Okay I asked and he said it was fine
ED is such a fickle thing because it can be psychosomatic by definition almost. It can be from so many different causes even with normal t levels so using trt to fix it is always a risky proposition since it'll be so hard to diagnose as being from low testosterone. He's already posted about some of his porn consumption habits that started early and any of you who've been in LTRs or marriages know that is a quick way for your libido to be evaporated. So he's been living for a few years with his gf and now wife having fairly low frequency and just attributed it to those things. Previous attempts at TRT didn't seem to improve and in fact made the situation worse. Libido doesn't have a linear response to ng/dl of testosterone levels even if you hypothetically could isolate the problem to being from low T and not something else. There's lots of other factors with rates of DHT conversion, aromatization, diet, and lifestyle factors and it's definitely possible for libido to be lower at higher T levels even if all of the above are relatively optimal.
So what did we acutlaly do? More frequent dosing empircally seems to cause less aromatization per milligram. Syndrome's bodyfat is also much lower than it used to be and his training has much less of a strength component and more of an endurance/conditioning component. So just doing the same thing he did before but with a smaller total weekly dose and spreading that weekly dose out over more injections seems to have yielded completely different results where his libido has responded much more positively than previous attempts, despite the fact that his wife just gave birth to their child which I think is usually a time when male libido is slightly diminished because that woman is now a mommmy (I can't verify this, just what i've heard from male friends).
I'm not going to pretend to be a genius here. n=1 and
Thremp, if you're not having any problems and don't really want to perform at a higher level, then don't start trt. It was any easy choice for me being as neurotic/emo as I was around age 24 and having big strength/aesthetics goals. But if your libido, mood, and energy are all fine and you don't have such goals, then I don't really see much need for trt.
Why has syndrome not started hgh? Because MK677 is very cheap and freely available in China on our amazon equivalent for around $20 for a 6 week's supply. This drug has a lot of clinical data and human trials and seems to provide most of the benefits of hgh through stimulating endogenous production but with also more potential side effects. The most important side effect seems to be a larger elevation in blood glucose levels for a given elevation in blood IGF1 levels relative to GH and accompanying potential for insulin insensitivity. But if you are not slamming calories and leading a mostly sedentary 5k steps per day offseason bodybuilder lifestyle and don't seem to display any symptoms of insulin insensitivity, it's definitely a better choice. Sydrome is in the low mid 90kg bodyweight range at 6'4ish and trains crossfit; with how high the energy demands are, insulin insensitivity is super unlikely. But for an enhanced 100kg+ 5'11 bodybuilder, insulin insensitivity might be more of a concern with higher caloric intake. But my job and lifestyle are comparatively more active than most bodybuilders and you can very likely offset insulin sensitivity issues via usage of OTC pharmaceutical interventions like berberine and metformin unless you are a really big dude eating truly enormous amounts of carbohydrates while training in a low volume style while also using abusive doses of exogenous insulin. Periodic cessation of mk677/growth hormone/exogenous insulin also works well to resensitize. That's exactly why they probably should be cycled even in high level bodybuilding because being insulin insensitive for long periods of time is obviously going to have a detrimental impact on the physique and there's some evidence to suggest this contributes to the "palumboism" bubble gut+smalller limb musculature appearance that was prevalent in bodybuilding up until the mid 2010s. It's a lot less prevelant now because people became more aware of their blood glucose and how to manage it.
Having experimented with both, I like mk677 a bit more because it seems to also have an awesome impact on sleep quality I never got from hgh. If bodybuilding were my life and career, I'd definitely commit the money to hgh instead but I'm just a hobbyist classic physique guy, not trying to be a men's open mass monster professional.