On this podcast, Dr. Hotze talks about testosterone and thyroid hormones, and coronary heart illness in males. He additionally explains how low testosterone, hypothyroidism and coronary heart illness are interrelated.
Podcast Highlights:
0:48: What about your initiative, your assertiveness, your sense of well-being, your self-confidence, your moods, your aim orientation, your drive, your directiveness? All these are psychological features and they’re affected by your hormones, notably testosterone and thyroid hormones.
1:10: Testosterone, in fact, is the quintessential male hormone. It’s what drives males.
1:46: Nicely, as males age and as they mature, inevitably, your hormone ranges will decline. And this has an hostile impact, not solely in your psychological operate, but in addition in your muscle tone and your muscle mass, in your cardiovascular operate, in your romantic moods and inclinations, and your skills.
2:16: Now, by the point a person reaches 40 years previous, his testosterone stage has declined by virtually a half of what it was when he was younger and within the prime of life within the early twenties. By the point you’re 50, it’s a 3rd of the extent. By the point you’re 60, it’ll be a fourth of the extent. And by the point you’re 70, you’re simply within the gutter, and oftentimes within the gutter lengthy earlier than that.
3:17: The petrochemicals are all over the place on the earth and petrochemical merchandise, that are derived from petroleum or oil, are hormone disruptors. What they do is that they go to the receptors they usually bind the receptors so your testosterone ranges, so testosterone, your physique can’t correctly have an effect on…and trigger modifications in your cells as a result of testosterone impacts each cell in your physique.
6:40: Now, we may give testosterone in an injectable kind. We may give it in an oral kind utilizing capsules.
6:59: So we like to regulate the dose and we all know clinically what doses work for people who could also be low of their 20’s and 30’s in testosterone or low of their 70’s and 80’s. We all know what stage to get them to in order that they really feel higher.
7:50: Now andropause is analogous to girls’s menopause. Like girls, they lose their hormones utterly once they undergo the change of life round 50 years of age.
8:38: Now testosterone will dramatically improve your muscle power and your muscle mass. So in case you’re understanding and you’ll’t appear to achieve any traction and elevated muscle mass and you’ll’t actually elevate weights such as you used to, otherwise you’re not capable of jog or run such as you used to, nicely, testosterone could be dramatic in its impact.
9:27: Now individuals ask, “Nicely, isn’t it harmful taking testosterone once you become older?” Let me ask you this. What number of younger males have you learnt which have coronary heart illness and have coronary heart assaults or have strokes few and much between?
9:43: Now, as testosterone ranges go down, that adversely impacts your cardiovascular operate.
9:52: Nicely, testosterone dilates up your arteries. It lowers your blood strain.
10:19: It has been proven that people with low ranges of testosterone have a dramatically elevated danger of coronary heart illness over these males that would not have low or marginally low ranges of testosterone.
12:25: Testosterone causes your bone marrow to extend your pink blood depend. In order males decline of their testosterone, their blood depend, pink blood depend goes down.
15:22: And we do deal with for thyroid even within the face of regular blood ranges as a result of the vary for thyroid and all of the hormones is set by the place the common is, plus or minus two commonplace deviations, which is a statistical time period that includes 95% of the inhabitants.
16:56: Nicely, thyroid gland is the gland in your neck formed like a butterfly that produces thyroid hormones and the thyroid hormones are what allow your cells, not your blood, your cells, and each cell in your physique to supply vitality.
17:44: It’s males which might be older whose hormone ranges have declined who expertise important well being issues, primarily heart problems which offers with coronary heart assaults, atherosclerosis which is the hardening of the arteries, resulting in coronary heart assaults.
18:44: By the best way, the anti-inflammatory remedy can result in coronary heart illness. Vioxx was one of many non-steroidal anti-inflammatories that was taken off the market as a result of it brought on coronary heart illness. Nicely, ibuprofen does the identical factor, that’s Advil.
19:25: In research, it’s been proven that folks which have hypothyroidism or low thyroid ranges, in addition to low testosterone ranges, have an elevated incidence of heart problems and coronary heart assaults. So if you wish to hold your self in good well being, it’s essential so that you can replenish your hormones, and people hormones are primarily testosterone and thyroid hormones. That’s the best way you may assist forestall your self from growing heart problems.
20:22: It takes about 25 years to cook dinner a great coronary heart assault. So if we have now some delicate or minimal quantity of atherosclerosis, we all know you might have irritation which might in the end, over a interval of many years, contributes to you having a coronary heart assault, and also you don’t need to have that.
Podcast Transcription:
Dr. Steven Hotze: Howdy, I’m Dr. Steve Hotze, welcome to Dr. Hotze’s Wellness Revolution. At this time, I’m going to talk to you males. I’m going to speak about three issues. We’re going to speak about testosterone, we’re going to speak about low thyroid, referred to as hypothyroidism, and we’re going to speak about coronary heart illness, and I’m going to elucidate to you the way testosterone, thyroid hormones and coronary heart illness are interrelated.
Testosterone
Let me ask you a query. Males, do you’re feeling like your vitality stage has been declining over time? Are you having problem dropping pounds? What about your initiative, your assertiveness, your sense of well-being, your self-confidence, your moods, your aim orientation, your drive, your directiveness? All these are psychological features and they’re affected by your hormones, notably testosterone and thyroid hormones.
Testosterone, in fact, is the quintessential male hormone. It’s what drives males. When males are younger, they be a part of the military. In the event that they’re within the army, they learn to cost hills within the face of machine gun fireplace as a result of they assume they’re invincible. Bear in mind the primary time you bought your automobile once you had been a younger man? You bought your license, you bought out for the primary time, what did you do? You set the pedal to the steel and drove it as quick as you presumably might.
You keep in mind that? You thought you had been invincible. Why? Since you had excessive ranges of testosterone surging by way of your physique. Nicely, as males age and as they mature, inevitably, your hormone ranges will decline. And this has an hostile impact, not solely in your psychological operate, but in addition in your muscle tone and your muscle mass, in your cardiovascular operate, in your romantic moods and inclinations, and your skills.
These all are indicative when these start to say no, they’re indicative that your testosterone stage declines. Now, by the point a person reaches 40 years previous, his testosterone stage has declined by virtually a half of what it was when he was younger and within the prime of life within the early twenties. By the point you’re 50, it’s a 3rd of the extent. By the point you’re 60, it’ll be a fourth of the extent. And by the point you’re 70, you’re simply within the gutter, and oftentimes within the gutter lengthy earlier than that.
Petrochemicals Trigger Testosterone Ranges to Decline
Now, what causes testosterone ranges to say no? Nicely, it usually declines with age. That’s simply the operate of getting older. It additionally declines within the face of being round petrochemical merchandise and petrochemical merchandise are all over the place. They’re within the pesticides which might be sprayed on the meals, they’re in lotions and colognes you set in your physique. They’re within the plastic that you just drink. It’s within the water.
The petrochemicals are all over the place on the earth and petrochemical merchandise, that are derived from petroleum or oil, are hormone disruptors. What they do is that they go to the receptors they usually bind the receptors so your testosterone ranges, so testosterone, your physique can’t correctly have an effect on…and trigger modifications in your cells as a result of testosterone impacts each cell in your physique.
And when you might have petrochemicals within the setting, it additionally decreases the manufacturing of testosterone. Who desires that? Would you consider me if I instructed you, and chances are you’ll already know this, that…testosterone ranges and sperm counts have dramatically declined over the past 50 years. So we see, even in younger males, we see low testosterone ranges. Now, you may go to your doctor and have a blood check drawn they usually examine your testosterone and say, “Nicely, your testosterone stage is simply fantastic.”
High quality for what? The testosterone ranges are measured in by age group. So there’s a traditional stage for a 20 to 30 12 months previous, and it’s up right here. Then there’s a 30 to 40 12 months previous and the extent goes down, the vary goes down, 40 to 50 it goes down, 50 to 60, 60 to 70, and it continues down. So you may have at your age, you might have a testosterone stage in case you’re in your 50’s of a person within the vary of fifty to 60 12 months previous.
Do you’re feeling like you might be able to retire early?
However, and we have now discovered that many of the males even in that vary is at all times within the very low stage of the conventional vary for his or her age group, however in comparison with the place it had been of their 20’s and 30’s, it’s dramatically decrease, and that’s why males will come to me oftentimes and say “doc”…and I do know I’m speaking about males which might be entrepreneurs which have their very own enterprise.
I’ve had them come to me of their 50’s and go like, “I simply assume I’ve bought to promote my enterprise. I simply can’t sustain with issues the best way they’re going. I simply don’t have the vitality. I don’t have the drive. I don’t have the assertiveness that I used to have once I was a younger man.” Now, by the point you’re in your 50’s or 60’s, you’ve had an incredible quantity of life experiences.
In the event you’re in enterprise, you already know your business, you already know your small business, you know the way to do enterprise. If you had been in your 20’s, you had been stuffed with testosterone, had all that drive on the earth, however you didn’t have a lick of sense. You had been working into each wall attempting to determine learn how to make ends meet, learn how to attempt to construct a enterprise, learn how to be extra profitable in your job. And now that you just’ve bought all that have, in case you might couple it with the drive you had once you had been in your 20’s and 30’s, which is affected by your testosterone ranges, this might be a dramatic recreation changer for you.
So these males, I inform them “Nicely, let me inform you what I’m going to do for you. We’re going to examine your testosterone ranges. We get it again, and we discover out that it’s inside the vary restrict for no matter age group.” They’re at all times down on the low finish of the vary, a lot decrease than it had been and manner under the conventional for a 20 to 30 12 months previous man.
And I say, “I’ll inform you what we’re going to do. We’re going to provide you testosterone.” Now, we may give testosterone in an injectable kind. We may give it in an oral kind utilizing capsules. These are two methods. Some individuals even use pellets. We don’t use pellets right here as a result of as soon as you set the pellets in your physique, they keep for 3 months. In the event you don’t have the correct stage otherwise you get an excessive amount of of a substance, that’s not good for you.
So we like to regulate the dose and we all know clinically what doses work for people who could also be low of their 20’s and 30’s in testosterone or low of their 70’s and 80’s. We all know what stage to get them to in order that they really feel higher. However primarily, we give the dose and improve the dose. I prefer to personally use injectable on the primary go to.
Give a great shot of testosterone, after which if an individual takes oral capsules, we’ll comply with that and see how they do and the way their signs reply, see if they’ve extra vitality, extra vitality, extra direct drive, they assume higher, they’re interacting higher, they usually have higher moods.
Andropause
Bear in mind, as a person goes by way of his life and his testosterone ranges fall, males undergo what is named andropause. Now andropause is analogous to girls’s menopause. Like girls, they lose their hormones utterly once they undergo the change of life round 50 years of age. Nicely, males even have a major decline and their signs are similar to girls.
They don’t sleep nicely, they achieve weight, they get muscle aches and pains, their muscle mass declines, cardiovascular operate declines. They don’t assume nicely anymore, they simply really feel moody, and that’s why older guys sit round, drink beer of their underwear and watch TV. And the spouse desires them to exit and reduce the yard. They don’t do it as a result of they simply don’t have the stand up and go that they used to have. Nicely, testosterone generally is a recreation changer for that.
Now testosterone will dramatically improve your muscle power and your muscle mass. So in case you’re understanding and you’ll’t appear to achieve any traction and elevated muscle mass and you’ll’t actually elevate weights such as you used to, otherwise you’re not capable of jog or run such as you used to, nicely, testosterone could be dramatic in its impact. I personally discovered about supplemental testosterone once I was 46 years previous.
I’m 71 years previous now. I’m stuffed with vitality and vitality and enthusiasm for all times, and that’s what I need you to have, and you’ll have that again in case you complement and produce your testosterone ranges again as much as the degrees you had been once you had been in your 20’s or 30’s.
How Testosterone Impacts Coronary heart Perform
Now individuals ask, “Nicely, isn’t it harmful taking testosterone once you become older?” Let me ask you this. What number of younger males have you learnt which have coronary heart illness and have coronary heart assaults or have strokes few and much between?
Now, as testosterone ranges go down, that adversely impacts your cardiovascular operate. How does it do this? Nicely, testosterone dilates up your arteries. It lowers your blood strain. It causes the guts to contract higher as a result of it allows the cells to supply the vitality that they should operate within the coronary heart as a result of the guts’s beating 70 occasions a minute, hundreds of occasions every single day, it has to have an incredible quantity of vitality. And as testosterone ranges go down, guess what coronary heart? Illness goes up.
It has been proven that people with low ranges of testosterone have a dramatically elevated danger of coronary heart illness over these males that would not have low or marginally low ranges of testosterone. So testosterone generally is a recreation changer. I prefer to say this: Testosterone can put a tiger, I’m speaking a couple of tiger, again in your tank, and that’s what you need to have.
I discussed to you, I’ve had people coming in saying, “Nicely, I’m going to retire. I’m simply going to promote my enterprise and transfer to Colorado and dwell up there the remainder of my life.” And I mentioned, “I’ll inform you what, we’re going to get you on this system and don’t blame me if inside two months you’re feeling dramatically higher.” And if inside two years, in case you’re an entrepreneur or a salesman, and even in case you’re in a enterprise, that you just’ve dramatically elevated your revenue.
As a matter of reality, I inform them, “You’ve bought to vow me after you’re on testosterone and also you’re actually hitting them a lick, and also you’re beginning…and you’ve got that drive and also you’re rising in your small business, you’re rising in your revenue, you’ve bought to vow me you’ll get a wealth advisor that can assist you handle the elevated revenue you’re going to make.” Your revenue goes to be straight proportional to your well being.
Folks in good well being are extra productive for an extended time frame of their lives than males which might be ill. You already know that. You already know that from generational modifications in your loved ones, remembering how your grandfather was once you had been a bit of boy, was younger, he might need been in his 40’s or 50’s and now he’s 70 or 80, and simply dragging round, he has no vitality.
You ever go to the golf membership or go to the membership and see the fellows come out of the bathe, the previous guys, they usually’re all simply slumped down. And their muscle groups are all hanging, bought little muscle. Their drives don’t go close to so far as they went once they had been youthful, they usually’re pale they usually’re pasty and simply look grey they usually don’t look nicely. That’s as a result of they’ve low ranges of testosterone.
Testosterone causes your bone marrow to extend your pink blood depend. In order males decline of their testosterone, their blood depend, pink blood depend goes down. It stays inside a variety of regular, nevertheless it goes down. They don’t have that ruddy, wholesome look that that they had once they had been younger. You understand how younger males look, they give the impression of being important, they’ve bought to stand up and go. The older guys look pale, they give the impression of being fragile they usually don’t do nicely.
I keep in mind one gentleman had a restaurant right here on the town in Houston and he got here to me on the age of fifty and he mentioned he’d been to Mayo and he’d been throughout, they usually instructed him there’s nothing flawed with him. He mentioned, “I’m going to should promote my restaurant, physician.” I mentioned, “Let me simply inform you what, we’re going to get you up on our program which incorporates testosterone and thyroid and get you on a great, wholesome consuming plan. We’re going to get you on nutritional vitamins and minerals and good train program, and we’re going to get you feeling like 1,000,000 {dollars} once more, and also you’re going to make 1,000,000 {dollars}.” He instructed me he was producing about $345,000 internet revenue in his enterprise. Nicely, a 12 months later, he had constructed 4 new eating places throughout the state of Texas, and he says, “Doc, I’m making extra money than I ever believed I might make.” I’ve had this story instructed to me again and again.
Once more, I keep in mind one gentleman instructed our concierge within the entrance workplace that he wished to see me. She calls up and says, “There’s a person right here. He desires to see you, and he’s in room three.” So I went all the way down to room three and I launched myself to him and he mentioned, “Doc, I simply wished to thanks.” And that is what we do at Hotze Well being & Wellness Middle, we allow you to. In the event you’re keen to take cost of your well being and also you’re accountable for your well being, keep in mind, I’m not accountable for your well being. You’re accountable for your well being.
In the event you’re keen to take cost of your well being and make an funding in your well being, it’s the most effective funding you’ll ever make. As I discussed to you earlier than, wholesome individuals are extra productive. They do higher in life. They’ve higher relationships with their kids, with their spouses, with their associates, with their enterprise associates, with fellow church members. They haven’t solely nice relationships, they’re extra productive at work. They’re enjoyable to be round, they’re passionate about life. They’ve bought concepts.
I had one different younger man that labored for Exxon are available. I say younger man, I’m 71, and he was about 50. And he mentioned, “Doc, I need assistance. I’ve been with Exxon for 30 years, and now these younger guys are coming in they usually’re working circles round me on the convention desk. I simply can’t sustain with them like I used to once I was younger.”
Hormone Ranges – Regular Lab Ranges
I mentioned, “Look, let’s get you up on some testosterone. Let’s check out your thyroid ranges and your signs and see in the event that they’re associated to low thyroid,” which they had been. And we do deal with for thyroid even within the face of regular blood ranges as a result of the vary for thyroid and all of the hormones is set by the place the common is, plus or minus two commonplace deviations, which is a statistical time period that includes 95% of the inhabitants. So everytime you get a hormone blood check, 95% of the time you’ll at all times fall inside this big selection of regular to your age group. Nicely, you don’t need to be within the…once you had been younger, you had been at an optimum stage. Now once you’re older, “Oh, you’re already all the way down to the underside stage in comparison with once you had been youthful.”
However the docs say, “Nicely, your hormone ranges are simply fantastic.” “However I’m not, doc. I’m not fantastic. What’s happening.” Oftentimes they’ll say, “Nicely, you’re just a bit depressed. Why don’t we provide you with an antidepressant, provide you with a psychotropic drug and that’ll get you all screwed up.” So that you don’t need to do this. You need to replenish your physique with the identical an identical hormones your physique used to make, and these can be found. They’re not chemical counterfeits. They’re the an identical molecule your physique made once you had been younger, and we need to replenish that. We need to fill the glass again up. You don’t need a glass half empty. You need a glass full. You need to be at your optimum ranges once you’re taking hormones, each testosterone and thyroid.
Thyroid Hormones
Now thyroid hormones are made by the thyroid gland in your neck. I’ve requested males, “The place’s your thyroid gland?” I’ll ask girls the identical query. Ladies go like, “Nicely, it’s proper right here.” Males will go. “I don’t know. It’s someplace in right here.” Nicely, thyroid gland is the gland in your neck formed like a butterfly that produces thyroid hormones and the thyroid hormones are what allow your cells, not your blood, your cells, and each cell in your physique to supply vitality.
Your thyroid hormones are like spark plugs they usually spark the ability plant in your cell, referred to as the mitochondria, which produces electrical vitality. You’re a bundle of electrical energy. A few of you might be low voltage. You’ve bought fatigue, weight achieve, problem considering, joint muscle aches and pains, you’re constipated. You don’t really feel nicely. You get infections straightforward, and all this causes well being issues. When the hormones decline, you get a bunch of well being issues.
It’s males which might be older whose hormone ranges have declined who expertise important well being issues, primarily heart problems which offers with coronary heart assaults, atherosclerosis which is the hardening of the arteries, resulting in coronary heart assaults. And also you get atherosclerosis in different arteries in your physique and within the mind, you might have strokes. That is what occurs as males become older, they’ve these issues.
However thyroid hormone enters your bloodstream. It’s bought to be transformed from the inactive thyroid hormone, which is T4, thyroid molecule with 4 iodine atoms connected to it. It’s bought to get within the cell, be transformed to T3, the lively thyroid hormone. It acts like a spark plug and sparks the manufacturing {of electrical} vitality.
So the lads I see once they come into the workplace to see me have already seen their a number of different medical doctors. They’re on varied blood strain drugs. They’re on anti-inflammatories. By the best way, the anti-inflammatory remedy can result in coronary heart illness. Vioxx was one of many non-steroidal anti-inflammatories that was taken off the market as a result of it brought on coronary heart illness. Nicely, ibuprofen does the identical factor, that’s Advil. It causes you to develop irritation within the arteries, and that results in the calcification of your arteries to maintain them from tearing aside when you might have irritation. The physique compensates by hardening the arteries, and when that occurs, you throw a clot off and it clogs up, you might have a coronary heart assault and you find yourself on the medical doctors.
You’ve got open coronary heart surgical procedure, they put stents in that doesn’t cease the underlying drawback. In research, it’s been proven that folks which have hypothyroidism or low thyroid ranges, in addition to low testosterone ranges, have an elevated incidence of heart problems and coronary heart assaults. So if you wish to hold your self in good well being, it’s essential so that you can replenish your hormones, and people hormones are primarily testosterone and thyroid hormones. That’s the best way you may assist forestall your self from growing heart problems.
Get a CT Coronary heart Scan
Now, what you must do is you must have a CT, that’s Computerized Tomography, a CT coronary heart scan. We’ve one right here on the Hotze Well being & Wellness Middle. I like to recommend for each man over the age of 40 to have a coronary heart scan to see if he has any hardening of the arteries, which is named atherosclerosis. We need to examine that and see what your standing is.
It takes about 25 years to cook dinner a great coronary heart assault. So if we have now some delicate or minimal quantity of atherosclerosis, we all know you might have irritation which might in the end, over a interval of many years, contributes to you having a coronary heart assault, and also you don’t need to have that.
If you become older, you need to be stuffed with vitality. You need to be stuffed with vitality. You need to be passionate about your life. You need to have the ability to take pleasure in your loved ones, that features your kids and your grandchildren, your pals. You need to have the ability to be out on the golf course or the tennis court docket or out jogging or driving horses, in case you occur to do this. You need to take pleasure in your self and also you need to take pleasure in your life. When you’re alive, you must really feel alive. There’s no motive on the earth anybody ought to really feel fatigued and sick and bored with being sick and drained.
Let me ask you: Sick and bored with being sick and drained? Nicely, then give us a name right here on the Hotze Well being & Wellness Middle, we may help get you on a path of well being and wellness naturally so that you, too, can have vitality, vitality and enthusiasm for all times.
Thanks a lot for becoming a member of me right here in the present day. Give us a name on the Hotze Well being & Wellness Middle (281-698-8698), we’ll be glad to companion with you to get you on that path of well being and wellness. Thanks a lot for becoming a member of me. I’m Dr. Steve Hotze.
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