There are lots of flavors out there including Defy’s various protocols and how they have evolved…AI, clomid, enclomiphene, etc…
RE: hCG…To your point, if you look at one of their later versions with the kitchen sink…
- Discontinue testosterone
- Start 300 IU hCG daily for 2 weeks
- Stop hCG, start 25 mg enclomiphene daily for 6 weeks
- 0.125 mg anastrozole three times per week during both hCG and enclomiphene
- Stop everything, followup labs with CBC, TT, FT E2, LH, SHBG, PRL
I wanted to see if i could recover without the serm/AI. Seemed to recover reasonably well even after years of shutdown. Nothing special about the 4 weeks unless you are quitting high dose test. To @mnben87 's point you are pyramiding down and back down to 150 mg/week by week 13.
HCG helps the first few weeks and hope the next 6 to 8 are not as castrate feeling as mine were. Give it time.