How To Boost Testosterone - Explained By Top Urologist Dr. Rajesh Taneja
Summary
TLDRThe video script delves into the importance of testosterone for men's health, emphasizing its link to positive bodily functions and performance. It suggests that lifestyle factors such as a high-protein diet, regular exercise, and competitive sports can help maintain healthy testosterone levels. The discussion also touches on the impact of stress, alcohol, and poor diet on testosterone levels, advocating for early sleep and morning workouts to align with the body's natural circadian rhythm. The script highlights the consequences of neglecting testosterone management, including potential health issues and personality changes, and encourages a balanced lifestyle for overall well-being.
Takeaways
- 💪 Increasing testosterone levels can help reduce issues like performance anxiety and improve overall well-being.
- 🍽️ Key factors to maintain good testosterone levels include clean eating, high protein intake, and regular physical activity, especially competitive sports.
- 🏋️ Exercise, especially in the morning, can help raise your basal metabolic rate, leading to sustained higher testosterone levels throughout the day.
- 🕓 Following a consistent sleep schedule, particularly sleeping early and waking up early, aligns with the body's circadian rhythm and supports healthy testosterone production.
- 🍻 Activities like excessive alcohol consumption can significantly lower testosterone levels, impacting overall health and energy levels.
- 🏆 Engaging in competitive sports not only boosts physical fitness but also enhances testosterone production, providing both physical and psychological benefits.
- 📉 High stress levels and a sedentary lifestyle can decrease testosterone levels, leading to issues such as erectile dysfunction and reduced physical performance.
- 🍬 High sugar intake and poor diet choices contribute to weight gain and reduced testosterone, often resulting in a more feminine physical appearance in males.
- 🚶 Starting with simple activities like walking can help combat low testosterone levels and initiate a positive cycle of health improvement.
- 🌙 Staying up late or having a nocturnal lifestyle disrupts the body's natural rhythm, leading to stress and reduced testosterone levels.
Q & A
What are some basic lifestyle changes that can help increase testosterone levels?
-Basic lifestyle changes to increase testosterone levels include eating clean food, consuming high protein, engaging in regular physical activity, and participating in competitive sports.
Why is participating in competitive sports beneficial for testosterone levels?
-Participating in competitive sports can increase testosterone levels because it involves physical exertion and a drive to win, which positively impacts the body's hormone production.
How does morning exercise influence testosterone levels compared to evening exercise?
-Morning exercise is more effective for testosterone levels because it aligns with the body's natural circadian rhythm. Testosterone peaks early in the morning, and exercising at this time utilizes and boosts this hormone more efficiently.
What impact does stress have on testosterone production?
-Stress increases cortisol levels, which negatively affects testosterone production. High stress leads to lower testosterone and can also distract individuals from sexual activity, further reducing testosterone levels.
How does body fat influence testosterone levels?
-High body fat levels can lower testosterone due to the enzyme aromatase, which converts testosterone into estrogen. This can result in more feminine physical characteristics and lower testosterone levels.
What role does sleep play in maintaining healthy testosterone levels?
-Sleep plays a crucial role in maintaining testosterone levels. Early sleep and waking up early align with the body's natural hormone cycle, leading to higher testosterone production.
What is testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) and when is it commonly used?
-Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is a treatment used to supplement testosterone levels in men, especially those over the age of 50, when natural testosterone production typically declines.
What is the effect of alcohol consumption on testosterone levels?
-Alcohol consumption lowers testosterone levels by reducing the body's ability to produce and utilize testosterone. Even a single session of drinking can negatively impact testosterone production.
How does the circadian rhythm affect testosterone production?
-The circadian rhythm influences testosterone production by regulating the release of luteinizing hormone (LH), which peaks early in the morning. Proper sleep and wake cycles support the natural increase of testosterone.
Why is it important for men to maintain high testosterone levels?
-High testosterone levels are important for muscle growth, strong bones, motivation, and overall physical health. Low testosterone can lead to physical and psychological issues, such as fatigue, depression, and reduced sexual performance.
Outlines
💪 Boosting Testosterone through Lifestyle and Exercise
The first paragraph introduces the topic of testosterone and its importance for men's health, linking it to performance anxiety and other bodily functions. It emphasizes the need for education on increasing testosterone levels naturally through a healthy diet, high protein intake, and engaging in competitive sports. The script references Dr. Huberman's advice on lifestyle factors and the potential of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) for men over 50. The importance of using testosterone through exercise is highlighted, with the body's 'use it or lose it' principle applying to hormone production.
🌞 The Impact of Circadian Rhythms on Testosterone Levels
The second paragraph delves into the biological clock's influence on testosterone production, explaining the role of the pineal gland, hypothalamus, melatonin, and luteinizing hormone in the body's Circadian rhythm. It discusses the peak release of luteinizing hormone at 4:30 a.m. and how exercise during this time can signal the body to produce more testosterone. The paragraph also contrasts the benefits of morning exercise with the potential drawbacks of nighttime activity, suggesting that the body's metabolic rate and hormone production are optimized with early sleep and morning workouts.
🚶♂️ Exercise, Stress, and Testosterone: A Holistic Approach
This paragraph explores the relationship between exercise, stress, and testosterone levels. It uses a story of a couple to illustrate how a sedentary lifestyle and stress can lead to erectile dysfunction and reduced testosterone. The discussion includes the negative impact of cortisol, the stress hormone, on testosterone production and the psychological effects of stress on sexual performance. The importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including diet and exercise, is reiterated as a means to support testosterone levels and overall health.
🍽️ Diet, Gut Health, and the Role of Testosterone in Body Composition
The fourth paragraph examines the connection between diet, gut health, and testosterone. It describes how dietary indiscretions, particularly the consumption of sugars, can negatively affect the gut microbiome and lead to weight gain and hormonal imbalances. The role of the jum (jejunum) and the conversion of testosterone to estrogen due to high fat levels is explained. The paragraph also addresses the psychological impact of obesity and the importance of a high-fiber diet and exercise in reversing these effects.
🌙 Disruption of Circadian Rhythms and Its Effects on Health
The final paragraph discusses the adverse effects of disrupting the body's natural Circadian rhythm, particularly the impact on testosterone levels. It explains how staying awake at night can cause stress on the body, leading to a decrease in testosterone production. The importance of adhering to a natural sleep-wake cycle for maintaining optimal health and hormone balance is emphasized, and the paragraph concludes with a reminder to explore other topics on the channel.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Testosterone
💡Performance Anxiety
💡High-Protein Intake
💡Exercise
💡Metabolic Rate
💡Circadian Rhythm
💡Stress
💡Cortisol
💡Dietary Indiscretion
💡Aromatase
💡Bariatric Surgery
Highlights
Testosterone is linked to many positive functions of the body, and focusing on increasing resting testosterone levels can reduce issues like performance anxiety.
Key factors to maintain healthy testosterone levels include clean food, high protein intake, regular exercise, and participation in competitive sports.
Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) is commonly discussed among men over 50 in America, highlighting the importance of lifestyle factors in maintaining testosterone levels.
Engaging in competitive sports, like football or basketball, has been shown to increase testosterone levels.
Testosterone is essential for muscle building, broad shoulders, strong bones, and overall physical strength, reinforcing the 'use it or lose it' principle.
A sedentary lifestyle, including watching TV or porn, can significantly reduce testosterone levels as the body down-regulates production when not in use.
Morning exercise can rev up the basal metabolic rate (BMR), which increases fuel consumption and maintains higher testosterone levels throughout the day.
The body's circadian rhythm influences testosterone production, with peak luteinizing hormone release occurring around 4:30 AM, emphasizing the importance of early sleep and morning exercise.
Evening exercise can be effective, but it may not provide the sustained benefits of morning exercise since the body winds down for sleep shortly after.
Stress, particularly chronic stress, can reduce testosterone levels due to the increased production of cortisol, the stress hormone.
Aromatase, an enzyme found in fat, converts testosterone to estrogen, contributing to more feminine body characteristics in overweight individuals.
Reducing sugar intake and exercising are crucial for reversing low testosterone levels and preventing associated health issues like diabetes and fatty liver.
Following a high-fiber diet can help displace harmful gut bacteria and improve overall gut health, which is linked to better testosterone levels.
The importance of following the body's natural circadian rhythm is emphasized, as staying up late can lead to stress and reduced testosterone production.
The podcast touches on the broader impact of testosterone on personality, career motivation, and leadership abilities, showing its influence beyond just physical health.
Transcripts
welcome to TRS Clips where you'll find
happiness through your own
curiosity I want to actually talk a
little bit about testosterone also yes
because if you truly focus on increasing
your resting levels of
testosterone I would assume that
problems like this performance anxiety
all won't arise as much uh because
testosterone is linked to so many other
positive functions of the body also I
think it is a hormone that should be
spoken about more and every man at least
should be educated on how to increase
his testosterone levels so I'm going to
have a go at it please add stuff to it
and this is based on an episode of Dr
huberman that I researched upon for the
sake of a elaborate testosterone Hindi
video that i' done it boils down to the
basics clean food high protein intake
lots of movement ideally a competitive
sport that's been like a recent study uh
all these things over time compound
pound and generally your testosterone
levels stay good up till the age of 50
and right now in America for a lot of
guys post 50 this has become a very
common conversation that they do
something called trt which is under the
guidance of someone like yourself
testosterone replacement therapy um
before I ask the doctor for his inputs I
need to tell the audience that again all
the doctors we've spoken to the
lifestyle factors are effectively the
same and you guys know all these
lifestyle fact factors it's exercise
clean food Etc the only added Factor
here is a competitive sport if you're
able to play a competitive game of
football once a week basketball Cricket
where you want to win for some reason
that's shown an increase in testosterone
anything else you'd like to add so
yes
so
testosterone is the food for the
body so suppose you're not utilizing it
body stops producing
it so either use it or lose it and you
use it by exercising yes so what does
the body mean why why should you have a
testosterone and a woman shouldn't have
a testosterone what does testosterone do
to you it gives you muscle broad
shoulders strong bones what are they
supposed to do you're supposed to
exercise with them you're supposed to go
fight you're supposed to go to war
you're supposed to go to hunt swim so if
you don't do that that you're not using
your testosterone so the body there is a
as I said it's a wonderful computer this
guy doesn't need it man so take it off
in terms of if you're lazy if you're
just sitting at home all day watching TV
your body will reduce your testosterone
level if you're watching TV the
testosterone reduces faster even if
you're watching Pawn yes okay just just
a thought experiment go on because
because you are
straining to produce to to recreate
that if you are with a woman then that
job is being done by the woman here
you're trying to recreate that thing
onto yourself sure that is the problem
with testosterone so testosterone has
lot of functions as we just mentioned
muscle bin bone this that and if you
don't use it you will lose it so how do
you exercise so there is something
called basil metabolic rate now you have
a basil metabolic rate it is like the
RPM the revolutions per minute of a
motor car so you have an idling car it
has an RPM of 800 to say a th000 RPM so
that that engine will run and it will
consume a certain amount of
fuel so now when you give a raise it
goes to, 1500 so the fuel consumption
increases so suppose you are getting up
in the
morning and you are
exercising so you revving up your
metabolic rate your RPM increases from
800 to 800 to 1,000 to maybe 2,000 if
you are jogging in the morning or
swimming in the morning and during the
day since you are working you're not
coming back to rest you're going to
office or you're going to your work it
stays the basil rate it may go up to 200
RPM 2,000 RPM and then comes down to
maybe, 1600 18800 14400 which is much
more than 800 that you woke up
with and then suppose you add on a
physical activity you had to run after
something or you had to rush or you had
to cycle or you had to do something it
again goes from 1,400 to
1,800 now imagine if you had not gone
for a uh exercise in the morning you
woke up with 800 so you are lingering
between 800 and, 800,000 and if I ask
you to put an effort eff you would be
unwilling to put an effort and even if
you put an effort your RPM is not going
to go beyond say
1200 because your basil metabolic rate
was 800 now we add another factor to
this
thing so we have a what is called a body
clock which runs with sun so we have the
pineal gland we have the hypothalamus
and we have the melatonin and we have
the ltin Circadian RM the ltin izing
hormone which is released from the
pitutary goes to the testes and
increases the testosterone so there is a
peak of leutinizing hormone releasing
hormone from the hypothalamus which is
controlled by the Circadian rhythm which
is at 4:30 a.m. so sleep early in India
in our uh history or in our mythology or
whatever it is called
Boral that is the are the the main time
that you have the peak of lhr or
leutinizing hormone releasing hormone
from the hypothalamus it goes to the pit
which is the leutinizing hormone which
goes to the testes and kicks it to
produce testosterone now imagine you are
doing a exercise and an activity when
the testosterone Peak is
there so you have an inflow of
testosterone you're using it at that
time so next day morning the
hypothalamus knows this guy needs more
testosterone so it pumps in more
wow
now if you are not doing it the
hypothalamus also thinks this guy is not
going to use testosterone so let it be
around 8 his RPM is 800 1,000 so why
should I give him another fuel so
there's no testosterone which
Rises coming back to another thing I'm
sorry it is not against people who
exercise at night because they don't
have an option if you don't have an
option you can still exercise but what
is better morning or evening suppose at
night you come from office and you go
for an exercise you go to the gym and
you have revved up your RPM from say a
th000 to
2,000 after 2 hours you're going to
sleep
M so the advantage that you had during
the day that you revved up your RPM to
2,000 and it stayed 2,000 because you
were working you were running moving
around in the office anywhere wherever
you are working you are actually RPM is
still high again you raise it to 2,000
go off to sleep in 2 hours you that that
whole effort is gone
waste technically you're effectively
giving very easy hacks to increase your
testosterone yes and the hack is sleep
early wake up early work out in the
morning like Akay Kumar that's why his
voice is like
that the actually the way Akay Kumar
lives eats goes about life he's a good
representation of a high testosterone
male yes I would I would argue yes right
like just healthy living this is Healthy
Living there's also a report I remember
tiger shov spoke about this he said that
he doesn't drink because it shakes up
your testosterone levels even one
session of drinking
yes so anything that that puts your RPM
to downwards like alcohol you can't even
balance yourself that is the state of
your
muscles so you RPM may be falling below
800 so obviously the testosterone
consumption is not there the body
computer says oh this guy doesn't need a
testur so stop producing
it and there is another issue to it
suppose you have been a football player
so I see lot of them so there's this guy
I'll give you a story it's an
interesting story so there were two
people who got married because they used
to be playing tennis
together now they were playing tennis
together they were between 25 and 35
years courtship then they say okay we
get married they get married they have a
good sex appetite they have a good
testost on both of them and now this guy
is a
banker and at 35 he wants to become the
vice president of the company so he's
working very hard so he's putting in 14
hours on the chair he stops going to
play tennis his wife however continues
to play
tennis at 35
two of them come to me together with
erectile dysfunction so what have you
found so you look at him and you see oh
my God he's got as chubby as what I am
you know so this guy's become chubby he
has not been playing tennis the girl is
Slim like you know any tennis player you
can imagine at
35 since she is a tennis player she has
a high testosterone she has a high
appetite which this guy can't match so
he has a impact with psychological thing
also because he's not able to match the
appetite so he goes into two things both
a combination of psychogenic erectile
dysfunction and an organic erectile
dysfunction because when I check his
testosterone his testosterone is
low why is his testosterone low two
things one his computer says he's not
using it so it
reduces the second is the
stress stress is
huge so this guy is stressed he's
looking at his his you know counterpart
a colleague who may become a vice
president and he wants to reach there
and he doesn't want him to reach there
so Round the Clock that stress is there
14 hours in office 10 hours at home 24
hours a day he's only thinking about one
thing how to prevent him from being a
vice president so that I become a vice
president just to put your point uh
across even more I I want to remind the
listeners of how they felt during exam
season in school you felt a higher level
of stress what was biologically
happening was that your cortisol levels
in your body had increased cortisol is
your stress hormone I'm assuming that
it's related to your testosterone of
course that if you have a higher
Baseline cortisol in your bloodstream it
will affect your testosterone certainly
certainly anything you'd like to add to
this cortisol angle so two things so if
you look at two things one is of course
when there is stress there are stress
hormones like
cortisol apart from that direct effect
of cortisol there is an indirect effect
on psyche you stop thinking about
sex because you're thinking about
failure yes even if your partner is
trying to approach you for sex you stop
thinking about it because either you're
tired or you're scared of
non-performance because last time you
couldn't perform because while you were
performing you you suddenly realize that
you hav sent a mail which the other guy
must have sent so doing that that means
that he's he's distracted so he stops
performing so he's staying away from
sexual activity his testosterone is
coming down again if you look at people
who unfortunately need corticosteroids
say for kidney disease or lung disease
or something else rheumatoid arthritis
they are given steroids they become
plump so they gain lot of fat so fat has
an enzyme called
aromatase now what that does is it
converts testosterone into
estrogen so whatever testosterone is
being produced is being converted into
estrogen rapidly in that fat in the
subcutanous fat and the structure of the
body becomes more feminine pair shaped
so if you remember the there was a movie
called kabi Kushi kabigam and there was
this Rik ran and there was a child Rik
ran do you remember that golu person who
was plump boy what is wrong with that
fellow and how he became Rik rashan so
there is a biology transition between
that boy and that honestly this this
story that you're giving us of Rik from
childhood to actually being muscular Ric
russan I have seen so many guys my age
younger than me go through that same
story arc of not taking care of their
health when they were younger and then
eventually in life realizing pretty
early on that either they got what's
pre-diabetes called like that's right so
they become this this basically
pre-diabetes only latent diabetes and
that manifests like for me again same
thing I was a judo player very fat but
judo player so I was strong uh but
unhealthy on the inside I had gall
stones at 16 and I had a gallbladder
removal surgery at age 16 so that
surgeon very politely told me that
you'll die at 25 if you eat this way and
then that just got me very deep into
fitness like at age 16 17 I started
running at age 18 I started weight
training you know and I've I've really
taken care of myself a lot in my 20s uh
best decision of my life because it
changes your personality also thing is
that personality change that you go
through then applies to your career it
applies to your ability to lead Etc but
biologically speaking what's truly
Happening Here is that your testost tone
is high because you're taking care of
your body you're sleeping on time you're
eating right you're
exercising uh and that high level of
testosterone genuinely helps your career
I truly feel that because it's sort of
also called a hormone that's a latent
motivator you just feel like going out
and achieving more things in the world
uh I'd like you to begin this next phase
of the podcast wherever you like do you
want to begin at the Ric ran part do you
want to begin at the personality aspect
of of testosterone you go for it so I'll
touch all of them sure first of all let
us
uh beg pardon from hi ran because you're
using his name it is not that it is a
character in the movie called uh ladu
ladu that's right so consider ladu so he
is a he's a golu kind of a person and he
eats whatever he wants to eat dietary
indiscretion and he's very moody and he
doesn't want to focus into anything he
may be not listening to
anybody he would eat whatever he wants
to eat and not what he should be eating
now when somebody has that kind of a
habit it is
perpetuated why is it perpetuated
because what you're eating sugars they
go straight into your gut and then they
go there and change the microbiome of
your gut in such a
manner that you are only feeding the
wrong kind of bacteria in your
gut and if you see what the story about
the bariatric surgery it is not only
about making the gut small the stomach
small capacity when you do something
there the local hormones
change and they reduce the fat they
reduce the fat absorption they cause
some kind of change in the local hormone
meu that the fattening effect of diet
reduces so it is not only the direct
amount of calories that you're drink
taking but it is something else which is
happening there and that is related to
the the jum the gut microbe the jum is
the small bubble just next to the the
upper small bubble or you can say upper
small intestine is jum and that is a
seat of all these hormones the Dum and
the
jum so coming back to the diet so when
you're having a dietary in discretion
like that a lot of sugars they are
immediately absorbed from the small
bowel and the small bowel actually
thrives with bacteria which are which
just need sugar so they keep multiplying
and you don't have the healthy bacteria
in your gut so suppose you were to take
lot of fibers so if you were to take lot
of fibers they do two things one they
mechanically displace the colony of
these
bacteria two they line up the intestinal
level in such a manner that what even if
you take sugar after that that sugar is
not going to give rise to or potentiate
the growth of negative bacterias so this
is what is the story behind what happens
so when something like this is happening
a lot of fat is getting accumulated when
the fat is getting accumulated as I said
it has what is called peripheral
aromatase aromatase is an enzyme which
converts the testosterone into estrogen
and if you see these boys they will have
breasts they will look like femin
breast and uh they will have small
external
genitalia the hair growth around the
genitalia which is the pubic here is of
the feminine type Which is
less no the hair growth in feminine type
is an inverted triangle in a male type
it is the upright triangle that's the
pubic hair so that is how the pic hair
is supposed to be you're basically
biologically turning your body more
feminine that's right by giving into
your craving to eat sugar as much as you
do so anyone who is overweight and this
I've seen with anyone struggling with
weight issues across there are two major
culprits in India one one is anything
sweet I mostly when you're talking about
cold drinks it's a lot of cold drink
drinking why do you need that iced tea
why do you need that juice with your
food just have water the second issue
that I have noticed in India is chakna
you know salty snacks tea time snacks
it's these two issues mainly in India
with anyone even trying to lose weight
but people need to understand the
biology of not losing weight to get
scared because I personally woke up when
my body scared me that hey you know this
is the kind of physical pain you go
through if you don't take care of
yourself but I feel this kind of pain is
even worse it's psychological pain
that's right so these people get
withdrawn they don't go to play because
they cannot
run so everybody and especially the boys
as you say if they compare their fallace
with each other they would find that
then they'll make fun of him so this guy
becomes more and more
introvert and when he's introvert and
he's getting depressed he eats more the
sugar cing increases the chocolates is
the easiest ones to have or whatever
snacks you lay hand at so this a vicious
cycle the testosterone which is being
produced so he becomes
stunted the height becomes small the
weight increases the insulin requirement
increases insulin increases the diabetes
and other things they come into play the
fatty liver happens the injury to the
liver happens because there's
inflammation and the root cause is
accumulation of fuel called uh sugar and
suppression of
testosterone so if you need to reverse
this process the first step is of course
you cut down on sugar sugar is the first
thing to go and the second is
exercise and as I said these people will
not be able to get up in the morning to
start exercising but you tell them to at
least start
walking and they
would today in the era of bariatric
surgery lot of people will be subjected
to batric
surgery and many of them will stay slim
many of them will come back if they are
not motivated enough because sugar is
sugar so they start sipping it if they
can't eat it so the issue is
testosterone with sugar metabolism is
totally linked fat and sugar met
metabolism is linked with testosterone
it's not many people understand so
suppose you do a testosterone level on
this boy who is a plump uh maybe in his
teenage you'll find the testosterone to
be
low it is low for two reasons one the
lhr is a lutenizing hormone releasing
hormone also is not effective to push
the testosterone testes become remain
small and some people will call it as
delayed puberty
also but the idea is that whatever be
the
cause that needs to be reversed and the
best way is the diet high fiber diet and
exercise these are the two things that
happen the third is the dial variation
the cardian Rhythm if they don't follow
cardian Rhythm like sleep early wake up
early so I will tell you why I keep
talking about that so there is a term in
Hindi
which means the Nocturnals those who
live at night suppose we have bats were
supposed to live at night open their
eyes at night and you capture a bat and
put him on sunlight then you are
torturing
him humans are not
Nocturnals humans are not supposed to be
waking up at sunset they supposed to go
off to sleep so if your body is w waking
up during this night you are awake
during the night your body is crying for
help like a bat is crying for help
during the day which we all ignore
because we have flashlights we have LEDs
we have everything we create light but
our hypothalamus cannot be
fooled and we get into trouble the body
is under stress even if we think we are
enjoying a party or disco or maybe a
game of cards or bards or
whatever so simply staying away at awake
at night means your body is under
tremendous stress and stress reduces
testosterone fair so if you don't uh
follow cardian Rhythm your testosterone
is going to fall anyway I think this is
also an infinite topic if you open up
all the lifestyle factors and we've
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