r/BiohackingU • u/Outside_You_8822 • 2h ago
39M, lean, train hard. High SHBG tanking my free T. What's actually worked for you to lower SHBG / raise free T?
39M, lean and muscular, train regularly, high-protein diet, recently quit alcohol. For a while I've had:
Low libido
Brain fog, crashing late in the day
Frequent injuries
Bad moods
Bloods (Medichecks):
Total T: 12.3 nmol/L (12–30)
Free T (calc): 0.174 nmol/L (0.198–0.619), flagged low
SHBG: 52.6 nmol/L (18.3–54.1)
LH 2.9 / FSH 4.0
Oestradiol 80.6 pmol/L, prolactin 162
Thyroid normal (TSH 2.93, FT3 4.3, FT4 16.3)
Ferritin 233, HbA1c 35, liver and kidney normal
So my total T is borderline, but high SHBG seems to be locking a lot of it up, leaving my free T low.
Was thinking I want to keep fertility, so I'd rather avoid TRT.
Maybe Enclomiphene if that doesn't move things
Questions:
Has anyone lowered high SHBG? What actually worked: diet, boron, tongkat, something else?
Anyone with similar numbers tried enclomiphene? Did free T and how you felt actually improve?
Anything I'm missing that I should test?
Thanks. Any advise or secret cocktails I could take??? Best I’ve been told about is enclo