testosterone is still one of the most controversial topics you're either on team Natty for life or you've chosen the dark side but I think that's a real shortsighted way of looking at things because because testosterone in most men Peaks at the age of 19 and then shortly after your total testosterone drops by roughly 1.6% every year so really it's just a matter of time before it affects us all now whether or not you want to take more of a natural approach or get a doctor to prescribe your testosterone is really up to you so let's
dive into the science of test testosterone and break down one of the biggest flaws in what they consider a normal range the studies around these natural testosterone boosters and the one of these that might actually work and if you're going to take trt the most optimal way to do it I guarantee you're not doing it like this it's important we start out this video by making sure you have a basic understanding of the hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis it all starts with the hypothalamus this little bastard monitors the hormones in the body via the bloodstream for
example say you're a 30-year-old man living in your mom basement your hypothalamus if it's working correctly should sense your hormones are low and then secrete GnRH that hormone is then what stimulates the pituitary gland to release LH and FSH the lutenizing and follicule stimulating hormones eventually make their way to the testes via the bloodstream and bind to leig cells I'm sure at some point in your life you've seen this exact hormone Cascade more than likely your doctor had it up in his office just to flex on you what you should immediately notice is that cholesterol
is the precursor to all steroid hormones it's the building blocks to your house the clay to your sculpture it's it's the pubes to your charizarding the LC cells are what gather up the cholesterol and use it to synthesize testosterone again this is all happening with specialized cells that are inside your balls that entire process the hypothalmic pituitary gonadal axis can be affected by many things illness injury environmental changes that time you sat on your balls all could have a negative impact also you may have noticed that some of these intermediates look an awful lot like
the pro hormones that were out in the late '90s early 2000s and that's because they are for example synthetic andrin diione is bioavailable it's what Mark Maguire took and then hit 70 home runs the craziest part is this team came out and said that andrin Dion has shown no anabolic effects really it's a direct precursor to testosterone nobody gives a we all like home runs just don't lie to our face it's obvious the understanding of how to manipulate the steroid hormone Cascade spawned an entire Niche within the supplement industry if you went to high school
in the early 2000s either you or one of your friends became a complete Manchild after taking Super Draw which is just a methylated version of DHT methyl meaning that one of the carbons is bonded to three hydrogens in this case is actually the second and 17th position just makes it more effective harder to break down but also obviously more liver toxic and if you think that pro hormones sound like a crude way to increase your production then you have no idea about the disturbing history of Endocrinology time for a quick history lesson let's take a
trip down memory lane to the late 1800s in 1876 a man by the name of Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone 1879 Thomas Edison the light bulb and in France in 1889 the most Innovative of them all Charles Brown sord was jerking off dogs and guinea pigs scooping up their seen and injecting it into his arm come on Charles what are we doing that's not a joke he's the father of Endocrinology now we've come a long way since back when Charles was diddling dogs for their precious dong water but there still isn't real consensus between
authorities on what is a healthy or normal range which makes it incredibly hard to figure out if you're even a candidate for testosterone therapy in the first place depending on what Society your doctor uses as a guideline to help make recommendations will dictate what is a healthy range on the low end it's typically around the 300s but I've seen as low as 130 which at that point you've already jumped in front of a bus so you don't need testosterone and on the higher end it's usually in the 900s but I've seen it all the way
up to, 1500 and that only deals with total testosterone it completely disregards free testosterone which most doctors who actually work with patients will say is a better tool to diagnose and manage people with low testosterone it more represents what's actually available to all the experts say that total testosterone I hate to say it's irrelevant I just don't pay as much attention to it I pay attention to the free testosterone how much do you have available for use she's the one from ways well that monitors all my blood work prescribes my testosterone peptides Etc she's a
huge reason why I made so much progress over the past year and a half she also gave me a great way to explain testosterone therapy to people that have obvious signs of low tea but are still hesitant let's say at 20 years old you had a total testosterone around 1,200 and a healthy percentage of free testosterone 2% by the time you hit 30 you're still going to be in a healthy range probably somewhere around 850 but to you that will feel like death because you're optimal was 1,200 it's less about where you are and more
about symptom relief and where you feel your best and that's really my guide between the free testosterone the shbg and symptoms which reminds me there's a couple more things you need to understand testosterone itself is hydrophobic remember it synthesized from cholesterol so at its core it's a lipid so it has a hard time traveling through your blood which is mostly water so it attaches to carrier proteins like shbg sex hormone binding globulin or albumin which is a general carrier protein and a very small small percentage just says it and floats freely through your blood the
testosterone bound to sh BG is pretty much considered useless it has such a high Affinity towards testosterone that they're Scissor Sisters For Life the album and bonded testosterone is still considered bile available because it has less of an affinity and can disassociate in times of need but the Holy Grail is your free testosterone because it's an Unbound lipid itself it can pass through the lipid by layer of the cell membrane and attach to Androgen receptors whenever needed which is crazy to think that your body produces that much and has that many regulatory mechanisms in place
just to make sure you only end up with 1 to 3% of free testosterone the key takeaway is know the players if your blood work has your total testosterone alumen and sex hormone binding globulin you can use that to calculate your free testosterone which should be based upon all my research above 2% that calculation tells you that if your total testosterone is in range but your free testosterone is not then the shbg is to blame problem is shbg is largely genetic but they do prescribe things that you never thought they would like Deca because that's
one of the benefits if you're curious these are some of the common symptoms associated with low tea so if you're someone whose Total Tea falls into that lower end of the range or maybe your free testosterone is just a smaller percentage than it should be or just on symptoms alone you fall into the category of hypogonadism are there any good natural ways to boost your own testosterone don't get too excited because the title of this metaanalysis immediately shits in your Cal after going through the individual case studies there was one of these that showed significant
improvements Tong cat Ali also known as however the hell you say that there was definitely a few randomized control trials that increased total testosterone but knowing what you know now you should be asking the question what about free testosterone what about sex hormone binding globulin because that's what matters and at the end of the day even though these results are statistically significant an extra 50 to 75 even 100 nanograms per deciliter is not going to really move the needle not going to fix your broken dick it does make me wonder when they say they use
200 mg of Tong cat Ali how certain are they that it was actually 200 mg and that's why I bought this it's not ready and I have to take it to a lab near me this is an hlc it's what I'm going to use to test to see if companies are screwing us so if you happen to be a company that's nitrogen spiking your protein or underdosing all your supplements I will find you and I will kill you so I obviously put money on the fact that I think it happens more than anybody realizes so
if you're somebody that needs testosterone therapy then I think just getting testosterone prescribed is the best bet I'm not too proud to admit that when I was younger I had sleep apnea which tanked my testosterone broke my dick and ruined my life until I figured it out a CPAP and testosterone therapy saved me I would have been non-binary by now and this video is already insanely Den so I'll end it by saying that my trt dose instead of doing a weekly shot or multiple times a week I will take a micro dose and take it
subcutaneously daily whether you want to look at phaco Kinetics or the natural circadian rhythm of how testosterone is released in your body it's the closest thing to mimic that also if you didn't know there's a new 12we Full gym program inside the swole app get after it
