Adam Lamb
A linkage between testosterone levels and addictive behavior has been made more clear through scientific research over the past years. When you realize the wide array that addictive behavior can be categorized, you realize that the problem is much larger than once thought. But many physicians don't look at testosterone levels when treating addiction. Perhaps it's time they do. PLUS Could there be a linkage between high testosterone levels, adequate Essential Amino Acids in the diet and degradation of the spine?
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[00:00:00] Welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. We have a great show planned for you. Today. We're launching the this is the maiden voyage of the ReNew Life Show with Adam Lamb. We're going to start it in just a second. But before I do that, I have to mention that our title sponsor is All American pharmaceutical and their brand is EFX Sports and right now, You get six of the [00:01:00] top selling products absolutely free by going to superhuman radio dotnet clicking the FX Banner ad putting in your name and address.
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[00:01:28] How you doing Adam? All doing great. How are you? I'm wonderful. I really am I have no I have no complaints with my life. In fact, my life reads like a movie script. I kid you not anyway, I so yeah, right. I'm excited to be here and excited for kind of the Twisted we're doing with the show and I think the listeners are going to find a lot of value in it.
[00:01:54] Absolutely so many things that we deal with every day that we can [00:02:00] find beneficial to talk about and and and the show is going to be a little man skewed and I want to talk about that up front for a second because I think that men are being. There's a great disservice today two men in general. We kind of like the Forgotten species.
[00:02:15] We you know, I was just telling my buddy this morning, you know, you can take as many buck as you want. You can only take one dough. You have to have a doe tag. There's so much more value put on women than men today and don't get me wrong. I think it's great. Don't get me wrong, but I think the guys need to start to wake up and put value on themselves as well.
[00:02:33] So a lot of the topics we're going to be talking about on this show. We're going to be important for. Like that and no really I'm you know it I actually wanted to do a show called open season on men for the past like nine years, but I just never put it all together, but I think the time has come for that one.
[00:02:50] Anyway, we have really two interesting topics to talk about today. The first one is the linkage between [00:03:00] testosterone levels and addiction. This is really intriguing to me because you pointed out something to me. That wasn't clear to me and where the pathway is to talk about that first. So I'll give you a little history behind it.
[00:03:12] So I quit stories by move to Texas had to do my eye exam for my driver's license. And I had a great vision turns out only my left eye my right I wasn't great. So I Define an eye doctor. My wife actually went to a new eye doctor in the area. She's like, you know, you really like this guy he volunteers.
[00:03:29] With helping addiction people like he's an eye doctor. He also does a lot of mission trips with helping people that have addiction and things like that even locally, so I wouldn't sound pretty cool guy. You know, I have my books better than the binge overcoming the social obligation of alcohol and so he knew about that and then we talked about, you know, I have a hormone replacement therapy clinic and we just went I mean I was there for like a three-hour doctor visit that we end up popping whole time and a lot of.
[00:03:56] Good thing there's even crazier stuff that you saying that you're [00:04:00] more likely to have addiction issues. If you're far-sighted men, then nearsighted meant he's just some of these studies that he's done a very interesting but he was saying that what he sees a lot and it went where he felt hormone replacement therapy is very important for men over 38.
[00:04:15] Is that as your as you get older your cortisol levels, you have to high stress and things like that your hormones. Oh what helps combat that so when were younger and it's easier to deal with stuff a lot of the reasons why we lose energy is because we're spending a lot of energy battling the stress hormones where testosterone can actually help like that and use explain to me where so what happens is you get older you may get in the habit of.
[00:04:45] Having a drink or two after work when you get home something like that to for the you know, I had a rough day grabbing for a cocktail or whatever. It might be and it's working going to if you want a prescription medication where the Xanax or no law or any of those things [00:05:00] that because as men were not as able to deal with the stress.
[00:05:05] So we reach the substance to do that because of our hormones being lower. And so when his what he was saying, is it increasing testosterone in men will allow them to manage the stress better and not feel the effects of it. So they're not reaching for something to you know, alternative substance 12, but now look I want to I want to expand on this for a second right?
[00:05:26] So we're talking about talking about. Whenever we talk about addiction People Order automatically think alcoholism drug use and things like that. Right but addictive qualities most people today display addictive qualities in some fashion. There is a lot of lot of research out there that does in fact as you indicate points to stress overload leading, OCD like or addictive behaviors?
[00:06:00] [00:05:59] And yeah, so people think well, yeah, I'm not an addict. I don't need to listen. Well, wait a minute. Like would you be where people's how do you manage your stress? Well, but wait about what people that were listening to the show. They're addicted to different things right they're addicted to food.
[00:06:17] They have they have skewed relationships with their food. They're addicted to their cell phones. They can't be without like they get up in the morning. They go in the bathroom sit on the toilet bowl turn the cell phone on and they're already on Facebook before the sleep is even out of their eyes.
[00:06:31] And so when we talk about addictive qualities, don't just. Yourself because you don't have a drinking habit or a drug habit you have other habits that could and and what and what an addiction is is when you do something so frequently and you have to do it so frequently that it starts to invade in other areas of your life is your spouse.
[00:06:57] Thank you. Oh my God, you're always on that phone. Well, [00:07:00] maybe you are. It is any new sports addiction. Obviously, this country's got a food addiction issue and where I've seen it in my own personal life where you know, you know even sharing with between my mother and my father were my dad and I talked about my book had an alcohol addiction, but my mom had a food addiction and sometimes she would point the finger, you know, why kind of see it now as an adult where like you have a drinking problem you I quit drinking and those things because it was disrupting why.
[00:07:31] I also is it a doll? I looked and I noticed that her food addiction which caused lead to weight gain which leads to low self-confidence low self-esteem also held her back, right? So there's there's different addictions, you know, it's even you know, you know, I I'm a follower of Christ and I go to church and was a lot of times we talk about porn addiction and sex addiction and drug addiction alcohol addiction.
[00:07:56] But we know one thing we don't talk about that I mentioned when I was meeting with [00:08:00] surpassed the other day was we don't talk about our addiction to food. We have a lot of people in here that are type 2 diabetic and pre-diabetic and there have a lot of Health Systems that it doesn't we don't work for really talk about that addiction was food, especially this country.
[00:08:13] We it's okay and I'm used to a lot of problems. I'm glad you brought this up because I just found this study this morning that just was published in June. That show that you know when we talk about eating disorders, what do you think of when I say? Oh if I said you so and so has an eating disorder you think right away like anorexia, right?
[00:08:32] Bulimia, they're vomiting. Okay, but but OB obesity is an eating disorder if you eat so much that it becomes unhealthy. That's an eating disorder whether you're starving yourself or over feeding yourself, and there's a study that was published in June of this year. Excuse me through the department of.
[00:08:52] Psychiatry in Austria at the University of Innsbruck. They looked at the Aging male symptomatology. This is [00:09:00] Andrew pores and eating behaviors and they indicated that as men get older and their testosterone levels drop their cortisol levels rise, and they have Eating Disorders, but these Eating Disorders aren't starvation.
[00:09:15] Eating disorder. These are over eating disorder. So you see all these fat guys after they get 50 60 years old. It's because they've dominated to the food. Yeah, it's all about the dopamine's the W2 like whatever gets you that quote unquote high or can help balance out your when the stress hormones are high you feel stressed out and you can do something that actually makes you happy feel-good satisfy check the box of that then you begin to do it and the next thing you know, it's okay, and it's.
[00:09:43] You know doing a line of cocaine or eating a McDonald's number two, you know, if I were to say what's worse for you to do that once every other day. Everybody's going to be on board with the cocaine's it worsen and that saying either one are but the part is you make a [00:10:00] dress thing, but it's still an addiction.
[00:10:01] If you can't stop or you're doing something to the point like you said if you do something enough to where it's affecting other parts of your life. It's an addiction and a lot of people just this morning. I felt was going to ask me like, how do you define a drinking problem and for me with alcohol I say if you drink to intoxication.
[00:10:19] Ever you probably have a drinking problem. If you drink to intoxication often, you definitely have a drinking problem. Same thing with pot like if you smoke pot like after nine o'clock and want to watch a movie on Saturday night. I'm not judging you. You smoke pot every single morning. It's affecting the way, you know, you're still like.
[00:10:36] Were you you know where you were the last 10 years of life, even though your heart might be in a different place? Like it's like you said it's affecting your life. It's holding you back in life. You have a problem. And if your food that you're eating is adding to your whether it's your 40 pounds overweight.
[00:10:50] I'm not talking about muscle 40 pounds overweight because we know the m is different but I'm saying if you're that's overweight, you don't feel good about yourself accepting your self-esteem. And all those things are [00:11:00] standing behind the food that you're putting in your mouth. It's an addiction, you know, and it needs to be treated that way and you know, you know, I just I just gave up caffeine today is day number four zero caffeine.
[00:11:12] I've been struggling with caffeine and don't you for years now and I am a caffeine abuse. I will take caffeine supplements and drink copious amounts of coffee throughout the day and I'm you know, every day over a gram of caffeine is coming into my body and so forth a lot. Yes. It is a lot and I've been doing it for years and listen when I was powerlifting.
[00:11:37] I was doing six 600 milligrams of caffeine anhydrous to go to the gym in the morning and I'm telling you so I caffeine and I have had a battle for a long time. Four days ago today I decided no, you know when I was driving past the Starbucks, I was I had to talk myself out of going in there and getting a cup of coffee and that's the moment I thought about it.
[00:12:00] [00:12:00] That is the Hallmark of an addiction. If you can't just say stop. I'm not going to do this for a while as an experiment. You got a long life. You can do it in a year, but if you can't just go to yourself, I'm not going to do that. If you have to literally struggle every single day to talk yourself down from the from the precipice of going and doing that you're addicted to it.
[00:12:23] That's it. And the story I don't care. If it's your cell phone your coffe cup of coffee in the morning. If you can't just give it up because think about this Adam people always like to talk about. Wow, what if there was like an apocalypse? What if the world really went off the kilter we had to go into the Wilderness and live all these things that you can't live without that's what's going to crush you if you have to live without them.
[00:12:46] Oh, yeah, having balanced even you know, this sounds silly, but just to share a little bit with my cell phone addiction issues. I go to the gym almost every single morning, right and I had a back issue recently. In my I was [00:13:00] talking to a friend of mine and he's like, hey, man, take two weeks off the gym and I was like in my head.
[00:13:04] I'm like this crazy, but I felt I felt a lot better just took a lot of the strain at my back the thing about threats expiry had a past injury that was just clearing up and drive me nuts and I had to take time off to let it go down and I'm so grateful that I did but it was so hard for me to not go to the gym every morning right everyone.
[00:13:26] Right, I get up everyone. It's just part of my thing and it makes me feel good and like it's almost like I feel like I'm not totally woken up just like you probably feel that when you pull the caffeine out that I can just kind of like I'm not where I usually am and it's because of I didn't get that fixed because listen when you go and we're trained you releasing endorphins, there's a high that comes along with that and you get addicted to that.
[00:13:46] But now what I want to I want to stay with this for your illustration is actually perfect for this discussion and I'll tell you why because here's something that's actually good for you. So people in the audience are going yeah, but Adam, you just said how good you feel after that's good for you, [00:14:00] but.
[00:14:01] It was continuing to hurt your back. So it wasn't good for you anymore at that moment in time where you have to say to yourself. This is something that I know is good for me. But because my back is injured. It's no longer good for me. If you continue to go to the gym. Now you're at you you are an addict.
[00:14:15] There's no doubt in my mind about I mean every athlete that has tendonitis and knees and ankles and pure I have something in my achilles tendon right now and in a lot of that stuff it was the reason you have that is because you're not resting enough. You're not giving your body enough rest and if it have you have.
[00:14:30] Long time you it's because you're not in this people. I've talked to you especially clients of mine do the horrible Clinic that there they might have an injury or here there something like that. And when we talk they're you know, they're still trying to run that 10 miles that then they should be taking a month off but they can't you know, and because you get addicted to that high on the other side, right?
[00:14:54] It's it in our heads we think of it as a healthy - it's a better High than eat. Good fries, but [00:15:00] it's still anything that's affecting other areas of your life. You need to find it perfectly because it was affecting my back which is causing sleep issues. Just crab your throughout the day because I'm not in discomfort.
[00:15:11] I won't take pain medicine or some stuff like that. So it was causing other issues and then I backed off it and then when I went in I was on vacation and when I went on vacation to I was like I'm not working out while I'm on vacation. And I came back and I felt a hundred percent better. And now I'm going to the gym Still Still babying it a little bit going to the gym about every other day.
[00:15:30] And I noticed that that's kind of the pace until you know, my body is back to a hundred percent. I don't want to push it and so what happens is I took back control and that's that's the biggest part of I think is having that self-control weather. Going through stopping at Starbucks. If you said going through the drive-through on the way home as opposed to you know, making something at home or going grocery store instead or whatever.
[00:15:51] It might be. Yeah, I think it's always funny with like smokers. I see people like stayed out like I lived in Michigan for years and people outside and [00:16:00] it's like four degrees out and they're smoking cigarettes, and I'm just like. What you know about your attic, that's an addict. Yeah, blizzard.
[00:16:08] That's right. Yeah, I want to I want to take a break and when we come back, I want to tie this back into the discussion of testosterone because what we're illustrating here. First of all is the vast Cornucopia of addiction that we all live with that. We don't call it diction number one, but number two, I want to tie it back to stress self-medication.
[00:16:33] Because that stress or looking at testosterone as an alternative if someone is in fact having problems with addiction one of the things that their physician should be looking at is their testosterone levels. I want to talk about that when we come back. Okay, Adam. I stay tuned. We'll be right back with more.
[00:16:53] Welcome back. To the ReNew Life Show with Adam Lamb So Adam is one of [00:17:00] our sponsors renewed life RX. It's hard to spot. I get a lot of messages from people. Who reached out to Adam? He's that point person and have said wow. This dude is really cool. I called about HRT. He wasn't pushy. He gave me some really great information.
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[00:18:03] Then becoming a client of ours or it leads them to further look into it. We just want to be a place to help and you know anyone that's interested in that process. Yeah, absolutely. So now let's come back around and discuss HRT for a second so we know that there are studies out there that show that as you age your testosterone levels drop if you're a man and if you're a woman to this is true, but remember.
[00:18:31] And response time to issues slow down your ability to cope with stress gets lower and lower you you get stressed out about everything you even say to people God. I don't know you think back at when I was young none of this stuff bothered me. Yeah. There's a reason why it's not just because you're getting older it's because testosterone levels are dropping.
[00:18:55] And what we do is we self-medicate when we don't feel good. We turn to [00:19:00] things that make us feel good whether momentarily like like the Facebook or a little bit longer like food or for a really long time like booze and drugs and alcohol and everything else. So right the one of the things that you need to think about is before I start self-medicating maybe all I really need to do is get my hormones tested and see what needs to be leveled out, right?
[00:19:23] I think that you know, and it's very there's a deep part of it often with the hormones, you know, we stay really in a surface level of you know, the hormones and what it does to my body and physically in the muscles and things like that. But what often gets left off of table is the psychological part, you know, and some things are body we.
[00:19:44] Don't always realize it people as our bodies are managing things in the background, right? They're processing all this data information everything. You're looking smelling feeling see all those things. Our bodies are working on including stress. So certain situations that [00:20:00] may not stress you out whether you can going through doing I think yoga is great meditation is great learning how to manage your stress and learning how to manage how you react to one of the biggest problems.
[00:20:11] I've seen this country's the way people react to something as a it's a control thing that mechanism would them with the comes a certain point that your their stress that's going on in the background. Your cortisol levels are rising and you don't really have anything to fight that going on in your body and it's creating an unhealthy State inside it what we've seen is that increased to testosterone levels or optimize tops testosterone levels in men and women is he's what really helps that and just feedback from, you know, tons of clients and saying I find myself making decisions easier.
[00:20:48] Listen if you struggle to make. You are going to have stress right but in the more confident, if you're insecure, you're going to have stress, right if you're rolling into meetings and you're [00:21:00] feeling subpar about yourself about your decisions all that stuff. It could be testosterone based and too much testosterone also make you.
[00:21:09] You're better than you are stronger than you are better than all those kind of things as well. But I think having that good balance is what we try to get clients in. Yeah, we're not we're not talking about those. We're not talking about those super physiological levels. Those have their own set of impairments.
[00:21:24] If you will just getting back to physiological levels of testosterone that are the same as they were when you were young. That is what we'll put the fire back in your life. You know, I I've told this story. A thousand times on this show, but I'll tell it again just in case there's somebody out there didn't hear it.
[00:21:45] But in 2007, I went on HRT and within two weeks, I felt like somebody turned the lights back on in my life. My marriage was already crumbling but all of a sudden I had the energy to be [00:22:00] courting again. I just didn't want to stay in my marriage. It was it was destroyed, but you know if. The analogy I used back then was if you lived in a room a big warehouse and it had 100 really bright light bulbs in it the day that you were born and every single year one light bulb went out.
[00:22:20] So just transition was very very minimal. You didn't really notice it from year to year. But then after your 40 is 40 lightbulbs out and somebody comes in and replaces all those light bulbs in one day. You would go holy F I can't. How bright it is in here this how bright it used to be in my life way back.
[00:22:41] When yeah, that is it. That is it that is it you you will feel alive again. You don't know you don't feel alive. You don't know you don't feel alive right now because the transition from here two years just a little bit a little bit a little bit and that's why the number [00:23:00] one thing that the clients that we work with notice.
[00:23:03] Is it just everything is just better, right? You're still going to have stress? Your kids are still going to drive you nuts. You're still going to get a cold from time to time you I didn't get the flu. Most of our clients. Do you stay healthier? So the life still going to throw curve balls at you, but you can manage those curveballs better you feel better about yourself.
[00:23:23] You're out. Like you said the light bulbs have been turned back on and you can manage things better. You just don't hire. Playing field, you know, I mean it's so like if I gave you a large income increase your Lifestyles just gets a little bit better right easier process less stuff and it's a similar situation.
[00:23:39] I think with the testosterone that we do and going back to the stress part is it's an opportunity for that that back-end subconscious chemical stress that's going on in your body with the Rays cortisol levels a lot of my clients. You'll have high stress jobs. They're responsible for lots of money [00:24:00] or there was the other they're doing things that just, you know, high-stress situations.
[00:24:04] I know a lot of us all we all think we're in high stress situations that we create more stress in our life that we need to but it really helps and that's the part. I think that sometimes people don't understand I was listening to clients. Do there's a lot of my clients don't work out it might stay active.
[00:24:20] But the reason they're doing testosterone is they need it to just keep them love about. In this world, right? Whether it's because they're getting old version. They are running out of the energy, you know, a lot of it has to do with stress. All right. So it's a it's a fantastic way to combat things in your life that it really should be the first place to start when if you're looking at your health ears like this.
[00:24:46] Don't feel don't like what like you said. It's a little darker. I'm noticing it just doesn't feel the way it used to feel. The first thing you should do is check your hormones and obviously do our Clinic we [00:25:00] create a super streamlined path that we can get someone out within 24 hours to get there what we looked at and then, you know within 36 to 72 hours.
[00:25:09] We have results back we can tell him hey. It is your hormones or guess what? It's not let's figure something else out everything that we talked about a lot with hydration that a class talks to this morning. He's having so many issues and I was like Jeff how much water you drink it? He's like, I don't know maybe a bottle of water or two a day.
[00:25:26] You know, I've got two cups of coffee in the morning three vodkas at night. I'm like, that's why you feel like shit, but you're having two cups of coffee and they wanted two cups of your vodka. I was like, there's no water between he switches hydration and he crazy better. That's always just those kind of things.
[00:25:45] You know that can help you better opportunity in life for feeling good. We're going to take a break when we come back. Excuse me, man. I have had something going on the past couple days. [00:26:00] Yeah it is. Well, it's raining so much. I think there's a lot of mold right now. We're going to come back and talk about something that was really surprising to me too.
[00:26:08] And that is the fact that. If you have high testosterone naturally or you're an athlete or you're on HRT, there's a greater emphasis on having essential amino acids in your diet to protect your spine your spine. We're going to learn more about that from Adam Lamb in just a minute. Stay tuned.
[00:26:28] Welcome back. to the ReNew Life Show with Adam Lambert. So tell me about this tell me about this. This is really interesting. So high testosterone levels of demand higher essential amino acid intake. Yes. I'll tell you a quick Baxter in it. Obviously I get to work with some really cool people as clients of mine through the years and one of them's doctors and energy doctor.
[00:26:54] So he does is to and he is refers a ton of clients are wearing Because he believes in what we're doing. [00:27:00] He's also a client as well. But what he does is people go to him to check energy levels and deficiencies in their body. So you really goes to and seas were deficiencies. Are he uncovers some things with hormones and then shipped to the sample over to us to take a deeper dive.
[00:27:14] But what he was doing was some clients to is looking at with himself personally and some other clients was from seeing his body being a higher testosterone levels required higher. Essential amino acid function and what we found is that this easiest way for the body to pull off that out is in the spinal area.
[00:27:38] And he said so you go and it was pretty eye-opening because I'm a I've had my issues. I know a lot of people that have taken, you know testosterone for long periods of time, especially, you know, my younger years. Lots of excessive doses have had back spine. Neck issues. I'm actually getting cervical disc replacement [00:28:00] surgery on the 21st.
[00:28:02] Well, yeah, it's too bad that you seen it pull it can pull from that area and that he found that increasing here just just over-the-counter essential amino acid. Helped balance that out. It said that the to stop the increase testosterone needed more essential amino acids. And so it was pulling from that.
[00:28:21] So if you supplement with essential amino acids, or have a higher amount of them in your body, you should be fine. But if you're deficient in some sort in your on higher doses at the stas thrown that it can actually create weakness in the spine. Well, so let's expand on that for a second. So so first of all, most of us are eating high protein diet, So we would have brought any of essential amino acids, but when you look at some of the spinal problems that plague the bodybuilding Community which we know that they have very very high testosterone levels.
[00:28:52] I mean crazy high. Yeah, I had to go the other day is just doesn't like 6800 I said and he was young. He [00:29:00] was like 27 you want to take a look at it? I said, you know, I've never seen that before in my life. Well, he's got to be he's got to be injecting something that he doesn't have picking. He's digging Arsenal's of things and he had his blood work done and he just.
[00:29:12] He's kind of a friend of a friend just wanted our opinion on from Health like, you know, we don't work with guys under 30, but it just he want to see how bad he was doing it. Listen. I've seen some of the top Pro. Mr. Olympia contenders stuff. I've seen their schedules. I've seen their blood work.
[00:29:29] Nothing is better that when you're taking the when you taking doses that are higher than your bodies using. You're obviously using it. But you're you're doing other things like we're talking about right now where you're taxing your essential amino acid stuff that could lead to an injury. Well, so so I talked about my bloodwork recently.
[00:29:49] I got my blood work back. You know, I tell everybody else. I'll get you blood work every year but I haven't had blood work done for two years. So shame on me, and I've been I've been working on. [00:30:00] a new testosterone preparation for daily injection. And I've been using it and so. I had got my blood work back and my total testosterone was 30 150.
[00:30:16] And my free test was 745 nanograms. I guess it's a deciliter. Is that right? Your blood work. Did you inject the same day add one more time? Well, I was injecting daily, but I don't think I injected that day now. I don't think I did that. We have we have everybody do anything the morning of blood work hormone wise just yeah, you're not supposed to use especially if you're using troll keys or creams because of the because what ends up in serum very quickly Rises, you know for 12 hours, but I don't think I injected that day in all fairness.
[00:30:54] My DHEA was way too high because I supplement with too much DHEA, but. [00:31:00] I have now taken two weeks off. The Saturday will be two weeks since I've had any testosterone injections and I'm going to wait a little while longer because I wanted to come down. I don't want it at 31. I want around 1100. I'm really happy at 1100.
[00:31:14] That's why I'm a queen injecting its preparation is Believe It or Not Just 350 milligrams a week to 50 milligrams a day. Seven days a week just 350 milligrams a week was turning into that and that's it's a totally new preparation. It's like I said, I'm I've been working on this for quite some time.
[00:31:34] Now, I believe daily injections will ultimately be the final frontier for male testosterone preparations because you can put the book The gels and the creams have a benefit they cause less HPT. Because you rub it on in the morning after your shower and it's gone and at night your body tries to pulse a little testosterone in the middle of the night, [00:32:00] but the long-acting Esters they stay foot on the gas pedal for days on end.
[00:32:06] There's no pulse no pulse. The pulse is gone. And so but the problem with the creams is you have inadequate absorption. You have skin issues cosmetic issues you have. Transference the children issues you have compliance issues where people don't want to rub an alcohol gel on their body every day.
[00:32:27] So they take the ultimate way to do. This would be to have a man inject a small amount of not fast acting and not slow acting but a moderate release testosterone preparation and that moderate releases created by the Depo in the skin not by. I'm using a different type of Esther you still using a you still use base testosterone.
[00:32:53] Let me walk through if you don't mind a little bit thought on that just because you know, it's interesting that [00:33:00] because we do something entirely different. So I want to touch on a few points though with that. So the more so first let's talk about the cream. So because what you know, it's cool at hearing what you're saying because it's also sometimes where I hear from clients.
[00:33:15] And there's a lot more to it. And that's why I wanted to share with you. Please please for example the creams that we use are alcohol-based. But so the one thing and the cream we have clients do in the morning and that a.m. And p.m. And the reason we do that is that when you think of it as you're putting this, you're almost we've seen with bodies respond.
[00:33:36] So if you do whether it's daily injections bi-weekly, You know once a week whatever it might be that you're doing your injections. The dosage is still high enough to where you will get negative effects on your LH and FSH level and eventually your shbg level, but with the cream with the daily dose twice a day.
[00:33:56] So a the shell in the morning, I rub my forearms [00:34:00] and actually do a video next week of just to show it's like under 30 seconds dry in absorb into the skin a good precedent for sure. And then at night before I go to bed, I do the same thing either back of the knee or forms might stop and stays right about 1,200 with that and we have and I'll share because he said we can all share a little bit with a retired Pro bodybuilder Shelby Starnes.
[00:34:26] He was I said, he said we tried the Confederacy. You never done it. Let's do it. So because he's a client of ours. The reason I'm sharing is because we have a contract. He said I can okay the health benefits and he's like, I want you to share those people so they understand and he does the same thing.
[00:34:46] You can check it on Facebook page. So we actually had to drop his dose because it to pumps in the morning two pumps at night, which is the standard dose had him up to 1500. He said I don't want to be that high anymore. So we took them down [00:35:00] to two and one which got him. I think right around that 1100 rain.
[00:35:04] And so I say that because it's always a guy who's you know, he's pretty renowned when it comes to health Dennis and bodybuilding and keeping up on his help and things like that. And so I share that because I wanted him to see he's like man, I can't believe it in. The rest of these levels is LDL or I'm sorry HDL, which is always been a problem that the best it's been in ten years, but his other other levels LHS, the things have improved better than they've ever been in ten years.
[00:35:31] So I say that because. It's the creams and gels and all that stuff. That's out. There are not created equally AndroGel, like for example some personally I wouldn't use I tried it when I was really young doctor put me on it and I didn't feel good with it wasn't good. There is a lot of risk with transferring it in the grease in the world that stuff like the pillow and she would the cream that we use specifically for with the compound pharmacies.
[00:35:57] We work with doesn't have that. You have a [00:36:00] five to ten year old. Kids and my wife was very affectionate family. I've been doing group of three years. No one's got a mustache or go to your deep voice. Hey buddy, it comes down to responsibility. You know, I talked to a guy one time is it got bent on the gel stuff?
[00:36:16] I don't want to do. And I was like, well, he said I did a bad thing my daughter it in a way that gets contracted. My daughters will what happens if we had rub it all over my chest you're not supposed to do he's like an if she's you know, she's upset or something. I'm picking up hearing her with his shirt off and I'm like do you got have common sense right like you you wouldn't.
[00:36:35] You wouldn't put your alcohol in the same cup that looks like the sippy cup of your kids couple. I just write the sinking, right so was common sense because most of our clients do the cream in there very very happy with it. And the I guess the biggest point is that hemoglobin haematocrit your HDL LDL all these things your loom as normal fossils familiar.
[00:36:56] They don't get it bad if they do on injections the third [00:37:00] we've seen from a negative side with the self injections. Other than some people there's just not touching needle, you know, a lot of the guys that are out there that are curious about hormones or curious about HRT. They don't know that they don't have to put a needle in their arm, right?
[00:37:16] And so even what we've seen with some people doing that affirmative doing Sub-Q injections, and he stopped he was doing them. For years. I said a lot of those little fatty pockets in his Sub-Q area. They have these little tiny marbles that were almost, you know, like little tiny bubble bubble things in the skin from just don't know if it's left over Scar Tissue.
[00:37:39] No, I know I'll tell you what it is because this is something that I've been working on for a long time. They're injecting directly into a fatso. And it's getting silicone molds or something. Yeah, they injected directly into a Sub-Q fat cell and they're basically Plumping it up and then nothing comes out.
[00:37:55] It just stays in there. And this is yeah. This has happened a lot. The other problem with the Sub-Q [00:38:00] injections is most of these guys are using oils that are designed for intramuscular. They have benzyl alcohol in them. And when you inject them Sub-Q in an area that has a lot of Sub-Q fat. It actually causes a fibrosis of the fat and the fat becomes hard and I because I know I know a body builder who competed and you know, he got shredded and he had what looked like it was looked like somebody cut a slot in the side of his body and put.
[00:38:34] An index finger in there and then sewed it back up. He had this lump this long lump where he had been injecting Sub-Q and all and all the skin under there was all it was all necrotized at and fibrotic. So, you know, you can't you can't just take these oils that are made for intramuscular injection and inject them under your skin.
[00:38:54] If you have a lot of Sub-Q fat if you're really lean and you have paper-thin [00:39:00] skin. Then you can it won't it won't because what it will do is it will get picked up by the local capillaries and it'll get transferred out. But if you're injecting it into a pad of fat it all it does is hard in the fat up and it causes swelling and a little a lot of Edema and then eventually it turns into fibrotic tissue.
[00:39:22] That's the mistake that these guys were all telling people. Oh do Sub-Q injections with oil. No. It's not made for that. That's why I've been working on this project for the past two years now. Kids are asleep. And I think that that's where you know, there's what one thing I think is a great takeaway for everybody on that is.
[00:39:42] Is making sure you understand the full conversation not part of it, right? Because someone could say well my go do some q but they need to understand is the oil-based testosterone. It's designed for intramuscular. It's not what you're supposed to use just in same thing with the cream is are seeing that a topical [00:40:00] testosterone doesn't have to be some greasy oily thing or well, I know there were some really really yeah, there's some really good less at than based Organo gels that a lot of these.
[00:40:09] Compounding pharmacist make now that a superior they'll deliver a lot of what's in there there. They have great great cosmetic great cosmetic qualities when they dry quickly they make your skin actually look good. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, but my sister own cream dose that I take every day is the equivalent to 200 milligrams, but you're correct.
[00:40:32] Not everybody absorbed. Equally and that's why we do follow up. Right we do we check the blood work eight weeks in let's see how things are going because I have there's a guy can think of who's 270 power time. He played college and pro football big dude lean and shape his he can do that. He does the two pumps and p.m.
[00:40:53] And we had to bring him down because he was up over over 1,500. So we want to bring him down a little bit, but I'll have a hundred seventy pound [00:41:00] guy who's just kind of normal bill. Who the two pumps in the like you posit night keeps him at like seven or eight hundred right? Because his absorption is different.
[00:41:09] It's also recent human error with application, especially Sometimes women hydration about hydration hydration, and there's just our skin is different, right? Everybody metabolizes drugs differently just like you could do a shot of testosterone today and it might peak in your system. Very quick and it's other people won't be consistent for 18 hours because everybody's body doesn't have ice terms differently.
[00:41:32] And so we do that with our clients to or that's why we were so aggressive with our follow-up is because you we may have you taking something and before bed. You actually need to take it noon, right or vice versa. Just do it hits the system the proper way and those are things like from up from proper hormone standpoint that the primary care is probably not doing they're not for the part about happen in the phone with you.
[00:41:55] Every few days in those first couple weeks just to make sure that everything is as close to [00:42:00] perfect as possible and that we're exploring every option things like that because then it gets a point to work. Yeah. We talked once a month because we've dialed in in soon as opposed to all right, come back into your check up 90 days later.
[00:42:13] We check your blood. This isn't right. Let's try this for another 90 days. Right? So we want to we usually try to get a liberty sorted out because you're right the different not everybody is created equally they don't not everybody needs, you know, the X amount of estrogen or HCG those kind of things.
[00:42:31] So we just we keep that's why it's important to personalize that stuff to make sure that your efficient without taking more or less. Right? Right. No. No, I get it it and it's very it's very individual as you point out. It's very individual some guys one thing work some guys another thing works, but the bottom line is to get started.
[00:42:51] If you're if you're in your 40s, you need to think about it. You need to start thinking about HRT. There's no doubt about it. I mean you could mean you don't [00:43:00] have to but your quality of your life will definitely be impaired. There's no doubt in my mind about I say that I say that unabashedly because there's a lot of people out there like, oh no, How about workplace therapies dangerous?
[00:43:11] It's not if testosterone is dangerous. It would be dangerous when we're 16 and 19 years old when it's raging in our bodies. You know, we're not we're not deficient and antidepressants. We're not deficient in blood pressure meds. We you know, we're not deficient in cholesterol meds were deficient in testosterone.
[00:43:30] Why not replace that? So, I mean, I just want more men to explore this because it's a very very important. Norman understand that it's not something to be ashamed of because you have low testosterone. It's like someone saying they can't get an erection. That's exactly what wait. What wait a minute.
[00:43:47] I got to ask you a question. So how many times have you ever in your in your life since you've been doing this bin somewhere and someone said to you? So what do you do Adam and you kind of get into and say and talk [00:44:00] about it? Well, I don't need testosterone and I got I'm finding that department immediately.
[00:44:04] They think they can talk about erection. Right. Yeah, it will be though things like that and you can have a great libido in your body still not functioning properly why they're still not recovering plenty of times. But what I've seen the most we come call from an industry that's in the know in this space.
[00:44:24] But when you step, you know, a few folks outside of our reach that know nothing about this. Still men, they're still in their 40s. They're still experiencing low testosterone and they don't know it yet because they don't know about and they think there's something wrong with them. Like here's the deal man.
[00:44:43] If you're over 38 actually is a is the marker where most most men have a significant decrease in testosterone by the time the 38 and even more now than there was in the ring studies from 10 years ago 15 years or 20 years ago are irrelevant because. [00:45:00] The the things in our that we deal with now from a food standpoint environmental all that stuff is so much different than it was sent and those are a lot of the things that are leading to low testosterone in men today.
[00:45:12] And so if you're in your 40s to check and not just about testosterone because you might have good sister own, but you might have. Renal function LH and FSH levels or the absorption at the stops on your free test is too high those kind of things. Just something in there. If you don't feel great. If you feel like a million bucks, you're chasing your wife around the house.
[00:45:33] You're working out getting recovery. You're probably fine. I thought the guys sometimes in their 60s that I got is recently out of Jersey. He's at super cool guy came is to stop stones at like 750. Wow, you're home. Whatever you're doing keep doing it. Well, then I would love to I would love to ask him what he's doing.
[00:45:49] That's what I'd like to know what I did. Yeah. I mean now he does take blood pressure medicine in those quantities dollars and like you probably don't even need all that stuff, you know, because and [00:46:00] so he just he so we didn't explore testosterone and but we still see that with men and he's healthy staying active doing the right things.
[00:46:09] But all that all helps, right? Yep. Yep. So if people want to reach out to them, they can go to superhuman radio dotnet and click the ReNew Life RX Banner ad or they can go directly to renew life RX.com and set up a phone call. You know, they call it a consultation. It's a phone call got them is on the phone answers your questions talk to you and you know what it maybe you don't even want to think about hormone replacement therapy at all.
[00:46:42] Just call Adam and say heard you on the show, very interesting stuff. Maybe you have some questions Adam has a lot of answers and he could help you if they want to email me directly and Carl, you know, I consider your your listeners or friends of mine and a sense. And if they want to email me Adam at [00:47:00] ReNew Life are x.com because you have talked to quite a few even listens for all a lot of them were just said in that you actually the conversations that you can call had.
[00:47:10] Push me over the kind of fence a little bit to just have a conversation because he's they don't want to talk to their doctor. They don't they're scared to approach the doctor. They don't know. Well your buddy at the gym or is your friend at work? That's not maybe not that's not the comfortable.
[00:47:26] Call me. We'll talk about it. You know, we can talk about those things and the pros the cons. Do you have to be on it forever, you know other video series coming out of the weren't addressed ton of these questions. I keep notes and some of the questions you get repeated over and over there also some videos out there to help turn the lights on for those people to understand that it's something to pursue, you know your blood work done.
[00:47:48] Find out and then make a decision. Yep. Yep. There you go. And we will see we will be talking with Adam every third every other Thursday on the show. So if you have any questions or anything you want us to cover [00:48:00] in this show. All you have to do is email me at on are at superhuman radio dotnet. I will forward the email on to Adam and we will cover it as a topic on a future show.
[00:48:12] So there you go, and maybe I'll even come up with a prize. Okay, so here's the deal. Anybody who sends in a topic to the show, I will gift them $200 worth of product. From prototype nutrition Pat Arnold's company because I have credit over there with them for advertising that they did and we were supposed to give about your product away.
[00:48:38] We never did. So if you send in the first person who sends in a question and if we use your questions. On the next show. I'll give you $200 worth of product. I'll put you in touch with them. You can order it directly in they'll send it directly to you. Think about great very very Advanced products of prototype nutrition.
[00:48:57] So, how's that sound? It's all there you [00:49:00] go, and you know what and and and don't be afraid don't think my questions not going to be the first one. I'm not going to bother because I'll send out some consolation gifts. I have some I have some live on Labs lipo see laying around here. I'll send you a couple boxes video call on that.
[00:49:16] I'll say I have a no stupid question rule meaning that no question is stupid because I'll tell you. There's more times. I've had clients think this question was stupid. And actually it was it was a good question that had it been asked but of address something much sooner right was no stupid questions are you going on in there?
[00:49:34] Is this stupid questions, but there's no serious stupid question. So submit your question to on air at Super Mario dotnet if your question is selected to receive a gift. There you go. How's that? I Adam, so I'll see you in two weeks, bro. All right, we won't thank you. Thank you and I am going to run a commercial here and I got some things to talk about when come back stay tuned.
[00:49:57] Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. [00:50:00] So I want to talk about something real quick, and then I'll let you guys go. So today is day four of being completely caffeine free and more importantly coffee free. I have suspected that coffee has been doing something. Let's just say unsavory with my stomach for a long time now.
[00:50:19] and I even posted something on Facebook one day and I said. 76 percent of people claim to have digestive issues and gut disorders and 67% or 69 percent of Americans say they drink coffee everyday. Is there a connection? I do believe there is I do believe there is I know that we're being told that coffee is so good for us and it does so many beneficial things for us.
[00:50:49] But you know from an evolutionary perspective. I don't know how many thousands of years we've been drinking coffee, but it definitely has been Millions. I know [00:51:00] that. and. Coffee is an interesting porridge. If you will, you know, most of us think it's a drink but it's more of a porridge because this this particulate matter suspended in the coffee that makes it brown and makes it murky and makes it dark and when you use too much coffee, you know, because there's mud at the bottom of the glass.
[00:51:24] Well, that's just the mud That Couldn't float anymore because there was no room for it to float anymore because the water or the liquid was saturated completely with all of its other brothers and sisters. I have starting to think that using a coffee filter is probably a good idea because you get a lot of that out, but you don't get all of it out.
[00:51:47] Otherwise the coffee would be clear yet. Okay, and I and also the size of coffee today, you know, our parents drank four ounce cup of coffee. [00:52:00] And they usually drink one or two. But today we get you know. They're like gallon jugs with handles on them full of coffee. And then there's the larger Boutique coffees that are 20 or more ounces.
[00:52:14] So coffee. We're drinking coffee lot more often were drinking a lot more coffee and we're drinking a lot of coffee that has a lot of turbidity and I really think that coffee is effing up peoples guts. I really do so, I'm off coffee for four days now. And I definitely feel better in my gut no doubt about it, and I can only imagine that it's going to get better and better with every day that passes but I'm also not using caffeine right because I've gone off coffee in the past and I've continued to use caffeine supplements caffeine pills the stuff you buy at the gas stations the 357 Magnum 200 milligrams of caffeine plus assorted other pharmaceutical drugs, probably in there [00:53:00] and.
[00:53:01] I've never truly been off of caffeine completely cause even when I've told you that I've kicked caffeine. I still had you know, matcha tea powder in the morning that I threw down my throat or two black tea bags and hot water and okay. So people going to say yeah, but that's not a lot of caffeine.
[00:53:19] That's probably only like maybe 50 milligrams of caffeine in that in that whole thing. And while that's true. It's still caffeine. It's still some amount of caffeine. The I've never been caffeine-free completely ever before. Well, I have been in the past for a short period of time but in the past 20 years, I have not been really caffeine free of any length of time and I am not going to be using caffeine anymore.
[00:53:46] My sleep has already improved last night. I slept deeper. I didn't get up to go peepee in the middle of the night. I woke up at 5 a.m. Very refreshed. I thought I was I'm not going to go to the gym today. I wonder if I could fall [00:54:00] back to sleep because I never can fall back to sleep never ever ever ever when I wake up if I wake up at 4 a.m.
[00:54:05] 4:30 5:00, 5:30. I could lay there for 10 hours. I'm not going to fall back asleep, and I know that by now so I get out of bed. But this morning I thought I woke up at 5 and I thought I wonder if I could fall back to sleep. I'm not going to go to the gym today. Let me just say and I did I fell back to sleep for almost an hour and a half.
[00:54:25] That's rare for me never happens hasn't happened since I was a young kid young man. so. So far this experiment which I'll keep you posted on is working out pretty good if it improves my sleep, that's a win right there. Let's be honest every anything improves your sleep means you're going to be healthier in the long run and leaner by the way, and I'm not too shabby in the gym.
[00:54:52] I definitely feel I don't have the mental energy to push as hard right now, but it'll come back. Monotone, but I'm [00:55:00] still strong enough to use the weights. I've been using before but I just don't seem to feel like I want and that's it. I don't quote unquote want to do as many reps right now. That's how I feel.
[00:55:10] I just don't really want to do as many reps. So it's going to take some time for my brain to get caught back up on that living without caffeine. Maya my memory has suffered over the past few days in the show. I couldn't recall somebody's name. I had trouble coming up with words. That doesn't feel so bad today.
[00:55:31] I kind of feel more clear-headed. Actually. I started feeling clear-headed yesterday afternoon. I'm also fasting a lot because I know that. Fasting has a higher priority on the scale of needs of the body than coping with caffeine withdrawal. So I thought well if I give the body something to cope with that's more important than caffeine withdrawal.
[00:55:52] That'll kind of take the. Body's response up higher than just dealing with the caffeine withdrawal [00:56:00] and by not eating throughout the day. I know I'm always clear headed because I'm running on more ketones. And so that's working for me. So this is going to be interesting. I would Challenge and you know, what I talked about the beginning of the show with Adam is true.
[00:56:16] I have been addicted to caffeine every I passed the Starbucks on my way to the studio every single day and I have to talk myself out of pulling. I'm trying to justify. Well just one cup. Is it really a lot of caffeine? No, I promised myself. No caffeine. I didn't say for how long two weeks two months two years.
[00:56:35] I didn't I just I'm off caffeine right now and I have to talk myself out of stopping at Starbucks and drive past it. Then I passed the convenience store that's on the corner and I know they have coffee but it's crappy and this morning I almost went maybe I'll just pull that have a small coffee. No, I have to stop myself.
[00:56:54] I go. Wait a minute. This is the diction talking to you. This is your addictive [00:57:00] brain trying to convince you that you can't live without this. Of course I can live without it. The truth of the matter is I can have a high quality life for them till the day. I die without another cup of coffee and or caffeine pills.
[00:57:15] But the brain is funny man at Wants What It Wants and it tries to trick you up and and trip you up and make you do the things that it wants you to do. So this is going to be interesting. I am really excited. I got to tell you the truth. I got a funny feeling that it's going to open up new doors for health and performance for me by finally giving up the scourge that has haunted me for so long and that is caffeine.
[00:57:41] So stay with me as I talk more about this in upcoming shows and what I start to notice about how I feel how I perform how I sleep. It should be interesting and maybe I'll Inspire some of you to try this yourself. Are you addicted to caffeine admit it? My name is Carla nor and I am a caffeine addict.
[00:58:00] [00:58:00] But it ain't got no control on me. Now. I'm fighting back. I will see you next week. Thanks for listening.
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