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There's several ways. Get enough sleep, eat healthy fats, quit alcohol, lift weights, reduce body fat to a healthy level (but not too much) increase vitamin/min

There's several ways. Get enough sleep, eat healthy fats, quit alcohol, lift weights, reduce body fat to a healthy level (but not too much) increase vitamin/mineral intake if you are deficient. Or go on TRT.

zerkten 4y ago
Many TRT regimens are counter to healthy sperm. Drugs like anastrozole or clomid are sometimes used along with HCG depending on the circumstances.
- Auracle 4y ago
  HCG might have some risks as far as prions and Clomid makes most people that need testosterone feel like crap. It’s a shame we don’t have better options.
  - zerkten 4y ago
    It's a risk/reward situation. I hope we find better options, but it seems like a really delicate situation. The studies in this area always seem really small, but the problem seems much bigger. I think people attribute failure to the other partner to such a great extent that people try for long enough that some healthy enough sperm do their job. It takes people a long time to seek help when it's really easy to check the sperm.
  - henryaj 4y ago
    Pretty sure all hCG these days is recombinant.
    - Auracle 4y ago
      Oh no, at least as of a few years ago the recombinant HCG was super expensive. My insurance paid for $3000 of it and then stopped, which I believe was about 3 months for me.
anotherman554 4y ago
My doctor says lifting weights doesn't increase testosterone. It would be nice if it were true but it seems to largely be a myth. (I believe testosterone goes up slightly immediately after lifting weights but it has no real impact as it shortly goes back down.)
- jackmott42 4y ago
  Yeah it is a true thing but the nuance is it is a very short lived increase which has none of the effects people imagine it will have.
  - siftrics 4y ago
    Okay. Then don't lift weights and go back in your corner.
- jobs_throwaway 4y ago
  This study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9660159/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9660159/) found long-term increases in testosterone in men from lifting weights
  - anotherman554 4y ago
    The study almost certainly was either poorly designed, a statistical abnormality, doesn't show what you think it does, and/or failed to replicate. If it was valid for showing what you think it shows I would think my doctor, a urologist who attends medical conferences, would know about it. What my urologist said is also backed up by a book for laypeople I read on men's health written by a urologist named Aaron Spitz called "The Penis Book". I just double checked and it says "Contrary to popular belief, lifting weights does not boost your testosterone in a meaningful way." While I am not a doctor it's my understanding people who do this for a living know individual studies are unreliable. Scott Alexander wrote on his blog "I think a useful epistemic habit is to be very skeptical of individual studies, and skeptical but not too skeptical of large randomized trials, good meta-analyses, and general medical consensus when supported by an evidence base."

zerkten 4y ago

Many TRT regimens are counter to healthy sperm. Drugs like anastrozole or clomid are sometimes used along with HCG depending on the circumstances.

Auracle 4y ago
HCG might have some risks as far as prions and Clomid makes most people that need testosterone feel like crap. It’s a shame we don’t have better options.
- zerkten 4y ago
  It's a risk/reward situation. I hope we find better options, but it seems like a really delicate situation. The studies in this area always seem really small, but the problem seems much bigger. I think people attribute failure to the other partner to such a great extent that people try for long enough that some healthy enough sperm do their job. It takes people a long time to seek help when it's really easy to check the sperm.
- henryaj 4y ago
  Pretty sure all hCG these days is recombinant.
  - Auracle 4y ago
    Oh no, at least as of a few years ago the recombinant HCG was super expensive. My insurance paid for $3000 of it and then stopped, which I believe was about 3 months for me.

anotherman554 4y ago

My doctor says lifting weights doesn't increase testosterone. It would be nice if it were true but it seems to largely be a myth. (I believe testosterone goes up slightly immediately after lifting weights but it has no real impact as it shortly goes back down.)

jackmott42 4y ago
Yeah it is a true thing but the nuance is it is a very short lived increase which has none of the effects people imagine it will have.
- siftrics 4y ago
  Okay. Then don't lift weights and go back in your corner.
jobs_throwaway 4y ago
This study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9660159/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9660159/) found long-term increases in testosterone in men from lifting weights
- anotherman554 4y ago
  The study almost certainly was either poorly designed, a statistical abnormality, doesn't show what you think it does, and/or failed to replicate. If it was valid for showing what you think it shows I would think my doctor, a urologist who attends medical conferences, would know about it. What my urologist said is also backed up by a book for laypeople I read on men's health written by a urologist named Aaron Spitz called "The Penis Book". I just double checked and it says "Contrary to popular belief, lifting weights does not boost your testosterone in a meaningful way." While I am not a doctor it's my understanding people who do this for a living know individual studies are unreliable. Scott Alexander wrote on his blog "I think a useful epistemic habit is to be very skeptical of individual studies, and skeptical but not too skeptical of large randomized trials, good meta-analyses, and general medical consensus when supported by an evidence base."