I’m almost fully recovered from my mono, but I need to give it until after Thanksgiving for my spleen to go back to normal size. My doctor wanted me to stay out of the gym until then, because I could rupture it while it’s enlarged and that would be Very Bad.

In the meantime, I’ve gotten very rigorous about avoiding all gluten, and a weird thing happened after about two weeks - the morning wood is consistently back! This is without the t-boosting herbs or working out. Wow.

I read an article on pubmet about reversible androgen resistence being caused by gluten, at least for people with celiac disease, but I suppose there’s a lesser version that affects a lot of other people. I’ll have to go without gluten until I’m fully recovered. But, it’ll be interesting to see how I do when I’m back in the gym and on the t-boosting herbs - hopefully amazing. Especially since I’ll be doing 4 workouts per week, of 15 sets / 8 reps each.

I’m not really sure if it was wise to take a break from the herbal rotation, but I figured that if I wasn’t working out then the herbs wouldn’t be worth it. Not sure if I should jump back on them in the meantime.

But anyway, going strictly gluten-free makes a significant difference. I’d like to get more consistently early sleep, and to use the Joov every day, I think that that would help.