what's the best weekly dose of exhaust in testosterone is it a dose that gets you to the top of the reference range or maybe twice out of the reference range can you safely run 250 milligram testosterone weekly indefinitely what about 500 milligrams what about 1,000 milligrams what about 2,000 milligrams testosterone per week what does the scientific evidence even say about high those testosterone Cycles let's find out in this video Vigor Steve here so I get this question quite frequently people want to know what the safest dose of exoin testosterone is and find out the upper
tolerable dose of exoin testosterone so they can find some sort of middle ground and run testosterone for very long periods of time preferably indefinitely with minimal side effects and all of the benefits associated with a testosterone replacement therapy hormone replacement therapy or full-blown steroid cycle that revolves around testosterone right basically people want to know they get out of jail for free testosterone dose long story short it highly depends what else you're doing with your body because let's be honest you're not just taking Exon testosterone you might also be drinking or eating some processed foods over
the weekends maybe smoke a cigar or some cigarettes or vaping or smoking weeds taking some recreational drugs here and there right so whatever pressure you're putting on your body not that I'm saying that EXO toost from putting tremendous pressure on your body but as it does escalates generally speaking Health parameters start to decline so if you keep the dose moderate I would say that testosterone is reasonably safe but if you start ramping up the dosages to bodybuilder dosages then uh you definitely have to put some practices in place to keep your health intact but to
simplify it even more the best do of testosterone for you as an individual is the dose where you get all of the benefits associated with exous testosterone that's increased mood and well-being increased libido but not to the point you have uncontrollable aido where you're fing 24/7 and you can't get anything done and your pance is completely the cous over right that dose is then way too high you need to reel it back in a little bit you get a positive aggression increased motivation more confidence and what so many people in the fitness industry are after
increased muscle mass in improved body composition right you want all of the good stuff and none of the bad and the only real way of figuring that out is through self- experimentation so you're going to have to get your hands dirty and maybe experience some side effects along the way side effects like acne or oily skin hair loss or hair growth in places you did not expect like the chest or the back or other places of the body maybe you get some symptoms of gynecomastia as simple as puffy nipples or full-blown gyno if that's in
your genetic makeup and your body fat levels are reasonably high at the start of exogenous testosterone treatments you might get anger management issues becoming irritable at the smallest thing or full-blown roider rage and in that sense exogenous testosterone is very similar to alcohol if you're already a and you start drinking you become highly intoxicated you're more of a more of a troublemaker and exogenous testosterone is very similar to that scent even though most people report that they feel absolutely fantastic very mellow very happy go-lucky when they start supplementing your blood pressure might go up you
might have impaired Sleep Quality blood work parameters might change all of which take it from me with lifestyle changes over the G supplements or some ancillaries many of these side effects these commonly occurring side effects can be mitigated or completely removed to figure out what the ideal starting dose of Exon testosterone is going to be for you as an individual all we have to do is look into the medical field because Exon testosterone is being used in various treatments especially revolving around andren deficiency you might not be Androgen deficient currently but you still want to
have the benefits of exhaust testostrone to improve your overall quality of life so let's have a look into the medical field and see what the generally accepted prescription dosages of various exous testosterone products actually are I'll put them on the screen testosterone under Cano testosterone anate testosterone cypionate testosterone propionate testosterone suspension even though I wouldn't recommend suspension in any way shape or form because the post injection pain can be quite brutal we have compounded Esther formulas like susten on 250 and there's even alternative testostrone treatment in the form of mucco adhesive oral patches transdermal fil
films trans trans dermal Solutions transdermal gels capsules nasal sprays implants and to summarize regardless of Ester formulation the General Metal consensus is then in the treatment of Androgen deficiency injectable exous testosterone will range anywhere between 25 milligrams to 200 milligrams per week so I would say that that's a reasonably safe starting point you can always build up just keep in mind that these clinically accepted dosage ranges are regardless of age diet lifestyle activity levels to co-administration of other medications or ancillaries or performance enhancing drugs and the amount of gak repeaters that you have on your
Androgen receptor because it's the amount of gak repeaters that determine how tightly the exous testosterone is going to bind and potentiate Androgen mediated Gene transcription which is ultimately where all of the beneficial effects from the Exon testosterone are going to come from now if you're curious about these antigen receptor gank repites without turning it into a fullblown gagr deep dive gag stands for cytoc adenine guanine and in most humans the amount of gag repeats on the Androgen receptor can vary between 18 to 24 repeats whereas in some humans have up to 35 gag repeats but
it highly depends on the individual genetic polymorphism most of the scientific evidence indicates that fewer gang repeats leads to increase Androgen receptor sensitivity and binding to androgens and whether that's a free circular ating testosterone or other exogenous anabolic androgenic stats which are testosterone derivatives fewer gank repeats results in a tightly bound Androgen to the Androgen receptor and thus you get more of an effect on the gene transcription and on the other side more gag repeats leads to decreased receptor sensitivity and binding this is where medical conditions like Androgen insensitivity syndrome are stemming from now that
being said it seems that genetic analysis for Androgen receptor G G repeats is it included in most DNA testing services that you can find online so let's just forgo these gak repeats and stick to the things we can actually measure so now that we know the clinical dosage ranges how can we determine the best response to this dose of Exon sterone that we're taking we can go with blood work as the first line of acquiring some data on what's going on internally now of course I'll be the first one to say that blood work is
not going to tell you how tightly the testosterone is binding to the antigen receptor with a certain amount of gag repeats we can't figure it out but blood work can tell you how a testosterone is metabolizing into diod testosterone or estral and how it's affecting your overall blood work parameters blood work is just a moment in time when you're going for blood work you draw blood all the numbers that you get on pler on your blood work results are just of the blood that was drawn at that exact moment in time so even though I'm
the first one to say that blood work is very important you should to do it frequently ideally every month blood work as many times as you can afford it's just a moment in time we're not treating the numbers that's what old school endocrinologists do they look at a number it's off and now they're bringing your Exon testosterone dose down right we're treating the patient we're treating you we need to figure out how you feel right so before you go in for blood work make a little diary write down what your mood is what your libido
is what your well-being is what your motivation and confidence regression Etc is Right rate that from a one star to Five Star make some assumptions form a hypothesis maybe you think that your estr levels are high or your dihy testosterone levels are high based on the hair loss or symptoms of gynecomastia that you're currently experiencing right whatever side effect you have try to mix and match that two particular blood work parameters write it down first bro please going for blood work to confirm it was your hypothesis correct or maybe your D levels are just slightly
elevated and the gyno that you're experiencing is just water retention right your prolactin is in range your progesterone levels are normal if you can't figure it out right hire a coach or hire who somebody who can interpret your blood work results for you but it's very important as for you as a beginner trying to figure out what the best dose of Exon testosterone is to write down your assumptions and how you feel before you go in for blood work and then you put two and two together just keep in mind that not all blood work
results are created equally the results might vary between 10 to 20% among the different testing methods there's chemoluminescent microparticle immuno aay abbreviated to cmia Electro chemoluminescent imuno aay abbreviated to ecla or liquid chromatography Mass spectrometry abbreviated to lcms but the most sensitive version of bloodwork analysis regarding hormone panels is actually liquid cometography tandem Mass spectrometry abbreviated to LC Ms that will give you the most accurate results now do you need to do lcms Ms multiple times as you're trying to figure out the ideal testosterone dose no but in the beginning it's very beneficial very important
to figure out what your actual total testosterone free testosterone bioavailable testosterone and all of your relevant blood work parameters actually are until you had that sweet spot and then you can continue with conventional testing and the blood work results are going to be in particular reference ranges and we have to differentiate between the feminist reference range and the masculin reference range it could be anywhere a difference of a total testosterone from 830 890 to 1100 nanograms per de so what reference range would you rather go with the feminist or the masculine right we want 1100
NRS per Deiter duh or maybe even more 1100 nanograms per deciliter is not where most men feel best most men feel better when they're super physiological most men feel good from, 1500 n per decil upwards right we're talking about healthy men who are Physically Active control their diet take some over the coun their health supplements right do everything right the hardworking the Blue Collar the intelligent the masculine men out there do very well with a, to 1500 2,000 NS per deiler under total testosterone level managing all of their blood Ro parameters staying very very healthy
for very long periods of time right and maybe as you age the dose needs to come down slightly but for most men in their Prime 1500 2,000 NRS per decator is where most men feel best and most of their blood Ro parameters are 100% manageable now don't get me wrong 100 milligram testosterone per week is a great starting point but probably not the end point of figuring out the ideal Exon costone for you your endocrinologist might say that 300 n per deciliter and your toot testosterone is not Androgen deficient and thus doesn't prescribe you anything
so you're going to have to take matters into your own hands and maybe start with 100 milligrams Exon testosterone to bring your 300 nanograms per deiler up to 600 right most men based on all the blood work that I've seen anywhere between 100 to 125 milligrams Exon testosterone will bring their levels up to let's say 600 700 nogs per deiler 150 depending on individual metabolism so when you start like that you double your serum testosterone levels as a starting point to see how you feel get your hands dirty learn through experimentation you do your blood
work before you get your hands dirty and maybe four weeks six week into this starting dose right see what blood work parameters have changed but most importantly you see how your toal testosterone free testosterone bioavailable testosterone serum dial dihydrotestosterone sex binding globulin and your lipid parameters have changed over those four to six weeks right you can always increase you can always increase and you can stop at a dose where you feel absolutely great but your blood work parameters also look great right that's the ideal dose of testosterone but you're still going to have to try
start low build your wake up and do blood work in between each increment of the EXO testosterone dose that you're taking 100 Mig 4 to 6 weeks blood work 150 milligram per week for 4 to6 weeks weeks blood work 250 milligrams Exon syone per week for 4 to6 weeks blood work it sucks but this is the best way to keep track of everything that's happening in your body at that exact moment in time when you do blood work right so keep that in mind and I once you get into this comfortable groove of self- experimentation
and analyzing your blood work results you can start messing around with the different testosterone Esters right there are so many different ones to choose from testosterone andano testosterone anate testosterone cinate testosterone propionate many different versions susten on 250 right stick to an Esther that you prefer in a product with a carrier oil that you can metabolize at a sustained rates right start messing around with the injection frequency start messing around with the depth of the administration whether you go intramuscularly or subcutaneously start messing around with all these things at one point you find your sweet
spot and it's not solely about the dose of Exon and testosterone and if that's too complicated and too much work for you you can always go with the cookie cutter body weight to weekly dose Approach at let's say 2 Mig exhaustion testosterone per 1 kilogram of body weight at let's say 10 12% body fat or 1 milligram per one pound of body weight so take me as an example I'm approximately 10% body fat weighing approximately 200 lb if I were to go on exous testosterone now I would start with let's say 150 to 200 milligrams
testosterone and or sh eight per week all right I think that pretty much covers how to get to the entry dose of Exon testosterone and how to figure out the ideal dose of Exon testosterone The Sweet Spot dose the get out of jail for free dose right the dose where you feel best but all of your blood work parameters are manageable and you don't get any terrible side effects which you can mitigate otherwise with over the G supplements or ancillaries right fill out your diary do your blood work and keep adjusting until you're perfect but
what is the highest dose of exhaust testosterone that we can take safely what is the highest dose we can take permanently right I mean we want to know the highest dose we want to push the boundaries personally I've gone as high as 2,500 milligrams testosterone andate per week one ampol of test per day and two on Sunday and I've talked to guys who've gone up as high as 3,500 milligrams even 5,000 milligrams but those are ifb Pros they compete they have something to win right they're freaky decky big I documented all of my blood work
results on 2005 milligram testosterone anate in this video give it a watch after we're done with this one I'll link it at the end but it doesn't mean that 2500 milligrams testosterone inate is suitable for you let's look into the medical literature the highest dose of testosterone investigated is up to 600 milligram testosterone initate per week anywhere between 16 to 20 weeks and reviewing all of the scientific literature citations down below as usual evidence-based with citations scientific evidence shows that 600 milligram testosterone initate per week up to 20 weeks is reasonably tolerable reasonably benign good
blood work parameters albeit that lipid parameters do change but during the studies they don't put preventative measures in place which would otherwise control lipid parameters right we can do cardio we can take some fish o we can take some citus Bergamot we can take some berberine there's a zamip Statin plenty of methods to control your lipid parameters but that's not what this video is about that's what this entire YouTube channel is about right all of the scientific evidence shows that Exon testosterone up to 600 milligrams per week for this long of a period increased muscle
mass reduced fat Mass improved body composition and increased muscle mass specifically in healthy men who also trained right do you identify as a healthy man who also trains I certainly do now there's some dose supended response between Exon testosterone up to 00 milligrams per week and serum igf1 level so that looks pretty promising a lot of diabetes evidence shows that EXO testosterone can actually improve uh insulin resistance states by improving insulin sensitivity albeit that of course that is in diabetics not in healthy adult men right but we can extrapolate from the data nonetheless there is
some scientific evidence that exous testosterone as the dose goes higher might increase aggression but on the opposite end there's also dosea Bend response to alleviate depressive symptoms in men where dosages above 500 milligrams per week seem to offer more of a robust effect this scientific study actually goes up to 1,000 milligrams testosterone per week which is certainly where I feel the best I'll tell you that 1,000 milligram Exon testosterone epic epic regarding mood and sense of wellbeing of course blood work parameters are going to change but it's a very robust dose I will tell you
that now keep in mind that anything over 200 milligrams Exon testosterone per week is considered recreational dosages rather those are Fitness enthusias dosages or strongman dosages or CrossFit dosages or bodybuilder dosages right as the dose goes up um side effects become more apparent and you slowly step away more and more and more from the medical field to the point and no doctor is really going to be able to help you regarding the changes in blood work parameters or organ health and that kind of stuff so right do your due diligence researching the more you take
the more cumbersome Health Management becomes and it's the same the exact same the older you get so maybe you can run 2,500 milligrams in your late 20s early 30s as you get older that ideal dose that you're taking right now your sweet spot dose will get less and less and less as you age because as you age you get less resilient to dealing with the side effects right of course the older you get that also means more time on Exon testosterone and you might have done some experiments along the way and as you're getting older
um your metabolism slows down and the side effects of these super physiologic dosages that you're taking might do you more harm than good so it's very likely with time with age that you need to slowly but steadily bring the dose of Exon testosterone down to what is clinically accept it it sucks but that's reality now I've discussed this linked in another video that I published a couple months ago I'll link it at the end of this one right the decline of serum testosterone levels but that's in otherwise quote unquote healthy individuals without exha toone in
the picture still as you age I would safely say that the dose needs to come down we can use the clinically recognized reference ranges as a little bit of indication on how serum testosterone levels decline in otherwise healthy adults that being said again that's endogenous production not EXO usage unfortunately total testosterone levels are only known up until the age of 19 years old the reference range is between 240 to 950 nogs per deor but again some Clinical Reference ranges goes up to 1100 nanr per decator so we know the range is between uh zero months
old to 5 months old or 6 months old to 9 years old etc etc but anything over 19 years old we don't exactly know the normal level of decline which we can base our normal level of decline of our exogenous testosterone dose on we know that the average male testosterone levels depending on which scientific evidence you reads I'll put the first one on the screen you see that these levels slowly decline right from age 20 to 24 is higher than 25 to 29 Etc this study goes up only to the age of 45 then another
study shows the AG is from 50 to 80 years old um and there you also see that the average testosterone levels are declining albeit at the upper uh total detectable range of this study is significantly higher compared to the previous study so which study reference ranges are we going to cherry pick of the average testosterone levels of these age brackets right I'll leave it entirely up to you um the second one does look a lot more favorable but we do have the reference range for free testosterone from age one up until 100 years old you
see that free testosterone levels actually increase up until the age of 20 years old give or take the from 20 years old it slowly but steadily starts to decline ending up at a free testosterone up from 2.3 to 7.9 nog per deciliter at let's say 100 years old and it's the same for the reference range for bioavailable testosterone albeit that that one is not so much in depth as free testosterone right we have an age range of about 10 years old still from the age of 20 to 29 after that levels slowly but surely declin
so again based on these reference ranges based on your biological makeup the normal decline of serum testosterone levels whether those are total free or bioavailable in um adult men it's coming down so it's very safe to say that your exogenous dose of testosterone needs to come down slowly allbe it that you can still be somewhat super physiological if you mitigate and manage the side effects which will occur as you age right but if they become uncontrollable just lower the dose and leave it there now let's interject myself a little bit into this picture to to
clarify everything that I just mentioned leading up to this point what would I do right depending on my age because if the dose is AG dependent and it does need to come down as you age what would coach Viger Steve do in a scenario like this trying to figure out the ideal testosterone dose ranges I started at the age of 26 so if I had a time machine knowing everything that I know now I would still start exhausting testosterone at the age of 25 26 at 1 amp per week 250 testosterone anate per week I
got more than enough results I felt great side effects were tolerable and manageable blood work changes were also manageable no real negative effects at that time then I went as high as 2,500 milligrams testosterone per week as I became older and more experienced and of course I do my blood work frequently to keep track of my health parameters and make the appropriate adjustments as it do escalates I will say I'm of the firm opinion that if you want to bring the dosages of Exon testosterone up that high let's say 2, 2,500 milligrams per week do
that when you're still somewhat young albeit an adult so let's say from the age of 25 to 35 years old after which I started to notice that I became a little bit intolerant to higher dosages so the highest dose I ran was 2,500 milligrams when I was about 35 years old now that I'm 40 years old I don't think I would want to push the dose upwards of 1500 milligrams right so that's 1,000 milligrams per week less and as I age the dose will be lower and lower and lower simply because I know that I
won't be able to tolerate it from a a physical perspective right mentally I'll surely feel fine physically side effect wise 1,500 milligrams per week is really the maximum I would be able to take and even at 1500 milligrams I think I need to put a significant amount of Health Management in place to stay healthy I think at 1,00 milligrams Exon testosterone per week at the age of 40 years old I would be considered healthy with blood work parameters and Health Matrix perfectly manageable so anywhere between 200 milligram to 2,500 milligram weekly between the age of
25 to 34 but after that dosages will come down so right now at the age of 40 to 49 I would consider 150 milligrams to 1,000 milligrams at maximum but when I'm 70 years old I expect those dosage ranges to be anywhere between 50 milligram upwards of 200 milligram per week which is basically identical to the clinically recognized dosages for and deficiency which surely I will be by the age of 70 without exhaus testosterone replacement therapy in the picture so what's the real ideal best dose of exhaust testosterone that's just something you're going to have
to figure out for yourself right figure out what your blood work does figure out if you can mitigate the side effects with health supplements or ancillaries right figure out what else you can do to make this ideal dose of a testosterone work for you and even then right individual response resp an individual risk tolerance highly determines how high you're willing to get CU I was willing to go up to 2,500 milligrams exhaust testosterone per week and my blood work parameters were manageable but maybe that's not a risk tolerance a risk profile that you're willing to
subject yourself to right I'm just a dumb bodybuilder sharing his experiences and if you don't follow within that same category or you're not competing at the IB Pro level or getting your pro cards then that of a dose is probably not required and you could be perfectly fine and healthy with a dose of let's say 250 to 500 milligrams exogenous testosterone per week for certain periods of time and then you drop it down to a cruise dose which is clinically recognized where your serum testosterone levels or let's say 1,100 n per decator and in the
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up or maybe look into exogenous testosterone use again under Medical Care through the supervision of a doctor right mer Health getting can help you get everything sorted if you want to know the best dose of Exon testosterone for you subscribe and all will be revealed thank you guys so much for watching you can find everything that I'm associated with Down Below in the YouTube description section all of the citations and links to Affiliates right there vigorous crew you guys know to do a friendable b up for you guys no Exon testosterone in the picture right
here but maybe at one point in time I do decide to go back on hormone replacement therapy then some and then let's see what my ideal dose of Exon testosterone is going to be 150 250 500 1,000 let's see I'll document it right here on this YouTube channel until then see you in the next video