Hi:

I also enjoy Ellis' comments. They have certainly helped me in
a lot of areas, especially in terms of careful monitoring of blood
glucose, etc.

[Good, I'm glad you are monitoring your blood glucose. In my
opinion, that is the single most important anti-aging therapy
you can do... and the least expensive, too...

Why do I think monitoring and controlling blood glucose is the
single most important anti aging therapy? Because I think it will
make a difference in the long run, to postpone diabetes or not to
get it forever in your lifetime.

And what proof do I have of this? No proof, my friends, just
circumstantial evidence: The best way for DIABETICS to avoid or
retard the advance of diabetes side effects which will eventually
kill most diabetics is to control their blood glucose levels.

So why would controlling blood glucose levels not work also on
"non-diabetics" to slow or postpone the point where we are finally
declared to be diabetics? They would... That's why I believe I
should... that is also why I believe we should move that point
where we are declared to be diabetics way forward, so that we
should have the privilege of being called "diabetic" so that we
start to take care of our "diabetes" NOW, and not later.

So why haven't we heard this, and read this a thousand times
in every book written by "experts"? I dunno. If I would have
read this ever before, I really would have started to do it at a
much younger age, especially since BOTH of my parents were diabetics.

I was aware of blood glucose testing since the 1970's... Since I
studied in Tulane University, my parents went to New Orleans for
my graduation, and while they were there they took a check up at
the Oschner Clinic, and they found out they were diabetic. That
was followed at some point to a visit to Boston, to the Joslin Clinic
which specializes in diabetes. (pretty hip, my parents... they were
both always in the front.)

Although I tested my blood glucose once or twice in those days, all
it showed was that I did not have high blood glucose. And it never
occurred to me that if I am not a diabetic I should test my blood
glucose before and after eating... And... I had never heard the term
"glycosilation" which means a molecule of glucose stuck onto a
molecule of protein which essentially damages that molecule of
protein. When I put all the parts of the puzzle together, here
on Rejuvenation, that is when I realized the "experts" are
mistaken about the Food Guide Pyramid because they advise you to
eat the foods that raise blood glucose levels. See this page:

The Good Guide Pyramid vs. The Food Guide Pyramid
http://www.rajeun.net/goodguide.html


So... Scott... The next thing you have to do is to DO SOMETHING
ABOUT HIGH blood glucose, whenever you get it. By "high" I mean
anything above 100 mg/dl which requires attention. I do mean
100 mg/dl. which is VERY EASY to get, in fact it is pretty
"normal" to be at or around 100 mg/dl. But it is BETTER to be
lower, if more glycosilation occurs at higher blood glucose levels,
which it does... so shoot for "better."

Many diabetes specialists believe 140 mg/dl is acceptable for their
patients. That view causes their patients to be satisfied with a
level that is totally unacceptable for me, and Dr. Bernstein, and I
urge you to reject such levels and be as strict as I am, and not as
lax as the American Diabetes Association advises.

It is incredible and sad that there are doctors that are happy to
keep their patients in a state of chronological illness, which is
good for the doctor, rather than to really crack down and control
their diabetes, which would be good for the patient.

If I was a doctor I would resign from such an Association, or never
join them at all, or I would start another competing association of
doctors interested in their patients.

Read Dr. Bernstein's comments about this:

http://www.rajeun.net/bernstein.html

To bring down "high" glucose levels is as simple as: "drink two
glasses of water" or "walk around the block"... or inject insulin,
if you know how to inject insulin. Do whatever it takes to lower
blood glucose. As I like to say, bring high glucose levels down
"by hook or by crook." There is no such thing as "cheating"...
any way you bring high glucose down is valid... just bring it down.

But the FIRST step to lower blood glucose is to MONITOR blood
glucose. So... congratulations... the more you monitor, the
more you learn... and there are always surprises, aren't there?
- Ellis]


I am on HRT also and use the 4 ester "Sustanon" or equivalent by
injection, 250 mg/1cc once every (one or) two weeks. I recently
went off it for several months and used HCG plus clomid during
that period. My total test was then above 400, but free was
almost undetectable, under 10. My libido was low and I was
feeling depressed.

If you can get Sustanon or its equivalent for your HRT, this form
is better because the multiple esters break down into test at
different rates, thus giving less of a roller coaster effect and
allowing fewer injections. Its half life is estimated at 3 weeks.
It is available from Europe or Mexico and a few clinics in Florida
provide it, I believe.

Whatever you use, mind its half life and inject again before the
half life period elapses.

I also do the HCG supplementation. I use the recombinant type,
but it is specified by the brand I use in iu and mg. Thanks for
the information on the new regimen of taking 250 iu on the last
two days of the week before the next injection.

Is there a web site that specifies how this regimen was developed?
I'd love to read it, if you could mention it.

[I don't know of any website that talks of the use of the new
recombinant HCG, for men. There is no literature that I know of,
and it is not mentioned in the literature of Ovidrel, or Serono.

I have very little feed back from men who have used it, so I can't
tell you more than "play it by ear..." One Ovidrel is supposed to
be about 6000 iu. and according to the previous post, below: "The
NEWEST and BEST HRT protocol calls for 250 iu's of HCG twice a week
on the 5th and 6th day after your testosterone injection. That will
prevent any atrophy of the testicles and supplement declining hormone
levels at the end of the week."

So... the dose would be 1/24 of what comes in one vial of Ovidrel...
So... If you decide to use Ovidrel, I suggest you should mix it with
bacteriostatic water so that it will not lose potency as fast as if
it is mixed with the sterile water it comes with, because it is
intended to be taken in one dose.

I have also had feedback of HCG being used for weight loss, with
great success! I don't know how that works, or why it works.
- Ellis]



I seem to have a syndrome different from all the people I know
(quite a few) in my age group (58) who are on HRT. Over a several
year period, whenever I take any supplement including androstendione
(now unavailable OTC thanks to the zealots), DHEA or any form of
test injections or other applications, my libido initially increases
for a few days, then decreases, even when I continue the HRT regimen.

I've tried different dose levels and different forms of test
supplementation via direct injection, oral, transdermal, oral
percursors and all have this up/down reaction.

Interestingly, on the down side of the curve, as the test levels
begin to fall, I also get an up tick on libido for a time.

Everyone else I know gets a constant good level of libido with
HRT supplementation. When the libido is high, I have no erectile
dysfunction whatsoever, but when low, I do.

I have to presume that there is a syndrome in me that is
aggressively binding the free test.

It seems that it takes time to "kick in" when levels increase and
begins to "drop out" when levels decrease.

Before I ever started test supplementation, my libido was also
waning. I'm not obese, have low blood pressure, normal blood
sugar. I'm generally muscular and fit.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to this syndrome and how to
overcome it?

Thanks as always to Ellis for his excellent advice which is mostly
right on.

Scott

[Hello Scott... thanks for the nice words... I think you should
take a blood test in one of these periods of low libido and test
for estradiol, specifically... also total and free testosterone...
I THINK you might find that estradiol is HIGH. (note: estradiol is
a kind of estrogen... so if estradiol is high, all estrogen is
high.)

Try one half pill of Arimidex, twice a week... this might work to
keep your libido steadily high... Arimidex will stop or block
testosterone from converting to estrogen, which is probably why you
lose libido... and as less testosterone is converted to estrogen,
more of it remains to increase your libido. I think it also
increases free testosterone, so it is all good and no bad. I can
tell you it has no side effects, because I have used it for many
years with no side effects.

Read the Life Extension article, Male Hormone Replacement Therapy,
to which I have a link on my page Testosterone:

http://www.rajeun.net/testosterone.html

There are other ways to block testosterone from converting to
estrogen, but I don't like them. The least bad is Nolvadex, and
the worst is Propecia. Don't use either of them, in my opinion.

I have had terrible feedback about Propecia, re: libido, from men
who were prescribed Propecia TO MAKE THEIR HAIR GROW. Some doctors
are just brain dead... or they don't have the feedback that I have...
and maybe they suppose that because it is "F.D.A. approved" it must
be good... in any case, it is very bad for libido, and even when
they stop taking it, they don't get libido up again...

I copy this from www.propecia.com (which is an advertisement IN
FAVOR of propecia, of course.)

"PROPECIA works on a key cause of hair loss by significantly reducing
the amount of DHT. Specifically, PROPECIA inhibits the formation of
DHT in your scalp. Lowering DHT appears to inhibit the further
shrinking of affected hair follicles. PROPECIA helps regrow visible
hair and reduces further hair loss. It is, in fact, the first and
only FDA-approved pill proven to treat male pattern hair loss on the
vertex (top of head) and anterior mid-scalp area (middle front of
head) in men."

Isn't that a wicked way for Nature to stop Old Men from chasing
Young Girls? By the time we are 60 years old we have more
ESTROGEN in our body than a WOMAN age 60. (of course a woman
age 60 is probably in menopause already.)

Take Propecia for hair loss and you will have more hair and less
DHT (dehydrotestosterone, whatever that is...) which will affect
your libido when you show off your hair.

You might also try Dostinex, or Cabaser which is cabergoline but is
a much better buy. Cabergoline stimulates dopamine which blocks
prolactin. Don't ask me why, this creates sexual arousal.

You might also THINK about cabergoline + oxytoxin. Oxytocin is a
hormone that goes UP in MEN and WOMEN ... AFTER ORGASM!!! Now,
isn't that nice? That is when you have this great feeling of
LOVE oozing all over your body, and you want to embrace and be
cozy and nice together. Oxytocin is called "the Love hormone" but
I have read very little about it, and nothing by anybody who has
tried it for sexual enhancement. It is used in Medicine to induce
labor (note: a baby to be born) in women. I have injected oxytocin
a few times and I haven't noticed anything... but maybe the correct
recipe is precisely: cabergoline + oxytocin ?

thanks for writing.

- Ellis]





At 06:16 PM 9/22/2005, you wrote:
>I am on HRT (hormone replacement therapy) at 100 mg of testosterone
>and Ellis is correct AGAIN in his suggestion about HCG. The NEWEST
>and BEST HRT protocol calls for 250 iu's of HCG twice a week on the
>5th and 6th day after your testosterone injection.
>
>That will prevent any atrophy of the testicles and supplement
>declining hormone levels at the end of the week. I will note that
>most HRT doctors in the know give testosterone injections once a
>week, not every 3 weeks, as the half life of test cyp is about 7
>days and injection frequency's that are longer than one week put
>the you on a roller coaster with hormone levels that are to high
>just after the injection and not high enough at two or three weeks
>after.
>
>
>
>(Hello John... thanks for the nice remark... I am getting to be
>correct more often than putting my foot in my mouth, as I used to
>do many times... It is a sign that I am "transcending"... now I
>am becoming a Jedi... Soon I might even become invisible. But
>until then, I am still human.
>
>I already know a lot of people that follow whatever I say blindly,
>which is not what I ever intended... but I know it has already happened,
>because they write to me and tell me so. Fortunately
>they have had good results too, so far, but being their spiritual
>leader brings the responsibility not to ever give them bad advice,
>and to caution you that I am not a doctor, I have not even studied
>one formal course in medicine or nutrition, my Glucose Theory of
>Aging is only mine, I agree I am eccentric because I take insulin
>when I don't have diabetes, I agree it's crazy to raise my
>hematocrit to 54%, and I know little or nothing about estrogen,
>progesterone, or testosterone.
>
>So please don't ever do what I do just because I do it. Always
>think twice... and then jump in... You'll probably like what
>happens... but make sure that you are healthy before you start,
>and that you are not taking any medicines that might conflict
>with any anti aging therapy.
>
>The testosterone I like the best is Aquatest, which is water
>soluble "testosterone suspension"... I like it because it is
>identical to male testosterone, and because it only stays in my
>body 3 days. I only take it "once in a while" maybe once a month,
>so the rest of the month I am not "on testosterone" and I haven't
>had any problem with feeling that I am on a roller coaster...
>
>I also have not had any side effects, and as far as I can tell,
>I must be producing my own testosterone because I am still like
>a 25 year old... that is... I still like pretty girls...
>
>As for HCG... there are TWO kinds of HCG, the old, which is
>gathered from the urine of pregnant women... and the new, which
>is recombinant HCG, made in a laboratory through genetic
>engineering, just like growth hormone or insulin, an exact copy of
>the old HCG which was gathered from the urine of pregnant women.
>
>The old is 5% to 10% HCG, and 95% to 90% "IMPURITIES"... sterile
>impurities, but impurities nonetheless...
>
>The new is "99 and 44/100% pure" or about there, (like Ivory soap)...
>
>The new can be taken by subcutaneous injection, and the old was
>taken by deep intramuscular injection, and it had side effects
>such as irritations, etc.
>
>Of course I recommend the new generation HCG... It is also
>more expensive, but more effective too... However... there is
>no literature on its use in men to kick start testosterone
>after taking injected testosterone. And the doses don't
>correspond directly, that is the old was "5000" or "10000 iu"
>and the new is not measured in iu's but in milligrams...
>
>THEY SAY one dose of the new is ABOUT like 6000 iu of the old...
>but in my opinion it is more than that, because it is more effective
>than the old HCG to make women ovulate.
>
>Ellis
>