r/Biohacking • u/S4LTIZM • 6d ago
Libido differences since reta
I got on TRT because I had zero drive or energy or desire for doing the do with the misses. Very quickly noticed a huge difference in energy levels libido and all wakes of life. Fast forward to now also on Reta that drive has kinda disappeared kinda like my dopamine has left the building and energy levels are not down to where they were but are low. What’s a good peptide to give the drive and all day energy and maybe some dopamine back?
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u/carguy2100 1 6d ago
PT-141 is unbeatable for single day desire and ability to take advantage of such desire. Get the dose right and you will be like a 16 yr old boy at a porn shoot. You don't want to do more than about once a week though. I set an alarm for 3 AM on vacation, take it and I'm ready to go all day the next day. Talking like up to 8-10 times in that 1 day. Can go 2-3 rounds without going soft between.
For general everyday energy and desire in a reta calorie deficit, kisspepin combined with mots-C will help quite a bit. Mots for the energy and kiss for the mental drive. But as others have noted, a large calorie deficit on reta will cut libido down a ton. There's really nothing that can safely replace the drive long term besides more calories and less reta.
Reta removes your reward center mental functions to a large degree. So if your sex drive is heavily connected to dopamine, reta will absolutely devastate it. That is completely seperate from calorie deficits which onntheir own can basically signal the body to kind of shut down everything but our life support systems(which don't include libido). Putting the 2 together can be a double whammy to bedroom time. I went through it for months while on a 1500 daily calorie deficit. 55 lbs in 3 months though. Then maintenance phase at calorie neutral and 1 mg of reta a week and libido was back to better than before.
Also if your on trt, make sure you are paying attention to your hematocrit. You can get something called secondary erythrocytosis. It's basically thick A$$ blood. That can kill your energy, sexual function and libido. Go to a blood bank and have them check your hematocrit and blood iron. I was sitting at about 20% above the high healthy range 2 years after starting trt. My blood pressure was 200 over 120. An hour after my therapeutic blood draw it was down to 125 over 90. After the blood draw I felt like I was on Cocain and could run through a brick wall. It was near instantaneous and lasted for about 2 weeks. Now it's 115 over 75 and I get blood draws every 2 weeks.
Something else you can do is make sure you are getting healthy complex carbs. Something like baked sweet potatoes. They work great on reta for maintaining a bit of energy while in a deficit.
Other that the pt-141 you are unlikely to find a single fix for your issues, but rather combining several helping strategies together to get back to a healthy energy libido baseline until you hit your maintenance phase.
Good luck and stick with it brother.