How to Optimize Your Hormones for Health & Vitality

If you calorically restrict mice by 40%, then they can have improved testosterone parameters but only if they're obese to start. And it appears to be that same way in humans as well. So, the easy way to think about it is if you're obese or you have metabolic syndrome, caloric restriction will improve your testosterone.

Cannabinoids itself, whether it's THC or CBD, are not going to reduce testosterone by themself. If it's smoked marijuana, then it's very likely to increase your aromatase, which increases your estrogen... So, that is going to decrease testosterone.

The two strongest ones are likely diet and exercise. For hormone health, specifically resistance training is particularly helpful. For diet, caloric restriction can be particularly helpful, especially with the epidemic of metabolic syndrome that is continuing to ongo in this country and in developed countries, in general.

There is a study in young, healthy men, and they calorically restrict them, and their testosterone does decrease. So, if you're young & healthy and you don't have metabolic syndrome, then caloric restriction will likely decrease your testosterone.

Creatine, like creatine monohydrate, can significantly increase the conversion of testosterone to DHT.

There's a lot of sleep supplements that should not be taken daily, and GABA is one of them. Another one of them is trazodone ... In general, if you're taking a sleep supplement, it should not be taken every night.

If you are a 80-year-old male and you have an autopsy, there's at least a 50% chance that you had a prostate cancer. If you're 90 or 100-years-old, there's at least a 90% chance. So, for humans with a prostate, it's only a matter of time until you get a prostate cancer.

Testosterone is not going to cause a prostate cancer. However, normal aging causes prostate cancer, and testosterone will grow your prostate cancer.

Grass-fed butter has good omega-3 content, as well. So, grass-fed foods... are one of the only sources of healthy trans fat.

I've got the question a lot, 'How do you get your doctor to order a better lab workup or to even include your basic hormones?' And there's no magic answer to that. But what really helps is you tell them, 'My energy is not as good as it used to be. My focus is not as good as they used to be. My athletic performance is not as good as it used to be.'

If a man begins TRT, then they develop poor sleep because of sleep apnea. It drastically raises the risk that somebody is going to have sleep apnea.

Let's say you have a diet high in plant polyphenols. Many of those inhibit the enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT.

PCOS is polycystic ovarian syndrome. And this is one of those conditions which is under-diagnosed. So, its prevalence is much higher than we think it is. There's been a lot of studies, and some studies say prevalence of 10%; some say 20%. It's not completely clinically penetrant. So, most people don't know they have PCOS until they have infertility or subfertility.

The more you're doing your zone 2 cardiovascular exercise, the slightly less important a long duration of caloric restriction is.

If you have a growth hormone deficiency, a true deficiency, whether you're an adult or a child, then your sleep is likely going to be affected.

If your offspring are females, then you're slightly more likely to have prostate cancer.