The right HCG dosage for men depends on what you are trying to fix. Keeping your testes alive during a cycle takes one dose. Restarting them after a cycle takes another, and getting your sperm count back from zero takes a third. In the book these protocols are spread across Chapter 13 and the PCT and Fertility bonus chapter, so this page puts every one of them side by side.
I have been on testosterone for most of the last thirteen years. My natural production is suppressed, and so is my fertility. So I know exactly why this compound matters, and why most men use it wrong.
HCG stands for human chorionic gonadotropin. It is a hormone your body makes during pregnancy, and medicine has used it for decades in fertility treatment.
For men, what matters is that HCG looks almost exactly like LH, luteinizing hormone. LH is the signal your pituitary sends to the Leydig cells in your testes, telling them to make testosterone. So HCG binds the same receptor and gives the same order: work.
When you run testosterone or any anabolic steroid, your brain sees plenty of hormone in the blood and stops sending LH and FSH. As a result, your testes lose their signal. They shrink, and they stop making testosterone and sperm. That shutdown starts the moment exogenous androgens enter your system.
The testosterone inside your testes runs far higher than the level in your blood, about 100 times higher. Sperm production depends on that local level. So even when your blood work looks normal on a cycle, your testes can be producing nothing.
In one controlled study, men on 200 mg of testosterone a week saw that inside level fall 94 percent. However, adding just 250 IU of HCG every other day kept it close to where it started [1]. That is the whole case for HCG in one result.
Three kinds of men end up needing an HCG dosage. First, men on testosterone replacement who still want kids. Second, men finishing a cycle who want their own production back. Third, men who stopped a cycle months ago and never fully recovered.
Each one needs a different HCG dosage for men, a different length of run and a different stack around it. So pick your goal in the table below and run that protocol, not the one your gym partner used.
Below is the full HCG dosage for men by goal, the timing rules, estradiol control, labs, stacks and the five mistakes that wreck recovery.
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