Re: Arimidex/DIM

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Hi yes it will I lost 10 yrs. of my sex life because of high E2. I have

been on TRT for over 21 yrs. and never felt 100%. When I joined her the first

thing I read was about high E2.

http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcls-txt/t-prtcl-130.html

This is still a dam good read.

I got my Dr. to test me and I was very high I went on Arimidex .5 mgs. everyday

for 30 days and my levels came down. The first thing that went away was my ED,

and trouble reaching an orgasm. But taking Arimidex to keep my E2 down was very

hard to do I kept going to low and this is just as bad for a man as being to

high. So now I use Indolplex/DIM and TMG to keep my E2 down, the TMG flushes

out the Total E that the DIM converts from E2. The first thing that happed to

me when I started on DIM was I got morning wood for the first time in over 35

yrs. So as per Z I use the morning wood as a gauge to not go to low. I

the morning wood stops I stop the DIM util it comes back then I go back on it

but take half I keep doing this until I find the right dose.

http://www.ritecare.com/prodsheets/PHY-15336.html

http://www.myvitanet.com/tmgtr75120ca.html

http://www.smart-drugs.com/ias-estrogen.htm

I have got my E2 down and doing a new TRT I have no more joint or muscle pain.

I am out walking one hour a day and not going to the gym working out for 2 hrs.

3 time a week I have lost 38.5 lbs in the last 17 weeks joining Weight Watchers.

Phil

Summers <rsummers@...> wrote:From: " nort828 " <nort828@...>

(re:other ways to lower total E)

Taking DIM, cutting out all sugar, frutose in soft drinks, quit

eating bread, eat lean, workout, anything to stop the conversion of

sugar to fat, fat stores estrogen.------

Hi Norton,

Do you feel that either DIM or Arimidex alone could lower E2 and in

so doing help existing testosterone to break the overweight estradiol

conversion cycle?

My husband is significantly overweight and insulin resistent and

clearly has T to E conversion going on. My/our original plan was to

break this cycle by addressing the weight issue, but we have had very

poor luck with diet. We have pinned substantial hopes on FDA or

European approval of the weight loss drug rimonabant (acomplia) but

in the meantime I am concerned for his health.

Waist size is supposed to be the biggest indicator of risk factor for

diabetes and heart disease in overweight men, and my husband fits

this profile, his waist being the widest point on his body.

Obviously (from breast formation, diminishing energy, very low

resistence to flu and other viruses) he has low testosterone, but my

belief is that he has enough testosterone if it were not being

converted to E2. I am convinced that if he were to lose weight, the

T to E conversion would cease and his low T symptoms be drastically

improved. (Basically this is what he was told at his last checkup a

year ago, although they did not mention hormonal imbalance

specifically.)

It is unfortunate that the acetyl-l-carnitine/alpha lipoic acid

treatment does not help weight issues as researchers had initially

expected. It resulted in a dramatic cure for my husband's ED and has

helped both of our mental capacities, memory etc, and other symptoms

of aging, but not the weight issue/E2 conversion.

I generally like to approach medical problems at the source (in this

case the weight) but then maybe breaking a circle at any point will

have the same result. Do you think that DIM or arimidex might help

his situation?