How I Feel With Low Estrogen Vs High Estrogen

Summary

In this video, the speaker, Derek, discusses the importance of understanding one's estrogen levels and the potential dangers of self-diagnosis without blood work. He shares personal experiences with high, normal, and low estrogen levels, highlighting symptoms such as erectile dysfunction, loss of libido, and physical changes. Derek emphasizes the role of estrogen in maintaining a healthy sex drive and the risks of mismanaged hormone balance, urging viewers to educate themselves and seek professional guidance for hormone-related health issues.

Takeaways

• 🚫 Self-diagnosing hormone levels without blood work is not recommended and can lead to mismanagement of hormone balance.
• 💊 The use of aromatase inhibitors (AIs) without understanding one's hormone levels can result in excessively low estrogen levels.
• 🔄 Hormone balance is crucial, as both high and low estrogen levels can have negative impacts on health and libido.
• 🌡 High estrogen levels can cause erectile dysfunction, even with sufficient androgen levels and the use of PDE5 inhibitors.
• 🛌 Morning erections can be an indicator of a healthy estrogen to androgen balance, suggesting a 'sweet spot' in hormone levels.
• 📉 Low estrogen levels can lead to a loss of libido and sexual interest, to the point of becoming asexual.
• 👨‍⚕️ The importance of proper hormone management is emphasized, as improper use of hormones can have detrimental effects on physical and sexual health.
• 💡 The speaker shares personal experiences to provide a framework for understanding the symptoms of high and low estrogen levels.
• 🚶‍♂️ A significant drop in sexual interest and activity was personally experienced when estrogen levels were too low.
• 🧠 Estrogen plays a key role in regulating sex drive, and its absence or insufficiency can lead to a lack of sexual desire.
• 📚 Education on the benefits and proper management of estrogen is crucial for maintaining overall health and sexual function.

Q & A

What is the primary purpose of the video?

The video aims to provide a framework for individuals to understand the symptoms of high and low estrogen levels, based on the speaker's personal experiences, and to caution against self-diagnosis without blood work.

Why does the speaker advise against self-diagnosing without blood work?

The speaker advises against it because without proper blood work, individuals may mismanage their hormone levels, leading to potential health issues such as extreme estrogen levels causing erectile dysfunction or low estrogen leading to a loss of libido.

What is an aromatase inhibitor and why might someone misuse it?

An aromatase inhibitor is a drug that reduces estrogen levels by inhibiting the enzyme aromatase. Misuse can occur when individuals use it without understanding their current hormone balance, potentially leading to dangerously low estrogen levels.

What are some symptoms the speaker associates with high estrogen levels?

High estrogen levels, according to the speaker, can cause difficulty in maintaining an erection, even with the use of PDE5 inhibitors like Viagra and Cialis, despite having a high libido.

What does the speaker refer to as the 'sweet spot' for estrogen levels?

The 'sweet spot' refers to an optimal balance of estrogen and androgen levels where the individual experiences no erectile dysfunction issues, wakes up with morning wood, and has a healthy libido.

What are some signs of low estrogen levels as described by the speaker?

Low estrogen levels can result in a loss of libido, hair loss, and a general lack of interest in sexual activity. The speaker also mentions that low estrogen can make it difficult to achieve or maintain an erection.

Why does the speaker mention the importance of not overusing AIS in HRT?

Overusing aromatase inhibitors (AIS) can lead to excessively low estrogen levels, which can negatively impact not only bodybuilding progress and body composition but also sexual function and overall well-being.

What is the speaker's opinion on self-induced desensitization to sexual stimuli?

The speaker suggests that self-induced desensitization, such as excessive use of pornography, can lead to erectile dysfunction and a decreased sex drive, which can complicate the self-diagnosis of hormone levels.

How does the speaker describe the impact of low estrogen on his personal life?

The speaker describes a period in his life where low estrogen levels, caused by the use of letrozole, led to a complete loss of interest in women and sexual activity, resulting in the termination of relationships and a focus solely on bodybuilding.

What is the role of estrogen in regulating sex drive according to the speaker?

According to the speaker, estrogen plays a crucial role in regulating sex drive. High levels can lead to erectile dysfunction despite a high libido, while extremely low levels can lead to asexuality and a lack of interest in sexual activity.

Why does the speaker emphasize the importance of blood work in understanding hormone levels?

The speaker emphasizes blood work because it provides accurate information on hormone levels, which is essential for proper hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and avoiding the health risks associated with imbalanced hormone levels.

Outlines

00:00

🚫 Warning Against Self-Diagnosis of Estrogen Levels

The speaker strongly advises against self-diagnosing estrogen levels without professional blood work, as it can lead to mismanagement of hormone levels. They share personal experiences with high, normal, and critically low estrogen levels, emphasizing the risks of using remedies without proper knowledge. The speaker discusses the potential for a vicious cycle of self-treatment without understanding one's hormone balance, which can result in severe health issues such as heart disease.

05:00

📈 Personal Experiences with Estrogen Levels

The speaker recounts their personal journey with varying estrogen levels, detailing the symptoms they experienced at each level. They describe the challenges of high estrogen, such as erectile dysfunction despite high libido, and the stark contrast of low estrogen, which led to a loss of sexual interest and function. The speaker uses their experiences to provide a reference for others who may be considering self-diagnosis, highlighting the importance of blood work and professional guidance in hormone management.

10:01

💊 The Importance of Balanced Estrogen Levels

The speaker discusses the broader implications of estrogen on health and well-being, beyond just sexual function. They explain that estrogen plays a crucial role in muscle growth, fat loss, and even neuroprotection. The speaker warns against the overuse of aromatase inhibitors, which can lead to dangerously low estrogen levels and associated health risks. They also criticize the lack of understanding among some healthcare providers regarding hormone replacement therapy, urging viewers to educate themselves on the benefits of estrogen and the importance of maintaining a balanced hormone profile.

Keywords

💡Estrogen

Estrogen is the primary female sex hormone, but it also plays a crucial role in male sexual function and overall health. In the video's context, the speaker discusses the effects of high and low estrogen levels on libido and erectile function. The theme revolves around understanding these hormonal impacts, as the speaker shares personal experiences with varying estrogen levels and their effects on sexual health.

💡Aromatase Inhibitors

Aromatase inhibitors are a class of drugs that decrease the production of estrogen in the body by inhibiting the enzyme aromatase. The speaker mentions using letrozole, an aromatase inhibitor, to lower estrogen levels drastically, which led to a significant decrease in sexual desire and function, illustrating the importance of hormonal balance.

💡Libido

Libido refers to an individual's sex drive or interest in sexual activity. The video emphasizes the role of estrogen in maintaining a healthy libido. The speaker describes how high estrogen levels can lead to erectile dysfunction despite a high sex drive, while low estrogen levels can result in a complete loss of sexual interest.

💡Erectile Dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction is the inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance. The script discusses how high estrogen levels can cause this issue, even with the use of PDE5 inhibitors like Viagra and Cialis, highlighting the complex relationship between hormones and sexual function.

💡Androgens

Androgens are a group of hormones, including testosterone, that stimulate and maintain male characteristics. The video mentions that the speaker can manually adjust androgen levels, which is important for understanding the balance between androgens and estrogen in sexual health.

💡Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

Hormone replacement therapy involves the administration of hormones to replace those that the body is no longer producing in adequate amounts. The speaker discusses using exogenous HRT to adjust androgen levels, which is a method to manage hormone balance and its effects on sexual health.

💡Sweet Spot

In the context of the video, the 'sweet spot' refers to the optimal balance of hormones, particularly androgens and estrogen, that results in normal sexual function and desire. The speaker uses this term to describe the desirable state of hormonal balance without the extremes of high or low estrogen levels.

💡Self-Diagnose

Self-diagnose refers to the process of identifying a condition or disease without professional medical help. The speaker strongly advises against self-diagnosing hormone levels without blood work but provides a framework for viewers to understand the symptoms of high and low estrogen levels as a form of self-education.

💡Blood Work

Blood work involves laboratory tests on blood samples to evaluate a person's health. The video script emphasizes the importance of blood work for accurate diagnosis of hormone levels, rather than relying on self-assessment or symptoms alone.

💡Hormone Profile

A hormone profile is a set of tests that measure the levels of various hormones in the body. The speaker discusses the importance of managing one's hormone profile to avoid issues like high or low estrogen levels and their associated symptoms, such as erectile dysfunction or loss of libido.

💡Asexual

Asexual refers to a lack of sexual attraction or desire for sexual activity. The speaker describes experiencing a period of being asexual due to extremely low estrogen levels, which led to a complete loss of interest in sexual activity, illustrating the profound impact of hormones on sexual drive.

Highlights

The speaker strongly advises against self-diagnosing hormone levels without blood work.

People may self-medicate with remedies like aromatase inhibitors without knowing their hormone status, leading to potential health issues.

The speaker shares personal experiences with high, normal, and low estrogen levels and their effects on libido and erectile function.

High estrogen levels can lead to difficulty maintaining an erection, even with the use of PDE5 inhibitors.

A 'sweet spot' of estrogen levels is characterized by no erectile dysfunction issues and morning erections.

Low estrogen levels can cause hair loss and a significant decrease in sex drive.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of not only physical health but also the role of estrogen in maintaining a healthy sex drive.

Crashing estrogen levels can lead to a complete loss of interest in the opposite sex and asexuality.

Estrogen is identified as a key driver of libido, with implications for both high and low levels.

The speaker recounts personal anecdotes of how drastically low estrogen affected his social and romantic life.

A discussion on the potential negative impacts of overusing aromatase inhibitors and the importance of hormone balance.

The importance of educating oneself on the benefits of estrogen for overall health, including cardiovascular and neuroprotection.

The speaker criticizes cookie-cutter hormone replacement therapy (HRT) practices that may not consider individual hormone optimization.

A call to action for individuals to get blood work done to accurately assess hormone levels and avoid self-diagnosis pitfalls.

The speaker provides a framework for understanding the symptoms of different estrogen levels based on personal experiences.

A reminder of the potential long-term consequences of mismanaged hormone levels on both physical and mental health.

Transcripts

right when I started this

ground all of a sudden my interest in

completely fell off the map

sup guys Derek more plates were needed

stock LOM say we're me talking about low

estrogen versus high estrogen so this

video is about how to know if you have

high or low estrogen and first of all

diagnosing yourself without blood work

is not something I recommend in fact I

advise very strongly against it but some

people are not going to get blood work

no matter what and they have as erdély

use aromatase inhibitors and without

knowing where their if they're high or

low they'll you know throw a remedy

except themselves until they're at you

know single-digit estrogen levels and

then experience you know like worse

erectile dysfunction then think oh my

estrogen must be high so then they use

more remedy X and just like you know

it's just like a it's like a vicious

circle so anyways I wanted to make this

video to sort of at least give a

framework of how I feel personally with

higher low estrogen you can you know

extrapolate that however you want but

I'm somebody who has experience with

estrogen through the [ __ ] roof as

well as estrogen in the sweet spot as

well as estrogen like on the bottom like

dead zone to the point where it's like

holy [ __ ] you're you know gonna get

heart disease 100% if you continue with

this so like I've literally manually

crushed it into the ground with

letrozole to dry out for a show way back

in the day and I know how everything

feels when I'm high when I'm normal when

I'm low and I thought maybe at least

giving you guys an outline of what my

symptoms were would potentially give you

at least some sort of reference

framework for if you are going to

attempt to self diagnose yourself which

I don't recommend but at least give you

a perhaps a framework of reference to

extrapolate from to then decide if you

need blood work I don't even know what

I'm it's more so just like some to

educate yourself more it would be good

to recognize symptoms so anyways as far

as how I feel when I have high estrogen

for me if my androgen levels are

sufficient which they almost always are

because I can manually adjust them with

exogenous HRT and listen doing some

weird experiment with a conject Abbas

arms or something which I'm not gonna be

doing anymore but anyways my libido is

fine

the

is erectile dysfunction and it's very

obvious when you're like trying to get

hard it's like very hard to stay hard

and this is even with pde5 inhibitors if

your estrogen is way too high you'll

know this if you've taken a cycle before

and you've had like you've used way too

much tests or you've used you know test

with d-ball or something or you know

anything that could exacerbate

aromatization potentially or increases

the expression of aroma taste or you

just have a mismanaged balance of your

hormone profile having a high estrogen

level even when you have high androgens

if your estrogen is way too high you end

up in a position where your libido is

good but your dick just doesn't work

even if you slam a bunch of Viagra and

Cialis it's still not functioning even

where it would be normally if you were

not in this position so that is to me my

number-one sign is libido like obviously

everyone has their own sign some people

are gonna notice oh my blood pressure

goes up some people are gonna say oh I

get watery and somehow they can tell

just by water retention for me the sign

is my dick doesn't work my morning wood

is gone but my libido is high still now

as far as the sweet spot the way I can

tell the sweet spot is first of all I

have no IDI like ever

I also wake up with morning wood if you

wake up with morning wood it's like

pretty likely that you're like close to

the sweet spot at least at least based

on my experience from my own blood work

excuse me low estrogen levels as far as

figuring out what low estrogen levels

feel like firt for me it was really

obviously some people they have you know

oh my joints are drying creaky oh I have

this I have that for me Oh for hair is

falling out that's another thing too one

of the things for me that was the

biggest red flag is I always look at my

dick to be honest I don't look at my

dick but I look to my dick to give me

signs of if shit's going wrong or not so

if I'm in the sweet spot I have morning

wood

I have no IDI I have no issues

whatsoever and this is not gonna apply

if you're like a porn addict and you've

like self-induced you

you've like desensitized yourself to

reality to the point where you have evey

because some bodybuilders actually get

that where they get like such a [ __ ]

up to high sex drive from using so many

steroids that they end up you know

addicted to porn and then their dick

like doesn't even work because they're

so their dopamine system so [ __ ] up

that is not you know that's something

totally irrelevant if that is not a

problem which hopefully it's not for you

and you have you know like a healthy sex

life in terms of and you're not like a

porn addict or something you're gonna

have morning wood and you're gonna have

healthy good erections with good

erection quality and you're gonna be

able to sustain them easily if you have

like good sweet spot androgen to

estrogen balance in terms of in general

terms at least from in my experience and

on the high end if your estrogen

dominant you end up in a position where

it's like really [ __ ] hard to keep an

erection on the low end when your to

estrogen is crashed even if you have

high if you have high androgen levels we

have normal ester androgen levels

whatever if you have rock-bottom crash'd

estrogen you just don't give a [ __ ]

about anything

earliest I didn't I like became

completely asexual to the point where I

remember very vividly this was a point

in my life where I was like I was sort

of like balls deep in bodybuilding but I

was even more balls deep in like pickup

which is like honestly part of what was

intended to be 50% of my channel was

going to be detailing all the things I

went through throughout my 19 to 23

where all I did for like six days a week

for any much was I would be in the gym

eating or I'd be like picking up girls

and going on dates and I basically went

through this phase of my life where

that's all that mattered essentially and

I was just trying to rack up a

ridiculous Lake out to be completely

honest and the logic behind it wasn't

just to be you know a sleazeball the

logic behind it was that every man in

their life goes through a period where

they need to get laid a lot and kind of

justified to themselves that they're you

know attract every can get laid with hot

girls and they have are able to sustain

a rotation and you know you have

to sort of get over this hump of where

you have to qualify yourself to other

people and kind of like make yourself

feel good about the fact that you're

able to get laid it's kind of hard to

explain but anyone who underperformed in

high school can kind of get on board

with what I'm saying here where you

probably have some sort of bone to pick

after high school where you probably

went a little bit too hard or you wish

you could go too hard to kind of make up

for what you missed out on and I sort of

did like a lifetime of it in like four

year span and basically I was going on

dates like every single day and I was

trying to get laid as much as possible

and I literally went from I'd have like

a rotate at the time I had a rotation of

three girls who I consider like a ton of

10s like pretty it was like a pretty

solid setup I had there and this was in

the sort of like the beginning stages of

it so I was like still really into the

[ __ ] and I was going on dates all the

time and right when I started this

letrozole and started crushing my

estrogen into the ground

all of a sudden my interest in women

just completely fell off the map

I just like stopped giving a [ __ ]

whatsoever I literally stopped texting

the people that I was seeing I did I

just ghosted them and this was like an

unheard-of thing to do when you

literally might have spent weeks working

on these chicks or you know going out

and you might have done like I probably

did like 200 cold approaches to like

create that rotation and then I just

like blew it up because I didn't give a

[ __ ] anymore because my estrogen was in

the ground like that's the kind of thing

crashed estrogen does team not only does

your dick not really work you just don't

give a [ __ ] it was like at that point my

penis literally the only function it

served was urinating that was like I

didn't give a [ __ ] about anything at

that point and I completely blew up all

the relationships I was in and I did my

show and blah blah blah like a dried out

and like great but like you pretty much

become asexual when your estrogen is

like crashed into the ground so to me

that's a bit of a long ramble on saying

what low estrogen feels like but

basically basically to me it felt like

being like a sexual essentially you just

stopped giving a [ __ ] about the opposite

sex and getting away at all cuz it's

like your body just like has no sex

drive does a lot of people don't realize

that estrogen is largely what regulates

sex drive you get up sky-high

but if your estrogen is in the ground

you're not gonna want to do anything

you're not gonna be able to get hard

you're not gonna have a little beat oh

that's estrogen is honestly like the

main driver of libido and this is even

seen in as far back as like preclinical

rodent models on like can castration

models and whatnot they'll find that if

they use an androgen on them or a

progestin or something that castrate

them essentially or you know shuts down

me you know HPT a you know negative

feedback loop bla bla bla

if they don't administer estrogen

concurrently with a non aromatize Abul

an androgen or a you know progestin or

whatever that's not a substrate for

aromatase that if they don't provide

that exhaustion is estradiol in

conjunction with it or some sort of

estrogen that activates the estrogen

receptor enough

there's no libido and this is why I

always talk about why you know like DHT

only cycles are stupid is because of

this exact reason because you start to

inhibit all these you know physiologic

functions and mechanisms and the body

that are otherwise dependent on estrogen

not just fat loss not just muscle growth

and muscle retention and a deficit but

in addition to that basic things like

your penis working so if your estrogen

is in the ground not only do you inhibit

your bodybuilding progress in your body

composition but you will inevitably hurt

your dick too so obviously it's not

permanent I'm just saying that that is

like the likely outcome if you

unnecessarily crush your estrogen with

overusing AIS and this is why you know

so many guys are having such bad issues

now with certain HRT clinics where they

get you know a cookie cutter doctor who

doesn't understand HRT and optimization

of hormones and gives them here's your

you know your once a week testosterone

shot with your one milligram you know

every day a remedy or something and it's

like just baffling what some doctors are

prescribing now and then I'll get guys

you know like emailing me for

consultations and they're like I feel

like [ __ ] [ __ ] even though I'm on TRT

and then I'll look at it and be like

dude your doctor is a [ __ ] idiot

and it's you know largely because people

are getting you know either overusing

ai's by their own you know lack of

education or they're getting you know

somebody else is telling these

unnecessarily because they're an idiot

so educate yourself on the benefits of

estrogen because it is needed not only

for cardiovascular health

neuroprotection muscle growth a myriad

of other functions but in addition your

libido is dependent on it so keeping

your estrogen in the sweet spot is I

think you can tell play with fairly you

know reasonable accuracy when your

estrogen is where it should because you

can tell when things are functioning

correctly at least I can anyone that's

doing this should be getting blood work

I'm just saying as far as how I would

roughly interpret it on myself those are

the symptoms I found when I was you know

recklessly using hormones when I was

younger and didn't really know what I

was doing so anyways take from that what

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