Cholesterol and TRT

[Axl]

My cholesterol is always a bit too high. I'm taking a plant stanol esther (Benecol) every day to lower my cholesterol. I know that cholesterol is a basemolecule for the production of testosterone (see attachment). I am currently on T enanthate 250 mgs every 2 weeks. Would taking the plant stanol esther have a negative or a positive impact on my TRT? Or would it compromise the little T-production I have left?

 

[mranak]

I don't think that slightly lowering your cholesterol is going to much affect your testosterone production, even if it wasn't suppressed by your TRT.

btw: you should really try and get on a weekly dosing schedule for testosterone cypionate. It is an upward battle with many physicians, but weekly dosing is nevertheless clearly best.

 

[Axl]

Weekly IM injections

Good point Mranak. I truly believe that weekly dosing is the best. Due to my cholesterol problems, my visceral fat and very low muscle mass, I am also seeing a nutricionist. I have my body composition measured every week. The first week after my T shot, my fatmass decreases with 1 kg, the second week, my fatmass and total weight increases again with 1 kg, despite a good diet and exercise (exactly the same as the week before)! So there is clearly a rollercoaster-thing going on here.

When I see my endo in september, I will ask for the weekly shots and I will also ask for the HCG, as per SWALE's protocol... I have done HCG as a standalone treatment last year, so I know that my endo is not reluctant to prescribe it. Wait and see...

 

[mranak]

I'm changing my diet due to hypercholesterolemia as well. And forcing myself to do cardio every day. The best of luck to both of us.

 

[Axl]

Too much cholesterol

What do you think? Would the excess cholesterol come from the fact that our body gets it out of our nutrition but it cannot use it to make testosterone, so the cholesterol builds up?? Does this seem reasonable? This should imply that every hypogonadal men has a cholesterol problem...
Anybody here with low T that doesn't have a cholesterol problem?

 

[SWALE]

CHOL levels below 140 are associated with hypogonadism. We would expect this as the body then does not have the building blocks available it needs to make not only the sex hormones, but others, and Vit D, as well.

 

[BDATI2D]

What do you think? Would the excess cholesterol come from the fact that our body gets it out of our nutrition but it cannot use it to make testosterone, so the cholesterol builds up?? Does this seem reasonable? This should imply that every hypogonadal men has a cholesterol problem...
Anybody here with low T that doesn't have a cholesterol problem?

I myself have never had a Cholesterol problem and now have low T. But from what SWALE said about the correlation between low CHOL and Hypogonadism might explain a lot for me. There have been times my CHOL levels have been at 100 to 120 for total CHOL. My last test was HDL of 44 and LDL of 92. Total CHOL was 141. Last Testosterone level was 245 ng/dl. Ya can learn something new everyday.

Dave

 

[Axl]

CHOL levels below 140 are associated with hypogonadism. We would expect this as the body then does not have the building blocks available it needs to make not only the sex hormones, but others, and Vit D, as well.

Without CHOL, your body does not have the building blocks to make Testosterone. I agree with that.

My question was the other way around: if you have low testosterone (and the condition is not caused by a CHOL-deficiency), would you end up with high CHOL-levels because your body doesn't use up the CHOL to make T?