Hello

hey Marshall I don't think anyone holds any grudges lol we are too old for that now, I never had a grudge with u. good times in Vegas even though u busted the main event was fun. GL in life bud

Thx lostaccount. GL to you also.

A lot of time has passed. I wonder how many people still come to these forums compared to back in the day. Looking back, some of these blog posts I made, they had like 3k-6k views which seems like a ton in retrospect.

Not many people come to these forums anymore. It's mostly lostaccount, PuertoRican, myself, and there are still some lurkers or others who post occasionally. Also, occasionally someone will stop by out of the blue like yourself.

what did you ask chatpgpt?

lol. Nice to see you baalim. Hope you're doing well...

I just asked "search the web and tell me everything you can find about the identity, personality, playing style and level of success of poker player 'marshall28'." and I used the deep search feature.

Of course, it confused me with CSURAM88.

How did you find out you had low testosterone? What did you do about it?

I was watching some youtube video where they were listing off the symptoms of low T and I realized that each of my main issues were essentially read back to me verbatim. I did know back in 2017 my levels weren't optimal, but they weren't so bad that it stopped me from living my life. By 2022 or so, they were and I lived that way for like almost three years until I figured it out.

I mentioned in the thread on "do you still play poker" a few of the things I did. I also have like 20 or supplements I'm taking daily now, and before I started taking the supplements I had no motivation or energy to lift weights and I actually never lifted weights my entire life until literally 4 weeks ago or so I started doing it and I've been going 3-4x a week since then. So, always sleeping and waking at the same times. Facing the morning sunlight for 30 minutes. Tons of supplementation, And regular weight lifting. I'm still not even completely better, I'm maybe barely half way from where I started to where I am trying to go, but I notice a huge shift already just in my overall mood and motivation.

I don't know if you want any suggestions but my suggestion would be to talk to a doctor and get your testosterone level tested.

I am not a doctor but:

always sleeping and waking at the same time = good

facing the morning sunlight for 30 min. sets circadian rythm = good

tons of supplementation = probably not doing much besides vit d, vit b, and maybe magnesium

regular weight lifting = good but probably does not effect testosterone that much (will raise with intense workouts and naturally drop back to baseline). Overtraining can actually lower testosterone. Being between 10% - 20% body fat % is good for testoserone levels. Obese is terrible. Being super lean is also bad.

It's easy to get it checked. 300 ng/dL - 1,000 ng/dL is a normal range for someone who is 40. If you are less than that you can probably get testosterone replacement therapy which will get testosterone levels into a normal high range. I have not personally done this but would not be against it if my testsosterone levels were below 300 ng/dL. I would also not suggest steroids because they have crazy side effects.

This was a gamechanger for me too. The other aspect of motivation, drive, and satisfaction is dopamine. Dr. Andrew Huberman is I believe a nueroscientist at Stanford. His workout stuff is questionable but this one is right down his alley.

Thanks. I was 12-15% BFP from 2013-2022. I'm 22% BFP now, and I've actually been eating keto for like 4 months straight yet still couldn't lose the weight which was shocking. It's seeming like potentially it could be a hypothyroidism issue contributing to the inability to lose weight. My testosterone is definitely rising though with everything I've been doing, I guess when you have unhealthy lifestyle habits for 2 decades, you can't just turn a new leaf and have everything go back to perfectly optimal within two months time! Here's to things turning around by May. Thanks for the information.

Seeing a doctor would remedy a lot of your problems. ChatGPT can't solve everything (yet).

Keto is really a shit diet. I lost 40 lbs. on it but it wrecked a lot of health markers. Only thing that really worked for me was avoiding highly palatable foods. It's really no fun but fried chicken, ice cream, McDonalds has to go. Whole food plant based is the way. I can't really say vegan anymore because there is so much vegan junk food that is shit. If you are bodybuilding study macros and just make sure you are inline with that. At 22% bfp you could go for a recomp that gets you in the 10%-20% bfp range and gets you some nice muscle. This in line with your sleep / circadian rythm gains and you would be looking really good in May.

Jeff Nippard has good content. He is a natural bodybuilder who takes a science based approach.



I don't know what your goals are at 22% bfp but you could easily do a body recompisition versus going on a diet to cut fat.

It's funny you keep recommending seeing a doctor. Listening to doctors was a significant reason contributing to why I became as sick as I was. I went through such an ordeal with stupid doctors and their BS that I ended up writing a whole book that I called "What Your Doctor Doesn't Understand About Health." Personally, I think it's pretty groundbreaking, but the truth about how our bodies work is just very hard for a lot of people to believe. One guy did figure it out about 20 years ago and he came up with a whole new medical field that he called "The Germanic New Medicine".

In any case, most things doctors think are true turn out to be false and they are essentially glorified drug dealers who don't intend to cure any illnesses in reality, but instead intend to get people hooked on expensive prescription medication intended to mask your symptoms forever and keep you as a repeat customer for the pharmaceutical industries (which all control the AMA as well as most medical schools and textbooks, etc.)

I don't see any problem with keto, I ate it for nearly 10 years and kept a very lean physique as a result. I basically never eat fast food, sugar, or anything breaded. My ex-girlfriend ate vegan for like 5 years or something and developed eczema as a result. I also find big issues with any of these 'impossible meats' plant based type foods.

The reality is that our beliefs influence our bodies and our reality, so it's more important what we believe about our diets than what our diet actually is. And this place being a loosh farm, it definitely makes sense that meat should be a staple of our diet since everything in this place feeds off of something else to live.

Thanks again, will definitely check out this video of the guy going from chubby to shredded in 12 weeks, that seems interesting. At any rate, if there is a hypothyroid issue, it doesn't matter what I do, that has to be resolved first before my body will even be willing to make those kind of changes. Have a good one!

Good luck in the future

I remember saying some things that weren't nice either.

Water under the bridge at this point.

Good luck to you.