Andrew Huberman· PhD
taking hCG several times per week can help maintain spermatogenesis and fertility even while people are on testosterone.
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taking hCG several times per week can help maintain spermatogenesis and fertility even while people are on testosterone.
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I do think if you are mindful of fertility it's worth consideration of HCG concurrently with your whatever you're going to be using like if you're on trt and you're going to shut yourself down don't make the mistake that thousands of bodybuilders have where they got on hormones ended up with atrophy testicles and then when they were 10 years later wanting to have a child realized the arduous recovery process was like pretty significant
But the only way to maintain your current fertility is you have to be 100% compliant with dual therapy. You can't go on monotherapy with testosterone.
So, all that to say, yeah, you should expect your fertility to go down the toilet and you should expect that you have an adjunct protocol in place if you want to sustain it, if you're on testosterone and you want to sustain the fertility, but it's possible to sustain it. A lot of people thought until like relatively recently that if you're on testosterone, you just couldn't. You were going to be infertile for sure.