Trying To Zero In On T For Men

Admittedly, this hasn’t been the greatest blazing post-series I’ve done. It’s curious to me why it hasn’t been. Perhaps it’s because I find so much of the bro-science wanting. There’s only a single post to the series so far since the hook intro: What Caused My 40% Testosterone Increase? #2 — The Sexual Mind. This is the 2nd.

When the series kicked off, it was on the basis of a happenstance personal finding. My free testosterone (total is near meaningless) increased about 40% after about a year in Thailand, after leaving the US at the conclusion of a divorce and a 20-year exclusive relationship.

But my initial, knee-jerk take was of an Occam’s Razor nature.

I’ve been fucking hot 20-somethings at the age of 60 for a year, and I still do.

I simply could not and have not gotten past the simpler idea, as I pour over reams of medical literature and Bro Science.

Nutshell:

  1. Can you raise your testosterone? Absolutely
  2. Will you look better? Absolutely
  3. Will you feel better? Most probably
  4. Will you then want to fuck undesirable women? Fuck no

See, this is the rub and it’s why I haven’t been so much gusto on this.

Number 4 is a tough one to address because it necessarily offends Victorian culture and western civilization—not to mention your mothers and grandmothers.

But we have to deal with the facts on the ground and then everyone gets to think what they will about it.

…It’s true that testosterone measurably begins to decrease at about the age of 20 and it’s a steady, life-long decline. To my mind, it’s interesting that it corresponds with things like getting married and having children then joyously tending to grandchildren and beyond. It’s almost as though nature just backs off the hyper-sexual drive about then. Stop before you get too drunk.

Then, toss in the sorta feminization and cuckolderization of basic society going back decades and in some senses, even further—where males are always seemingly falling all over themselves because a helpless or hapless female has some issue or another.

Do you think cuckold and simping behavior could ever increase testosterone? I doubt it’s been tested, perhaps because it’s too implausible. Well, then, is it plausible that such behavior contributes to its loss?

And so in this quest for sound knowledge on the subject, I’m not so quick to blame it all on plastic and junk food… or on lack of working out in the gym … or on lots of other things. Rather, I look to the essence of what testosterone is for.

  1. Want to fuck
  2. Fuckable appearance

Simple as that.

I met a 20-something cute Thai chick in a bar last night. She has a steady BF from New York, cucked capital of the world. I kicked her ass in a game of pool, bought her a drink, and we chatted. The conversation quickly turned to the sexual. Excerpts:

“I like old men,” she says. “40 and up. But only to 75.”

“Really? Well, I’m 61 and it’s another level. If I bring you home, then as soon as we close the door I take off all your clothes so you feel a little horny.”

She giggles a bit.

“Then I point to the kitchen and tell you to wash the dishes.”

She covers her mouth and laughs. This is the good-natured young ladies I have dealt with in Thailand since 1986 and little has changed—except they all have phones and they shave their pussies now, which is just awful and disappointing. I keep telling them that shaving makes them all look pretty much the same; whereas, not shaving gives them distinctiveness. Deaf ears. Everyone globally now only wants to use their phone to determine what the crowd is doing.

The discussion continues…

“Do you like to help yourself?” I ask.

“Yes,” she admits a bit shyly.

“You watch porn?”

“No. Reading romance novels.”

“Do you like a man to watch you?”

“NO. I NEVER!”

“I can help you with that,” I reply.

…So, do you think such exchanges this rather fit and tan 61 year-old has with 20-something chicks regularly serves to diminish or enhance my testosterone? Or, no effect?

Well, I used that exact exchange because I put it to action twice with the same girl over the past two weeks. She loved doing the dishes naked and the masturbation took a while but the second time, she had her knees to her ears and was doing it like nobody was watching but loving it because I praised her. Got her off.

…I’m trying to make the essential point really simple. Why are so many guys fretting about their T? Is it because they have clinically low T, or is it because they’re stuck in relationship situations where they’re supposed to get it up and perform when they don’t have the primal desire for that woman?

In that conversation last night, I had a pretty decent woody going because she was responding to the banter with various signals.

Be sexually explicit with chicks, not vulgar. Nuance comes into play. It cuts to the chase and avoids her feeling like you’re weak, which is death.

Better to be rude and crass than weak, limp, and a pussy-boy cuck. In simplest terms: be a man. It’s what chicks want.

T is a blunt instrument, not a surgical appliance.

…I got wind of a post yesterday that is quite something: The Broscience Guide to Testosterone Replacement Therapy.

A Table of Contents:

  • 0) Introduction 
  • 1) Testosterone, the Male Hormone
  • 2) Why Raise Your Testosterone At All? 
  • 3) The Testosterone Collapse
  • 4) Testosterone Decline and Levels Over a Lifetime
    5) Total Testosterone and Free Testosterone  
  • 6) How Does TRT Work? (Prescription and Usage)
    7) The Most Common TRT Questions
  • 8) Recommended Resources

FYI-This post is 30 pages long and I really should have put it behind a paywall, but its free because I am generous and want this information widely disseminated. Obviously you can copy/paste, but I also created a downloadable PDF, which you can can purchase here.


I know AJAC. We both spoke at a conference in Warsaw in the summer of 2019. I dropped this comment on the post:

Just saw your email about this. Great piece. I’ll have to read it more times.

It so happened that just before leaving US in early 2020 for Thailand I did a T test. Then I got stuck here, decided to stay, now living in Rawai / Nai Harn area for 17 months. I went to Lyfe Clinic in Rawai and got lots of tests. All good but the outliers were Vit D in the 90s! and my T had increased about 40%. I was looking into TRT which the very able Thai doc said I probably don’t need. I’m in the mid-range for a 20 yo at 61.

My method is really simple:

1. Good real food exclusively. No “Sewen” crap.

2. Beach and sun. Nai Harn is 565 meters from the Rock Salt resto down to the rocks on the SE end. So, I walk down, swim back. 1 K total.

3. Bodyweight exercise. I bought a rack for pushups, pullups, and dips. And, resistance bands.

4. Have sex regularly with 20-somethings (I’m 61, but age is not much of a factor here). Bar girls, office workers, bank workers, etc.

…I think lots of guys do some version of of 1-3 good, but wonder why they still have no sexual interest in the gal they love and who had babies for them. Noble, but your physiology doesn’t care.

So I wonder. How much of T is about “build it and they will come;” meaning, maybe just go out and act like you’re 20 again, chasing hot pussy, and the T will come? And I say this having also read your post on pain and only cured my own once I realized it was psychosomatic some 8 years ago. John Sarno is where I learned that.

I also take Nolvadex / Tamoxifen recently and it strikes me as a good one for older dudes who sometimes can’t help but get a bit of man boob almost no matter what they do.

I’ve probably dropped a good 10 kilo since I met you in Warsaw.

I added a link to a study on Nolvadex / Tamoxifen:

BTW, here’s a study. Impressive increases in T from just 20mg Nolvadex daily. Plus, no bitch tits.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6193975

I think you get where I’m going with this, and it’s that no matter how high your testosterone, it’s not going to make you into a stud again for the woman you no longer have that burning sexual desire for. And perhaps, neither does she, for you. The difference is that, as a receptacle, she can always fake that. In the get-it-up-and-perform role, you can not.

OK, more chewing to do on all of this.


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1 Comment

  1. Karl S on May 11, 2022 at 20:58

    I was listening to a podcast, ages ago, featuring the late Charles Poliquin (a man with a proven record of training high level athletes). The entire discussion was about health and nutrition and training. I don’t remember the quote verbatim but the host asked Charles a question about how to increase testosterone naturally.
    In other words, asides from injecting, the host wanted to know some tips and tricks and hacks to boost T levels. And you can probably imagine the type of answer the host was expecting.
    But Charles just straight up said [paraphrasing] : ”Well polyamory is pretty much the most concrete way of boosting T levels.” And then citied some study.
    Made me lol.
    A no-BS response. And one that I have little doubt is true.