Alcohol on Estrogen, SHBG and the bodys general hormone profile

[Brazilianguy]

Hi Guys, I'm back! What can i say, lots of time on my hands now and feeling better than ever and finding reading stuff from people like Brazillian Guy is not bothering me like it did.
If it helps BG, i agree totally with Entropy and CD. I am completely recovered and i realise now it was almost all created by my constantly analysing mind, reading negative stories and worrying over and over - basically a nervous breakdown. It's only when you realise recovery is in your own hands that you start gaining momentum. It does take many months, even a year or two of 100% sticking to the plan, in fact plan is the wrong word for it, it is now your lifestyle to live unbelievably healthy, revel in how ridiculously healthy your lifestyle is and don't view it as doing hard yards or some kind of moutain you must climb.
I tell you one other thing too, cutting back on alcohol and occasionally having it is way harder than cutting it out completely, like smoking, you should quit or drink, and if you want to be your old self, you have to quit. By the way, Britain is the drinking capital of the world my friend LOL.
FYI, i drink again now in moderation after quitting completely for around a year. Occasionally i get pissed - no issues, no ill effects other than a hangover the next day. Like i say, post fin is a condition perpetuated by the mind, because there's fuck all wrong with you but a worried head, some temporarily downregulated genes and a tendency to be weak at the very times you need to be strong. You can fix that though, and all the time you're building character..... most bad things end up good if you employ the right mindset....

Thank you for your words English, I stopped drinking for now. I'm doing way better (Thank God)l I'm already waking up with morning wood some days, before I had none. Glad to see you're well. I really take your advices and Cds too. I'm now focusing on body building, since I can get some results now but I'm avoiding supplements until I recover.

[entropy]

Finally. Some sense! Just a little nugget of information here but morning wood actually has very little to do with T and everything to do with Dopamine and Dopamine is fucking wonderful. Don't sweat it too much if the "morning wood" comes and goes, take it as a message from your brain to take some risks and get the Dopamine flowing again. It's seriously important to focus on the other aspects of your life now buddy, this is the real crux. Woo some women, win at things, take a few calculated risks, be alpha in situations that don't involve your dick at all. Your whole body will thank you.

[English]

Finally. Some sense! Just a little nugget of information here but morning wood actually has very little to do with T and everything to do with Dopamine and Dopamine is fucking wonderful. Don't sweat it too much if the "morning wood" comes and goes, take it as a message from your brain to take some risks and get the Dopamine flowing again. It's seriously important to focus on the other aspects of your life now buddy, this is the real crux. Woo some women, win at things, take a few calculated risks, be alpha in situations that don't involve your dick at all. Your whole body will thank you.

Spot on Entropy, i read the studies on this myself maybe 3 months back. A load of guys with low T were given exogenous T and almost all started getting nocturnal erections, yet almost none got MW - Why? Like you say, most of the men were depressed and the dopamine/reward centres of the brain were downgraded, basically because they were low T for ages before they had sunk into a funk of low mood and depression and high cortisol. Knowing this is very helpful indeed so that you don't stress over the lack of MW. It's like peeling an onion, one layer at a time, you get there.
Low dopamine and downgraded reward centres in the brain are also responsible for low libido. This is often the case following a long period of stress involving protracted periods of high cortisol and other noradrenalins (prob spelt that wrong!) as stress hormones act on the same areas of the brain as dopamine and they effectively blunt the response of dopamine when you do experience a good occurence. This explains why depressed people can experience a wonderful thing happening, that they are genuinely fucking delighted about, yet they don't feel it. This just makes them more depressed! For those reading this and suffering from depression (been there) it's a long road, you have to just be calm, relaxed and eat well until your stress hormones lower, while enjoying life as much as possible and accepting that the feeling just isn't there for a while, as time goes by, if you retain that consistency of lifestyle and thought process, the feeling comes back, libido returns, MW returns, depression lifts.

[English]

Thank you for your words English, I stopped drinking for now. I'm doing way better (Thank God)l I'm already waking up with morning wood some days, before I had none. Glad to see you're well. I really take your advices and Cds too. I'm now focusing on body building, since I can get some results now but I'm avoiding supplements until I recover.

That's great BG, but i've heard this before from you. Your job is to jack yourself up every morning to be postive as fuck all day, never stop, never go back. As long as you never go back, you can only go forwards right? That's all you need to do. In the past you've always gone back again, so stop that. It will still take you at least 6 months to recover, even from where you are now, so don't expect everything overnight, and you won't be disappointed. Just enjoy who you are now, and train and eat well and be delighted at the opportunity to improve everyday. You will get there, i know you are a good person and you're trying and you keep getting back on the horse after falling off, at some point though you need to stay on the horse right?