THIS Boosts Testosterone More Than Any Supplement (It Costs Nothing) transcript

On this point of testosterone, why is [clears throat] it the case that testosterone seems to be dropping amongst men? I think it said something like I wrote it down. Yeah, testosterone levels in men have dropped by up to 20% over the last two decades. Um which is quite terrifying. It is. So, look, there's a lot of factors that can affect testosterone. I mentioned dietary factors, refined sugar, sleep is a big one. People aren't getting enough sleep.

Lack of sleep drops testosterone, micronutrients, not getting enough zinc, for example. Zinc's very important for testosterone synthesis and magnesium. Like there's a there's a there's important nutrient components, but I think the big player here is actually environmental. I think that we are being bombarded with what are called endocrine-disrupting chemicals. These are man-made chemicals. A lot of them are part of plastic.

They're made to help plastic be more durable or more robust or they're found or they're water-resistant. So, there's probably three main endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are found in our environment, mainly because they're in plastic or they're in they're also in things that are water-resistant, oil-resistant, fire-resistant, flame-retardant. BPA, bisphenol A is one. Another one is phthalates, p h phthalates. And the last one would be PFAS, these are the forever chemicals.

These are the three main, I would say, players in terms of disrupting endocrine function, endocrine being hormones. Sex hormones like testosterone, estrogen, but also thyroid hormone, very important for regulating our metabolism, for example. I think really causing a problem. Absolutely. Really like >> Absolutely. >> Cuz I'm looking at the picture you have there of PFA, PFAS? PFAS. PFAS. >> And it's got like a coat and shoes on there.

You're telling me my the clothes that I wear having an impact on my hormones? They can, but I think it's it's it's less of a direct effect and more downstream. So that the the P F A's chemicals or the forever chemicals, they're used in things to make them oil resistant, stain resistant, water resistant. So the Teflon pans would be the biggest example. You remember those nonstick pans, they have Teflon? That has P F A's on it.

We're going to go into my kitchen in a second, so I'll take all of the viewers that are watching now into my kitchen. We'll have a stroll around my kitchen and you let me know if there's something >> Oh gosh, I hope you don't have Teflon, but I mean my mom used it when I was, you know, growing up. I remember the nonstick pans. That stuff is coming off into your food and so you're eating the these P F A's. How do we know that they're dangerous?

Okay, well, I'll tell you how we know. Like let's let's start with So the P F A's chemicals are ones that are really they're more affecting the thyroid and they're affecting, I would say, ovarian aging. They seem to target the ovaries and accelerate the age that you're going to get menopause. So you're going to get it around two one to two years earlier if you have a high amount of these forever chemicals. But there've been studies a lot of studies looking at Let's start with BPA.

Okay, bisphenol A. That's a big one because you see a lot of marketing around BPA free. This plastic water bottle is BPA free. Well, it's BPA free, but it has another chemical called BPS, which is very similar if not worse than BPA. So BPA is something that's found in a lot of water bottles. It's in those plastic water bottles. It lines the cups of uh paper cups like these to-go coffee cups that you're getting at your favorite, you know, coffee place.

Plastic is lining them, yes. Plastic lines them cuz it's protecting it from the liquid, right? BPA has been linked to many different diseases, but really really it's an endocrine disruptor. So what it does is a couple of things. One, BPA acts as an estrogen mimetic. So, it kind of mimics estrogen and it binds to the receptors that estrogen do to do its function. And so, it sometimes binds to estrogen and either makes it seem like there's estrogen around or it blocks estrogen from working.

So, it's it it depends on the dose and the concentration. So, it can do both. But, it also binds to androgen receptors that interact with testosterone, right? And so, there have been studies that have found that men that have high amounts of BPA also have low amounts of testosterone. But, there was also a study done in teens. This is when, you know, your sexual development is happening, right? Testosterone's very important during this part of of your life, during puberty.

Teens, adolescent boys that had the highest amount of BPA had 50% lower testosterone than men than the boys, sorry, that had the lowest amount of BPA. The biggest one that's affecting testosterone is the phthalates. These phthalates, they are present in a lot of PVC piping. They're present in a lot of our food packaging. All those like thin art you go to the, you know, to the grocery store and you get a filet mignon steak and it's wrapped in plastic.

Poultry's, all that plastic wrapping in all the foods that we're eating has phthalates in them. They make it more flexible and stuff. And it's also found in our hair products, our cosmetic products, our creams. And it's also very lipid soluble. It likes fat. It is drawn to fat. So, when you have plastic around fat, like cheese, you know, things like that, meat, it's getting into that meat. It's getting into that cheese, the phthalates.

These disrupt our hormones in ways similar to BPA. So, they're binding to the androgen receptor, but they're also going into the testes and disrupting the synthesis of testosterone. So, there was a study in men that had the highest phthalate levels, those men had 20% lower testosterone compared to men with higher levels. And And this is Yeah, and this is like it's affecting not only just the testosterone, but it's affecting sperm quality.

So, the shape of the sperm wasn't good. It's affecting the number, so sperm count is down if they're higher BPA or higher phthalates. And also motility, the the ability to swim. Pregnant women that get exposed to high levels of phthalates and if they have if they're carrying a male fetus, right? They're they're having a boy. What's been shown is it's also affecting sexual development. So, these boys, they're getting something called hypospadias.

It's where like the the slit on the on the on the penis is like moved backwards, kind of closer to like what a a woman would have. And they're getting undescended testicles. So, one of their testicles is not descending and that's associated with, you know, infertility, cancer, testicular cancer being the big one. This is happening at a alarm rate. Like something like 20% of boys now have an undescended testicle. I mean, it's crazy.

Because their mother had high phthalates? Well, it's this is definitely something that is known in our environment to cause that. I don't know if that's the only cause, but it in my opinion is a very very concerning cause that nobody is talking about and that should be addressed and it's everywhere. We have these in all of our all of our plastic wrappers that we everything that we're eating, you know, you you even getting your meat, your you think it's well, it's meat, it's, you know, but it's wrapped in plastic and that phthalates are getting into the food.

So, they're getting into our bodies. They're disrupting hormones. They're disrupting sexual development. They're disrupting our ovaries, estrogen, you know, ovarian aging, age of menopause. They're disrupting thyroids, the thyroid hormones. I mean, there's there's even studies now with women, pregnant women that have high levels of BPA, they have they're six times more likely to have a child with autism spectrum disorder compared to women with low levels of BPA.

Again, BPA is disrupting the estrogen and androgen receptor, and this is very important because the androgen you want to have it's it's disrupting aromatase as well, that enzyme that's involved in converting testosterone into estrogen. So, believe it or not, when you're a boy developing in your mom's womb, estrogen plays a very important role in your brain and brain development and what's called masculinizing the male brain.

You actually it's kind of contradictory. You're like, "Oh, well, wouldn't testosterone do that?" Well, actually estrogen is very important for masculinizing parts of the male brain. And so, when you have aromatase being inhibited by bisphenol A, by this endocrine disrupting hormone that is so ubiquitous everywhere, That is found in plastic bottles. >> Plastic bottles, it's it's found in Yeah, it's found everywhere. So, what what do you recommend?

First of all, I think if you can eliminate and not drink out of plastic bottles as much as possible. If you do want to go coffee, either drink it there in their mugs or bring your own to-go mug. Like I bring my like I have like a Yeti kind of to-go coffee mug that I'll bring into a Starbucks or wherever Coffee Bean and I'll have them fill it up. Soup, cans, canned soup are lined with BPA, they're lined with plastic, and soup usually goes into the can hot.

Sterile technique. I mean, they they want to make sure it's So, you're getting it This soup has been classically shown in multiple studies to to increase BPA levels by 1,000%. Crazy amounts. So, don't eat canned soup as much as possible. I mean, obviously this is about the habit, not the one off. But but you know, try to avoid cans, drinking out of even soda cans, even like your your favorite sparkling water cans. Don't make it a daily habit because they are lined with plastic.

That's a source of BPA into your bodies. There are ways that you can excrete BPA. So the major way to get rid of it is through urine. It's excreted through your urine. But it has to become water soluble first. It's a fat soluble compound. And so there are things that we can eat in our diet that will increase that excretion. Compounds in broccoli, broccoli sprouts being the big one. Sulforaphane activates a pathway that are enzymes involved in making BPA become water soluble so they come out your urine.

Oh, so broccoli's like a cleanser. It's like a cleanser. It's like we we actually do have these it's called phase two detoxification enzymes in our body. We have the ability to detox a lot of things. We just have to give our body the right, you know, input so that it can activate those pathways. I personally take a supplement of that sulforaphane because I want a concentrated amount of it cuz I used to do broccoli sprouts.

Broccoli sprouts have 100 times more sulforaphane than mature broccoli. But you have to sprout them and then there's contamination issues and it's just, you know, some people do it, it's great. But I used to do it. I don't anymore. I just take a supplement. >> And that supplement's called? The supplement I take has is called Avmacol. It's by a company called Nutramax. I don't um you know, I'm not like affiliated with them.

I like their supplement because one, they've got 12 published studies using it, clinical studies too, showing that it actually helps with um autism. Children Children and adolescents with autism that take the sulforaphane supplement that they have improved symptoms because it's a detox. It helps Interestingly, people with autism are like 30 times less likely to excrete BPA. It's a weird thing going on here where BPA increases autism spectrum disorder, but then kids that have it are not able to detoxify it as well.

Wow.