You know it’s too bad I never got hormone tests like 10 years ago. I was always lean, could never put on fat no matter how much I ate. Well I could but I ate 7000 calories for almost and I only weighed 125 lbs when I started, was 160 10 months later.
Now I get fatter fairly easily. My shbg is low now. Too bad I didn’t know what it was before.
from what I found it seems
Higher Testosterone & shbg are correlated with lower body fat
Higher estrogen is correlated with higher bf
But too low estrogen causes extreme increase in fat gain
oddly higher t3 levels are correlated with higher bf too
this is correlation, so it doesn’t mean high shbg causes lower bf, it could be the lower bf causing the higher shbg
but at the same time, for some reason higher estrogen causes the body to oxidize fat as fuel over carbohydrate & leucine
honestly I got too confused trying to figure out the “magical” formula and gave up.
A bit off topic but I experimented with different ways of using gear though and found a few things (I can’t explain it)
spikes in androgens work way better than constant high levels.
I tried everyday injections of test (and other compounds) vs 1x per week injections. I always got bloated/gained weight with everyday injections, looked worse overall.
I actually started using sustanon for trt, 1 injection every 7-10 days. I’d stay way leaner, but side effects were worse, got bad acne from it
I wonder if the spike and eventual drop in testosterone caused my body to release certain hormones like shbg which causes certain effects to happen?
I noticed when I get fat easily my dhea/shbg are low, can’t tell if it’s a correlation or causation effect though