If you don’t explain the entity of your feeling better(what I have read so far about your experience was only morning erections, but you know, I read very rapidly in this period) I am autohorized to think placebo. People here lack in recognizing that psychology affects hormones etc and a firm belief can provoke a surge of positive effects that eventually might fade away or might produce stable neural patterns, affecting hormones, neurosteroids, catecholamins etc etc. The same goes for negative psychology. Anyhow, I’m not going to try and convince you again. I had read some serious books to learn about brain etc, I can’t condense all the content in here and I wouldn’t be able to. For instance I do have periods in which I have morning erections, and normally this happens when I am less stressed. No random boners through the day so far however (maybe a just a few times in the past years). So I’m happy for you, and hope you keep doing well. As I said I would be really happy if you and all of us could heal this way. Your’s isn’t a stupid approach. I’m not well informed on shorgum but it’s an interesting approach, maybe one of the best if not the best so far althought as I said I have many doubts it will work. Still believe that a natural approach deals better with the complexity of the body. It has it’s own healing abilities, but I don’t expect to cure if I stay 10+ hours/day in front of a pc within my house honestly(which unfortunately is my obliged routine for now).
You talk about ignorance when talking about placebo. I personally witnessed 3 people in my life who lost all or part of their hair because of acute stress(loss of a relative for example) and never regrown it. Psychology is far more important than many here realize and the most here neglect any implication because that would be like neglecting that finasteride is the cause (in their mind). Unfortunately the two things are stricly interrelated so they are not separable. Your psychological attitude controls what your neurological burst patterns will be in the future.
Psychology(or if you prefear behavioral neurology 
) enters in my protocol since you ask. Unfortunately I am stuck with my studies, it’s a hard period for me since I lost many friends for various reasons, and I’m paying the consequences of what pfs did in my life. The protocol is mainly what I already said, but to be more precise:
1-I am struggling to quit smoking(I have already done it some times and I’m getting better. I need to get better at handling big stresses in order to avoid triggering relapses).
2-Exercise. Not sure if it is the best routine and it is also a pain to do it; howvever, even if I do it not to the best I am getting really better. Muscles are growing, energy and virility too, psychological stability also. I ended up finding that parts of my muscules were really inactive and I am trying to reactivate them, with good results. Many muscles were not working in synergy. For example, when I started this new routine I wasn’t able to do 1 single pullup at the bar. Today I tried and I was able to do 3 of them, and I really did focus on other exercises. I am taking the suggested amount of proteins (ie 1,5-2 grams/kg of body mass/day) either through normal nutrition or supplements(vegan supplements from peas or whey protein, it depends). I was indeed TOO low in protein intake before, I don’t have mama cooking for me anymore. I eat foods high in proteins, low in fats and carbs to meet my nutritional requirements as I want to gain muscles/strenght and drop fat. This means fish being the best serving, then you have peas, legumes etc. I try to avoid those foods that are apparently inflammatory, like meats and prefear consuming frozen food over food which is not fresh. This because of the endotoxin theory, the evolution of leaky gut syndrome, stating that inflammation is triggered by entoxins produced by bacteria growing on food which is not fresh. One would believe that by cooking at high temperatures you would kill bacteria. Well actually that’s true, but the molecules they produced are not going to disappear. That’s why I prefear fresh/frozen foods. I retain this “theory” to be believable but honestly there is not a lot of scientfic evidence so I am always a bit skeptical. It makes sense though.
I’m exercising 4 times a week and normally I should run at least 20 minutes at high speed, this means 11-13km/h. This is hard to accomplish unfortunately, it’s mostly a thing of how much motivation you have. But I am happy with the preliminar results, lowered inflammation, bigger/fuller penis(near normalilty I would say) at the end of the session, relaxed feeling, more focus etc. But I am adjusting because it’s too hard to do it at the end of the wheightlifting session. The best would be to exercise under the sun, with a group of friends doing hiit training or similar high intensity training with a lot of high intensity running. This has broad range effects over the body, starting from dopamine to mithocondrial efficiency. Increasing muscle mass, reducing fat, improving heart function to that of an athlete and overall metabolism should finetune androgen/estrogen ratio and many other parameters. So try to become an athelete(possibly involve in agonism) rather than only going to the gym, there really is no comparison to the amount of benefits involved. Some sports I can think of that should be really good are beach volley, beach soccer, surf and other activities that are done on a beach, expecially those that make work the legs. I’m pretty sure you will hardly belive the imporvements in your condition as long as you don’t take it as a medicine but as an amusement.
Keep in mind I exercised for a lot of time before this routine, but I probably wasn’t doing enough and in the good way to get results. It takes time and work. I am not 20 anymore and I have been insulted by a drug, this means to get things back in place there’s hard work to be done, getting in perfect shape first of all.
2- getting out with friends every possible evening. Pretty hard at this moment, I’m left without friends and without the possibility of making lol since I’m stuck studying all day and in the gym. But I’m going to do the possible. I’m getting better at managing everything. This howver would be the most important part of my protocol at least in my case as I feel I’m in need of it. As I said this has to do with the increase in ALLO and many other things. Like exercise, do not think this is going to have immediate STABLE effects althought you will generally feel really better after a good lough with friends. The body takes time to build up. If you want a stable high ALLO production you need to commit to it, it’s only a matter of going out, amuse and feel well after all. Same applies for dopamine production, be competitive, risk taking, but be intelligent in doing so and don’t play all your money on slot machines lol. Same for Serotonin, do whatever it takes to feel well even when things are going wrong. All of this will also improve sleep. This will be hard at the beginning but you will build HABITS (very important concept) out of these behaviors and it will become natural for you. You will get back to normality in time. A neuroscient I read a book of calls this “the upward spiral” as contrary to the “downward spiral”. And I can really suggest this book on depression which explains in a comprehensible manner to the layman why and what needs to be done to enter this “upward spiral” (The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, Alex Corb). Really interesting. All what I learnt comes mostly from books like these, written by supposedly trustable writers.
3- no stimulants, caffeine, drugs, cigarettes. (I’m trying and I get better in it). It’s always a matter of motivation and it has to be trained.
4- I am applying a lot of psychological techniques expecially when I study because when I stopped with fin I was barely able to read a sentence/drive car etc. I’m really better at concentrating right now. Still have some work to do. But perfection is a mirage. No one has it.
At the same time I try to keep up my mood. Life has been pretty harsh under Fin, and I really got in despair and at times I still feel that mood but there’s really no comparison. I’m doing really better right now. This sums up in combating depression/anxiety. I bought divulgative scientific books and studied techniques to conquer all of these problems. I really read a lot of things and summing up all the greatly interesting things I learnt would be impossible. I insist, good HABIT building is of fundamental importance. You should go and read immediately about habits on the internet. All this might not make sense to you at a first glimpse but really this makes a difference between who in life is going to be a failure and who is going to succeed.
5-hang out with girls and have sex the most possible for rehabilitation purpouses. I studied this too to ease the task of pick up. I got some really hot girls in the last years thanks to what I studied and despite pfs, but unfortunately my lack of time ended all in fights and psychological pain. I’m studying biological related engineering and here university is really a 24 h commitment. Anyhow being able to have hot girls with ease, well that eases life, makes you feel better althought once you get in a troubling relationship everything gets harder, so it’s a risk. Still planning to get back on track as I get better at managing all the things I implemented in the protocol.
6-of course having stable shedules, like resting enough and going all days to sleep at the same evening hour is part of the protocol.
7-being good at what you do in life. If you are not good at what you do in life compared to the other workers you’ll be permanently stressed/unhappy and this doesn’t help. So the options are three if this is not the case: or you get better at what you do and try to be one of the best, or you learn to feel well about it anyhow like it is of no importance to you, or you change your job to something you like and makes you feel well(remember the guy who opened the bar).
You get the point, everything is aimed ad overall wellbeing, boosting of healing mechanisms of the body, and might be a longterm commitment depending from where you start. Unfortunately I started from very low since my life wasn’t easy before fin and during Fin it got really shot down. There are simply too many things to deal with and I don’t expect a drug or a supplement to adjust all of this without me working hard on it. The sexual part is quite ok now, I’m not happy enough with it but I’m not going to wait to recover 100% of my sexuality to work and try being happy. Some things I don’t expect to recover honestly, like gynecomastia(real glandular). This is probably not going to recover as it probably underwent fibrosis. At most I can think fasting can get rid of fibrose tissues like these (maybe present also in the prostate?) but that’s more speculation, I have found no serious scientific evidence of this possibility. But anyhow, it’s ok, I can live with it. No one is perfect and life is crude sometimes. It needs to be accepeted eventhought I didn’t want to in the past.
