Dr. Kyle Gillett: Tools for Hormone Optimization in Males | Episode 102

My guest is Kyle Gillett, MD, a dual board-certified physician in family medicine and obesity medicine and an expert in optimizing hormone levels to improve overall health. We discuss how to optimize male hormones using a range of nutritional and behavioral tools, exercise, and supplementation (including discussions on tongkat ali, fadogia agrestis, creatine, peptides and more). We explain how puberty and aging affect hormone levels, how to use bloodwork to monitor hormone levels, how hormone health impacts fertility, libido, hair loss, and prostate health, and describe behaviors that negatively impact testosterone levels. We also discuss how to approach prescription hormone therapies, including which biomarkers to monitor when using these approaches and how to optimize synergistic hormones (e.g., growth hormone and thyroid hormone) to support complete hormone health safely and rationally. Dr. Gillett offers numerous actionable tools that can be tailored to specific goals and age ranges to attain and maintain optimal levels of male hormones for overall health, well-being and longevity. 

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) Dr. Kyle Gillett & Male Hormone Optimization

(00:03:40) Thesis, ROKA, Helix Sleep, Momentous

(00:07:43) Puberty: Height, Resistance Training, Childhood Obesity

(00:15:14) “First” vs. “Second” Puberty

(00:17:17) Hormone Optimization & Blood Work

(00:22:14) Diet, Exercise, Sleep & Hormones

(00:28:23) Hormones, Stress, Social Connection & Purpose

(00:32:19) Hormones, Supplementation & Medication

(00:34:08) Determining Individual Hormone Levels, ADAM Questionnaire

(00:40:35) Libido, Masturbation, Pornography & the Dopamine “Wave Pool”

(00:48:32) AG1 (Athletic Greens)

(00:49:46) Sustainable Exercise Regimen for Hormone Health

(00:58:12) Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT)

(01:01:02) Supplementation: Creatine & Hair Loss, Betaine, L-Carnitine & Allicin (Garlic)

(01:11:45) Vitamin D, Boron; SHBG & Free Testosterone

(01:15:34) InsideTracker

(01:16:39) Tongkat Ali (Eurycoma longifolia; Longjack) & Steroid Pathways

(01:22:09) Fadogia Agrestis & Testosterone 

(01:26:32) Optimize Growth Hormone & IGF-1: Diet, Fasting, Supplements & Exercise 

(01:31:52) Optimize Thyroid Hormone: Iodine & Goitrogens

(01:33:56) Peptides: Growth Hormone, Tesamorelin, Ibutamoren & Gut Microbiome

(01:42:06) Testosterone Therapy

(01:47:03) Prescriptions & Hormones: Human Choriogonadotropin (HCG), Clomiphene

(01:52:56) Testosterone Therapy + HCG, Fertility & Temperature

(01:55:30) Hormone Health Q&A: Marijuana, Nicotine, Cycling, Pelvic Floor, Alcohol, Fat

(02:06:08) Prostate Health & Tadalafil, Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)

(02:09:56) Hair Loss & DHT; Turmeric & Curcuminoids

(02:18:13) BPAs, Phthalates & Hormone Health

(02:21:55) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Social Media, Momentous, Neural Network Newsletter

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