body chemistry is simply out of wack from the cycle this is why limiting hormones will be lesser and help to raise the free portion of testosterone such as SHBG, estrogen, cortisol.
A cycle that is very low in terms on suppression and was nearly 6 months ago. If this was fresh off a PCT, then it would be understandable, but this is not the case. He can't focus too much on lowering SHBG as it also binds E2 in addition to test.