This podcast is for you, the Modern Man. I'm Dr Anne Truong,

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selling author of the book, Erectile Dysfunction Fix. I'll

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Hey, Modern Man. Are you struggling with erection and

wondering if low testosterone is the reason? You're not alone.

Testosterone plays a big role in your sex life. But the

connection to erection is not as simple as most people think. In

this video, I'll break down the real link between low

testosterone or low T and erectile dysfunction, and what

you can actually do about it. Now, men, low T can happen in

your 30s, your 40s, even in your 20s. So it's not just a problem

of getting older. And that don't think when you get older, your

testosterone level drop, not necessarily. I've seen men in

their 70s having testosterone level at 700 and 800 naturally.

I'll explain the science of what really happened with your T as

you get older, and what you can do to increase your testosterone

as well. So stay tuned to the end. I'll talk about all the

strategy that you need to do.

What is testosterone and what does it do? Testosterone is key

in increasing your sex drive or your libido, and it gives you

energy. It also helps men with their mood as well too, so you

feel more stable. Men that have low testosterone feel anxious,

feel depressed, and if you have low testosterone, also help

build your muscles as well. However, I want to stress that

testosterone is not the only factor for erection. There are

other factors for erection that I talked about, which is blood

flow, nerve and hormone but they all are part of the big pie.

So what are signs of low testosterone? Low testosterone,

mean decreased sex drive, tired or low energy, mood changes,

such as anxiety, depression, irritability. Muscle loss,

meaning you go to gym and you can't seem to build muscle. You

could be working out three hours every day, but testosterone

level is low, you may not develop the muscle that you want

to develop, like your pecs or your biceps and your triceps.

And in fact, if you have low testosterone, you tend to gain

weight and you tend to develop fat in the love handles and also

fat in the breast. Now, however, not every man with ED has low T,

but if these signs are present, you need to test your

testosterone. It can be easily tested in your blood, and I'll

discuss about that as well. So when you have low T, it can

lower your desire or your libido, will make it harder to

initiate kind of like being in the mood or arousal. Remember, I

say that the largest sexual organ is your brain, not your

penis. If your brain isn't going to get started, nothing going to

get started. And that is the essential part of our Get Hard

System. It's focusing on mindset, focusing on decreasing

stress, focusing on the moment. If this doesn't get moving,

nothing will get moving below the belt. So what happened is

that when you have arousal, it will stimulate the hormone to be

released in the brain, which will release testosterone. So

there are the cascade of hormones that happen in the

brain, and then testosterone is decreased. So if you are not

aroused, then the hormone will be released less and therefore

weaker erection, because when no hormones is released in your

brain. So testosterone is actually being released in your

testicles. But there are father of testosterone, which is LH, a

luteinizing hormone, which is then to release. But if it's not

released well, then it's going to affect the testosterone

release. And then also releasing of hormones in the brain will

also affect other chemicals, which then affect nerve to

stimulate from the brain down to the spinal cord into the penis.

If the hormone is not being released well, then the nerve is

not getting activated either. So that's why the whole chain is

not happening to get an erection.

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So testosterone also support increased nitric oxide

production. A nitric oxide is important for blood vessel to

open up so you can get more blood flow down there. However,

I want to stress that low T does not equal, automatically equal

ED. It increases your risk of getting ED, along with other

factors like blood flow, lifestyle that I mentioned

earlier. But it's not the only reason. I want to stress that.

So you know that you can test your testosterone level in the

blood test, go get your total testosterone, because total

testosterone attach your testosterone that is free as

well as the one that's bound to protein or albumin. But the free

testosterone is what is bioavailable that actually goes

into the cell to initiate for cellular response. So that's

free testosterone. So you gotta make sure you get total

testosterone, free testosterone, and sex hormone binding globulin

or SHBG, because you don't get SHBG, then we don't know how

much free testosterone you have. You want to check your thyroid,

so get a TSH level. You want to check prolactin. But you also

want to check to see if you're predisposed for diabetes, so get

a chem 14 panel. And you also want to check your cholesterol

level, so you want to get a lipid panel as well. And you

also want to get a CBC, which is your blood count level. So these

are the complete hormone panel that you need to be getting to

evaluate the whole picture of testosterone.

Now, one of the most important hormone is the cortisol.

Cortisol is very important because cortisol is released

when you are stressed. But unfortunately, cortisol cannot

be measured in the blood. And cortisol is best measure in the

saliva, where you measure cortisol level four times, in

the morning at 7am, and at noon, at 3pm, and also at 10pm. It

should see the level. It goes up in the morning, but then it

gradually goes down to almost nothing at the end of the day.

If it stays high, then you have stress, and that high cortisol

will actually decrease testosterone level. So that's

one thing to consider as well, too.

Now testosterone levels arrange it and how it's measured.

Sometimes it's measured in nanogram per deciliter, and

sometimes it's measured and picogram. Gotta make sure that

you look at the numbers and you go to the same lab every time,

and the ranges are usually between 300 to 900 a nanogram

per deciliter. So you need to do a comprehensive health panel,

not just one number, and that's it.

Let's say you have low testosterone, what can you do?

You can do some lifestyle fixes, such as sleep, optimizing your

sleep seven hours at night, because when you're sleeping is

when testicles start making more testosterone. Losing weight or

exercise. Because when you follow the Mediterranean diet

and exercise, you actually will lose weight. So when you lose

weight, your testosterone level will increase. When you sleep,

your testosterone level will increase. When you decrease your

stress, testosterone level will increase. And if you eat a

Mediterranean diet, your testosterone level will

increase. If you exercise 30 minutes, three or four times a

week, your testosterone level will increase.

Okay, modern man. If you're struggling with weak direction,

low energy, the food you eat could be the big part of the

problem. One of the best research pathways to boost

circulation, support healthy testosterone and improve sexual

performance is the Mediterranean diet. It's packed with food that

open up your blood vessel, lower inflammation, and fuel your

hormone, naturally. I've seen men notice real improvement in

both energy and erection within weeks when they shift to this

style of eating. So check out the Mediterranean diet link

right here below, and get that as soon as you can. Stronger

testosterone and better erection.

And think about taking testosterone supplement. My

libido plus supplement here has the D, the zinc and the

magnesium that will help boost your testosterone. And I usually

help combine that with nitric oxide, which will help with

increasing blood flow. So the other option is getting

testosterone replacement therapy, which I advocate if you

are no longer thinking about having children, because one of

the side effects of testosterone replacement therapy is that it

decreases sperm count, and also the side effect is that it does

make your testicle smaller, and it will also increase your red

blood cells level. But that's easy to correct. You just go

donate blood about every two months, and that should be taken

care of. My husband's on testosterone replacement

therapy. In fact, he takes pellets, and when he have high

red blood cell count, he just schedule himself to go donate

blood about every two months or so. And as good as that, he had

all negative blood, so he's a universal donor. So you're not

only helping yourself, but you're also helping other people

that need blood as well. So check out my video here I did in

the past on blood test for testosterone.

So if you're dealing with low T, know the symptom and know your

option, what you need to do. You don't have to live with it.

You're not doomed. With the right steps, many men can

restore both testosterone level and erection. For simple daily

boost, I created the Good Morning Wood smoothie packed

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