Age Proof
Age Proof: Unlock the Real Fountain of Youth
What if the secret to staying young isn’t a myth, but just hidden in plain sight?
Age Proof is where real science meets real-life results.
Each episode brings you inside conversations with doctors, biohackers, and longevity experts who are redefining what it means to grow older. Together, we unpack breakthrough treatments, debunk outdated health myths, and explore everything from anti-aging supplements to the newest regenerative therapies.
No trends, no shortcuts, just practical, science-backed tools to help you feel better, move better, and stay sharp as you age.
This is Age Proof, where growing older comes with smarter choices and stronger health.
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FEELING OFF? IT MIGHT BE YOUR HORMONES!
Got a feeling you’re not operating at 100%, even though you’re doing all the “right” things? You’re not alone, and the real issue might be your hormones.
In this episode, we dig into how hormones quietly control your energy, mood, sleep, and sex drive and how even small imbalances can leave you feeling off without knowing why. Most people chalk it up to stress or aging, but there’s more going on under the surface.
We break down the signs to watch for (like brain fog, poor sleep, and low libido) and share practical tips to get things back on track—like why lifting weights beats cardio, how meal timing affects your sleep, and what your resting heart rate can reveal about your hormone health.
We also clear up the hype around hormone therapy and when it might actually make sense.
If you’re ready to feel sharper, stronger, and more like yourself again, this episode is packed with the tools to help you get there.
okay, so what are we talking about today?
Speaker 1:Hormones.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 4:Ruz.
Speaker 1:Hormones Ruz. What happened to you today? You did not look good.
Speaker 2:I was fine. I felt like I got out of a workout because I took a new supplement. Well, part of it's new to me. So from Level Up the company Level Up I order a bunch of their supplements. They have a bunch of oral peptides that you can take and great mixtures of different things, whether it's GI repair, neuro repair. So I took this one. It was tesafenicin. Luckily I was like all right, although the tesafenicin seems like a lower dose. Maybe the other stuff in there are going to crush me. What is tesafenicin?
Speaker 5:seems like a lower dose, maybe the other stuff in there are going to crush me. What is testofenicin?
Speaker 2:So testofenicin is like triple serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine reuptake inhibitor, so it was originally formed.
Speaker 5:So it's kind of like an agonist for all three of those.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it was originally formed as a dementia drug, but they found out that it was like people were losing weight, so they had to stop the study. So then it got put on the back burner because they weren't going to use it for dementia. Those patients forgot how much weight they lost so the gym rats used it for for weight loss. So um an experiment in the world I know give me more dude
Speaker 2:with a lot of this with a lot of this stuff. That's, that's the way it comes out. It's the underground gym people just trying it out and it actually works.
Speaker 5:So yeah, it's like let's lower your blood pressures. Doc, I gotta tell you my blood pressure is perfectly under control, but I've had a hard-on for like four months. It's, it's true yeah it's like they find a commercial sale for a form of medication and they just push it.
Speaker 2:So testofenicine, serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine reuptake Inhibitor, so it just increases those levels and you just think differently about food. You don't eat as much.
Speaker 5:It curbs your appetite you don't eat as much, it curbs your appetite. Those are huge like neuroreceptors or receptors in your mind for for the way you like not just act, but like respond to things so so you're.
Speaker 2:It's good medication to lose weight, but it also keeps you happy, so you're pretty happy in the morning, so that, mixed with oxytocin, I think like like you could have a fun day every day.
Speaker 5:Do you think it's a mixture of all three things, because a lot of people are on serotonin reuptake inhibitors like Cymbalta?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:But they're still technically depressed. But it's kind of masking some of the symptoms.
Speaker 2:I wonder what would happen if I took it with methylene blue, because with methylene blue it also increases your serotonin levels too, so you're probably going to get a higher push.
Speaker 1:So yeah, yeah, and the I mean dopamines, obviously.
Speaker 5:So what happened in clinic today so it wasn't in clinic, it was in surgery um so the testofenicine is a pretty low dose.
Speaker 2:I've taken like probably 10 times the dosage amount, so I was like all right. The other stuff I don't really know too much which one of them's l-biba, it's l-b-a-i-b-a, it's like l oh, like, oh.
Speaker 5:Is that the alibaba stock?
Speaker 2:no, it's alibaba stock ticker it's like l-beta amino isobutyric acid, and then the other thing I remember the last time I heard about that, yeah the other things that gbb. Gbb is just a bioavailable form of carnitine that you can take so yeah, for muscle, which is good for carnitine which carnitine is good for muscle building. Um, but is carnitine huh?
Speaker 5:what is carcinogen acid?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, yeah so so the lobiba which um kind of induces like brown adipose. Fat build up and it's build up or breakdown build up because you break down the white adipose tissue.
Speaker 5:More hate sound dumb, brown or yellow. It's brown or yellow, fat right yeah, brown is when you're young.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's baby fat. Yeah, that's like that gives you energy and muscle. Yeah, so you're able to build up brown like baby fat, yeah, and so what it does is it's actually something that your body releases. When you work out After a tough workout, it's what your body releases. So, like you know, you do your HIIT workouts and whatever, so you're releasing all this. So this is that. I don't know what they call it.
Speaker 5:Alibaba stock yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, yeah, so, it's almost like an exercise in a pill. So luckily, I was like all right, let me just take one instead of two.
Speaker 5:And I probably won't take. You should have some refrain yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know like and I don't know if the caffeine in addition to this like kind of got me, it probably didn't help yeah.
Speaker 4:But, how did you feel?
Speaker 2:So I was sweating bullets. I never like my hat never like gets wet and like it was like frigging, like all wet. My scrubs were like drenched in sweat and like like all wet my my scrubs were like drenched in sweat and like I was like like in heat and then like I walked outside and I felt like super cold.
Speaker 1:So yeah, and and like even I have a mask on and like my like a one-day flu, it's just like yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, and he had a cough in there and the staff was like sitting there, they're like, they're like, hey, it's you.
Speaker 2:I felt great. I felt great. It was just like happening Because, like your body going through all, that crap is like oh my God, what's happening?
Speaker 5:I don't feel normal.
Speaker 2:No, I was on point because it also, like you know, if you're fasting and stuff, it increases like your free fatty acids that help your brain function better, like when you're in ketosis. It also kicks that up. So it's just overall function. You're like super functioning.
Speaker 5:So were you in ketosis?
Speaker 2:I was already in ketosis because I hadn't eaten from the night before I. I drink my cup of coffee I usually drink my coffee two or three hours after um I wake up, because I want my like cortisol release and hormone releases to be normal and because if you take that caffeine like right away, as soon as you wake up, that shuts down your system. So what I do is I just span that out.
Speaker 2:So, my body just produces its own caffeine, and most of the caffeine I drink it's more. I think it's for taste. Now I don't even feel like it's for.
Speaker 5:You build a tolerance. It's not like you even get any type of feeling off of it. Yeah, I still chug sugar-free energy drinks like an idiot, but I'm like, yeah, yeah, but it I don't I use it to more socialize, like if I have clinic I'll drink a cup of coffee.
Speaker 2:So like, um one thing, I'm more productive in clinic and like I just pay attention, attention, much more to the patients and everything.
Speaker 1:I need it, but it's probably because of my anticholinergics that I'm on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which you got to stop, what a statement the way you said.
Speaker 5:It too, I need it, but it's because of all the anticholinergics, the drugs.
Speaker 2:What was I saying.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 5:That's screwing up your hormones. So there you go. That's screwing up a lot of things. Shrinking your balls, dude. Gotta do something about that it was hilarious.
Speaker 1:He had like the sniffles and a cough.
Speaker 2:He had to go to the bathroom well, I didn't really have a cough, I accidentally like did something happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was just so all the staff's like oh yeah, he's got one of those allergies and he's sick and he's in the OR.
Speaker 2:You don't really want to know what.
Speaker 5:And he comes back 30 minutes later. He just busts in through the wall like the cooler there he's like let's finish this case.
Speaker 2:No, you really don't want to know what I did, Because it makes your whole system go fast, and I went and took a shit.
Speaker 5:He also thought, like all of our patients with, like the GLP drugs we titrate up and this guy just decides to go high dose right away. Is that what you did? But the thing is. I was the guinea pig.
Speaker 2:I originally took it myself, before any patient, oh, of course. So I knew all the side effects and how to deal with it.
Speaker 1:That is true. To fix it, he went high dose.
Speaker 5:The first day he was like like ah, screw this, like titration. He like walked to the or is like I'm feeling kind of sick. Well, I finished the case. I finished the case, oh no before you finished the case, you were like I'm feeling kind of sick well, you're about to back and he goes and like just yaks his brains out and comes back and does the case just fine. He's like, yeah, I wasn't feeling too good.
Speaker 2:Dude, I was done, you were putting dressings on.
Speaker 1:He crushed it. You had to put dressings on. Yeah, bruce, was you had to put dressings on. Yeah, bruce was I mean he cruised through the surgery. Yeah, he looked great, I know.
Speaker 5:Oh, this case, I'm overdid the GLPs on his first day.
Speaker 2:But even with the GLPs I finished my side of the breast reduction.
Speaker 5:Oh you were perfectly fine for the surgical side, but it was just funny being like okay, never seen ruse like that before.
Speaker 2:Well, the best was like Pam had me do a bunch of stuff at home and like I bent over in front of the garage and started puking.
Speaker 1:Like I just didn't feel good.
Speaker 2:After it was that same night, the GLP night.
Speaker 5:Yes, glp night.
Speaker 2:I was like did I GLP night? And like I like just bent over and I was like I'm not sure I gotta. I was like all right, and I thought I was food. It was food poisoning because I had like a tuna fish sandwich that day yourself. Yeah, I know exactly, but I thought it was like the I was. I thought it was the tuna fish sandwich, but not for long. I it was hospital, it was hospital lounge tuna fish sandwich.
Speaker 5:Yeah you know what now?
Speaker 2:that you say that that's a questionable been the glp at all because I have gotten food poisoning from like ranch dressing or anything like that hospital food yeah yeah, so yeah, it was up in the air. But like how sick I was. I was like this is not the tuna fish sandwich and my mom's like what's wrong?
Speaker 1:I'm like oh, it's a tuna fish sandwich, it came easy easy, but I knew what it was, yeah, and then mom comes to me and she's like is he okay? Is he okay?
Speaker 2:that's why I lost 10 pounds within the first week of being on GLP. It was like on super. It's like shit. I'm going to lose a lot of weight this way.
Speaker 1:Okay, guys. I'll be down under 100 pounds in a couple months, since I have no clue. What's the deal with hormones? What a horrible segue. That was terrible. Any lures Do you? What a horrible segue. Yeah, that was that was horrible.
Speaker 5:Do you want another? Take on that yeah, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1:No, what's something people always blame on hormones?
Speaker 2:but what matters? What hormones you're talking?
Speaker 5:about. What are hormones? Let's start at the very basic. What are hormones? Hormones main messenger system of your body. It connects your brain with your gut, with your kidneys, any organ you have Like that's your messenger system. Think of it as the postal service, where it's like your brain muscle, cardiac muscle, bones, compared to thyroid, telling you where your metabolism lies.
Speaker 2:It kind of controls how your body runs right, or, for Rodbeth's sake, estrogen that created his female reproductive parts yeah, yeah, exactly so, as we age, the hormones go down, um, and one of the things is it doesn't go down in everyone but, uh, and some people don't live the best lives and their hormones don't go down, but not just necessarily go down, but the balance is different.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so you might create some hormones at an increased level. Yeah, in comparison to other hormones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and some of the ways you notice that you know your hormones are out of balance, or you know you have poor sleep, you're irritable, you can't think straight or focus. Um, you have trouble sleeping. Uh, it's all sorts of huge.
Speaker 5:Yes some sometimes like like people drink to get some sleep and stuff and they don't realize like you need to get like like over an hour hour 15 minutes of deep sleep to get sufficient growth hormone release. You're getting 30 minutes to 45 minutes like each night and that the drinking suppresses that deep sleep even more yeah, and also eating you.
Speaker 2:You want to like be like you. You want to have your last meal like four or five hours before hitting the sack, because that gives enough time for you to like release your hormones and be in a rested state. You don't want that food in your gut and the really it'll delay the release of growth hormone or decrease the release of your hormones is that the main hormones that are like yeah, no? It's just your system's response.
Speaker 5:So a lot of a big misunderstanding for a lot of people is that growth hormone is just like a release mechanism and they don't realize there's like a negative feedback loop for almost every hormone.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:So your body's way to make sure you're not overproducing or overdoing something with a certain hormone is a negative feedback. That's why you don't want to go crazy gym style testosterone injections. Your body's going to have a negative feedback loop and it's going to shut that off. So you're technically, chemically, like castrating yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you'll notice decreased testicular size with being on a high dose.
Speaker 5:Yeah, but if you're at the high range and normal, that's your ideal like place to be, yeah, or the benefits without the side effects? Yeah, right, and it's not. It's not just testosterone, it's, it's, yeah, most most hormones in your body you want to be cortisol, insulin.
Speaker 2:You want to be balanced. Thyroid hormone, estrogen, testosterone, progesterone you want to be balanced and not, you know, too high, too low.
Speaker 5:Uh, you want to be balanced and not too high, too low you want to be balanced and optimized.
Speaker 2:And balanced and optimized or normal levels doesn't mean by going to Sonora Quest and it tells you you have normal lab levels, you got to look at what's optimal levels for when you were in your 20s or 30s, at your optimal level, rather than looking at numbers. You know, and a lot of hormone replacement places are usually treating you with symptom based rather than looking at your numbers. You know your, your lab numbers are going to give you a starting point. Yeah, but you want to use that to titrate the patients up to a level that they feel at their best or optimized and then keep them at that level and you just use their symptoms from then on. The lab values are just a starting point but then it gives you some guidance.
Speaker 1:What symptoms are you looking for?
Speaker 2:so, just like I said, poor sleep, brain fog feeling tired, despite getting sleep um it sounds like me depressed hair loss, hair growth, weight gain
Speaker 5:dude's talking about my estrogen decreased libido.
Speaker 2:If you're not horny, you're not healthy. So it's.
Speaker 5:That's a quick and easy way. Yeah, like to think of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you're not horny, you're not healthy. Yeah, it's true. It's true, you need a decent amount of testosterone and, uh, most people are like the.
Speaker 5:I don't even know the units they measure it, but normal testosterone is 150 to 1200 or 1150.
Speaker 2:Well, I think it's 250 or 350 and it depends on labs.
Speaker 5:Yeah, it's why, like for somebody over 30 to be over 500 is probably not realistic.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:You know so.
Speaker 2:And some people go by free testosterone and not total testosterone. What you're saying is total testosterone.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about, is it?
Speaker 1:the digestive hormones that play more of a role in the sleep. Part of it.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, okay, no, you still growth hormone and and even your testosterone pro progesterone Growth hormone seems to be huge.
Speaker 5:With growth hormone you can second this. But like growth hormone drops off as you age and drops off hardcore. It's really correlative with like expected life expectancy Okay, in secondary data, like not life expectancy Okay In secondary data, like not directly. Maybe I haven't looked that up.
Speaker 2:Well, you can't take. The thing is, you don't want to take too much growth hormone.
Speaker 5:No, or growth hormone itself.
Speaker 2:It matters if you want to build a forehead like Barry Bonds you take all taking growth hormone or like growth hormone, releasing peptides or keeping your growth hormone levels appropriate. Which is you measure like IGF levels. If they're appropriate, you know you could do healthy aging. But if you have elevated levels of growth hormone for extended periods of time, that's going to decrease your life expectancy and that's been shown in multiple studies.
Speaker 5:So you don't want to like, just yeah, you want things to grow appropriately. You don't want them because your body's in a balance. So you can optimize that balance or you can overdo it one way or another, like when you were taking growth hormone right and you were getting symptoms of neuropathy yeah, right, which our last youtube we talked about this.
Speaker 2:Like people like, oh, you don't get carpal tunnel. I'm like, yeah, you do um like taking. I've taken pure growth hormone like pharmaceutical grade. I've taken stuff from China he's taking stuff for horses.
Speaker 1:Why do you get carpal tunnel? Everything grows and you get edema. You get peripheral edema everywhere so.
Speaker 2:I got carpal tunnel. I got trigger fingers from it.
Speaker 5:Cervical spine issues, so I got carpal tunnel.
Speaker 2:I got trigger fingers from it. Cervical spine issues. Well, I think the cervical spine issues and stuff was poor posture, sedentary lifestyle and overweight.
Speaker 5:I think that was more of an issue. But yeah, it's like you have these small canals and everything's growing, so it's not going to be as efficient in movement.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got hip pain like breast pain.
Speaker 5:So, like this is a great segue into the next thing is like we were talking about those negative feedback loops.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Where? If you take growth hormone, yeah, it triggers your body's negative feedback loop because it doesn't see the growth hormone releasing peptide to the growth hormone to the end receptors. It just sees like a huge amount of growth hormone. So your negative feedback loop tells your body to stop creating anything and everything down path to creating more growth hormone. So you're getting less growth hormone releasing peptide yeah right and less endogenous or fancy word for what your body makes that as growth hormone and, and that's why you want to cycle it, you want that is cycling.
Speaker 5:You do the you do five days on, two days off and before we even get into that, yeah is like it's also why it's preferential to take a releasing peptide rather than the growth hormone itself uh, not necessarily.
Speaker 2:It matters what you want to do, what you're looking for. You know some people growth hormone works perfect for like building muscles. Uh, I, I think it's more effective than the growth hormone releasing peptides. Um, and I've used igf, which is what growth hormone actually releases, and with igf you like straight up see, like right away you get cut up and like build muscle and it's great, but you're not supposed to be on it long term.
Speaker 2:I, I do it for like I do it for 20, 30 days and come off and I'll usually days on off, or do you spend more time I? Usually spend a lot of time off. I'll do it like once. What do you think like if?
Speaker 5:someone's trying to get like maximum effect of this. Like, let's say, if you're going out trying to hit 71 home runs yeah, but doing an illegal manner what would your cycle look like?
Speaker 2:um, I don't, I don't know you could do every day on, but I'd probably do like five days or six days on and one to two days off and just have the washout cycle and then be off of it, for they say six, six weeks, and then back on it for six weeks. Six weeks on six weeks for me. I do it like twice a year for like 20 days. I don't like um, and I do it like if I got a big trip planned.
Speaker 3:I try to get you know, especially a beach trip, not going skiing or something still showing off at the beach most people, especially young people, probably don't realize that they're walking around right now, at about 55, maybe 60 of their true state of normal. There is a nutrient, an amino acid, a substrate, a compound, an element missing from their body that, if they knew what it was, would make the difference between them being an average person and being a superhuman. They have accepted something as either a consequence of aging or a consequence of stress, or a consequence of their environment, something like brain fog or repeated poor sleep, or weight gain or water retention or not the healthiest response to exercise, or brain fog or poor short-term recall, or any number of things that they've accepted as consequence of life, of aging, of stress or what have you. That's not a consequence of any of those things. It's a consequence of missing raw material.
Speaker 5:What do you think? That think, that's your boy.
Speaker 2:No, he's right because, like all that stuff you know could be attributed to hormone imbalances, like he said, like, and some of that stuff leads to, you know, hormone imbalances it is hard to understand because he's saying like oh, maybe like one to two things that you could like.
Speaker 5:I took it as like one to two things like you can ingest will make up for all these things, where I think it's like a bigger picture thing well, you know, for some people it may just be the one or two things.
Speaker 2:I I think overall you got to fix everything else and then you go to the hormones. You know, you got to fix the sleep, you got to fix the lifestyle with exercise and being active, and then you got to fix the nutrition. You can't just like eat like crap and expect the other two to make up for it take 12 vitamin b12 tablets a day.
Speaker 5:That's what I was in. No, that's what I took it as I was just like okay, you can't just do one.
Speaker 2:Almost everybody is like yeah all those are going to elevate and like eating whole foods and all those are going to elevate your hormones and get them more in balance. But you know, if you're chronically like doing the wrong things, then it's going to be tough even fixing those. But, like, sometimes it's going to be a mixture, right, you're going to fix, you're going to have to fix the mixture right.
Speaker 5:It's lifestyle.
Speaker 2:And, like some people, can get away with just fixing their lifestyle, the way they eat, the way they sleep, the decrease in stress levels, and they don't need the hormone treatment. But some people, even with that, they can't get their hormones right where you know they need that boost to be able to, like, live stress-free, be more focused or on be able to build more muscle, just trying to do the hormone replacement to make up for all these stressors and everything that's compounding in their life.
Speaker 5:Where, like you, got to take like a holistic approach to address every issue, yeah, where like those can, it might take care of some of the symptoms. But it's not going to be like this, is it? This is your magic pill where, like, you get this hormone straight, yeah, your mind's going to be set. It's going to take care of your marital problems. You're going to become a better dad, like that that's what I'm saying like there's probably some adjustment overall yeah rather than just blaming one thing for everything that might not be optimized, but a lot of the things.
Speaker 2:Although I'm the, you know I use stuff and like I think it's let to me being better in other ways. But, um, but like exercise is huge, because that exercise two things it gets your stress out, gets your meditation, there you get better sleep, you build muscle which helps you get better sleep. It you build muscle which helps you get better sleep increases your testosterone.
Speaker 5:Yeah, like so five times a week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and resistance training, you got to do resistance training. You got to build that muscle to increase one to two hours a week, yeah, and the other thing is, if you, if you have a lot of fat, you're going to have increased estrogen levels, which is going to be it's going to make it tougher to lose the fat and you're going to be more irritable, and you know.
Speaker 5:Not just that, increased fat and, secondarily, estrogen levels probably lead to more cause of cancer and increased incidence of cancer, depression, anxiety, yeah, so there's some root causes that you can really take care.
Speaker 2:So I was actually I. I always get stuff every day from like metscape and stuff. There are two interesting studies. One was, um, they studied with genetic or um, what is it biological aging with multivitamins. I was trying to research and see what multivitamin these people were taking, that they were studying them and they did five biological, different biological markers. One was the first generation, one was the second generation and then they had this third one. I think it's built by themselves and it showed flintstone people yeah, people. It was a two-year, two-year study. People that took the multivitamins had a 20 percent decreased mortality rate and or decreased biological age than the placebo how they measure biological age I.
Speaker 2:I was trying to find the paper that they were coming out with I. I think this is a prelim like statement before the paper officially comes out. So I was trying to.
Speaker 5:I'm a little skeptical with that.
Speaker 2:All that matters on how they were studying it on patients that were 70 plus.
Speaker 5:So that's still good, yeah yeah, so but that population is also more likely to be deficient on a lot of vitamins well, nowadays, nowadays, everyone's deficient in something. Because of no, that is true, but like the older you get like. If you're over 70 years old, you just rely on like like we. We learned in med school yeah, like tea crackers, like you're just like wait what? You guys just feed this to people for like months on end, like they're more prone to be deficient in all these.
Speaker 2:Yeah, uh, smaller, moni smaller molecule but that that's crazy, with just a multivitamin to decrease biological aging by more than 20? So yeah.
Speaker 5:So if you have some, if you have a relative over 70, you clearly got to make sure they take their vitamins, take their protein shakes, and that in itself will add years to their lives. Might not have like scientific, like hard proof, but yeah, I'd like if there's something little you can do to add two to five years life expectancy to somebody you love, like why wouldn't you do that? Yeah, and it's not. You don't have to go fancy or anything like just make sure they have their protein intake.
Speaker 5:Eat your chicken. If they need supplements with shakes, get your multivitamin, and and there you go.
Speaker 2:It's a good starting point and then you can build on that yeah, and they just got to be active and have people that support them around them. That's like the Blue Zone stuff we always talk about. It's like when they feel like there's someone in their community and some people care about them, they're going to live longer, yeah.
Speaker 5:So stop by to deliver the multivitamins and just talk for a little bit. Hang out, go for a walk together.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:That means a whole lot Like whether it means anything to you or not. Like health, wise, longterm, like that that adds years, yeah To people's lives.
Speaker 2:How about taking care of grandkids? Do you think that adds years, or? It definitely does it definitely does I think there's research with, like people who own.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the research that people who own dogs live longer. Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure, and people that have kids at older age live longer too.
Speaker 2:Really, yeah, I think there's research out for that too it's also the will of shorter, though it's also the will to live. I think more people have the will to live, yeah yeah, it's will to live like I.
Speaker 5:I personally think I like the dog ones because, coming back to the hormones, it makes perfect sense well, you have to go take your dogs out for a walk. You have to go out and get some sunlight to begin the day. Maybe go out for a walk again another time during the day. So the companionship helps Also. Again, that sunlight that sets you off way better from like cortisol levels. Again, getting that sunlight within the first hour. Oxytocin exactly.
Speaker 2:Dogs have like eight to ten times the oxytocin of human beings.
Speaker 1:That's why they oh really won't leave you alone I did not know that.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's crazy, that's yeah, that's why they hump you every second.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah you could smack them, and they still love you, yeah.
Speaker 4:There is all the shit I got from sprouts today. As someone who suffers from anxiety and hormonal issues, you want to start your day off in the best mood ever. I promise you Moringa tea. Moringa has something in it called quercetin which influences your serotonin levels in the brain. It's going to increase serotonin and just make you feel really good and happy. Next I have Coco June organic cultured coconut yogurt. This is not only good for your hormone health because it's a source of healthy fat and it's a great source of probiotics, but it also is really great for your mental health because it contains medium chain triglycerides just basically brain fuel an absurd amount of chomps. This is just to hit my protein goal each day as a snack. Protein is very important for hormone synthesis. You literally need protein to make hormones. It also helps regulate your blood sugar levels so no spikes in blood sugar and it helps with estrogen balance.
Speaker 4:There is one tea I can tell women to take for hormone health. It is raspberry leaf tea. It supports the tone and strength of uterine muscles. This is very useful for people who experience menstrual cramps or anyone who is about to go through child labor. It helps with balancing out your hormones and it reduces heavy menstrual flow. It is the best tea you could possibly drink as a woman. I swear by it the best almond milk out there almond milk. Almonds contain vitamin E, and vitamin E reduces oxidative stress in the body. I also don't like to drink dairy milk often, every single day, just because it makes me bloated, personally. And almond milk this is the cleanest almond milk you will ever find in the grocery store, so this is why I like to buy this brand, in particular, cremini mushrooms. Cremini mushrooms are a great source of B vitamins, which will give you energy. They help convert your food into cellular energy Also are a great source of selenium, which is the happy mineral. This is also the same mineral found in brazilian nuts. Then I got micro broccoli. I just like the vibe of adding this in a bowl. I like the way it looks, but they are very nutrient dense. They're full of antioxidants which can benefit both your brain health and your hormone health.
Speaker 4:Sweet potatoes are insane. People don't realize this, but sweet potatoes are adaptogens. They contain compounds called anthocyanins which help your body respond to stress better. It's particularly useful for women who are struggling with their cycle because of stress-related issues. They also contain phytoestrogens, which have a mild estrogen effect. This is also really great for anyone who just recently got off the pill and they contain vitamin B6, which is a precursor to make serotonin. They get senna tea. Um, senna is a natural herb that helps with constipation, but this is not going to benefit your hormone health or your mental health. Well, it might. If you're constipated, do take it, because I take iron supplements and sometimes I just need some extra assistance. And then, to get some greens in, I like to get the pre-made salads from Taylor Farms. I got the dill pickle and the sunflower crunch chopped salad kit. Lastly, to reduce inflammation in the body, purple sweet potato. This is a very strong anti-inflammatory agent. It also is rich in fiber and it helps regulate your blood sugar levels, so you won't have any sudden deep cravings throughout the day.
Speaker 5:Okay, so most of the stuff she said I agree with.
Speaker 1:The chomps.
Speaker 5:They can't be good they're, they're, yeah, they're really good, because of high protein levels yeah, but they have a crap ton of sodium, like each one of the chomps. I had a couple today, but each one has like over 30 percent of your sodium uh daily value of sodium. So you, you have two of those sticks. That's not going to fill you up for 60 of your day, but you consumed 60 of your sodium into like beef sticks or whatever you call it that was.
Speaker 2:That was an easy 200 shopping list. That was dude. But you go to sprouts.
Speaker 5:If you go to sprouts, you, you got $200 shopping list. That was dude, but you go to sprouts. If you go to sprouts, you, you got a $200 shopping list either way.
Speaker 2:Um the it's just the broccoli, it's like seven bucks and it might be two servings in there.
Speaker 5:It's expensive, the broccoli sprouts and stuff it's I. I personally like it a lot Very nutritious, like broccoli sprouts. It's good too. Yeah, they actually have servings of broccoli sprouts that aren't quite what she showed, but something different that's cheaper, that's more nutrient dense than the more grown sprouts that she showed. Those are really good, especially if you want to make like a greens mix or a green juice. I, kind of like a maniac, eat it right out of a container. What else did you? The one thing is almond milk.
Speaker 2:Why wouldn't you just take a supplement?
Speaker 5:Almond milk. I am not sold on almond milk. What?
Speaker 2:do you?
Speaker 5:mean I don't know there's something environmentally and holistically against almond milk.
Speaker 2:Do you like cashew milk? No.
Speaker 5:So any of the nut milks, because a lot of those farms that grow those nuts are like depriving depriving like the Colorado river from draining down. I guess it's because we're in Arizona, but like it's leading to a lot of droughts even in like Southern California, because of how much waters like siphoned off or specifically like almond farms. All right, interesting.
Speaker 2:So you get oat milk, which is not good Oat milk fucking sucks. Yeah.
Speaker 5:It's not good for your sugar. I don't like alternative milks. I don't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've just started to go back to just doing whole milk, but I don't drink much milk anyway.
Speaker 5:I can't. I still do it. Yeah, and I love whole milk, but my skin flares up when I drink whole dairy.
Speaker 2:Well, that's where you've got to get the lorazetide GI repair.
Speaker 5:I did lorazetide.
Speaker 2:You've got to do the GI repair from Level Up, Level Up. They got BPC, lorazetide and KPV together.
Speaker 5:But most of that I agree with. There's no reason not to do it but you can take a supplement like rather than doing that that is true, but there I do believe that some things you absorb better with natural foods than a supplement with a food yeah, you got to take a shit ton of it where you get it.
Speaker 2:Get it in a tiny pill.
Speaker 5:But you can't just eat pills, but you but you gotta also.
Speaker 2:You know like you gotta get it from like a well-sourced place, that you know like we use thorn, you know what's in there and you're getting the appropriate balance of um he did mention thorn, so, thorn, if you're looking to for paid advertisement, we got your back don't be cheap.
Speaker 2:So I was saying the other article that I looked at was, you know they were talking about glp-1s and the weight loss from being on GLP-1s and diabetics that is correlated with decreased cancer risk, which you know. Even metformin, because I think how it moderates your sugars and you're not spiking and being all over the place. You're not in that inflammatory state of creating cancer, so you're going to have much decreased cancer risk.
Speaker 5:It kind of puts you in extremes. Right, if you're a diabetic, your blood sugar goes extremely high and extremely low, yeah. Or compared to somebody that stays in a tight range.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Same thing with your heart rate right.
Speaker 5:Yeah, like that's like my key right now in like working out and getting motivated to work out is I'm like, just looking at my resting heart rate, I'm like I got to get that under 70 right now and I have to.
Speaker 5:Just looking at my resting heart rate, I'm like I got to get that under 70 right now and I have I want to get it under 60 within a month or two. Not just that, it's like looking at that heart rate compared to walking heart rate, my walking heart rate's like 100, 105, 110. And I want to get that under 100. And it's just like if you're resting heart rate, that's a good number to go by, because if that's not under control, your heart can go out of whack. When you go on like do a little bit of activity, uh like because if you're resting heart rates 80, you take like a swift walk or like just chase a ball down with like your kid or something, your heart rate might shoot up to like 120 140. And you gotta like consider your lifespan, not in years but in how many times your heart beats. And if you consider that, you're like, okay, I want to get my walking heart rate down, my resting heart rate down. Like.
Speaker 2:This is all connected like, and, and make but if you count it that way, then if you count, if you just rest all the time you're, you have no cause.
Speaker 5:Then cause, then your resting heart rate won't decrease, right Cause you're resting, your heart needs to be conditioned to beat at a lower pace.
Speaker 5:So if you're going to be lying around, your resting heart rate's going to gradual, like, let's say, I was like, uh, like just a glob of mush lying around. My resting heart rate's going to gradually, like, let's say, I was like, uh, like just a glob of mush lying around. My resting heart rate as I get older, is just going to keep going up, up, up where, like if you're working out, it makes it more efficient, it's pumping the right amount of blood out yeah, since I got the eight sleep I don't know if it's the eight sleep or it's I've also, like, started to use my tonal more um yeah, my resting heart rate's gone to 60 to 65, where it used to be above 70 all the time no, that's definitely working and also like when you don't, when you eat late at night, your heart rate remains high until like end of the, you know, almost early morning um, and doesn't really drop, which, like you know, keep.
Speaker 2:You know fasting at the end of the night and also the eight sleep and getting good deep sleep. You know my hrv's gone up because I could never get it above 20 until I got the eight sleep. I like me. Hrv's gone up and I've been working out too, so I'm like which one is it? Is it the?
Speaker 5:eight sleeper? Yeah, it's, it's all of it combined. Yeah, it's decreasing stress. Yeah, eating healthy, having a good routine like if you don't have a good routine, like it's hard for your body to calm down when it needs to Exercise is really important. Like people are like, oh, I got to work out to keep my weight low, it's like no, but it's way more important to keep your heart healthy. And I forgot the last one. What was I thinking? Sex? No, sex is activity and proper hormone release.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and yeah, like, just keeping that down, stay away from cigarettes, oh cigarettes and alcohol hydration yeah, because if you're not properly hydrated, you don't have the amount of blood volume in your system, so your heart's going to work a little extra hard to get that smaller amount of volume throughout your body for that amount of time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I saw like a real this weekend. This guy's like making fun of people showing their morning routines and he's like I get up, I start doing work. I'm like all right.
Speaker 1:I get up do three lines of coke. Yeah Boom, and I'm making my phone calls.
Speaker 2:I'm like alright, dude, it's more important to do the cold plunges, do your workout or do your stretches. I've been better about stretching and working out one to two hours of getting up early and getting that done, not like a three, four hour. I understand that's not.
Speaker 5:I'm still bad when I get up. It's automatically into the screen on my phone for like 10 to 20 minutes. But I've been getting better about like even if I do that screen time getting my stretches, whether it's like a beginner's yoga or like the resistance bands, getting like between the two, it's like, no matter what it is, whether it's yoga, stretching, resistance bands, bike I keep all of them to 20 minutes yeah I try to do two of those things each morning.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so like mondays and fridays, my easy days where I'll I'll do either yoga or stretching and like, just like a beginner, ride on the peloton, like nothing crazy again.
Speaker 2:Like maybe my heart rate up to like 130, 140 you know ram's morning routine Just praying that he's alive from Saran, not killing him.
Speaker 5:I'm alive.
Speaker 1:That kid's going to be in a crib with a cover. Well, last night I mean he just wakes up Last night he had a nightmare and he was just like fix, fix, fix, I don't know. Something needed to be fixed in his nightmare.
Speaker 5:It takes after his grandpa so much he wakes up in a nightmare, yelling fix, fix, fix I wonder where he gets that right back to sleep.
Speaker 1:That was hilarious. I was like oh thanks for ruining my sleep but yep, okay, let's go fix it, would you say this. So the study brought decreased cancer risk.
Speaker 4:Yeah, which.
Speaker 5:That makes sense because sugar levels come down. Most studies will show you lower BMI. Yeah. Yeah, I mean if you and like all the cancer studies, lower BMI is related to, it's correlated with Cancer risk is going to go down if your blood sugar is controlled, no matter what.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that and more importantly I think it's more related, like what Ruz is saying, lower BMI equals lower estrogen levels, equals lower cancer risk, even if, like you look at the studies recently that come out that despite like, early detection, early treatment of cancers, yeah, for, uh, mostly males between ages, like it's something like 20 to 50 despite that the amount of deaths due to those cancers have not decreased, so that it's an increased prevalence of these cancers happening despite better treatment.
Speaker 2:But it's treatment which is led by big pharma. They give you these drugs and even estrogen blockers and stuff that don't really help people survive longer.
Speaker 5:It's just yeah, they're poison. It's just yeah, maybe it's it's they're they're they're poison. Yeah, just directed poison yeah but if, if that poison has the right effect, well, before it.
Speaker 2:Before I used to think like people were crazy when they didn't want to take chemo and stuff. But then you look into it and like maybe they wanted because people give me the numbers. Give me the numbers and start reporting quality of life measures.
Speaker 5:It's like how good people feel while they're alive. So like, okay, if I'm going to live five more years and feel great while I live those five more years, versus living 10 years feeling like shit. Like tell me, like there's got to be numbers on those yeah and that's not available. Like that shit. Like I, I would take living well for two years over, living like crap where, like we've seen our patients let me ask this question so you get what supposed cure versus someone that has cancer?
Speaker 2:Do you think the person that's been cured mentally is better, or the person that's been cured? It's probably every day thinking the cancer's coming back, right where the guy's like all right, I got cancer.
Speaker 5:I'm gonna die from this and I'm gonna live my best life it varies personally, that's a big, like spectrum to go over, like how people would respond to stressors like that yeah it's. It's hard to say you have to go case by case on that I don't think you could generalize that. Yeah, that's what I think, because we've had to go through it personally. In our family it's like, okay, this isn't curable but it's treatable. Wait, what, I didn't know that was a thing.
Speaker 2:Dude, we saw both our grandma and grandpa get put through shit that we're like you guys just got to let them go and they weren't willing to let them go. The family, like us being physicians, kept on telling our parents.
Speaker 5:What's realistic. If there's a chance like yes, let's go ahead and fight. If we're but like.
Speaker 2:Rod Mayer's, the neurosurgeon, and my grandfather had a huge aneurysm Right and like that person, like more, like you know you're just keeping them alive, for for your own good.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And, like in Iran, the hospital systems aren't as good as they are in the US. So it's like you know it just strains everyone when you're doing that.
Speaker 5:That's a whole discussion.
Speaker 2:I think, that would be a whole nother episode with yeah, End of life care.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's, and and just like the mentality behind, that actually would be a really good episode to dive into, because we're a physician, so we we also think differently about it.
Speaker 2:So realistic outlook, yeah, and like I was a general surgery resident before this, so it's like but you know you've also seen people in the icu pretty aggressive about talking about end of life, like this guy just got here.
Speaker 5:Yeah, like you want to like kick back like let's not. Let's not try to like, scrape organs out of this body or just yet, oh yeah, when the donor network like oh, we're going to talk about it. It's like dude's got a sucking chest wound. Like can we take care of that chest wound while the family decides? It's like I've had some bad, like most of it makes sense, but some of it's just like you're kind of pushing. That's a whole separate episode we got to of pushing wait.
Speaker 1:That's a whole separate episode. We gotta, we gotta, we gotta save that one. Do you recommend any? Any? Speaking of this episode, do you guys recommend anything to take like just foods to eat for hormones rather than supplements?
Speaker 2:it's just dude you to keep whole nutritious foods you know, to just balance.
Speaker 5:Yeah, whole and processed, like cut out processed stuff there was research put out, like last year, that said, like directly, like correlating the dose of processed red meat and Alzheimer's, like directly correlating that.
Speaker 2:Processed foods, your oils.
Speaker 5:Yeah, like directly correlating that. And it was those, your oils. Yeah, yeah, so like just whole foods, stay away from processed foods, keep the protein rich. Uh, greens like you can't go wrong with greens.
Speaker 2:Everybody cut out sugars, yeah, and a lot of people, and even like even your meats and know where your meats and your fish and stuff are sourced, because if you're going to farm-raise salmon, you might think it tastes great, but that's inflammatory.
Speaker 2:You're going to get the omega-6s instead of the omega-3s, like good grass-fed beef, and that fish has been eating other fish's shit the whole time yeah, so organic grass-fed beef is going to get you plenty of like omega-3s that you know, that crappy piece of uh salmon it lacks, and it's going to be more inflammatory than eating a nice fresh proteins greens, get some antioxidants.
Speaker 5:Some people overdo it with the fruit but, yeah, keep a little like well balanced, even though like what the traditional well balance is like. Yeah, you don't need to eat a banana every day.
Speaker 2:You don't need to eat an apple every day. Keep it more vegetables than fruits. Fruits to a minimum. You know I I eat oranges, just you know, during flu season and stuff just to pick up the vitamins.
Speaker 6:And then once a month, just butt, chug some coffee. This is day one of taking testosterone. So about two months ago I went to a medical lab center that takes all of your blood and then runs a full lab examination on them. For three or four years I've been suffering a lot with some crazy weird symptoms that I could just never figure out. What was going on, like extreme fatigue, brain fog, low energy, low motivation. In general I was having really bad migraines so I was hoping, going to this lab they could see if anything was wrong. They tested like a million things. It was kind of overwhelming. They did my white blood cell count, all the vitamins in my body, thyroid, my hormones.
Speaker 6:When my doctor and I started talking about my hormones, she noticed that my testosterone levels were like super, super, super, super low. Usually when you think of testosterone you think of men and male hormones, but women actually need testosterone too. If you have very low levels it can cause symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, feeling weak, tired, and that's how I was feeling. She prescribed me a low dose of testosterone to try out and I wanted to share my process with it because I feel like a lot of women might not know about it and it might be a good option for you. So this is what it looks like. It's in a little like deodorant tube, I guess you click it out and then rub it on the inside of your arms. You can take it in a couple different ways, but this is the way that she prescribed me. If you want to see how it goes, then follow along and comment if you have any questions.
Speaker 5:I personally love that like a lot, and sometimes it might not even show up in lab tests, but it shows up symptomatically, like where you're feeling this way and especially with like the last 10, 15 years we've gone with medicine where, like you go in with like I'm feeling kind of drowsy or whatever. A lot of people turn in to what Adderall. Well, amphetamines like and that's like what we've turned into and with the problem with that anxiolytics? Yeah, yeah and it's kind of like masking the symptom rather than taking care of the symptom.
Speaker 2:Well you can treat it, but, like I, I would want to know more about this before being like all right, because no I, I know, but she's a, she's a young girl, so you, you got to figure out why, you know like, is it her diet? Is she not sleeping right? Is she got some heavy metal poisoning, like what? Where is she working? Is she high stress? Because, because, you got to fix all this stuff. And you got to figure out why she's testosterone deficient.
Speaker 5:No, but I think a lot of people are on Exactly you got to come down with the root cause, but still.
Speaker 4:But hormones can't treat testosterone.
Speaker 5:Replacing her testosterone is better than getting our antidepressants antidepressants, anxiolytics, Adderall, Like and we know people on those, like multiple people, that are just increasing the dose. But I'm just saying someone young like her.
Speaker 2:I would definitely like try to see everything before just going to testosterone, because a lot of people aren't going to do the heavy metal testing or try to figure out why their life's, and take a good questionnaire of the life lifestyle and figure out what's causing the root issue for her to be testosterone deficient and what's testosterone deficient in females. It's kind of a guessing game with females and sometimes it is just, you know, more with symptomatic treatment than anything else. Because I had, you know, I had patients come in. They, you know, they just go in these clinics. They're like, oh, they're feeling great, just keep on boosting it up. And then they get clitoral hypertrophy and they're coming with a mustache, yeah, yeah. And they're like, oh, they're feeling great, just keep on boosting it up. And then they get clitoral hypertrophy and they're coming with a mustache.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of in mind. Yeah, and they're like what? What can I do about this?
Speaker 5:so hey, doc, a lot of it feels great I'm about to throw you through this.
Speaker 2:A lot of it's reversible, with just getting them balanced and to the right dose yeah but but like, yeah, young patients, though you gotta, they're going to try to get pregnant and stuff, and you got to worry about that, yeah, but also sometimes they need to be on hormones, like for females, they need to be on progesterone to be able to get pregnant because they might be estrogen dominant and not producing enough progesterone.
Speaker 5:It's all about the balance. Yeah, homeostasis so the online people are asking whether testosterone is something that can make you taller yeah, I used to be as tall as rom until I took testosterone towering over all my brothers. I don't think so once your growth plates fuse, unless you're taking it while you're growing, which I would not recommend. It doesn't scientifically make sense.
Speaker 2:That's the issue with growth hormone too. That's where you find the hip pain, the wrist pain, because your bone's going to grow but the plates are fused, so you're not going to grow taller, it's just going to increase in density.
Speaker 5:Yeah, with Barry Bond's forehead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:How about the new surgery that people are doing to make themselves taller?
Speaker 5:That's another episode. Where and how is testosterone produced?
Speaker 2:Your testes.
Speaker 5:Balls yeah, you could have made it easy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, listening but you're like, well it's. It's a conversion of. You know comes from cholesterol, gets converted to dht and I don't know.
Speaker 1:And for females it's from estrogen that gets converted to testosterone, correct?
Speaker 2:or how did they?
Speaker 1:no, testosterone gets converted to estrogen like where does the testosterone come from? In females, though, they have testosterone.
Speaker 2:Females have testosterone, but where does it come? Ovaries, ovaries, yeah oh okay, yeah, just your, it's the reproductive same thing.
Speaker 5:Okay, clearly it's balls on the inside, okay physiology.
Speaker 1:It's been a while, for I know it's been like step one for me.