hey everyone dr eric the fitness physician where i talk about all things related to hormonal fitness muscle medicine and much more so i help people look for 40 optimize their strength metabolism and hormones so they can live a life full of strength energy and vitality so doing telehealth all across the country and have a few courses coming out this year and that first one coming out very soon check out the facebook group dr eric secrets of sailor nutrition and fitness and let's go so today we're going to do first of a multi-part another multi-part series
this will be probably just a couple videos this is one of people this gets uh brought up a lot by patients i see it online on forums like about sex drive a libido how do i boost my libido how do i boost my sex drive both men and women um so i'm gonna go through some things obviously this is a huge topic and the first part of course is dealing with and i did not put this on here but basically has to do with the psychological component a lot of guys and especially women too but
definitely with men um come to me for concern about sex drive erectile dysfunction biggest part a lot of it is mental the psychological component the thinking about things that mental stress mental anguish or just worrying about stuff rumination about thoughts and things and especially if you have you know with libido especially if you think about work think about different things going on even if it's just a mild stress you're just distracted that's going to detract from that ability that thought to have that relaxation phase and just to feel good about yourself and to feel horny
quite frankly and get in the mood right if you're stressed out you're worried about stuff all the time of course that can lead to erectile dysfunction which just probably gets a cycle a lot of guys will have this and then they worry about it next time and it makes it makes it more often you know it can happen next time because they're worrying about it it's a vicious cycle women get this too and i speak a psychological component because typically with women it's a lot more emotional right that they need there's more to it than
that it's not just about hormones or vaginal dryness and things although that can happen a lot of times there's other things too again psychological mental but women tend to have have a lot more emotional uh concerns and thoughts and going through their head and different they need more connection more intimacy more communication there's different things that are involved above and beyond just the physical uh so that's a huge component and that's one thing i want to address because that's probably one of the more important things so and then of course you know fitness right if
you're overweight you're eating poorly if you have a poor diet you're not exercising of course that's going to prone cause inflammation you're not going to be in the mood because your hormones are out of whack your metabolism is low your overall mood is low everything is off because if you have a shitty diet you're inflamed your your metabolism your energy levels are low so nutrition and fitness as with everything the foundation is right make sure you're sleeping eating right getting in shape trying to lose weight those are these are the most important things everything else
that throw honey is going to be extra but it's going to kind of tie into that a little bit so another one that sometimes gets forgotten about is dopamine right it's a neurotransmitter that's very important for everything but for proper mood motivation drive the the feel good feeling the confidence in yourself and the ability to desire to want to go and do things and conquer new challenges and to get out there and meet people so dopamine is is huge and when it's low that can definitely affect sex drive it can affect erectile function it can
affect your testosterone levels it can affect many many things and it's impacted by many many things i wait and again this is a whole lecture in and of itself but just talk about some of the top ones here again hormone optimization diet and exercise are going to be heads and tails above this helpful for dopamine right excuse me but things like simple things like exploration trying new things a new route to work and going on a new travel adventure trying a new workout just anything new that you're going to explore and break out of that
rut and try the things that i saw people people get that dopamine rush right from when they're exercising or they're doing something new or even having a cheat meal or a piece of chocolate right it's that dopamine rush but you don't want to chase that and you want to be the the journey not the destination because then otherwise you'll get attuned to that you'll get you'll get kind of a tolerance to that effect so just enjoy the journey but mix it up if you enjoy like a little dessert every couple days or every day because
of that skip it every for a few days and then go back to it and vary it up because your body will will adapt to that and you won't get that dopamine rush every time you have to do more kind of like people who take a pain pill right they get a tolerance to so you have to mix it up if you have a do something that gives you that dopamine rush skip it for a day or two and then do it again later and if you keep that very that'll keep that dopamine maximized um
you know laughing laughing relaxing enjoying yourself just again that relaxation is going to help with dopamine same with laughing laughing can also boost prolactin so these things are going to be very helpful for that as well posture simply [Music] superman posture right you know or you know or the wonder woman posture for women that's that's been shown actually if you do that for a few minutes at a time every every day that will actually boost dopamine very and it's free right super easy to do you could do that while you're standing there reading a book
or reading something online or doing some work stress is huge right again i talked about this at the beginning stress mitigation is massively important if your stress levels are elevated cortisol levat that's going to crush all your hormones uh and definitely your sex drive as well because you got too much going on you're too distracted and the stress hormone is going to crush the dopamine and knock down your hormones as well gut health is massively important as well so if you're eating a crappy diet if the foods that are bothering or irritating you you got
to get rid of those because inflammation that could lead to inflammation and that gut health can also affect all the neurotransmitters in the in the gut is where a lot of neurotransmitters made especially things like serotonin and that can adversely affect dopamine you want those in balance right if you have too much serotonin rather inflammatory molecules or cortisol or other inflammatory markers it's getting lower dopamine son get out and get your son right that's important for overall health setting the circadian rhythms uh for boosting your mood priming your energy right we are all solar beings
rated vitamin d production and it's gonna help with other neurotransmitters and hormones as well so i'm actually getting my pen because i forgot my favorite one right um ice i should say uh cold uh ice baths cold showers cold thermogenesis these are all little tactics those are great for boosting dopamine especially a cold shower first thing in the morning it's a great it's a great boost of dopamine and unlike something certain things can boost your dopamine dopamine temporarily but this will give a more of a long-lasting uh release throughout the day lasts for hours at
a time if not more so that's a great way to get a long sustained dopamine release there are supplements of course you can take as well i won't get into too much of that here but things like making sure you're getting again when we talked about your diet make sure getting all the amino acids like tyrosine and phenylalanine are two key amino acids that are needed for the production of dopamine as is vitamin c so if you're not getting propane amino acids that could be harmful and inhibit your dopamine production so supplementing with dopamine things
like supplement phenylalanine or tyrosine or just getting a good amino acid blend or getting make sure you're eating adequate protein from whole food sources that's going to cover that number two is inflammation right and this is i touched on this before a clean diet clean gut getting all your micronutrients your fat soluble vitamin d a d e and k optimizing your sleep reducing inflammatory molecules and foods and substances such as seed oils or pufas you'll find that all the bad oils right that i've talked about canola or corn oil safflower oil things like this you
got to watch for pufas polyunsaturate polyunsaturated fatty acids they're everywhere so they're hard to to lower but the biggest source of the seed oils right but any of the bad oils the trans fats try to limit uh the nuts and the seeds and things that have a lot of pufas in it um the anything with extra chemicals and additives et cetera same with iron a lot of people were iron overload there's iron added to our cereals there's iron fortified everything right a lot of people are getting way too much iron and that's causing inflammation and
then you get all minerals out of bounds a lot of people don't get enough magnesium and copper uh in selenium and they're too much iron and that gets out of bounds and i'll talk about this on a future video but when these are out of bounds that affects your mitochondria which can affect your energy production you're making not enough energy and too much exhaust the reactive oxygen species that's the opposite of what we want so you want more energy more efficient engines pumping out less exhaust and when this is out of balance that can affect
this uh recovery techniques of course are great again if we're always going balls to the wall workouts not sleeping stressing you're not recovering you're going to be you're going to be inflamed whether you're you don't even have to be fully over trained you can still have a subtle chronic low-grade inflammation and not quote-unquote be over-trained but you can be technically over-training it's it's a continuum right it's not just i feel great and i'm over training there's a continuum if you're starting getting flame getting sore not feeling it get a little talent down tired snippy moody
you're in flame and you need to back off and recover um so i can go into more detail on all these in the future but we've talked about the importance of sleep while the micronutrients keeping your gut clean with a low inflamed low lowering inflammatory foods that are bothering you getting a clean diet of course other inflammation reducing inflammation reducers obviously things like red light therapy sauna massage uh salt soaks epsom salt baths things of this nature typical things that we do for implant inflammation getting make sure you're getting plenty of polyphenols in your diet
uh to reduce that inflammation and of course there's a million supplements out there for inflammation right curcumin and uh some of the the micronutrients and herbs magnesium etc there's tons of these actually i'm not going to get into too much the third one of is hormones right everybody first is the one that people think of first is testosterone is actually not the most important thing it is important and i'm i'm not going to get too much today but one thing i want to talk about on this one is dht as i talked about my previous
series on dht so if you didn't watch that series check that out testosterone is converted dht by 5-alpha reductase dht is actually you know multiple times more potent than testosterone and a lot of the beneficial effects of testosterone from the anabolism the the sex drive the muscle building acceptor comes from the dht so you don't want to turn this off a lot of people are worried about dht you know i'm gonna lose my hair and i gotta lower your dht that's not good that's not what you want you want a good balance as with everything
you don't want too much but you want just enough you're not going to lose your hair with dht it's a more of a genetic component more than anything else so you don't want to take these five off reductase inhibitors the things that help you help with their finasteride and these things and soy and genastein and some of these other herbs and mushrooms and certain things that can block the 585 ar you don't want that you want that converting into dht so that's number one number two is optimizing your thyroid health which i've talked about before
again got health and inflammation lowering prolactin again we'll talk about that on a couple next video but biggest one here is boosting your dopamine you're gonna by doing that you're gonna lower prolactin reducing serotonin is gonna help with that too again improving your gut health um things of novelty uh avoiding the inflammatory substances again i'll talk about that some more and then of course reducing your fat especially the visceral fat reducing weight losing weight by proper diet exercise and hormone optimization is going to help with dhd and testosterone and of course strength training is going
to be massively important for dht especially explosive lifts high power hypertrophy style lifting as well as gonna be helpful for androgen production especially dht supplements of course things like creatine and boron getting coffee zinc all your fat soluble vitamins is going to be very important for dht production as well so that's one that sometimes gets forgotten as well i'm gonna do several more in the next video so hope you enjoyed this uh like this post tag and let me know what else you want to hear about comment in this in the comment section below find
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