of vacation/out of town travel?
For the EMF article you just put out. You say 2-3 mg of epitalon oral for the dosage. But for pinealon there is no dosage instructions. What would you recommend. Thanks a bunch for putting that all together, I have some changes to finish making.
This is a different than usual sort of question... how do you find friends who are on your wavelength? I've picked up lots of friends over the years, love them all for different reasons, but none of them really connect with the parts of myself that are growing -- the spiritual, the physical, the entrepreneurial.
I feel like I'm out on an island here trying to better myself. It's a real bummer to think friendship and growth are pulling me in opposite directions and not focused together in one. Any advice?
You can't expect people to follow your unique path. You can still appreciate them for how they are, but new friends are needed. Sounds like you really just need to get active on X and maybe find some private online communities too. Other than that, go to spiritual places/events/libraries, martial arts/gyms, and whatever other places that genuinely excite you. Just follow your genuine excitement and the people aligned with your vibration will be there too.
What did you ever get really wrong and what effect did it have?
Taking 400mg of DHT per week without exogenous estradiol or hcg and adrenal support. Effect was something very similar to Addisons Disease.
What labs would you recommend to take before, during and after an 8-week androsterone enanthate cycle?planning 10mg eod first 4 weeks 20mg eod
Do you think it'd be surpressive in any way?
What's the cycle for? Surely you arent planning to build muscle from a neurosteroid? That's way too much andro. You're gonna have a bad time. That's the equivalent of running a few hundred mg per week of dht except without any 3b-diol to balance it out. We'd expect a rebound similar to that of ending a Xanax bender when coming off. May or may not be suppressive, but hoping you rethink this.
Just overall masculinization - mostly for the mental benefits, would not expect extraordinary physiological effects. What would you recommend then? I am still keen on trying it so maybe would it be a good idea for less frequent/smaller eod doses?
Hi BTB, sorry for a vague question, but I'm curious why lots of people in the U.S. go to the gym, eat quite healthy and look good, but have 350 test ?
What's the biggest cause of this in your opinion?
top5 supplements/peptides for general longetivity,want to put my 78year old father on some protocol,he is in good general health,but want him to live as long as possible
Recently been swimming at the beach for cardio and feels amazing. Bought a snorkel and use that so I can just put my head down and go to work.
Any concern with having my mouth on and breathing through a plastic snorkel for an extended period of time? It’s been so enjoyable, don’t wanna stop but idk if plastic in the mouth is good for that long?
The main issue isn’t the plastic leaching in minutes of use – most snorkels are food-grade silicone or hard plastics designed for mouth contact. The bigger concerns are jaw tension from clenching, low-grade CO2 buildup if the snorkel is long, and possible microplastic exposure if it’s a cheap, soft PVC mouthpiece. If you’re using it for cardio sessions and rinsing after, risk is low. If you want to be extra safe, swap to a snorkel with a medical-grade silicone mouthpiece and keep sessions under an hour at a time.
Much appreciated. Yea I never typically push past an hour
My mother's sense of smell was heavily damaged from Covid, to the point where most of the few things she can smell (eg, chocolate, vanilla, onions) cause her physical, wincing pain not unlike nails on a chalkboard. The doctors say its unclear whether the damage is to her olfactory nerve directly or to a center in brain, but she otherwise seems to be perfectly healthy, and this is the only side-issue she's kept from Covid all those years ago. Is there anything that might help her? BPC? It would have to be oral, unfortunately. Thank you! :)
That’s parosmia from post-viral olfactory nerve injury – the system is mis-wiring smells into pain signals. Oral BPC-157 is worth trying since it crosses into the gut-brain axis and has shown neuroregenerative effects. Paired with ALCAR, ALA, magnesium chloride, and zinc it can support olfactory bulb repair. Daily morning sunlight and olfactory “training” (repeatedly smelling essential oils like rose, clove, lemon, eucalyptus) are the non-negotiable rehab inputs – they retrain the nerve-brain loop. Recovery is slow but possible if you give both biochemical support and repeated stimulus.
Suggestions for optimizing thyroid function? Reverse T3 running at 29 ng/dl. Been doing 200 mcg of selenium daily and 250 mcg of iodine.
Reverse T3 that high (29 ng/dl) usually means your body is shunting T4 into the “brake pedal” pathway instead of active T3. Selenium and iodine help, but they’re not the bottleneck here. The real drivers are circadian mismatch, chronic stress/adrenal output, and mitochondrial redox. Blue light/nnEMF on the thyroid directly pushes rT3, while AM sunlight and cold exposure push T4→T3 via brown fat. Low basal temps and adrenal strain also block conversion. Fix the environment first (sunrise, grounding, red/IR at night, cold plunges), then layer in cofactors like magnesium chloride, zinc, iron, and tyrosine. If that still fails, NDT or micro-dosed T3 support can bypass the bottleneck, but unless the light environment is fixed you’ll just keep making rT3.
Been on trt level doses (120mg/week) for the past 6 months and have noticed the equivalent of what i would say as acne but on my scalp (nothing on my face, body etc) . Is this for excess sebum production? Anything that can reduce this since i feel a bunch of pimples on my scalp
Scalp breakouts on TRT are really folliculitis, not classic acne. Weekly shots cause hormone peaks and troughs that spike E2 and DHT locally, and since the scalp has high 5AR density, follicles get inflamed and clogged. The solution isn’t suppressing sebum but stabilizing hormones: keep (T+D)/E2 above 350 and switch to daily or EOD injections depending on ester. Once the ratios are steady and the swings calm down, the folliculitis usually clears. Face/body may be spared because scalp 5AR density is way higher. Solutions: wash less often with harsh shampoos (they strip, rebound sebum harder), use ketoconazole 2% a couple times a week (anti-androgenic/antifungal), magnesium chloride rinse or zinc pyrithione to calm sebaceous glands.
Thanks currently doing TestE e3d, will try eod for a month and then try if changing esters make a difference!
What up Bio - what’s best shampoo/conditioner, and body wash rec? May have missed in chat.
We just use natural soap. Can look up natural shampoo and conditioner bars too. It's hard to find products without 5AR inhibitors
I know you’re a strong advocate for DHT, there are many folks who seem to think that DHT is largely useless after puberty. I haven’t been convinced by either side. How do I know who to trust? Is there ever a situation where 5 AR inhibitors are advisable?
We hope you don't trust anyone and only come to conclusions based on your own research and experience. The “DHT is useless after puberty” line is one of the biggest lies in modern endocrinology. DHT doesn’t just build genitals in adolescence, it’s a lifelong paracrine hormone driving CNS function, muscle fiber type, penile sensitivity, fertility, fat distribution, bone density, pheromone output, and stress resilience. That’s why low DHT men look, act, and feel off. 5AR inhibitors are never advisable unless you’re deliberately trying to feminize yourself. They don’t “save your hair” long term, they just wreck androgen balance, crash neurosteroid production, and leave men depressed, infertile, and chemically castrated. They make no sense when all when you zoom out to first principles. The conditions 5AR inhibitors are prescribed for are rooted in mitochondrial dysfunction, where ROS ends up upregulating 5AR and NADPH is being depleted as a cofactor for DHT synthesis so DHT can act as a signal to recruit the immune system for wound healing and regeneration. Blocking that signal isn't fixing the root cause.
My last three lab results have shown consistently elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) levels outside the normal range, with the lowest at 3 mg/L and the highest around 7 mg/L.
My lifestyle seems relatively healthy - I get 5,000-8,000 steps daily, get sunlight exposure twice a day, and maintain a relatively clean diet. There's no family history of heart issues, and I recently saw a cardiologist who confirmed my EKG/ECG results were normal.
I'm currently on testosterone replacement therapy (120mg/week) and HCG (500 IU three times per week). I also use GHK-Cu and BPC-157 peptides as needed.
Given that my other lab markers were within normal range, should I be concerned about these consistently elevated hsCRP levels? Where should I start investigating potential causes?
1. TRT-Linked Inflammation:
Some men see hsCRP drift up on certain ester carriers or from hematocrit thickening blood. Check HCT, ferritin, fibrinogen, homocysteine.
2. Gut / Oral Sources:
Silent gut dysbiosis, SIBO, or gum disease are classic hidden drivers of elevated hsCRP. Stool test + dental evaluation worth doing.
3. Environmental Inputs:
Mold, mycotoxins, metals, EMF stress, chronic low-grade infections (Lyme, EBV reactivation). These often present as “mystery” inflammation with clean standard labs.
4. Lifestyle Blind Spots:
Even with clean diet + sunlight, persistent sleep disruption, alcohol, plastics, or industrial seed oils can keep hsCRP high.
5. Autoimmunity / Immune Activation:
hsCRP can sit elevated long before obvious autoimmune disease manifests. ANA, thyroid antibodies, or cytokine panel could reveal early signs.
Where to start:
Run fibrinogen, ferritin, homocysteine, ESR, IL-6 alongside hsCRP.
Stool + oral health check.
Rule out sleep apnea if recovery feels off.
Audit environment for mold/heavy metals.
Bottom line: hsCRP at 3–7 isn’t emergency-level, but it means there’s a root inflammatory driver that TRT/lifestyle hasn’t fixed yet. Better to track it down now than let it smolder.
Want me to sketch a flowchart-style investigation order (labs > environment > gut > hidden infections) so it’s easier to triage?
No-BS supplement or meds suggestions for men suffering attention deficit disorder / have adhd
Suffering? Why are you suffering?
Because I perform worse than most other people in tests, regularly miss dead lines, have to re-do exams and semesters …
Systems >> Supplements or meds (IMO)
I've had success in improving my time blindness, procrastination, and exec dysfunction by clarifying goals and sitting down to schedule/plan out each miniscule step needed to accomplish them. Use calendar/tasks & try to adhere as best you can while improving over time. Checking off a task will give you a hit of dopamine & create a positive feedback loop (as long as your task isn't cheap-dopamine).
Knowing what you need to do before you sit down to do it will allow you to hyperfocus & get shit done quickly. To start off, assume you'll be slower than you want & give yourself slightly more time than you think you'd need. Then titrate down once you get an idea of how quickly you can do certain types of tasks (and progressively 'overload' yourself by lowering your time allocated by 5 min, 10 min, etc. until you really can't get things done any quicker w/o delegating).
On the supps side, I've seen benefits from ND saffron, Lion's mane, L-Theanine, & L-Tyrosine, among others (but those are the biggest needle-movers I've noticed).
Hope this helps.
Could using androsterone enanthate help me with my anxiety?
Same way Xanax could help with (and hurt). Not a permanent solution.
How much muscle, if any, would someone who is enhanced lose if they did a complete 7 day fast to reset after a couple weeks of vacation/out of town travel?
Nothing that wouldn't be regained in 1-2 weeks