TRT run the right way. Full hormone panel, clinical dosing, regular labs, and a physician who actually takes the call when you have a question. Built for men who are done accepting lower energy, lower strength, and lower drive as a fact of getting older.
Testosterone replacement therapy restores testosterone to the healthy adult range when your body no longer produces enough on its own. Done properly, it’s one of the most studied hormone interventions in medicine. Done improperly, it’s a mess of side effects, crashed labs, and wasted money.
Our program is physician-managed from day one. Oliver Morris, DO orders a full baseline hormone panel (total and free testosterone, estradiol, LH, FSH, SHBG, prolactin, PSA, metabolic panel, CBC, and lipid panel), reviews your symptoms, and builds a dosing plan that matches your goals.
No 15-minute telehealth questionnaires. No rotating prescribers. No “start high and hope.” If you want context on other hormone-related programs, see our peptide therapy overview or medical weight loss program.
Three phases. One physician. Real labs.
A full review of your history, current medications, symptoms, and goals. We draw a complete hormone panel and run it through a standard lab, not a screening questionnaire.
Oliver reviews your numbers and builds a dosing protocol (injectable, cream, or pellet) matched to your life and lab profile. You start with a clear plan, not a generic dose.
Follow-up labs at week six, then quarterly. Dose, estradiol management, and adjuncts like HCG or anastrozole adjusted based on what your labs actually show. No guesswork.
Weeks one to three, you feel the first changes. Better sleep quality, a clearer head in the morning, libido returning. By week six, the biggest shifts show up. Energy is steadier through the day, strength in the gym comes back, recovery between workouts tightens. Body composition starts to respond by month three.
A proper program isn’t set-and-forget. Estradiol needs monitoring. Hematocrit is watched quarterly. Prostate health is tracked. We manage all of it so you don’t have to. The goal is a testosterone level in the upper normal range with every other marker where it should be, not a maxed-out number at the cost of your other labs.
If your goal also includes building lean mass or accelerating recovery, we often pair TRT with a peptide program for a stack that addresses both hormones and tissue repair.
Testosterone therapy is one of the most studied interventions in men’s medicine. Multiple randomized trials (including the TRAVERSE cardiovascular safety trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 2023) have examined the safety and benefit profile of TRT in men with documented hypogonadism.
TRAVERSE enrolled 5,246 men and followed them for an average of 33 months on either testosterone gel or placebo. The primary cardiovascular outcome showed non-inferiority for testosterone therapy, which is the strongest cardiovascular safety data we have. Earlier concerns from observational studies suggesting elevated risk were not borne out in the randomized data.
Benefit on symptoms is well-established. The T Trials (Snyder et al., NEJM, 2016) documented measurable improvements in energy, sexual function, and mood at one year. The mechanism is direct: testosterone restored to the physiologic range normalizes the downstream effects that deficiency was driving.
The practical takeaway: when TRT is indicated, dosed properly, and monitored with labs, the benefit-to-risk profile is favorable for most men. The failures come from poor dosing and absent monitoring, not from the therapy itself.
Week 1. Initial injection or cream application. The first dose does not produce a dramatic change, and it should not. Some patients report better sleep quality within the first few nights.
Week 2–3. Mood and libido start shifting. This is often the first unmistakable sign that therapy is working. Motivation and drive return in ways that feel obvious to the person but invisible from outside.
Week 4–6. Energy is the headline change. Sustained through the day, not spikes and crashes. Training volume increases without matching recovery cost. This is when we draw your first follow-up labs to see where testosterone, estradiol, and hematocrit have landed.
Week 7–12. Body composition starts to move. Lean mass up, visceral fat down when nutrition and training support it. Adjunctive meds (HCG to preserve testicular function or fertility, anastrozole for estradiol management, DHT management) get added or tuned based on your labs.
Beyond 90 days. Quarterly labs, quarterly touchpoints. Once stable, most men feel like they just run at a higher baseline. That’s the goal.
TRT at Olympia Aesthetics is priced transparently at consultation. Cost covers the medication, adjunctive medications if indicated, supplies, and ongoing physician management. Labs are billed separately at wholesale rates through a standard US clinical laboratory.
Program cost is typically competitive with the out-of-pocket cost of branded testosterone through retail pharmacies plus the visits and labs you’d be running anyway. HSA and FSA usually cover the clinical visits and labs. CareCredit financing is available for patients who want to pay across a full year.
Lab values plus symptoms. We run a full panel (not just total testosterone) because free testosterone, SHBG, and downstream markers like estradiol and LH matter more than a single number. Symptoms without low labs means something else is going on, and we investigate accordingly.
Injections (typically cypionate or enanthate) give the steadiest control and are the most common form. Creams are convenient and good for men who can’t inject. Pellets are implanted every 3 to 6 months and provide long-term stable dosing for patients who don’t want to think about weekly administration. We’ll match the form to your life.
Sleep and libido often shift in the first two weeks. Energy changes by week three to four. Strength and body composition follow between weeks four and twelve. If nothing has changed by week six, labs tell us why and we adjust.
Yes, exogenous testosterone suppresses the HPG axis. This is expected and managed. If you want to preserve testicular function, we add HCG. If you’re planning fertility, we plan around that with specific adjunctive protocols.
The TRAVERSE trial (2023) established cardiovascular non-inferiority for testosterone gel versus placebo. For prostate safety, we baseline PSA, track it at six weeks and quarterly, and manage any changes proactively. Men with active prostate cancer should not be on TRT.
Not everyone needs aromatase management. We use labs, not reflex. If your estradiol climbs out of range on TRT and produces symptoms, we add low-dose anastrozole and retest. Blanket AI use without lab guidance is how men end up with joint pain and crashed estradiol.
Exogenous testosterone suppresses sperm production. If fertility is a goal now or in the near future, we either delay TRT or run HCG alongside testosterone to preserve testicular function. Talk to us at the consult if this is on your list.
Typically long-term. Most men stay on once they start, because stopping returns you to the state that drove you to start. That said, we can taper and monitor if that’s your goal. We’ll have an honest conversation about the commitment at the first visit.
We price transparently at the consultation based on your dosing form and whether adjuncts are needed. Labs are wholesale cost. We typically quote total first-year program cost so there are no surprises, and we compare it against self-pay retail for context.
Oliver Morris, DO personally. You’re not handed off to a nurse practitioner or care coordinator. Read his background on the Oliver Morris, DO bio page.
One honest visit, a full lab panel, and a plan. If TRT is not the right answer for you, we’ll tell you that too.