This video explores key questions about testosterone, emphasizing its importance for both men and women. It covers how testosterone levels vary individually, with women typically needing levels between 100-300 and men ranging from 800-1200. The video outlines a method for tracking testosterone’s effects on energy, gym performance, and hair growth, while also addressing how to manage side effects like hair loss, offering alternatives to treatments that may affect sexual function.

The discussion further delves into testosterone’s role in fat loss, explaining that it aids fat burning indirectly by building muscle tissue, which requires energy. There’s a warning against improper dieting during cutting cycles, as it can lead to muscle loss, and the importance of maintaining protein intake is highlighted. The video also addresses concerns about oral steroids’ impact on liver health, providing recommendations for supporting liver function, and ends with an invitation for viewers to ask additional questions.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:04 – Introduction & Testosterone Levels

01:15 – Tracking Effects & Dosage

02:17 – Managing Side Effects & Hair Loss

03:24 – Testosterone & Fat Loss

06:06 – Cutting Steroids & Diet

08:17 – Fasting Cardio & Muscle Loss

09:24 – Oral Steroids & Liver Health

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] So we got lots of questions, lots of false fronts. We’ll go through some of those real quick. So, a couple of questions were about women. Women can and do need to source from they can take it. They do need it. It is very, very important. Obviously the levels around things. Usually you’re looking at 100 to 250, 300. That’s typically the range, where men are anywhere from 800 to 1200 is the typical range for them. One of the things that we all have to understand about hormones in general, and testosterone is in no way different, is that we all have different sensitivities, we all have different thresholds. So, you know, someone might need to be a, you know, some woman need to be at 80 or 100 where another one that needs to be at 250, some guys might need to be at, you know, 800. Some guys might need to be at 1500. It just kind of depends on what’s going on. So the way that I have people do it, regardless of where they get everything. So we have a lot of bodybuilders who are getting stuff from wherever, we haven’t run through the same thing. So I have a sheet that it’s a spreadsheet that has the dates on it and it has different effects.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:15] So it’s like, how are you feel on the gym? How is your strength going? How’s your sex drive, erection function, orgasm function, you know, mental clarity, energy, like all the things, but also have hair loss. It has, you know, facial hair growing. It has body hair. So it has, you know, acne. It has those things as well. And so what you do is you go through and you kind of know for yourself like how is your energy? And we go over like how to how to rate this. But you know, so like for energy or like, how is it, you know, when you wake up at ten, at noon, three, five, you know, at eight, whatever, you know, how is it then? And the reason you do it that way? Because if you’re always looking at how you feel 8:00 at night, you might not ever get to the point where you have energy at eight, but you might wake up and have no energy. You know, when you wake up now and then, eight weeks from now, you have energy all the way to three if you’re up, if you’re not tracking it properly, you’re not going to notice that. And so, because we want to track everything like the good and the bad. And so what ends up happening is that what you can do is you can go through and say, okay, you know, all the good things are here, but we’re starting to get some of the bad things.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:17] And so then we can start working on either, you know, pushing back against this or lowering dose or something like that, because we’re trying to figure out exactly where your dose is. And like one of the things you can, you can compensate for is if you’re starting to have, hair loss, you can pull DHT labs in your teeth. How you can push that down. There’s a couple different medicines for that. Or you can increase the copper peptide and increase oxygenation of the skin into the scalp and the rest of the body. Because one of the main reasons that you lose hair is because it’s decreasing oxygenation to the scalp. And so what we want to do is increase actualization of the scalp. And if we can use things like copper peptides and hyperbaric and, you know, iron to increase hemoglobin count, like we can do those things, then we’ll be able to offset those issues of having to take something like finasteride in first tried works to like the the problem is we have orgasm function erections like it does other things we don’t want. So the other you know, building those other benefits are pretty solid. And I’m a giant fan of that copper peptide regardless. So, I mean, I take it I don’t want my hair to come back. So that would be the side effect. I start growing hair more current.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:24] But anyway, so that’s one of the big questions we’ve gotten. With the other ones is, you know, as you go through it, does it help, you know, does it make you lose weight? So and everybody knows how much I hate the weight comment. Because weight is a horrible metric. So we actually get to the point that people are actually actually asking, does it help you lose fat? Kind of. So it’s not going to help you lose fat if you just take it. That’s not exactly true. It’ll build your muscle tissue and bring you back to a homeostasis level, and it will burn some fat as it regenerates the body. But the reason that testosterone helps you lose fat is because you’re using the fat to create energy ATP that you’re then turning around and using to build the muscle tissue, to build the bone density back up. And all the, you know, the gut and the, you know, everything gets built back up and it requires energy to do that. The detoxification process, the recovery process, the generation process, the breakdown process, like all that stuff requires ATP. And so your body will burn the fat, especially if we move you to a fat. Actually, if you say it’ll burn the fat to then turn around and create the muscle. And so that’s why you have stuff like I did where, you know, from January to now, I’ve lost about 30 pounds of fat and put on a little bit more than 35 pounds of muscle. So it’s just swapped. But again, the scale hasn’t moved.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:46] The scale has not moved very much at all, since January. So I’ve, I’ve, I look and feel and I am totally different body wise health, whatever that guy was in January, however, the scale hasn’t moved at all. And so, that’s why we don’t use a scale. So, yes, it will help you burn fat. But it’s the reason we’re burning the fat is because you’re using it to create muscle tissue. It’s regenerating and healing, that sort of thing. And that regeneration, that healing requires energy. The energy the body uses is not calories. And so that’s how it helps you lose fat. So, you know, when people take and so people do ask me all the time like, well, what about like the cutting steroids that everybody takes? Well, like mass, so, like, when small animals are the ones that people are typically asking about, halo tests and that there’s a couple that are in there. The reason that does work really well, and people think of them as cutting steroids is because people usually take them on a cutting cycle. And so what ends up happening, typically on a cutting cycle is that because people don’t understand chemistry, they cut their calories back and they’re still working on calories. They bring it, they’ve reduced the entire input. So the fat comes down, the carbs come down, and the protein comes down. Well, what is happening is that your body goes, we can’t operate like this.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:06] We need more sugar. But here’s the heart, the muscle tissues. In order to fulfill that need. And so what ends up happening is you’re taking something of highly anabolic and highly androgenic. We didn’t have happening. Is that the amount the rate at which you break muscle tissues down versus the rate that you build them back up, becomes a little bit more, on par. It’s what ends up happening is that your body’s shedding all of this, all this tissue, fat, muscle, bone, like all of it. Try it because it doesn’t have the nutrients to maintain standard functions, but you’re rebuilding the muscle tissue really, really quickly. And so the problem we get into is that when people cut again their calories because they’re not doing it right. But you get a calories down, you’re also gonna bring your protein levels down as you bring in protein levels. Everybody cannot regenerate as quickly. And so you’re still going to lose muscle tissue, but you’re going to lose it as fast. Think of it this way. So when you when people are doing fasting, cardio and fasting training, they go in. When is it happening is that they break their muscle tissues down in order to feed their body. So they go in and they’re fasted state. They haven’t eaten all night. And so they get there and they drink a lot of water that I can’t I can’t work it out. And so they start working out.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:15] Well, what is happening is your muscles are using the glucose that are stored inside the glycogen. And then they’re sucking stuff out of the blood tissue, out of the blood, and then the blood is sticking out of the liver. And so as that starts to happen, you write, it goes, all right, we need to make more sugar for the blood, for the brain, for everything else. And so it starts tearing apart your muscle tissues to go through gluconeogenesis, to produce the sugar, to run the rest of your body because you’re pushing it hard in your cardio class or you’re in your fasting, cardio, fasting workouts and sort of happening as you damage muscle tissue, you lose the muscle tissue to create the sugar. Then you go home and you have your protein shake, or you have your your eggs or whatever you’re gonna eat. It is a protein source. Anybody rebuilds muscle tissue. And so it ends up happening is that you went through the state of, you know, here you were broke the muscle tissue. Okay. Here you were broken muscle tissues down and went home and rebuilt. Rebuild your muscle tissues. So you’re spinning your wheels so you’re not getting you’re not really gaining muscle tissue. You’re not losing that much of it. But, you know, you’re just using as a fuel source to create sugar.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:17] And so there’s a lot of, there’s a lot of that. And so when you cut your calories back, you get your proteins back. Because again, the calories that some sugars and proteins are exactly the same, they tell you protein is gonna make you fat. Protein cannot make you fat. It is absurd anyway. So as the protein comes back in, it regenerates muscle tissue. So what ends up happening is if you put your diet here properly and you’re using the antibody in the wind and the metallic, whatever it is, a lot of function is happening is that you lose a giant amount of fat, but you maintain or build muscle tissue on top of that. So that’s one of the things you have to kind of take into account if you’re going to start changing your diet over, is that you have to understand that what these things do is they’re androgenic, they create, they they’re anabolic, they create growth. And so if you feed the body properly, it’s gonna create the growth. If you if you feed the body properly on the other side, you’re going to be cutting back on the fat. Your body will be utilizing the fat that’s on it to produce the ATP, to produce the growth. But you have enough protein that now produces the growth. So you actually lose the fat while gaining muscle tissue. And so that’s one the things you have to kind of be wary of as you’re going through it is how big do you want to get.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:24] Usually not a problem for guys, oftentimes a problem for women because a lot of women will do Hannibal or, you know, 5 or 10mg. There are, during a cutting cycle if you change their diets. So their diet is now working for them instead of against them, they will lose much fat. They will also gain muscle tissue. And sometimes it’s more muscle tissue than they wanted, especially if they’re competing. So keep that one in mind. The other thing is that, a lot of people talk about how bad, oral steroids are for the liver, and that is a thing, however, the way that we get not around that, but the way we compensate for that is we feed the liver everything it has to have in order to break those tissues down. And this can. Is that? So it’s possible to maintain normal liver function because you increased all the chemicals that needed. So remember the egg, the eggs and the cake. You know, analogy is a limiting reagent. Yeah. Lots of flour, lots of sugar. But you run out of eggs, you can’t make anymore cake. Well, that’s kind of what happens to a degrades. And it’s a little bit looser than that. But that’s think of it that way.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:26] So if you give your body all the nutrients it needs to break this up down and feed the liver and keep everything going. It’s a lot better on the body. So you’re methylated B vitamins 246 omega three fatty acids in your Q10. You know, there’s there’s a there’s a list of stuff. And they say there’s a list of stuff that I would recommend for feeding the liver in case you’re overdriving the system. But that’s kind of the biggest fix. So, if you guys have any other questions about that sort of questions at Amazon.com, you can drop it in the comments. But that’s kind of where that one is. If you guys have anything else and it’s, thanks for your time.

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