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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it affects men of all ages and backgrounds. So let's get
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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
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