question from a user
I’ve read you should take hcg for 20 days then stop for a while and others say take it as long as you want. What’s a good protocol. I’ve been taking mine since I started trt hoping to keep my natural test going if I come off of testosterone.
AlphaMD's Answer
The reasoning is that you do become a bit desensitized to it over time, which can require a higher dose. However outside of that there's not many other negatives to running it constantly other than cost or it impacting your Estrogen more than normal T. This desensitizing is normally fine for men on "maintenance" doses because if they were to swap to conception mode, they'd likely triple their current dose anyways & it wouldn't impact the outcome. With hCG it's really more about fertility. Do you want to be running lightly all the time so that when the time come it takes you less time to start up more spermatic production, or do you only want to do it when you need conception? For something like your situation if it's just for T production, you'd be fairly safe to not use it, then add hCG if you were to ever come off. If you want to stay on it though, 500 units weekly is just fine.
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