Francis:

I did a fairly extensive study on this myself and also got input
from 40-50 people who commented on AST.  The consensus
was that it produced some benefit for about a third of the
participants and had some severe problems and complications
for about another third.  The other folks either weren't sure or
were non-comital.

I found that it dehydrated the hell out of me and made me very
tired and forgetful.  It did have a 'small' T reduction benefit.

Good luck if you try it !

Bob D.
Long Island, NY
bdimarco@optonline.net