I wonder if watching porn or seeing naked women raises testosterone in the Merry Christmas Nut Sack ? Strange studies in the name of even stranger science have been done , Great thread love all of those festive Pics , Merry Christmas fellow Brawner's and a Happy HOE HOE HOE !!
Everything that raises testosterone to above normal levels other than by inhibiting negative feedback causes a lower than baseline rebound, speaking roughly. Like, whether it's low dose HCG or an herb that potently raises your LH, they'll both get your testosterone levels supraphysiological, which then means the negative feedback evening it out hours later.
However, obviously activities like exercise raise testosterone and it doesn't crash hours later before baseline. So maybe? How long is it going for though, the body is just trying to spread the seed, once it understands that a picture does not lead to actually spreading seed, there'll be no need to make testosterone. And "seed spreading" is a very poor summary of the human reproductive program. Then we get into placebo effect area because you could program yourself to make testosterone simply by.. thinking positively? Stressing less.
Remember that there are more feel-good hormones other than testosterone. Maybe not just hormones that cause specific neurons to light up. Like smelling pheromones fires certain hypothalamic neurons directly before the testosterone level changes. Just because your sex drive gets a bump doesn't mean any androgen levels are changed, though certain behaviors eventually lead to higher androgens. Or could end up lowering androgens, like opioids do, and endogenous opioids were seen to rise from the placebo effect
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/27/44/11934.short which by itself will lower your gonadotropins and androgens, I posted about it in my thread about least toxic enhancement methods. In which I inquired about antiopioids as PCT or preventing suppression all along. Naloxone being the shortest acting one seems like a good choice, combined with intranasal testosterone, PWO, both will leave the body by the time you go to bed. One safety evaluation of high doses used over 100 times the dose given for opioid overdoses
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1161/01.STR.21.5.721 since 4mg is in typical overdose nasal antidotes and intranasal bioavailability is 50%, you get 2mg in, and intravenously they used over 200mg+ and nobody died. By itself naloxone wasn't tested for liver damage long term daily use but naltrexone was with no liver enzyme changes after nearly a year of very high dosing daily.