Brigham Buhler
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1,533 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 27 Feb
Brigham Buhler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There is no other advocate out there but you. So be an advocate for you and your family. Question everything. Trust no one. I hate to say that, but trust is earned, not given. And clinicians in America have let down people. And so we can't blindly trust them anymore. They have to earn the trust of you and your family before you just give it to them.
Yeah. And what's wild is when we started Ways to Well, we were the majority female clients. We were like 60% women, 40% men. But after going on Rogan and Tucker and some of these more, I guess, male focused podcasts, it's pivoted where we're like 70% men now.
I would say all the time, though, it's totally unfair to women because you can throw a rock and hit a testosterone clinic for men. I mean, it's crazy how many men centric health practices have sprung up that are cash pay. And women, for the most part, are still depending on their OB as their primary line of defense. And OBs are phenomenal.
But the problem is if they're in the insurance system, they're still kind of hand-tied. It's not that – and you could even probably – if you have an OB or a primary that you love – I would ask them, hey, what tests do you think I should run? Like I'm interested in my health span and my longevity. I'm willing to pay cash.
You know, I don't wanna rely on the insurance because they'll tell me what I can and can't do. Like, and I'll give you me as an example. Even when I was 37, I was training CrossFit every day. I was waking up at 4 a.m. as a surgical rep. I would go to CrossFit at 5 a.m. I would be in the operating room all day and I was 25% body fat on the cusp of obesity.
Yes. What? And I was chronically ill, sick all the time, immune system run down. I was seeing a nutritionist. I was working out with a personal trainer. I was in what I call the pit of despair. Like I literally was just like, I guess this is who I am. I guess it's just genetics. I guess I'm f***ed.
candidly I literally was depressed and just like I don't I guess this is it and finally I had a nutritionist go hey do you get your blood work done by a primary care this is before I knew all this this is how I learned everything I'm doing I found out my primary care was just running a basic lipid panel Never had looked at any real deep dive. You know, again, this was a decade ago almost.
I go to a specialist. I pay cash to go to a urologist. Urologist does a full workup on me, comes back, tells me 10 different things that are wrong. We make adjustments and I'll be candid. It wasn't like, you know how you say you're scared of getting the MRI and it's nerve wracking. God, it's a relief to get answers and go, I knew something wasn't right.
We dialed in my hormones. I had, I literally, my testosterone for whatever reason was 110. Which is supposed to be. Oh, well, this is a whole nother diatribe. In my prime, it was probably 1200. And men today have testosterone that's 50% of what it was in the 80s. And we tell men anything below 350 is clinically low. But 350 is low.
Women's testosterone is more than their estrogen, which a lot of women don't realize. But you're on a different measuring. It's nanograms per deciliter. Okay. But you want women's testosterone to be high too, because if it's not, you'll lose sex drive. You have a hard time maintaining bone mineral density. You have a hard time maintaining your lean muscle mass.
All of these are like crucial as we age to preventing the onset of metabolic disease, diabetes, weight gain, all of it.
I had restlessness, irritability, low energy. I would be tired all the time. I would have a hard time keeping lean muscle mass. I had a hard time losing body fat. I thought I was okay because as a guy, you still have sex drive, but what's crazy is the urologist broke down. He's like, think about it from a nature standpoint, the very last thing to go for a man is typically sex drive.
And so, so many men that are obese or overweight or struggling, they don't think they have low T because they have a sex drive. But in nature, if you can procreate and keep the species alive, that's like the last, last, last thing to go.
Oh, totally. Literally in a six-month time frame, I went from 25% to 6% body fat at the time. I had like... a six pack, got shredded up, energy through the roof, put on lean muscle mass. My drive, my motivation was back. And then it leads to a cascade effect. Now I'm getting results from my workout. So now I work out every day.
Well, I can a hundred percent because when, even though I thought my sex drive was normal, when your testosterone is optimized, it's, You're like chasing your significant other around the house, which to her is flattering and like fun for her again, you know, because she got to be pursued all the time. And I'm like in that stage all the time because my levels are normal again.
And it's like being a 20 year old guy again.
Yeah, that's probably true though.
And women too, like women, and this is where OBs are tough. They're not comfortable with hormones. And so women think, oh my God, I'm a girl. I shouldn't be on testosterone. Look, if you're a woman over the age of 40, there is a high likelihood, or you've had multiple kids, your hormones are probably, if nobody's looking at them, are probably out of whack. Like, I mean, a
A lot of women are struggling with hormonal issues and they think, well, I'll just get on Trizepatide and or, you know, a Zempik and I'll lose weight. But it's like, it'll work. And I'm not telling you not to, but there are other things that are going to be healthier for you. And that if we take a look under the hood, I promise you we can dial in.
No, no. And I've argued with Jillian and Joe and they're my friends, but I'm like, look, A GLP-1 is a tool in the tool belt. And a tool in the right hands can do amazing things for somebody. And a tool in the wrong hands can be catastrophic.
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