The #1 Missing Factor with Low Testosterone Is…

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you know I’ve done a lot of videos on testosterone and I’ve emphasized a lot of things that can lower your testosterone but in some recent research that I’ve been diving into sleep is a huge underemphasized factor in your testosterone levels I want to talk about that today now before I get into the subject of sleep I want to just touch on some of the other things that can dramatically lower your testosterone as well because you need to know all of them because what may affect one person may not affect everyone okay so the first thing you need to know is that as you age testosterone does go down however it’s not the major reason why someone has low testosterone so let’s first talk about obesity if you are overweight that can affect your testosterone why because your fat cells make this enzyme called aromatase and aromatase turns your testosterone into to estrogen so the more fat you have on your body the more estrogen you’re going to have and there’s this relationship between testosterone and estrogen in that when one goes up like estrogen the other one goes down all right so the more fat you have in your body the more estrogen you’re going to have now there’s a couple other things that will increase your estrogen too consuming a lot of soy products okay that’s one thing also Plastics I’ve done a video on this and an average person consumes about a credit card amount of plastic every single week that’s a lot of plastic to be put in our body so you know we get plastic from drinking out of plastic bottles uh cooking in plastic plastic is this all over the place and that can increase our estrogen as well now the other big killer of testosterone is having high insulin levels now you might think that you have to be a diabetic to have high insulin levels but that’s not true um you could be a pre-diabetic or you can have insulin resistance which I think the majority of the population has and that could be the reason why you have low testosterone because you have high levels of insulin see insulin is rarely tested normally they check blood sugars but they don’t look at insulin there’s a really good test to measure something called insulin resistance that’s called hir that’ll give you a lot of good information on whether you have insulin resistance and at the same time high insulin so high insulin low testosterone now that relates to the next thing I’m going to talk about which is your liver the liver makes something called shbg sex hormone binding globulin now that’s an interesting word that is a compound that binds to testosterone and prevents it from being a free testosterone that can go through the body so it’s something your body makes to buffer and hold testosterone in an inactive form in fact the great majority like 99% of your testosterone is locked up to this protein and other proteins so really you only have like 1% of all your testosterone in a free state that’s available for you to use 99% of it is in a bound or locked up state so the more that you have of this binding protein the less testosterone you’re going to have and so if there’s any problem with the liver as in a fatty liver or it’s inflamed or it’s toxic it can affect this part of this puzzle now the next thing I want to talk about is your adrenals okay the more adrenal stress you have the more cortisol you have the less testosterone you’re going to have because stress or cortisol inhibits testosterone and as you age your adrenals kind of go downhill where you don’t produce enough of the raw material to make these adrenal hormones because testosterone is also one of the hormones that your adrenals make and one of the precursor hormones that help you make testosterone is called DHEA so if you’re deficient in that that raw material that could be one reason why you don’t have enough testosterone and this probably mainly relates to the aging process so that is just one little side note something maybe you could take as a supplement if you’ve tried all these other factors and it’s still not working and this can relate to both men and women if women take too much of it they can get too much testosterone if they take just a small amount of it they can increase the um estrogen and progesterone so I just wanted to make that side note the other um raw material that is needed to make testosterone is cholesterol so if you’re on a lowfat diet or you are on statin drugs that could be the reason that your testosterone is low another fact is iron if you have a condition where you have too much iron in the body that can negatively affect your testosterone how do you know if you have too much iron well you can get a blood test um also if you consume red meat and feel worse or you take an iron supplement and you feel worse that could be another clue the other factor in testosterone is something called hypogonadism where the testicles are atrophying or shrinking okay and one of the causes for that is aging another cause for that is a zinc deficiency out of all the nutrients for testosterone uh zinc is probably the most important one and so you’d want to start eating foods high in zinc and that would be shellfish like oysters or even take a zinc supplement and if you wanted a good zinc supplement in a blend of trace minerals I put that link down below all right another Factor testosterone is alcohol the more alcohol you have the more estrogen you’re going to have the less testosterone you’re going to have especially when you drink beer but all alcohol will create this effect all right now the topic of sleep sleep is vitally vitally important in fact um the research that I’m I went through which I’m going to put the link down below uh demonstrates that the less sleep that you have the less testosterone you’re going to have because the way that your body controls and manages testosterone are through circadian waves and this means there’s a crossover between your sleep especially the REM sleep okay that’s the second half of sleep and the generation of testosterone in fact you generate more testosterone the more REM sleep you have so if you’re only getting five hours of sleep or less or even six hours or less uh that could be big reason why your testosterone is low so all the supplements all the zinc all the things that you do including testosterone replacement are for nothing if your sleep isn’t good so your testosterone correlates with your sleep um in one study it shows that if you can get eight hours or more you’re going to have very good testosterone levels also a lack of sleep increases cortisol okay okay that’s a stress hormone cortisol directly will decrease testosterone and cortisol also increases insulin which will lower testosterone so a lack of sleep or a crappy sleep can just destroy testosterone from so many different angles so here’s what I recommend you do number one to help your sleep more exercise or better yet physical work it can also directly stimulate testosterone and improve your sleep at the same time and exercise improves insulin resistance and exercise can help make you thinner less fat in your body and exercise can help improve your liver all right number two get off the carbs carbs increase the insulin carbs put you in a sympathetic dominant mode okay which can decrease testosterone because testosterone Works in a parasympathetic mode that doesn’t work that well when you’re under stress and so a low carb diet will help pull you out of this sympathetic dominance mode as well as handle the insulin part of this puzzle and also a low carb diet will greatly improve your liver and help uh liver function and decrease the fat on your liver as well number three improve your sleep with improving the gut microbiome I recently did a video on drinking kefir um before bed or at the last meal of the day okay a really good kefir gives you good strains of both friendly bacteria and friendly