The Definitive Testosterone Replacement Therapy MANual: How to Optimize Your Testosterone For Lifelong Health And Happiness Paperback – November 6, 2015

This book is well written and fact filled. It gives suggestion and recommendations for testosterone replacement therapy that are excellent. It does not go into the scientific portion with relatively useless information, such as drawings of the hormones, the number of methyl groups, etc. If the advice in this book is used, I can almost promise that you will feel better and make many more advances in your appearance, your mood and, in general, how you face the world and live life.That being said and hopefully you will considering buying this book, I am going into my background. I am a doctor and a board-certified Ob-Gyn. I am studying to become certified in anti-aging medicine at this time. When I finished residency in 1984, a large part of our knowledge base was endocrinology, especially in relationship to the sexual hormones including testosterone as well as estrogen and progesterone, which people usually consider the female hormones. For example, did you know that the usual post menopausal woman, say of sixty three will have a higher testosterone than her husband of the same age?Your testosterone starts falling about 1% a year on the average starting at age 30 (ages of peak testosterone vary from source to source from 20-30). If you have had a high testosterone level and it drops to a much lower level, you can become symptomatic, even though your tests will show a low normal testosterone level. This is not an all or none situation. Do you really think that if your level is say 275 and the cut off for a low level is 270 that you do not would not benefit from therapy until your level gets to 269? Each lab is different and the one I just checked for a normal range is 270-1070.I became depressed when I hit about 40 and after several years of being on SSRI's, and gaining weight (read getting fat) and not having the urge to work out or actually do anything, gaining about 70 pounds with a decrease in muscle mass, (so who knows how much fat I really put on) I continued to research since I got NO results from the medications or therapy. I found an old medical paper that said that testosterone therapy was effective in the treatment of depression in older males. I then found a paper that gave a comparison and it showed that testosterone therapy was much more effective than SSRI's. I got my levels done and I had a very low level of testosterone. I started replacement therapy and have lost weight and no longer have problems with depression.Now back to the book. Most MD's do not like to start testosterone replacement therapy, since that is "part of getting old". This was a NoNo, even in the 70's. I do not agree with this since your quality of life suffers and you are miserable. Some worry that TRT can cause heart attacks or strokes. There was one flawed study that showed this, whereas there are many studies that show the exact opposite.If you are considering replacement therapy get this book and get a copy for your doctor, because this has more practical advice in it for TRT. After my training and back ground, I personally like to know the chemical make up of the hormones and the degradation, etc., but most do not.Jay is very knowledgeable in the area of TRT. I have not found any mistakes in the information that he presents. I have never met him, although I have communicated with him online. I was surprised at his grasp of TRT which is much deeper than most doctors that I have talked with and after discussions with him, I have made changes in my own TRT and have benefited from them. I highly recommend this book both for men interested in TRT as well as all doctors that treat adult and elderly males.In full disclosure, I did receive a copy of this prior to publication, free of charge, and did not receive any thing in return for my review. I have nothing to gain or lose from this review and don't even know Mr. Campbell. If I had not thought so highly of this book, I would have stated it or not reviewed it at all.In order to "put my money where my mouth is" I did purchase this to give to my own doctor. I just needed to explain how I was able to get a review out as quickly as I did on the day of release.

After serving in the 75th Ranger Regiment for a number of years and going through a few of the toughest schools the military has to offer; I felt like a completely different person. The rigor to succeed that I had before was gone. My competitive edge started to go away. I was known as one of the more physically fit members in my unit and it was all just going away. Even weirder was the fact that I didn't really care. I was now becoming ok with not being the best.I knew after Ranger School It would take awhile for my body to heal up. After all, I recycled mountain phase twice and was there for almost half a year (got caught in best ranger comp). I graduated and returned to things as normal assuming after a few months everything would start to become normal. But it was the last straw for my body. After deploying and being around so many blasts, Ranger School seemed to be the last straw the broke my body. After reading the information in this book and arguing with every doctor ever since they all told me "I was too young to have that problem", and 6 months after graduating I finally get my testosterone checked. It came back at 26ng/dl. I was 23 years old at the time. It explained the complete change in who I was and the fact that I couldn't even get a hard on. AT 23 YEARS OLD.I followed recommendations as outlined in the book and talked to my doctor about TRT. He was hesitant at first. Saying that it must have been a fluke cause of my age and had more tests done including brain scans. But I stuck with the amazing information this book informs you with and worked with my doctor to bring my levels up to where they should be. I brought the information from this book to my doctor, which luckily he was open to trying, saying he even learned some things (Most doctors ego's are too big to ever admit they learned from someone who doesn't have letters after their name). That proved for me that Jay really knows what he's talking about. Without the knowledge I got from Jay and his book I would have never been able to return to who I was.I've seen it happen to so many of my friends from serving and now can show them the same information that literally GAVE ME BACK MY LIFE. I have since gotten out of the military and continue to use this book as an on-going reference to how to optimize my hormones and my life.All I can really say is thanks to this book, THE REAL ME IS BACK