Dr Chalmers Path to Pro - Testosterone Questions
Testosterone plays an important role in overall health for both men and women. It supports energy, mood, fat loss, muscle recovery, and even relationship well-being. Many common questions come up around hormone therapy, fertility, and what healthy levels should actually look like.
It also helps to understand the difference between oral and injectable options, how to read lab work, and why cholesterol matters for hormone production. Whether you're managing symptoms or just exploring the topic, this gives a helpful, straightforward look at what testosterone really does.
Highlights of the Podcast
00:04 - Women & Testosterone
01:33 - Testosterone & Fertility
04:41 - Getting On and Off Testosterone
05:54 - Causes of Low Testosterone
06:54 - Muscle Building
07:55 - Injectable vs Oral Testosterone
08:32 - Steroid Misconceptions
09:53 - Cardiovascular Health & Testosterone
12:20 - Growth Hormone vs Testosterone
13:55 - Types of Steroids
14:49 - Bloodwork Essentials
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] Okay, so I get lots and lots of questions about testosterone. Lots of them are the same question over and over again. I want to go through some of that. The number one question we get is, is it okay for women to take testosterone? Yes, women need testosterone desperately. You know, for their bone density, for the orgasm function for their energy for fat loss for health and wellness testosterone is the healing hormone. It heals women just like it heals men. So yes, it's hypercritical that women start getting their testosterone levels in. The problem is the lab ranges are wrong. Research and what I've seen in my office when I've talked to other docs about the lab range is for women, you need to look at entrofte being between around 80 to 250. That's what we see women having the best success with. It's pretty fantastic. The thing I like most about it is that it helps bring marriages back together. Because if you increase a woman's ability to sleep, her energy levels, she starts losing a little bit of fat, so she feels a little better. Orgasm function goes through the roof. All of a sudden, she's going to have sex more often, wants to, and that makes marriages better because most men's primary and secondary love language is physical touch or sex. So yes, very, very important for women. If you... Testosterone also converts into estrogen. So the hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness can oftentimes be taken care of with just one injection for just one tool.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:33] So yeah, extremely important for women if you have a wife or a you know, loved one or whatever who's, you know over the age of 20, I would have their testosterone levels pulled. We see it all the time. Does testosterone make you infertile? It can. So with men specifically not women. We have a lot to women who are on testosterone the entire pregnancy fantastic for them. By the way micro penis or having a very very small penis is tied to low testosterone levels in women while they're pregnant. So I would recommend you check those testosterone levels especially if you're going to be pregnant. Plus you want to heal and regenerate and build tissue so testosterone is very important during pregnancy as well. For men, though, it can reduce the function to the testicles. The testicles will shrink and they quit producing testosterone and they quit producing sperm. Now, does this mean if you take testosterone that you don't have to worry about condoms and you're not gonna get people pregnant? No, that's not what that means. That means your chances are reduced. On that, we see tons of kids in the 18, you know, I've just tested some 16, 17 year olds, but a bunch of males in that 18 year old to 25 year old range who are testing at 150 to 250 testosterone levels when they should be a thousand. So yeah, now here's the problem with this. Like as more kids are getting tested and they're getting told they should beyond stuff, which is accurate. A lot of them are getting pushed to in clomophene. A clomaphene will raise your testosterone. It's a fantastic tool. The problem is it will also radically increase your fertility. I like to make sure that the kids know that because when I talk to them about Like no one told me that!
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:16] The chances of an oopsie baby go up a lot when you're a super fertile. So just FYI on that one now The path that I took and I recommend Where I don't recommend but I at least let people know about was when I was younger I was in my early 20s. I got tested and my testosterone was really low And I specifically chose to take testosterone so that my fertility levels would stay low. And then when it was time, when I got married, it was for kids, we jumped on HCG, brought my fertility level up, had my two kids, got off the HCG back on the testosterone, and now I'm fine. So there's a lot of kids, there's a lot guys, I say kids, anybody who's I'm so old now, I'm 45, but when you're 20, I refer to you as kids. So I have a lot of NFL athletes I work with. I still refer to as kids, but so when you are younger in that 18 to 25 year old range and you're like looking at what you're going to do, your options, bear that in mind because I didn't want an oopsie. That's why I went with this testosterone. We've got a lot of bodybuilders who've been doing bodybuilding for a long time, taking a giant amount of testosterone and other steroids, whatnot. And um getting them an hcg they were able to have kids too so it's not a foolproof plan but it's worked every time we've ever tried it so that's a great one um you know if you get on testosterone do you have to stay out forever no you can get off whenever you want to now here's what happens.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:41] The ramp up to testosterone usually takes four to six weeks before you're like, oh, I feel it. I feel great. The ramp down can take just as long, but what ends up happening is that you start to notice, hey, I'm not sleeping as well. I'm sore all the time. I don't have the energy to do stuff. My sex drive is down. And you're, like, well, maybe I should get back on because this drug did so much for me. First of all, it's not a drug. It's a natural product that your body desperately needs. And just like if you quit eating or quit sleeping, your body wouldn't respond very well. You'd be like, man, now that I'm sleeping two hours a night, I don't feel as good. Maybe I should go back to that addictive sleep stuff I had so I can eat eight hours and I'll feel good. Yeah, your body desperately requires testosterone to function right. So if you have it and you're like, man, I feel great. That's what normal's supposed to feel like. When you're low on T, you should feel bad. So when you quit taking your testosterone, if you then feel bad, it's not because you're addicted to a drug or you're having withdrawals from a drug, because again, it is not a drug. It is that you're now not feeling like you're supposed to because you are not where you're supposed to be chemically. So yeah, it' a big, big deal. Where's a lot of this stuff coming from? Where's the low T coming from, stress, atrazine, you know, chemicals in our food, water and air, high stress. All those things are creating these issues. We've seen there's lots of evidence of electromagnetic static creating some problems with the testicles as well.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:11] So... That's that's also where we're seeing some of it. This frequency stuff is ignored by by medicine all the time on purpose. So all the negative effects aren't really brought to the forefront because if you start talking about the negative affects you start to understand the positive function and you start understanding maybe we should do less of the negative start bringing up the positive and that is really bad for pharmaceuticals. So they're not going to talk just like they never talk about parasites, because their whole goal... Western measure models to sell drugs. And a lot of these testosterone stuff is not, they're not drugs. They can't really be patented because they're naturally occurring. So the other question I get a lot is, will it build muscle on its own? Technically, yes, testosterone will build muscle on its. However, it's not going to give you abs and biceps and packs and things you want. It's going to start regenerating tissue and start helping build muscles, muscular strength in your body. Your body's very efficient. It will maintain function at needed capacity. What that means is that if you're not working out, if you not trying to bench press 300 pounds, your body won't just be like, let's build muscles that'll bench press, 300 pounds. It'll respond to whatever forces or whatever stimuli you give it.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:28] So if you work out real hard, it'll build muscle faster. If you don't work out, it's not really going to build that much muscle. Um, so if you want to, like a lot of people see these, these body rollers on stage and are like, Oh, steroids did that. Bullshit would happen with that would get steroids were part of it. But then I think it was a lot of dedication to sacrifice and commitment and showing up to the gym an hour a day, every day, or three hours a day, everyday. Like steroids are definitely a part of it, but it was, it was everything else that it was the diet and everything else. Um, the other one we get is injectable better than oral. Uh, it just kind of depends. I like injectable better, but you got to check the oil that you guys are using. It's real hard to get pharmacies to use in CT. We were trying for a while and it backed everything up. So we had to go back to to grapeseed. But, you know, that's one of those things to check that, you know what your oils are in. What is the most common used steroid? This one always gets people. I always think this is funny. Birth control. Birth control is the number one steroid used in the United States. Estrogen is a steroid, progesterone is a steroids, cortisol is a steroid and testosterone are steroids. Steroids are made from sterols. That's the whole, this is how chemistry works. It's the definition of the class of chemical it's in. Um, your body makes testosterone and estrogen, pro-gesterones, all those things out of, out of cholesterol. And so sterols turn into steroids, chemically, that's where it's at.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:53] So yeah, eating a lower cholesterol diet definitely affects you. Statin drugs definitely affect you. But that's kind of the point of statin drugs is to radically reduce your health, your healing, your stability so they can sell you more drugs. Because anybody you've ever met who's on statin drugs, at least every patient I've ever talked to, is fatigued, their joints hurt, they have depression, and then they end up with dementia. Because those, they've got lots of drugs to slay you for, and so keeping your body unhealthy is a really great way to sloy you secondary and tertiary drugs. So that's kind of one of their goals. So that is a big one on that one. The you know, long-term damage. People always worry about long- term damage, and especially people who are concerned with cardiovascular health. Your heart is a muscle. Testosterone tells muscles to heal, regenerate, repair. So having low testosterone and not allowing your heart to heal regenerate and repair is the dumbest thing that ever hurt. So testosterone is great for your heart. The other thing, your blood vessels. So your blood has three layers, the tunica media. Middle one, maybe a middle, the middle one is our muscles. And so if you have high muscle tone, the whole the blood vessel open. If you have low muscle tone low testosterone, they start to collapse. And we get what's called deep vein thrombocytes, which is what you see in old people. So we're starting to see it in younger people because the younger people have low testosterone. But that's one of those big things. So 100% gives your cardiovascular system.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:22] Now. The argument that it will increase your hemoglobin hematocrit levels to a dangerous position and then you'll have a heart attack because it's too much pressure, your leg is too thick, I think is extremely overblot. I'm sure it's happened. I've just never seen it or read about it or any. And anybody who's doing these even halfway responsibly is getting their blood pulled quarterly or every five, six months, you'll be able to catch it and deal with it. And for the vast majority of times, which is super funny, like if you know how to read blood work, and I get it, most people don't, but like I keep getting these blood works and these doctors are like, you're gonna die. And I'm like, did you work out this morning? They're like, yeah. I'm, like, well, that's why all your labs look this way. Although my other doctor didn't say anything. I guess it's your doctor doesn't really know how to really read bloodwork. They just are told when this level is high, give them this drug. So a lot of times you're going to be seeing is if you're looking at the blood report, you have a CBC, C&P, is that you'll see high hemoglobin, high hematocrit, but then you'll also see high BUN, high creatinine levels, you know, and you're like, okay, you're dehydrated. That's a pretty obvious function. But yeah, it can increase hemoglobulin, hematocrit. Here's the thing. That's how your body carries oxygen. The number one chemical your body requires over everything else is oxygen. It goes oxygen, ATP. So an ATP is the energy system that your body uses run on. So oxygen is critically important.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:44] And so testosterone is the number one way that we know that we're body increases that outside of stem cell function and direct simulations like that. So definitely testosterone is gonna be beneficial for that as well. Let's see, what are the other questions I always get? Will growth hormone help with testosterone? No, they're two different hormones. You know, if you want to take growth hormone peptides, samoril and epimorilin is my favorite. Tessamoriline works just fine. You know the samorili-epimorilline blend, there's two peptides in there. One's short acting, one's long acting. So that blend is by far my favorite because you get double type of effect and that longer-term function stacks. So it's substantially better than just tessamoraline. If you want your tessamariline, epimoraline, know, that's your call. But anyway, growth hormone is fantastic. It'll help you heal every single person who has a suit surgery, a broken bone, anything definitely needs to jump on some growth hormone to radically increase that healing. Now, if they're younger, it might increase their growth, their height and their how they just kind of grow all over. Keep that into keep that in but the growth hormone will help with healing those bonds. If the growth plates are closed, you usually don't feel that growth. So those are some of the questions we get into. Is testosterone addictive? No. No. You just, you just feel better. And then you get off and you feel worse and you're like, all right, get back on. Like that's, that's like, see, it's addictive. No. You're going through withdrawals. Withdrawals of having normal hormone function.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:24] Just like having no sleep or going through the trolls of not getting enough sleep. Yeah, that's stupid. See, that basically, you know, that the big thing of are you going to actually inject into a vein and do problems? Nope, I've never, ever heard of, read about, or seen that. So, you now, the... So testosterone is a natural function. So like sepulonate and anti-propionate, those are more natural. If you're looking at things like Anubar, Winstral, stuff like that, you have Tren. Deca, those are synthetics that have a place, I think they have a a place. I love Deca. My joints and stuff like that. If you're gonna take Wynn and Anivar, I would just make sure that you're feeding your liver properly. We use those all the time with guys and get phenomenal results. And they're super safe as long as you recognize you're going to radically increase functionality to the liver. If you don't support it, you're to have liver problems, obviously. Which is the number one problem with winstrel nanobar and other oral steroids is people have liver issues because they didn't understand how to support it chemically. But most of the people still think the body runs on calories, so the chemistry's lost. So that's some of the major questions we usually get. I would highly recommend that you get your blood pulled and you get it checked. When you're getting your blood pooled and checked, there's a couple different things that you need to see on your blood work to understand that your doctor or whoever you're working with knows what they're doing.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:14:49] Total testosterone, free testosterone, sex hormone binding to either one. Regardless of your man or woman, you need to pull estrogen as well. Testosterone converts to estrogen. And so if you're not monitoring estrogen, you're going to have an issue. So like the puffiness, the gynecomastia, like those other things, those are driven by estrogens that are that are converted from the testosterone in your body. So if you not recognizing those and dealing with those and monitoring them, you need to make sure that you are. Your anti estrogens are important especially with all the xenon phytoestrogens. We have in our food water and air So, you know managing us is a big deal. That's where your puffiness and something that comes from so Keep those in mind The other big one is if you're gonna take this off room, make sure you're using how much you're taking You know a man on trough day, which is your lowest point in a week between 800 and 1200 Usually we'll do okay with that But if you're going to be at basically that level or higher, you need to be doing something physical. It doesn't be a lot, but you need be doing it something. So if you guys have any other questions, drop them in the comments, his Questions@chalmerswellness.com or you can DM me like you guys usually do. You guys have a fantastic day. Thanks for your time.
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