guys keep asking me about testosterone and so many of you want to send me your testosterone Labs
right I'm honored that you are into my opinion enough that you want to know what I think about
your Labs so what I figured I would do is take a set of labs that were sent to me and kind of talk
about it a little bit in sense of in terms of what should you be talking to your doctor about what
should you be looking for right and so I'm gonna I'm gonna put some slides up too so that we can
kind of go through testosterone these are some of the slides that I use for the my e function
intensive or work closely with guys to help them optimize and this is you know so basically goes
through he says his Vitamin D was 26 he knows that's insufficient vitamin D should be around
60 between 60 and 80 um depending on which one you're checking total testosterone is 458 free
testoster from the 68 bioavailable is 140 sex hormone binding globulin 28.7 albumin 4.5 so it's
primary care provider recommended that you take D3 but said the testosterone levels are normal
and so when you look at Labs that come from Quest lab core and everywhere else that they will tell
you that this total testosterone is very normal for it to be at 450 8. and then they those same
Labs basically say if you're above 300 with your total testosterone you are in a normal space and
you don't even need to think about it so what I want to show you guys today is kind of a look at
testosterone and just kind of look at what we know clinically in terms of testosterone levels and
to give you some references so that you can feel comfortable if you decide to get on testosterone
now I'm going to be honest with you I think that there are so many different ways that you can
boost testosterone and I give each of my patients an opportunity to do that you know we go through
all the natural things I give them a whole handout on all these different ways that you can boost
testosterone naturally so let me share you to share those with you now but I'll also say that a
lot of those guys end up on testosterone so here's some natural ways to boost testosterone right so
avoiding endocrine disruptors we talk about those all the time high intensity interval training zinc
not too much though too much zinc can deplete your copper levels and get you
in an issue vitamin D getting rest um because you know when you think about it when you're
sleeping that's when testosterone is released Ginger ashwagandha makuna purines tonkad Ali
these are all things that have been shown naturally to boost testosterone decreasing
stress levels right so now what I want to share with you is just kind of some
basic labs to think about so that when you're when your doctor tells you that 400 is normal
you can you can say uh very clearly without even having to ask me I don't know if that's
the normal I want for myself right because here here's the thing let's go through what we know
about different levels right so let me share this with you so when we look at testosterone levels
less than 380 has an increased risk for heart disease right less than 283 increased risk for
depression less than 231 increased risk for Ed now let's go to the next slide
his was around 4 38. less than 432 low energy increased fatigue reduced
libido that doesn't sound fun less than 450 increased risk of type 2
diabetes less than 600 increased risk of mortality associated with a heart attack
less than 900 trouble with your cholesterol less than
900 arterial stiffness meaning those arteries kind of start to get stiffer
less than 900 high blood pressure less than 900
having that that dead gut that you can't get rid of
sarcopenia less than 900 sarcopenia basically means like thinning out of the bones
um lower Exercise capacity um lower than 900. so so I'm showing you all of this to show you
that I I am a fan of my guy patients having the testosterone that they need
um less than 900 Alzheimer's disease is an association so with that being said you you
we do we want to talk about all the natural ways to boost testosterone we absolutely do
but for some of you you're going to benefit from considering testosterone replacement signs of low
testosterone is really Associated are you having you know getting hot flashes guys start to get hot
flashes of something called andropods where the Androgen pauses your testosterone levels pause
a bit because of it you know but I will say this with every low testosterone individual what can we
do in your lifestyle to boost stood up right are you are you being constantly eating um you know
food that has toxins in it right we need to give that up have you become sedentary okay now we need
to move more have you reduced in your ability to sleep throughout the night okay we need to correct
that is it because you're getting up in the middle of the night because it's your prostate we need
to fix that because you need to sleep throughout the night to have that regenerative sleep to make
really good testosterone you know is it something that's happening in your life that's contributing
to a low testosterone thing so we want to fix that and then we want to try all the natural
ways to boost it and then we got to be realistic with ourselves if you've tried everything you've
gotten as healthy as you possibly can you've gotten rid of things you you know you're not
sleeping with your iPad on your lap because of the the electromagnetic fields are destroying
um you know your your testicular testicles uh you know integrity and all of that you've done
all of that then ultimately sometimes it's just okay to say listen doc I think I need a little
testosterone and if you're showing numbers in the 300 and the 400 and your doctor's telling
you that it's normal but you don't feel like it is we treat the numbers and not we treat the patient
and not the numbers right so if you were telling me you got all these symptoms of low testosterone
your testosterone is 400 I can say okay well this person's testosterone is too low for him
so we need to work on trying to boost it now if you're showing 400 and you feel great
your actions are strong you're not tired you're exercising you're not gaining weight you don't
have any diabetes or hypertension or no prostate issues and nothing like that then 400 is okay for
you so this is what I say everybody's so different so 400 for most guys is kind of low yeah but
400 for everybody isn't necessarily low you'll find just as many guys at 400 feeling fantastic
um as you will having 400 and feeling terrible so it really kind of depends on the person so
I cannot just get a set of labs and give any recommendations I have to know more about you
as a person I need to know about your lifestyle I need to know what you're eating how you're
sleeping all of these different things because ultimately those are the things that go into
your doctor deciding whether or not you need to be on testosterone we got to know your past
medical history so all of it swirls around so it's not just about a number so you test your
testosterone levels because you're not feeling like you used to because things aren't flowing
like they used to because the D isn't responding like it used to you you're in a bad mood
you depressed a little bit you know you got all these other things going on that's the reason
to check the testosterone and then you match that clinically to what's happening with you
how are you feeling on the inside how's your life structured and all of that and that's ultimately
how you can decide whether or not testosterone supplementation is for you and so then
um you know that I know I know it I know it I used to be there too where you're thinking
you know testosterone I think it gives a lot to heart attacks and it can you know cause so many
things with people I want to give you um some resources so that you can actually look them
up and realize that these controversies about whether or not it's giving you a giving heart
attacks can actually be debunked so this is a good place to start it is actually an article
um it's an article that was written in 2015 and um it's testosterone therapy and cardiovascular risk
advances in controversies and it was um published in the Mayo clinics proceedings right so this is
a really good place to start and so the one that really kicked this off so that everybody just got
really scared of testosterone supplementation was an article written by a doctor with the last name
vigen right and so it's quoted here but pretty much since he came up with this idea that um after
three months the testosterone supplementation all of these guys were getting heart attacks basically
160 leading testosterone researchers and 29 medical societies from around the world called for
a retraction of the study following the revelation of the of the data errors and that it was just was
a very flawed study so since that time they've done other studies to see how is it does is a
man's health impacted when his testosterone levels are normal for him not necessarily how he is when
he's on testosterone but how are how is the health outcome when your testosterone levels skew high as
opposed to skewing low right because technically when you're getting these Labs from Lab Core and
everything they're basically telling you you know for what's normal for a 65 year old guy right
and that's what they consider to be a normal testosterone level well if you're 65 it just
makes sense that you're probably feeling better and feeling your best if you had the levels of
testosterone that you had when you were 35 right so so let's say good testosterone levels for men
is a value that doesn't necessarily depend on how old he is if you if you're 35 and you need
good levels of testosterone well when you're 65 you really need good levels of testosterone so I
want you guys to dive a little deeper into this so that you're not scared of testosterone treatment
because I have plenty guys who I've put on it and monitored through through it through the years and
I I honestly for me I haven't had any have any Adverse Events but I've had guys write to me who
have so everybody's different but honestly getting your testosterone optimized is huge in this piece