Testosterone

“I'm convinced women should be microdosing testosterone.”

“Finasteride is something that can, Prevent the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone, DHT. And DHT is, one, it's bad for the half follicle, but can also cause prosthetic growth.”

“So when your rib cage is closed like this, it's going to actually increase your cortisol. So that's your stress. And it's going to decrease your testosterone, which is like the aggressive energy that flows through us.”

“So testosterone in women, we have more testosterone than we do estrogen in our bodies.”

“And then we've got abysmal fertility in men. We've got, you know, plummeting testosterone rates. So their swimmers are not swimming so well.”

“Another one is obesity. Radically decreases testosterone levels.”

“So testosterone is one of those things that if you're older, if you're in your late thirties, forties, and so on, and blood tests confirm that you're on the low end and you have the symptoms of low testosterone, it is a very good idea to get testosterone repla…”

“But for most people, their testosterone is totally fine and absolutely not even close to the limiting factor on how they feel and their longevity and quality of life.”

“They've done studies where it's like when you have more testosterone in your body, when you're, when a guy has more testosterone in his body, he becomes more of an independent thinker.”

“The lighting cells, which produce something like the most testosterone, ninety-some percent of testosterone in your body, are in the testicles, and sun, the infrared rays, they penetrate quite deeply.”

“I, the positive thing from that study though, is that it seemed like the more venture capital the founders raised, the higher their T levels were.”

“Alcohol is one of, men, especially one of the biggest inhibitors of testosterone.”

“And they discovered there's a biochemistry of what they call championship biochemistry. It's where these people like Tom Brady's down by 10 points, and it's the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, and he comes back the way to me. How? He has this huge surge of t…”

“I measured free testosterone before and after, and it was 10% higher.”

“I think it really, probably most sex therapists would say it's more socially constructed than biologically determined, even though, yes, Cisgendered men have more testosterone in their systems than cisgendered women, let's say. There's a hormonal difference, w…”

“And we produce our peak levels of testosterone release, not during the day, or even after the gym, or just as we're working out during the gym, we produce our peak levels during REM sleep, just before and throughout that period of REM sleep.”

“Well, the main effect of testosterone is it makes effort feel good because of the way that it, you, it makes you, there's a readiness for challenge of all kinds, intellectual challenges, philanthropic challenges.”

“But those supplements done properly from the right sources can increase testosterone by about 200 nanograms per deciliter.”

“Duncan's work has shown in peer reviewed studies that Short-term stress raises testosterone. Stress that lasts more than a day or two or training sessions that go more than 90 minutes, that depletes testosterone.”

“Male testosterone is down 50% over the last, like, 40 years.”

“The whole class of something called phthalates, which is P H T P T H L A T E S. That, that effectively have like a really Strong negative impact on one's testosterone, ones like endocrine and hormonal systems, and they're, that are in like everything.”

“Yeah, I think it really, probably most sex therapists would say it's more socially constructed than biologically determined, even though, yes, Cisgendered men have more testosterone in their systems than cisgendered women, let's say.”