Dave Lee TRT

This is one of the most important lectures for any man on or off of TRT. I dive deep into why high testosterone alone won't transform your life unless you’re willing to put in the work to rebuild your psychological and lifestyle foundations. If you want to stop chasing side effects and start living up to your potential as the dominant bloodline of the human race, this is for you.

1 month ago | [YT] | 1

Dave Lee TRT

For some reason, people get really triggered by this topic. Daily injections is the most optimal administration frequency for enanthate or cypionate. This is pharmacokinetics. All rules in science are based on the 95th percentile confidence intervals, meaning outliers exist but do not disprove the rule. A drug reaching "steady state" does not mean the distribution of the drug is flatline, it means it maintains what is defined for that drug as "therapeutic concentrations". When looking at drugs or medications, including hormones, which produce vast downstream physiological and subjective effects, the direction the serum concentration is moving in is equally important as the concentration itself. The late Dr John Crisler was a big proponent of this hypothesis regarding TRT, which is one of the reasons he championed daily administration before he passed. My friend Dr Keith Nichols has been advocating for this approach for the best part of a decade, and everyone I have met in the field, myself included, who has practiced in the trenches with thousands of men for many years all agree that daily is the most optimal due to the benefits of stability. If the dose is too low, this will show up as reduced benefits of daily injections compared to infrequent spikes due to the effects on receptor binding and suppression of binding protein production. Titrating up to the optimal, stable dose is the best objective endocrine outcome. Does everyone NEED to inject daily? No. But you also don't NEED to eat well, exercise, sleep 8 hours and drink enough water. But you SHOULD if your goal is to be as healthy as possible and optimise your health. The only downside to daily injections is compliance. But, if diabetic little girls can use the same needles daily to survive, a fully grown man can do the same to optimise his masculine hormone signalling. Many patients are started on less frequent injections because they are making their first endeavours to improve their health, but if anyone is wanting to minimise side effects and get the best results possible, especially those with metabolic syndrome or secondary health issues, increasing injection frequency is always a beneficial approach

1 month ago | [YT] | 33

Dave Lee TRT

Make a coffee, put on a YouTube video, draw and inject with a 29g needle in less than a minute or two as part of your morning routine. 29g needles are all that is needed for the tiny amount of oil being administered for daily TRT injections.

1 month ago | [YT] | 56

Dave Lee TRT

It is wild to see a 20x discrepancy in a cut off for the diagnosis of an autoimmune condition within the same country from lab to lab. If you have symptoms of hypothyroidism, including sleep disturbances, metabolic dysfunction, mental health problems (including anxiety, as hypothyroidism will upregulate adrenaline via compensation) or fatigue, you must have your thyroid properly assessed. Untreated subclinical hypothyroidism is one of the most common causes of side effects on TRT, and these "mild" lab test elevations can be confirmed as damage to the thyroid via ultrasound. This is an objective, straight forward and minimally invasive treatment process. Yes, we should be able to optimise our thyroid via diet and lifestyle, but you cannot reverse damage to the gland. Final stage thyroid optimisation requires peak and trough lab measurements as well as waking temperatures, and many with Hashimoto's will do much better with a small dose of thyroid before bed to support glucose metabolism while sleeping. If you have "bad cholesterol genetics", slow digestive transit or unexplained TRT side effects, have your thyroid properly assessed by someone who actually knows what they're doing. Start by watching my thyroid masterclass on YouTube.

1 month ago | [YT] | 13

Dave Lee TRT

I spent years working in the trenches with this protocol and critiquing the approach from all angles as I did not want to give men advice about their fertility that was wrong. I felt it was important not to paywall such important information as well, which is why I didn't just publish it in my affordable ebook series, but made a webinar to train some of the best health coaches in the world, and then published it for free on YouTube. This protocol has gone on to be adopted and applied by practitioners all over the world, as well as patients advocating for their own health. Why? Because it is evidence based, the mechanistic theory is sound, and most importantly, it works. I am proud to say in my own clinical application I have a 100% success rate. The approach has some nuance and roadblocks such as hypothyroidism, liver disease or lifestyle factors have to be adjusted for, and sometimes the TRT does needs to be titrated down a touch to make room for the HCG dose increase. A few years ago, there was very littlepublicly available information on how to use this protocol and a layman's explanation, and I am very glad to see that paradign has shifted for the better. There are many smart people who came up with the same protocol based on their own interpretation of the data as well, and it was being able to collaborate with many of these bright minds ahead of publishing this resource that I was able to have complete confidence in efficacy of the approach.

1 month ago | [YT] | 44

Dave Lee TRT

There’s some really important caveats to this, so if you can’t understand nuance or if your brain is too rotten from tik tok to read the full caption, this information is not for you.

Many men will only tolerate and benefit from TRT with free testosterone levels of around 600-800pmol/l, and for people using different units that’s around the top of “the range”. However, in my experience as someone who has been doing this for 7 years with somewhere north of 10k clients, these men are outliers.

MOST younger men who are dealing with a completely new, undocumented for of hypogonadism which is likely induced by endocrine disrupting chemicals, only respond to TRT with actual symptom resolution with free testosterone >1000-1200pmol/l (36-43ng/dl) and many will need to be at closer to the 1500pmol/l (54ng/dl) in order to achieve benefits.

When this is done APPROPRIATELY, this results in widespread objective improvements in health. You don’t see the side effects you see from supraphysiolgical androgen use, you see the metabolic and autonomic nervous system benefits of restoring a primary hormone deficiency. The skill issue which many doctors who lack the intrinsic understanding of testosterone or male biology miss, is that you have to ensure that all other aspects of the man’s health, hormones and lifestyle are in check before titrating the dose. The side effects aren’t coming from the testosterone, they’re coming from the other health issues that aren’t being diagnosed.

1 month ago | [YT] | 38

Dave Lee TRT

When your thyroid is underperforming, everything slows down, your metabolism, your mood, your recovery, and even how well TRT works in the background. In this thyroid masterclass I walk you through the labs that actually matter, why TSH-only testing and T4-only treatment often miss the mark, and how to think about T3 conversion, reverse T3, and Hashimoto’s in a way that’s practical. If you’re dealing with fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, anxiety, poor sleep, or stubborn TRT side effects, this is the framework that helps you stop guessing and start fixing the root issue.

4 months ago | [YT] | 6

Dave Lee TRT

The line between optimizing TRT and using steroids is something that is often misunderstood and has serious health implications. In this clip from the @Daniel Pekic podcast I explain the difference between the two and how to find the optimal dose for your protocol.

6 months ago | [YT] | 1

Dave Lee TRT

Most men (on TRT and off) ignore this part of becoming a better man. So glad ‪@eliteftsofficial‬ asked me this question and gave me a place to chat about it.

8 months ago | [YT] | 1